Vitor Vilela is a SMW romhacker and the coder behind the SA-1 Pack, a suite of tools used by Super Mario World romhackers to add SA-1 special chip enhancements. He’s currently hard at work on a v2.0 update to the SA-1 Pack, adding new and more powerful features to the bag of tricks that romhackers […]
Borti just posted a new firmware for his open-source, N64Advanced board: https://github.com/borti4938/n64rgb/tree/master/advancedRGBmod According to Borti, the update includes some minor fixes, plus: Improved timing constraints (also for #N64RGB) New scanline method (considering neighbored lines instead of just previous or next one) Improved 480i de-interlacing The N64Advanced is one of two video kits designed by […]
Redguy has just posted another update to his SD2SNES SA-1 Firmware, focusing on slowdown and stability fixes: Reduces the amount of slowdown j-league sees when many players are on the screen. Changes snes/sa1 interfaces which may improve stability on certain consoles. Users of the existing SA-1-compatible firmware can just extract this right on top of […]
Insurrection Industries has just Tweeted details of their upcoming GameCube plug-and-play HDMI adapter, based of GCVideo. The $75 price tag includes a remote and HDMI cable. As soon as I get one in for testing, I’ll post more details. Big News! The Carby (GC digital AV adapter) has a projected release date of 9/17/2018!! It […]
A website just launched that allows you to play multiplayer SNES ROMs across the net via a web browser: https://snes.party/ I just tried it with a friend and it’s really laggy. We both have pretty fast internet connections (mine’s 900Mbps) and it was mostly unplayable for the remote player. I was the one hosting the ROM and […]
Someone just posted a 3D-printed “mini rack and pinion racing wheel” for original Xbox controllers. There were a lot of great racing games on the Xbox and I bet a “wheel” like this would be an excellent addition to some of those games: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3049220https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/979dop/xbox_rack_and_pinion_steering/ #xbox, #3dprint, #controller, #mods
Here’s an interview with Matt, creator of the new Genesis / Mega Drive game Tanglewood. During the interview, I show my playthrough of just past the first chapter of the game, recorded on real hardware!!! An audio-only version of the interview is available here. Here’s links to Matt and the game itself, as well as demo’s: https://twitter.com/bigevilboss […]
Frederic Mahe, the coder behind the scripts for the EverDrive Packs Lists Open-Source Project, wrote a new script to detect specific mappers from NES ROM headers and then copy the matches to a subfolder. This allows us to take a look at an exact list of what new games will work now that Krikzz has […]
Updated: http://retrorgb.com/krikzz-everdrive-n8-v2-0-rc3-released.html Krikzz has just announced that the Everdrive N8’s latest firmware is out of beta and now at Release Candidate 1! This firmware includes a ton of updates and bugfixes…so much that all owners of the NES and Famicom versions should update right away: http://krikzz.com/pub/support/var/rc/N8/nesos-v20-rc1.zip Some of the new additions include: Save states supported by all […]
Wakana has composed a rendition of the NES Duck Tales Amazon stage music in Super Mario World, and has made the track available for SMW romhackers to use in their level designs. It has to be heard to be believed. https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=17852 #chiptunes, #16bit, #ducktales, #supermarioworld, #wakana
