Ton-chi-ki.blogspot.com posted an overview of the PC Engine Mercurius, a PC Engine turned handheld. Functionally equivalent to a TurboExpress (AKA PC Engine GT), it features a 3D printed case, built in controller, and 4:3 RGB LCD (LCDDRV). With the exception of being extremely wide and probably very uncomfortable to use in practice, it is a […]
It’s time to get Hardcore with your Sega Genesis… (Couldn’t resist!) All kidding aside, Analogue announced that their upcoming FPGA clone of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive will be bundled with Hardcore, a 99% finished game that was canceled 23 years ago. The game was canceled in 1994 due to developer Psygnosis losing faith in 16-bit game […]
Custom Game Cases just launched a GoFundMe campaign to support their up and coming Virtual Boy clam-shell plastic cases. UPDATE: Indiegogo Campaign here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/virtual-boy-collectors-game-cases#/ While most retro cartridges got the “custom case” treatment throughout the years, systems like the Vitual Boy get often pushed aside. With the fragile nature of cardboard cases (for all Nintendo systems […]
Just a few weeks ago, the Epic game store was giving away digital copies of Axiom Verge, an excellent “Metroidvania” style game that everyone should try. Their current offering,
Krikzz has just posted the SD2SNES Pro for sale on his website! Price is $197 and they’re in stock: https://krikzz.com/store/home/54-sd2snes-pro.html Stone Age Gamer also posted an update, saying they’ll have a limited stock soon: https://stoneagegamer.com/blog/about-the-sd2snes-pro/ If the new features aren’t something you’d use, Stone Age Gamer is selling the non-pro version here at a discount. Personally, I’m really excited […]
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 […]
