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GBA Consolizer: An HDMI 720p GBA Kit

Posted on November 27, 2018January 4, 2019 by Bob

I’d like to introduce everyone to the Game Boy Advance Consolizer: A zero-lag, 720p HDMI kit for the Game Boy Advance! This is a full overview & review that covers all current features and options. GBA Consolizer Links:https://www.game-tech.us/product/woozles-gba-consolizer-kit-40-pin/https://www.game-tech.us/product/gbaconsolizer-full-case/http://stephens-projects.com/projects/gbahdmi/http://stephens-projects.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GBA-HDMI-User-Manual.pdf Follow Woozle & Game-tech for updates:https://twitter.com/GameTechUShttps://twitter.com/Woozle64 Power & HDMI Cable Recommendations:Tested, high-quality Mini-HDMI Cable: https://amzn.to/2PXmzbyPower Cable: https://amzn.to/2zszqbx […]

VB Music Tracker for Virtual Boy

Posted on November 27, 2018January 4, 2019 by Rany Battikh

A crowd-funding campaign went recently live on Indiegogo for a Virtual Boy development/sound tool by Martin Kujaczynski entitled “VB Music Tracker”. This is basically a software that will allow game developers and composers to create high quality music for their upcoming releases on the VB. Unfortuntely, some, if not most homebrew VB games suffer greatly […]

SD2SNES Gets S-DD1 Special Chip Support

Posted on November 26, 2018January 4, 2019 by SmokeMonster

Magno has been working on an open-source S-DD1 special chip FPGA core for SD2SNES for over a year, completing roughly 95% of the code, and Redguy made it playable. His latest commits on Github successfully add support for SDD-1 games in SD2SNES. It hasn’t been officially released yet, but a pre-compiled build was shared (link […]

Affordable High-Quality Soldering Station

Posted on November 26, 2018October 12, 2020 by Bob

Voultar just posted a video that recommends a $100 (approx) soldering kit that performs as good or better than most equipment many times more expensive. It’s a great walkthrough of both what’s better about it, as well as why it’s better. EDIT: It’s been reported that not every T12 has the same circuitry as the one […]

Sega Triple Bypass for sale at Insurrection Industries

Posted on November 26, 2018November 10, 2021 by Bob

It looks like Insurrection Industries is the first online store to begin selling the Sega Triple Bypass board (3BP)! Currently, the ASIC and YM2612 versions are available: https://insurrectionindustries.com/product/triple-bypass-board-asic-ym3438/ https://insurrectionindustries.com/product/triple-bypass-board-ym2612/ For more information on the 3BP, as well as the newly re-interest of the Genesis 3 can be found here: http://retrorgb.com/genesistriplebypass.html http://retrorgb.com/genesis3.html UPDATE: If you lift […]

Interview with GBA Consolizer Creator Woozle

Posted on November 26, 2018January 4, 2023 by Bob

Here’s an in-person interview with Stephen Williams, aka Woozle. Stephen just finished a beta run of his 720p HDMI Game Boy Advance Consolizer and I wanted to meet up and get the full story of the project! An audio-only, podcast version of this interview can be found here: http://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2018-11-26_woozle_interview.mp3 Follow Stephen here: https://twitter.com/Woozle64Pre-orders for the GBA […]

VirtualBoy No-Cut Video Port Mounts for the VirtualTap

Posted on November 26, 2018January 4, 2019 by Greg Collins

The Furrtek VirtualTap gives new life to nonfunctional VirtualBoy units. Many of these units that will be brought back to life will have non-functional eye-screens. For these units we can install a replacement for the eye lenses that allow the new video ports to be mounted without cutting any of the original plastics. Download here: http://retrorgb.com/assets/3dprint/VirtualBoyNoCutRGB_2018-11-21.zip […]

MiSTer Atari Jaguar Core Launched

Posted on November 25, 2018January 4, 2019 by SmokeMonster

In 2012, Torlus wrote an open-source FPGA Atari Jaguar called JagNetLists. It was built for the Stratix-II FPGA in the Nios-II dev kit, and contained a working 68000 implementation. ElectronAsh has started the process of porting JagNetLists to MiSTer and just released his initial code on Github with the hope that someone can step in […]

MiSTer Power Switch Warning

Posted on November 24, 2018July 17, 2020 by SmokeMonster

UPDATE From Bob, Summer 2020: After quite a few months of testing, switches compatible with the original Terasic PSU have been found. Everything else in this article is accurate though and you shouldn’t use low-quality switches with any PSU (including the alternatives listed below)… Several users have reported voltage drops when using 5.5mm barrel […]

Sentinel Supergun Prices Announced

Posted on November 24, 2018January 4, 2019 by SmokeMonster

Prices have been announced for the Sentinel Supergun. Originally envisioned as a cheap device, the Sentinel’s features and quality steadily rose until it is basically as much as, or more expensive than the HAS. Sentinel Features 4 layer PCB with gold immersion finish. RGBS buffered by THS7374 with switch to toggle the LPF. Dipswitch to […]