The team behind Yooka-Laylee is planning on adding video filters to emulate the look of an N64 game, as a free upgrade. I guess this was a throwback to the N64’s Banjo-Kazooie, which is great for nostalgic N64 lovers, but bad for those of us who never liked the look of N64 games. More info here: https://www.playtonicgames.com/a-novel-update/ […]
I hosted a live telethon fundraiser for the open-source MiSTer FPGA Multi-Console Project. We had celebrity guests and talked FPGA dev until the phones stop ringing! Altogether we raised around $1,700 (including the pre-show direct contributions to Alexey, the in-stream Super Chats, the live Streamlabs, and late direct donations). Featuring Bob: RetroRGB, Lon: Lon.TV, Coury: […]
The Terasic DE10-nano is $110 w/FREE overnight-shipping via a 15% off code for new customers at Arrow Electronics. The cheapest it’s been by $20, plus it includes free 1-day shipping. Start playing MiSTer cores tomorrow! Product Link (not affiliated) https://arrow.com/en/products/p0496/terasic-technologies Code: NEW15You also needOTG USB HUB (Micro-USB)And a 22x22x10mm Heatsink w/thermal tape #mister, #fpga, […]
Alexey (Sorgelig) released an update to the Sega Genesis core: Many fixes in new releases. Titan Overdrive – everything is perfect now.Titan Overdrive 2 – mostly OK. There is unknown cause of audio lag. Arcade scene flickers and won’t be fixed (as it useless for games). Known issues:– Outrunners USA have dots. Use Japan version […]
Sony has just reveled the list of games for the PlayStation Classic emulation console, due to arrive December 3rd for $100. Unsurprisngly, Castlevania Symphony of the Night is missing from this list, most likely to prevent taking away from the latest Playstation 4 re-release of the game. The list of games and launch video is […]
The Kickstarter campaign for the CollectorVision Phoenix has just announced that they’ll be including an Atari 2600 core with their console, should it reach funding. No word on if cartridges will be supported, or just ROMs. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1408938247/collectorvision-phoenix-an-fpga-colecovision-conso/posts/2321563
Watermelon recently surprised everyone with announcing/organizing a release party for their long awaited and upcoming Sega Genesis/MD Beat-em-up game “Paprium”. Long believed to be nothing but vaporware by many, “Paprium” (earlier known as Project Y) has been been in development for almost 5 years (but on pre-order since March 2017) and Watermelon’s suspicious behavior (rarely […]
Limited Run Games was amidst controversy the past few days, after word got out that they’ll be selling some of their games at Best Buy…but will not be re-releasing any previously manufactured “rare” games. LRG owner Josh Fairhurst seemed genuinely concerned on Twitter and to be honest, I’m still not 100% sure what the full controversy was about, but here’s my […]
The source code for Mortal Kombat 3 Arcade, Playstation, and PC was leaked on 4chan, as well as Mortal Kombat Trilogy for the Nintendo 64. The code also contains some comic relief from the original Mortal Kombat coders that Brizzo uncovered: ;******************; thanks wwf guys for wasting a day of my time !!! ;**************************************************************************;* *;* […]
Here’s an interview with Hennadiy aka superg, the creator of high-end SCART and component video switches. An audio-only version of the podcast can be found here: http://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2018-10-26_interview_superg.mp3 You can pre-order the switches here: http://www.gretrostuff.com/store/gscartsw/ Forum topic here: https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=50851
