A brand new Amiga ‘Shoot’em-Up'(Shmup) game called Reshoot·R has been released for the AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture) series of Amiga computers. This means owners of Amiga 1200, 4000, and the CD32 are able to play this game with no addon cards, and is developed to run on standard hardware setups. Two Megs of Fast-RAM is […]
The video above shows the first successful full sync of Crystal Glitchless, which is longer than any other published console verification on TASVideos by more than an hour. This was made possible by a combination of efforts from TASVideos members and Pokemon Speedrunners and has allowed MrWint’s Pokemon Crystal TAS to be verified on original hardware […]
Extrems has just updated the Game Boy Interface software to include a new “breakthrough discovery” in video rendering. For standard and speedrunning editions, the changes are as follows: Improved video rendering. Renamed oversample scaler to area. Changed default scaler to area. The “area scaler” is (for lack of an easier description) a way that helps present […]
Unseen aka Ingo Korb has just released an update to the GCVideo firmware. Version 2.4d corrects the remaining “chroma shift” bug and can be downloaded here: https://github.com/ikorb/gcvideo/releases This fix should remove the need for people to use the “menu shift” trick described in a previous update. It’s my (Bob’s) personal opinion that if you don’t have […]
Professor Abrasive has just posted an update to the Satiator project: The design of the plastic shell is nearing completion and SLA samples have been received. There’s still some tweaks to be made, but it’s looking like all versions of the Satiator (including beta versions) will ship with some kind of plastic shell: Also, there’s […]
Loïc *WydD* Petit put the new Samurai Spirits PS4 demo to the test and found some frightening lag under the hood. 8 frames of input latency, or 134ms. That is extremely sloppy coding for such a legendary fighting IP. Samurai Spirits PS4 Demo input lag results. This is the worst lag I have ever measured. […]
It looks like the administrator of the Assembler Games forum has announced that it will be closing next month in June due to financial reasons. Forum users have publicly offered to donate to keep the site alive, but the administrator hasn’t responded to anyone publicly as of the time of this post: https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/ OPINION (Bob’s): As […]
For years people have discussed the concept of an open-source supergun (devices used to connect arcade game PCBs to TV and PVMs), and the era is now upon us with the launch of Minigun by Frank_fjs, creator of the Sentinel Supergun. The Minigun is designed with simplicity, cost, easy of construction, and safety in mind. […]
Knights of Bytes have just shown a teaser of their 2017 hit Commodore 64 game Sam’s Journey running on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The C64 edition of the game was available to purchase both as a physical disk, as well as a digital download. I hope they’ll offer the same with the NES version, as […]
Sony has just announced they’ll be releasing a remastered version of “Ghostbusters: The Video Game” in 2019. Sony claims the game itself will be updated with “enhanced textures and lighting” and I assume that means higher resolution rendering as well. Also, all the cutscenes will supposedly be in 4K, as according to the blog: “All […]
