Professor Abrasive has just posted an update about his Sega Saturn optical drive emulator. The beta hardware is in and finally built correctly by the manufacturer. Also, the cases are being finalized with the intent of production versions being SLA plastic; I’m assuming the beta’s will ship in a 3D printed case. Also, the focus now […]
Youtuber Alex Ball and a whole host of fellow youtubers and contributors put together an excellent documentary on the Japanese sound and music tech giant, Roland. This documentary style video named “Land of the Rising Sound”. Is an incredibly enjoyable retrospective, as the authors put forth a history of the company through uses of its […]
Ikari has just released new firmware for both the SD2SNES and SD2SNES Pro. Currently on v1.10.3, most changes since the last post have been fixes, which are always welcome! See below for the full list. As always, the latest version can be found here: https://sd2snes.de/blog/downloads [Mk2] Revert S-DD1 bitfile to earlier build which happens to less […]
As an alternative solution to Undamned’s Infinikey-CPS2, aje_fr posted a new method to resurrect dead CPS2 boards, on the arcade-projects forums. This simple yet effective new mod only involves soldering a pic12f675 8-bit microcontroller to 6 pins on the game rom board. Of course, the placement of the mentioned pins depends on the board revision at […]
The Stella team has just released the first beta firmware allowing Stella 6 to run on the Retron 77. This is a pretty big upgrade from the version of Stella (v3) that shipped with the Retron 77…and it’s really easy to install! The features are as follows: Near-perfect TIA emulation Cycle exact audio that sounds just […]
2019 seems to be the year of Nintendo’s mid-90s underdog, the Virtual Boy, as fans of the system can now enjoy the minuscule retail library on a big screen through the Virtual Tap (discontinued for the moment), play Hyper Fighting using a proper arcade stick, and eventually boot their favorite game(s) via an SD based […]
Pre-orders for the Karnov Edition of the NSM will go on sale today at 6PM CST, for $48. Remember to select “Karnov” from the drop-down menu. Also, only one per person and anyone trying to order multiple will have the order cancelled!!!: https://www.neogeofanclub.com/projects/neosavemasta2019 The NeoSaveMasta (NSM) is a replacement memory card for AES and MVS Neo Geo consoles. […]
Video Game Perfection has just announced the “Koryuu transcoder” – A Composite and S-Video to YPbPr Component converter that’s fully compatible with 240p signals. This device was designed to work by itself for displays and processors that don’t have composite or s-video inputs, as well as work directly through the OSSC. Options and features are […]
The online website shop called SuperSoniqs is putting up preorders for multitude of parts, addons, and other enhancements for the MSX computers. Many of these new or upcoming products will enhance the sound capabilities or add features such as the ability to play SEGA Mark III or Master System (SMS) games on your MSX Computer. […]
A Goodwill in Seattle, WA has come into possession and is auctioning off for charity an extremely rare and limited Halo Edition Xbox console. This was a translucent orange model that never made it into production and is a prototype unit. As of the writing of this article the auction is still up and current […]
