In the past few days, I’ve seen many, many, many, many posts about SMB being ported to the C64. I’ll be honest, I completely blew it off, as I assumed it was just another basic SMB port to a different console; *Something that’s been done since the dawn of emulation. While fan-made console ports are (in […]
Website and reseller of the official Open Source Scan Converter (OSSC) VideoGamePerfection.com (VGP.com) just released a blog post on their news portion of their site. VGP.com goes over their policy and breakdown of the Chinese clone OSSC now available via multiple sources. VGP.com wanted to make potential buyers of this cheaper clone version aware of […]
I recently performed lag tests on the updated MiSTer HDMI scaler written by Grabulosaure and found that the lag is now less than one frame! My test method consisted of running the RGB output of the MiSTer into a Sony PVM monitor via the core (console)’s native resolution and refresh rate. I then ran the HDMI […]
FirebrandX has just posted a view detailing exactly how he tweaks the audio settings for the Mega Sg and all it’s cores. It’s a great video for people who want to learn why and how to do things like this… …but if you’d like to ‘skip to the end’, FBX posted the settings for each […]
Here’s this week’s roundup! Audio-only version, available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and wherever podcasts are heard: https://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2019-04-17_145.mp3 Now available on LBRY and Bitchute…and Spotify!!!: https://open.spotify.com/show/2VS4k3vyhMyDHT1uJ8HDdf * lbry://@retrorgb/145 https://www.bitchute.com/video/hhHhxWt164DP *alternative lbry links are: https://spee.ch/@retrorgb:1/145 https://beta.lbry.tv/145/2ffcea5339fa2bee8a4d608e34e4c12e74eee017
The video game industry has changed pretty significantly since I started playing some 30+ years ago, some for better and some for worse. Many of us are privileged to engage in the celebration and preservation of video games as a legitimate part of our cultural heritage by collecting and playing those games in the present […]
The Analogue Mega Sg just got another firmware update, both for the jailbroken version, as well as the “official” firmware. Honestly though, there’s zero reason to use the official firmware; Even if you predominately use an Everdrive for Genesis and SMS ROMs, this jailbreak allows for Game Gear and Colecovision ROMs to be played as well!!! […]
As discussed just over a month ago, the “Sinden Lightgun” project has opened a kickstarter campaign. The gun kit itself will run you just over $100, while there are other support options ranging from “donations” to the software developers, all the way to a model with recoil running almost twice the price at $170. Both […]
Capcom has just announced an “emulator in a stick”: A “dual arcade stick” shaped like the Capcom logo featuring 15 original arcade games and Sanwa buttons & sticks. It will be released on October 25th of this year for around $300: http://www.capcomhomearcade.com The list of included games are as follows (trailer below): 1944 Alien vs Predator […]
Nintendo has released version 8.0.0 firmware for the Switch, with two notable points to keep in mind: This update allows for moving (not copying) individual game save files between Switch consoles. It’s anticipated that this will break many of the pre-existing jailbreak tweaks and it’s advised you don’t update jailbroken units. This interested me for […]
