Voultar has just posted a video showing the installation of two highly anticipated, upcoming products for the PlayStation 1: The new optical drive emulator called the XStation and the digital-to-digital HDMI mod called the PS1Digital. Both are fairly complicated mods that involve fine pitch soldering, so I’d recommend professional installation services for both. UPDATE: John […]
Here’s this week’s roundup! An audio-only version, is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and for direct-download: https://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2020-08-05_213.mp3 Video available on YouTube (above), LBRY and Bitchute: Please consider signing up as a supporter! Either hit Join, tip or pledge on this video, or sign up through the following services: https://www.floatplane.com/channel/RobertNeal / https://www.patreon.com/retrorgb T-Shirts: https://www.retrorgb.com/store.html All […]
The MODE is an optical disc emulator (ODE) that replaces the CDROM drive in your Dreamcast or Saturn, allowing you to boot from modern storage options, as opposed to original discs. This video will show what storage options to use, how to install it and how it performs! MODE: https://bit.ly/sagmode LaserBear brackets & mounts: https://laserbear.net/ […]
A fanhack of Ocarina Of Time was just released called: Zelda: The Missing Link. While it’s technically a romhack of the original, this game includes completely new areas and the game aims to fill the story gap between OoT and Majora’s Mask. It’s reported that the game’s playtime is fairly short, making this an excellent […]
The team behind the new Battletoads game has just announced it will release in a few weeks on August 20th. The game will launch on Xbox One, Windows 10, Xbox Game Pass, and Steam: Xbox: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/battletoads Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1244950/Battletoads/ While this certainly isn’t a “retro” release, anyone who grew up in the late 80’s / early 90’s surely […]
Displaced Gamers has recently released a multi-subject video discussing different revisions and bugs in a handful of cartridge-based games. The whole premise of the video was to focus on how companies dealt with fixes in an era when patching didn’t exist: Once that cartridge was shipped to consumers, the game would forever play that way. […]
Here’s this week’s roundup! An audio-only version, is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and for direct-download: https://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2020-07-29_212.mp3 Video available on YouTube (above), LBRY and Bitchute: Please consider signing up as a supporter! Either hit Join, tip or pledge on this video, or sign up through the following services: https://www.floatplane.com/channel/RobertNeal / https://www.patreon.com/retrorgb T-Shirts: https://www.retrorgb.com/store.html All equipment […]
Smokemonster and I sat down for a discussion with Gabriel Pyron, the creator of many amazing “color restoration” hacks for the Sega Genesis. Smoke and I are both huge fan’s of Gabriel’s work and have been following him for years. I was first made aware of his work when I discovered his patch for Out […]
It looks like there was another leak of Nintendo source code and this time the full source for a few of the most iconic Super Nintendo games were part of the release. There were also prototypes of games released, some with alternative music that’s never been heard before and I’ve linked to a few examples […]
St1ka has just posted his review of the game Dune for MS DOS, based off *the movie from the 80’s. While Dune 2 may have had more of an impact on gaming, the original was interesting as it was a combination of a point & click adventure game and a real-time strategy game. While St1ka’s […]
