FirebrandX seems to be on a quest, lately, to extract “audiophile” sound quality out as many systems as possible. He wrote a detailed guide on his website about restoring flawless audio on the NeoGeo AES notoriously bad 3-3 and 3-4 board revisions. The process, being fairly simple, involves soldering a few ceramic capacitors on the […]
PC Wzrd13 from the Dreamcastic Channel just posted news about an update on the DreamShell Loader (version 0.7.X Beta) which can be used for the Dreamcast in conjunction with the IDE mod. This is a mod that replaces the GDROM drive for an IDE setup that could allow a user to boot from a Hard […]
Racketboy contacted several people involved with MiSTer asked them to contribute to an in-depth article he wrote about the MiSTer FPGA Multi-Platform Console. It’s very well done and offers exciting views of what lies ahead, the state of things now, and it also works as a great introduction to FPGA-based hardware emulation in contrast to […]
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=2019-02-20_137.mp3
Tim Worthington has re-created the different color palette options for the v2.0 NESRGB kits! This is excellent news for fans of FirebrandX, Naked Arthur and others who’s created their own awesome color palettes. Please note, the reason this is important to so many people, is the NES never outputted a “true” RGB color output. PAL […]
Terraonion has reported that orders for the NeoSD Pro AES will start shipping this week. It will include two inserts to satisfy all collectors: One Japanese and one English. There will also be a new custom snaplock case and manual. I really like seeing the extra detail put into things like this. In my opinion, ROM […]
A new glimpse into Sega’s development history has been found: A previously unreleased prototype of Sonic The Hedgehog 2: http://hiddenpalace.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_2_(CENSOR_prototype) There aren’t any drastic changes from the final release and most were small things like adding a signpost for a “save” area: Some mistakes were found that made certain levels unbeatable, such as this platform which […]
Tim Worthington has just announced a brand new SCART to JAMMA adapter called the Redgun: https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=64060 This is his third revision of an adapter like this and includes many enhancements and features! Composite, S-Video, Component and RGB SCART inputs Automatic switching between inputs Comb filter on composite Stereo audio amplifier built in Redgun-JAMMA Controller Adapter to be released […]
Wes from Second Opinion Games has just added a detailed page to the 3DS section that tackles many 3DS screen questions: https://www.retrorgb.com/3dsscreen.html He shows the dreaded “yellow screen” issue, as well as demonstrates the differences between the TN and IPS screens…and more importantly, how to spot each one! Honestly, these are some of the same questions I’ve […]
St1ka has just uploaded Pt2 in his series about what happened to the Paprium game. Sadly, this project looks to be hopeless, as eluded in part 1. On a lighter note, there’s still plenty of amazing homebrew out there, as well as some new official games like Tanglewood that bring a new life to an […]
