DisplacedGamers

Crashing Tetris! The Logic Behind the Madness – Behind the Code Leveled Up

This has been a really big year so far for Tetris on the NES. Players have found ways to provide controller inputs at speeds the programmers of the game didn’t anticipate. A technique called “rolling” has allowed players to move pieces at such fast speeds that they can progress beyond level 150! Unfortunately, this might […]

Bob

Weekly Roundup #399

The Roundup is available as a video and on all audio-only podcast services, such as iTunes, Google, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music and direct-download:  https://anchor.fm/retrorgb If you enjoy these videos, please consider supporting this channel via monthly support services, tips, or even just by using our affiliate links to purchase things you were already going to buy […]

Bob

OSSC Pro Batch #2

A second batch of OSSC Pro scalers has just been listed for sale.  The cases for this run of production are injection molded black plastic, as opposed to the white prints from last time, but there are no other changes.  The price should be about the same as last time, which was $360  for me […]

Bob

RetroTINK 4K In Stock This Saturday

The most powerful, feature-filled scaler the gaming world has ever seen will be back in stock this Saturday March 9th at 4PM NYC time!  Mike has contacted his website host and informed them of the sale to try and avoid the same issues from last time, however even if they sell out again, there’s good […]

Lu

MiSTer FPGA News – Groovy MiSTer, MiSTerCast, TapTo, MiSTex & More

MiSTerCast Shane Lynch has released updates for MrCast, fixing several issues. One update addresses the incorrect use of commas as decimal points, improving functionality for European users. Another update significantly reduces CPU usage, with reports of up to 50% reduction. Post 1 : https://x.com/iequalshane/status/1761880086255374340?t=90Q-B_y8Q-yikIEcecQ5JQ&s=09 Post 2 : https://twitter.com/iequalshane/status/1761962998418083889?t=5LbRW-qPHgkl18ZkAug8Ew&s=19   Groovy MiSTer Banding Ruleset has forked the Groovy […]

Alex Mitchell

BBA Emulation Demonstrated In Swiss

If you’re a fan of the extremely limited handful of GameCube games with online and local network functionality, today is your lucky day. Swiss, a homebrew utility that extends and enhances the functionality of the GameCube platform, will have Broadband Adapter (BBA) emulation support implemented in its upcoming releases. Although Nintendo clearly prioritized developing local […]