Hyperkin revealed their upcoming budget clone of the Nintendo 64. ModernVintageGamer compared their previews with emulators and found that it’s based on Mupen64, an open-source software based emulator that has been around the block for a long time. Mupen64 runs on pretty much every platform under the sun already (phones, computers, etc), so you can […]
The Genesis Fight Engine is a Brazilian homebrew project creating a new from-scratch fighting game engine for the Sega Genesis (similar to M.U.G.E.N.). It has been chugging along for years, starting with a very rough sketch of the idea, but it has been progressing along nicely, and the new videos by Master Martial Arts show […]
srg320 has written an FPGA soft-core for the Sega SVP chip for MiSTer’s Genesis core, to support Virtua Racing. This is the first-ever FPGA SVP implementation. Retro Nation posted a video of it in action in the video above.
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This is a Public Service Announcement (PSA) and warning to anyone interested in servicing, repairing, modifying or otherwise handling CRT (Cathode-Ray Tube) Monitors. Video recently done by Perifractic on his Retro Recipes YouTube channel explains the dangers and safety precautions individuals need to take when performing or working around these devices. This video also features […]
A brand new Amiga ‘Shoot’em-Up'(Shmup) game called Reshoot·R has been released for the AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture) series of Amiga computers. This means owners of Amiga 1200, 4000, and the CD32 are able to play this game with no addon cards, and is developed to run on standard hardware setups. Two Megs of Fast-RAM is […]
The video above shows the first successful full sync of Crystal Glitchless, which is longer than any other published console verification on TASVideos by more than an hour. This was made possible by a combination of efforts from TASVideos members and Pokemon Speedrunners and has allowed MrWint’s Pokemon Crystal TAS to be verified on original hardware […]
Knights of Bytes have just shown a teaser of their 2017 hit Commodore 64 game Sam’s Journey running on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The C64 edition of the game was available to purchase both as a physical disk, as well as a digital download. I hope they’ll offer the same with the NES version, as […]
Sony has just announced they’ll be releasing a remastered version of “Ghostbusters: The Video Game” in 2019. Sony claims the game itself will be updated with “enhanced textures and lighting” and I assume that means higher resolution rendering as well. Also, all the cutscenes will supposedly be in 4K, as according to the blog: “All […]
As you can see from the title, my first experiment with “retrobright” was a massive failure. Please check out the video (YouTube above, BitChute below) to see what went wrong and make sure to subscribe and follow these news posts to see how I get it right next time! Salon Care 40 Solution: https://amzn.to/30UeshL Console Cleaning: https://www.retrorgb.com/cleanconsoles.html […]
