While out in Chicago, I was able to sit down in HD Retrovision’s new office and talk about their SNES/Genesis cables, their fabled Dreamcast cables and catch up on other random nerdiness! https://www.hdretrovision.comhttps://twitter.com/HDRetrovisionhttps://www.youtube.com/theretroroundtable   #hdretrovision, #dreamcast, #component, #YPbPr

Redguy shared a pre-release beta of his SA-1 core for SD2SNES and gave me permission to stream it. I show all of the main SA-1 games like Super Mario RPG and Kirby Super Star, along with incredible SA-1 Super Mario World Hacks, SA-1 translations, and more! Played on an Analogue Super NT. More info on […]

A new controller adapter board has been announced that’s a collaboration between Brook Gaming, Jasen’s Customs and ArcadeShock.  This board will allow you to use a competition-grade arcade stick with multiple consoles while adding absolutely no latency to the controller reaction time!  This is great for both people looking to convert “generic” fighting sticks to higher qualify arcade […]

Redguy shared a pre-release beta of his SA-1 chip core for the SD2SNES with me and gave his blessing to show it off, so I’ll be live streaming gameplay tonight (July 28th) on my Twitch channel at 10PM Eastern. Come join the festivities. Last night I streamed a test of every game’s intro and they […]

The Mojon Twins have just released another NES adventure game, called Cheryl The Writer.  According to the developers: “the game is designed to illustrate some of the things that can be achieved with MK1_NES / AGNES, and on GitHub you have DALEFRANESCA information about how it is built.”   I only clocked a few minutes with it […]

Creator Petter Hans has just released an updated version of his Commodore 64 overvoltage protection circuit, called the C64 saver.  According to the developer: The C64 Saver 2 is an open-source project intended to make overvoltage protection available and easy to make for anyone interested in using the old Commodore power brick together with the […]

Frank received a batch of components for his Sentinel Superguns:Supergun PCBsVideo hat PCBsSNES Controller AdaptersGenesis Controller AdaptersZIF Programmer for flashing controller adapters And he has some misc new PCBs built:Jamma pass-through boardsPCE RGB ampsSega Master System composite and s-video ampSega Master System switchless 50/60Hz boards This batch of Supergun PCBs were from his original design, […]

KR155E on the Planet Virtual Boy forums recently created a demo that uses dithering and blending to produce eight shades of red, as oppoed to the normal three found in the Virtual Boy.  Here’s how the process looks when applied to the title screen of Yoshi’s Island: It’s available as a VB rom file too, so […]

The new 3/4 sized arcade cabinets from Arcade1Up are having a pre-order sale for $100 off the MSRP, at $299.  These cabinets are unique in that they’re a bit more then your average emulation / flat-screen cab;  Each cabinet has an arcade stick that matches the games bundled.  For example, SFII has a six-button layout for […]

I received a ROM of the undumped Genesis/Mega Drive “The Smurfs” from Brazil. It’s 60Hz NTSC and not region-locked, unlike the EU ROM. Send a huge thanks to btrim82 for sharing it for free! I’ll pass it along for preservation. Here’s a video of his investigation and dump of it using db electronics’ Universal Mega […]