The SHIRO! team caught up with Rich and Andy from Retro-Bit at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, and we were focused primarily on covering the much anticipated Saturn Wireless Pro Controller. However, the Retro-Bit guys had another trick up their sleeves that caught us completely by surprise! It turns out they’ve been working on both […]
Bootleg retro games are often the target of derision and mockery on youtube, but that seems to happen only because no one is taking the time to showcase the games that are actually good. It’s because of that that St1ka (that’s me) created a video listing 20 Bootleg games that are actually good and have […]
Lemmings Arcade RMC The cave posted an image of an inoperable prototype pcb for arcade Lemmings. atrac17 recognized some of the custom chips and believes this game could be a candidate for the upcoming Robocop 2 core. Its looks like they will be in contact to help resolve this. Post : https://twitter.com/RMCRetro/status/1673320655326961668 Post 2 : https://twitter.com/RMCRetro/status/1673327738189430785 Post […]
Retro Fighters has just opened pre-orders on another round of the first controller they ever made: An NES controller called the “Jab”. It has both NES and USB options; Compatibility and more features are listed below. The price is $25 plus shipping and they should arrive at customers within a month. Pre-Order: https://retrorgb.link/retrofightersjab I’ll be honest, […]
Playstation Core The Playstation Core now fulfills instruction cache fetch timing from real hardware, making the core even more accurate. If you want to try out these accuracy tests for yourself, Robert, the core developer, has them available on GitHub and you can also check out his Patreon for more detailed post on how updates […]
We have been following Megavolt85’s efforts to convert Atomiswave Arcade games to run natively on the Dreamcast. Recently he released ports of two unreleased Atomiwave figthing games: KenJu and Force Five. KenJu combines cel shaded 3D graphics with 2D gameplay, and plays similarly to Rival Schools. Force Five is a 3D fighter later became Jingi […]
YZB first brought us a 4MB optimized Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and now they have patched Saturn’s King of Fighters ’95 to bypass its proprietary ROM cart, utilizing common aftermarket 4MB RAM carts instead, just as they did for Ultraman recently. Like Ultraman, KOF95’s custom ROM cart worked flawlessly as a physical copy protection […]
Carrying on with their line of SEGA legacy controllers, Retro-Bit just revealed the preliminary design for their upcoming Dreamcast controller. What’s different this time, is that Retro-Bit with the collaboration of SEGA, altered the the classic design of the not-so-popular original DC controller, opting for: 6 face-button layout (similar to the Saturn 3D controller, 2D […]
Retro Fighter’s, the company that gave the world re-imagined NES and N64 controllers is back at it again with their recently announced BrawlerGen controller that doubles as a Genesis/Mega Drive controller and a Saturn controller. Per Retro Fighter’s website, the features of this controller are:
Retro Fighters have just launched a Kickstarter for a device that sits around your Switch 2’s dock and includes four low-latency GameCube controller ports. These connect to the original dock’s USB ports with an included cable and allow up to four wired GC controllers to be used. Each dock will also come with Included with […]
