I just did a live review of Arcooda’s 16:9, 32″ LCD arcade monitor and really liked it – When put into context of it’s intended use case. If you’re just looking for a cheap, low-latency LCD panel, grab what you can from Amazon, Best Buy, etc. This was designed for use in Arcooda’s “Viewlix-style” modern […]
Overclocked Main Kernel An option to overclock the ARM CPU is officially coming to MiSTer, the overclock changes have already been merged into Main but an official release is not out yet. Things that an overclock will help with are: -Hybrid emulation efforts on the ao486 and Amiga cores. -Slightly reduced game loading times on […]
A Game Boy Modding enthusiast names Nick (@BucketMouseBite) created an open source project that allows you to transform an original Game Boy DMG into a Game Boy Color. Finally, I can share my DMG Color (DMGC) with the world! This is an original Game Boy (DMG) console that plays both Game Boy *and* Game Boy Color […]
Markus recently released firmware v0.61 for the OSSC Dexx board that offers a few new features. The first is the ability for DE-10 users to choose which side the dexx is mounted to. That means if you’d like to alternate between using your DE-10 as a MiSTer and a dexx, you can leave everything connected […]
Every one of my fellow nerds with a multi-cade setup has had this happen: You spend weeks making everything in your setup work, just to have a friend come over, select a game you haven’t configured yet…and it fails. You scramble to map the buttons and get things configured, but the pressure’s on: Every second […]
Russ Lyman just posted a fun video that I wanted to share with all of you: He took a prototype Retro Game Restore Genesis shell and modded it to look “bloody” for Halloween! This is both fun and also encompasses my favorite aspects of console modding – More thoughts below, as well as some notes […]
Developer Steve Troughton-Smith recently discovered that the Switch Online SNES controller is now compatible with Apple’s iOS and tvOS platforms. Other people have reported that the NES, Genesis and N64 controllers are working too. That should mean any controller-compatible game on Apple phone, tablet and TV platforms can use them! While I don’t have any […]
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Fixel has just released a firmware update for the ‘XPort’ external, plug and play optical drive emulator. The revision 0.57 firmware allows for 100% compatibility with the entire redump disc set! That means this external solution should be equal in compatibility, but much faster than original CDROM drives. Fixel is also running a Haloween sale […]
Clean Sweep For the Clean Sweep core, the controls are now done and all known bugs are fixed, but more testing will be done to see if any other issues arise. Twitter post : https://twitter.com/mrjimmystones/status/1581586114980171777 Known bugs fixed : https://twitter.com/mrjimmystones/status/1582133399791472646 Controls Done : https://twitter.com/mrjimmystones/status/1581772214868639745 Jimmy Stones Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjimmystones Jimmy Stones Github: https://github.com/JimmyStones?tab=repositories Jimmy Stones support page: https://ko-fi.com/jimmystones Out Run The […]
