In 1988, Hudson and NEC introduced CD-ROM technology to the world of video games with its CD-ROM ROM System add-on for the original PC Engine. This allowed games to store exponentially more data than ever before, opening the doors to seemingly endless new possibilities in gaming in terms of graphics, sound and scope. In order […]
Tempest, the 1981 arcade game famous for it’s colourful vector graphics and which saw memorable ports to some of the more obscure home consoles such as Atari Jaguar as well as NUON – has now unofficially added the 3DO to it’s roster of obscure consoles thanks to the homebrew efforts of Retroloveletter! You can download […]
The GameCube version of the awesome MemCard Pro is now in stock and ready to ship at Stone Age Gamer. This is the FPGA-based memory card that can act as multiple virtual memory cards when used with original discs and also automatically assign one VMC per game (including per region!) when used with Swiss! There’s also […]
Stone Age Gamer just listed stock of bluetooth controller adapters for the Game Cube in blue, orange and black. These are powered by Darthcloud’s low-latency blueretro platform and supports multiple controller types. The price is $30 plus shipping and they should ship right away: Purchase from SaG: https://retrorgb.link/gcblueretrosag PS5 (low-latency) controller: https://amzn.to/3OmIsy1 Rondo Link: https://retrorgb.link/gcblueretro While the […]
Roger aka 8-Bit Esquire recently released a video talking about the differences between consumer-grade CRT’s and BVM’s. While the video was pretty long, it’s a really great overview as to why some people hunt down PVM…or even BVM monitors. On a personal note, I’d like to politely remind everyone reading this (as did Roger in […]
Very Ok Vinyl has launched pre-order for Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams soundtrack composed by Kenichi Hirata from Arcade on a vinyl record featuring new artwork from PitCLoverDraws. It’s priced at $43.00 CAD. Scheduled release is Q4 2023. (CA) Very Ok Vinyl: https://www.veryokvinyl.com/products/cotton-fantastic-night-dreams This release comes on a 2LP orange black/green splatter vinyl. Recordings are based […]
Have you ever played The Terminator for the NES? Landing is difficult. Jumping is inconsistent. Sometimes you appear to land but fall through the ground! Sometimes you fall off the edge of a platform while running even though you swear you pressed jump before you got there. Sometimes jumping to the first ledge works but […]
The SHIRO! crew caught up with Ryan Engstrom (aka Archades Games), an independent tester working alongside Retro-Bit at the 2023 Portland Retro Gaming Expo. We discussed their upcoming 2.4Ghz Saturn Wireless Pro Controller, a wireless Saturn-inspired (and Saturn compatible) pad with two thumb sticks, four shoulder buttons and all the fixings of a modern controller. […]
Originally written by Danthrax over at SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! A prominent Saturn homebrew developer whose code was used in part to make a prototype of Metal Gear Solid running on the Saturn confirmed that the prototype is real. XL2 said Friday in the SHIRO! Discord server and Saturday on SegaXtreme that the prototype’s developer, Frogbull, […]
FirebrandX recently wrote a Patreon post that detailed an odd “feature” of the Neo Geo: The ability to pillarbox 320 resolution games to 304. While this is a non-issue on CRT’s, if you scale certain games wrong, you’ll actually cut off too much of the image. Please check out the post for more info: Public […]
