Hyperkin just announced the “Admiral”, a new wireless Bluetooth controller for the N64. It is modeled after the infamous Hori Mini Pad and comes in one color “grey”, for now. The press release by Hyperkin only lists a few specs of the upcoming “Admiral” like the obvious inclusion of a lithium-ion battery (rechargeable through a […]
Sony is using the open-source software based emulator PCSX in their upcoming PlayStation Classic Mini console. This is a major disappointment to those of use who wanted to see at least the PS2/PSP/PS3/Vita/PSTV lineage emulator used–but it is not unexpected. This makes the Classic a very weak emulator, even compared to an old phone running […]
FirebrandX’s custom NES palettes are coming to MiSTer thanks to Rysha’s new release, and they load straight from the menu. Rysha has provided a test build of the NES core with the new palettes, FDS support, and nearest-neighbor scaling.
Here’s an audio-only interview with Patrick Gravier, aka savon-pat. His willingness to help and wealth of knowledge have been a tremendous help for the retro-gaming community. It was an absolute pleasure getting to meet with him in person and I hope everyone enjoys the interview! Podcast and direct-stream location: http://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2018-11-09_pat.mp3 savon-pat eBay Store: https://ebay.to/2RKhrDVpatrickgravier [at] netzero […]
The only add-on you need to have a complete MiSTer that runs all cores is the SDRAM board, since the IO board is only necessary for adding analog output (RGB/RGBS/RGBHV/VGA/Component to SCART/BNC/RCA/VGA/etc) and to house the fan. Using the IO board as a fan mount is complete overkill if you only need HDMI output though, […]
Announced over a year ago (around August 2017) the Vampire v4 Standalone, an Amiga FPGA-based system, was recently showed booting up for the first time. The Vampire V4 has been given the attribute “standalone” because “Apollo Accelerators”, the team behind it, is mainly known in the Amiga scene for producing and releasing the great Vampire […]
MiSTer’s NES core is getting Nintendo Famicom Disk System (FDS) support care of GreyRogue, making it the first FPGA system that natively supports FDS without needing additional hardware to load ROMs. The same update also adds expansion audio for VRC6 and Sunsoft-5B mapper games (Gimmick, Akumajou Dracula, etc). For a first release, it’s relatively mature. […]
Here’s this week’s roundup! Audio-only version here: http://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2018-11-07_122.mp3
Here’s a short review of an inexpensive SCART / RCA switch from Otaku-Games. It doesn’t have any of the options or enhancements of the gscartsw, but I think it might be a good start for people looking for an inexpensive option! Otaku Switch: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DFxPTtd SCART Switch Page: http://retrorgb.com/scartswitches.html
I’m sure this is considered “old news” in terms of tech blogs, but I wanted to wait for the whole situation to settle before posting an overview. Apparently, AtGames sent John Hancock a review unit of their latest piece of shit emulation box, which used arcade ROMs as the games. John reviewed it and people […]
