SmokeMonster

World’s First Virtual Boy Dual Arcade Stick

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Jeremy Parish declared 2019 The Year of Virtual Boy, and to kick it off Benj Edwards of vintagecomputing.com revealed the Virtual Boy dual arcade stick that he will be selling, the BX250. The dual stick is designed with buttons in several arrangements suitable to all VB games including the rare Street Fighter Homebrew. Benj currently […]

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Capcom CPS-2 Metal Case

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TR Fight Stick is working on a Capcom CPS-2 Arcade case. You may remember that he also sells a CPS-3 metal case, and is also currently at work on metal and wood Dreamcast shells. The CPS-2 case shares features of both: https://www.arcade-projects.com/forums/index.php?thread/7638-cps-2-custom-metal-case-work-in-progress/ I want to share with you one of my CPS2 design. It is […]

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Guardian Force Arcade – De-Lag Patch Playable on Darksoft STV Multi

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Daifukkat.su AKA trap15 released a patch to cut down on some of the input latency built in to the Sega Titan ST-V Arcade game Guardian Force. GF is beautiful shoot ’em up, but suffers from 5-7 frames of input latency built in to the sloppy code. The patch removes 2 frames of lag from the […]

Rany Battikh

Vector monitor XY Kit

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Looking for another use for that 19″ consumer-grade CRT?   Well you can now turn the latter into a vector monitor! The XY Kit, initially designed by Fred Konopaska, consists mainly of high voltage and deflection boards. The project has now been handed to Barry Shilmover who is currently improving upon the original design, assembling kits […]

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SegaSonic Bros MD Released – Sega Genesis

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As I reported previously, Dustin O’Dell is porting the unreleased Sega System C2 Arcade prototype “SegaSonic Bros” to the Sega Genesis. Today he released it for free. The game is completely playable and just has some polishing before it’s complete. I tested it on the latest MiSTer Sega Genesis core and it feels like a […]

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MiSTer Pack List v3.0 Released – Updater Script Special Edition

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I just pushed MiSTer Pack List v3.0 to Github. V3 is a complete redesign based around the new functionality of the Updater Script by Locutus73. I worked with Locutus behind the scenes and he designed the script around the file-layout of the MiSTer Pack List. Basically, it’s so integrated now that you will never have […]

Bob

New Dump of Virtual Boy’s Bound High Released

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Members of the Planet Virtual Boy forums have just released a newly-dumped version of the unreleased game Bound High:  https://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7247&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&type=&mode=0&start=0 The game itself is almost identical to the version previously dumped, however this version seems to have been complied in a different way.  So far, testing shows almost no difference, but there’s the possibility that certain […]

Ray Commend

The ZX Spectrum Gets a New Game, Courtesy of Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

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Netflix really seems to have a thing for retro games and the 80’s in general.  Castlevania, Stranger Things, Hi Score Girl, and now Bandersnatch.  In this interactive movie, watchers are encouraged to interact in a “choose-your-own-adventure” style of game where choices determine the final outcome.  That’s not what this article is about though.