The Sega Saturn optical drive emulator (ODE) Fenrir just received a minor price drop. Its initial release was surrounded by a bit of confusion in terms of pricing but it ended being sold at €115 (~$138) for the better part of 2020. Ced, the main developer behind the Fenrir, also released a couple of firmware […]
While it’s only been a couple of weeks since the X-station received its latest firmware update, the project’s main developer ramapcsx2 just released yet another newer update that improves, or rather simplifies compatibility and addresses a few bugs. Introduced by Sony in 1998, Libcrypt is extra code stored on quite a few PAL PS disc/games […]
A new firmware update has just been released for the new and upcoming PlayStation optical drive emulator (ODE), the X-station. While users who pre-ordered their units before late September are expecting to receive them very soon, the project’s main developer ramapcsx2 addressed some bugs, improved compatibility and ameliorated the overall presentation of the X-station, all […]
GCLoader, a GameCube ODE made by Daniel Kraak and Dan Kunz, received a new firmware update today that improves audio streaming performance. Attentive readers may have seen that audio streaming was also addressed in a previous firmware update, v1.1.1, but that update was pulled because it functionally bricked certain revisions of GCLoaders by causing Disc Read […]
With the Satiator finally seeing a “Retail” release (right now it’s only being sold to Patreon patrons, but will be available to everyone in the fairly near term) I was finally able to kick the tires on this long-awaited device. A Crowded Market In the three years that the Satiator has been incubating the Saturn […]
(Update, June 16th, 2020) Cybdyn has since released v2.6.14 in an attempt to fix a few bugs that were discovered in 2.6.13. Unfortunately, both of these updates have introduced several notable issues, so if the games you’re playing work fine with the firmware you currently have installed it would probably be a good idea to […]
Deunan Knute has recently released the long awaited firmware update for his Dreamcast ODE (Optical Drive Emulator), the GDEMU. Three years after the release of firmware 5.15 , Deunan addressed a few persistent bugs in a couple of titles, with the latest update version 5.20, as well as added the ability to slow down the […]
The french preservation groups MO5, La Ludothèque Française and the Game Preservation Society are proud to announce a new open source preservation tool, Pauline. It’s made by Jean-François Del Nero, already known for the HxC FDE and it’s in closed beta testing at the moment. The device can detect the kind of Floppy drive it’s […]
Deunan, the designer of the official GDEMU (Dreamcast), the Phoebe and Rhea (Saturn) and the Doc Brown (FM Towns Marty) ODEs has just teased a work-in-progress picture of an ODE for the FM Towns tower PCs tentatively called the “Grey Tower Wizard”. The new device is designed to be installed internally without requiring removal of […]
EDIT 04/02: It looks like the price has gone up since it’s original announcement from $96 to $123.81. EDIT 04/09: There’s been some confusion on the price: The increase was only from $96 to about $103 – The $124 amount includes VAT (20%), which only applies to the EU. Everywhere else will pay $103. EDIT: […]
