Vitor Vilela–the Brazilian Super Nintendo SA-1 expert, long-time romhacker, and former SMWCentral Moderator–has started a new community dedicated to SNES ROM hacking called SNESLab. SNESLab.net will be a fully-featured site and forums, and SNESLab’s Discord is now open to the public at https://discordapp.com/invite/bGEV6PB The purpose of this place is joining together people that are have […]
Many exploits have graced the PS Vita, allowing user to boot homebrew, emulators, Adrenaline (opening the Vita’s built-in PS1 & PSP functionality), and the like. But now Yifan Lu, the famous Vita scene hacker, has now completely and permanently defeated any remaining protections that Sony had in place by extracting the physically stored hardware keyslots […]
MiSTerAddons.com put several of the most popular 40mm fans for MiSTer head to head to find out which type is the quietest and keeps the DE10-nano the coolest. His test methods are scientific in that they take the ambient temperature and room noise into account, and he’s taken safeguards to standardize variables that may have […]
The team behind the free, open-source Open Broadcaster Software has just started both a Patreon and Opencollective account. I’m really happy to see them opening up more support channels, as it’s an amazing piece of software both for livestreaming and recording that deserves our support: Funding Links: https://www.patreon.com/obsproject https://opencollective.com/obsproject I personally use OBS to record each […]
It’s been a few years since the release of the PlayStation SD device called the PSIO. As with any new product, it had some bugs at first, but consistent firmware updates now allow it to perform very nicely. Recent reviews from Voultar and My Life In Gaming showcased the device again and now that the “new” […]
Last month Ace joined me on a live-stream to reveal a preview of his impressive new FPGA core for MiSTer, Arkanoid (1986) Arcade. The core is now publicly released after a very long development cycle that required transposing several PCBs of real arcade hardware (a mix of arcade PCBs, old ICs, and other soft-core donors) […]
Starsceptre is a fantastic indie shmup that is in danger of getting delisted from the iOS app store due to low sales. Its developer, Richard Morgan hasn’t made enough to pay for the license fee to keep it on the app store. He has publicly asked for help, and as it’s an excellent retro style […]
Enterprising hackers have made progress on getting Android Q to boot on the Nintendo Switch. This is impressive since in the Android world, this version of the OS has not even been officially released by Google. For example, the Nvidia Shield TV shares much of the same architecture as the Switch but is still running Android […]
Proving that the tech world moves faster than anyone could conceivably keep up, the SD association has announced a new, faster standard for SD cards. Under the new moniker MicroSD Express, these cards will
It’s a safe bet than when prices on Micro SD cards start to drop, something new is around the corner. That said, Sandisk announced a 1TB MicroSDXC card with speeds reaching up to 160MB/s. The card will retail for
