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World’s First Virtual Boy Dual Arcade Stick

Jeremy Parish declared 2019 The Year of Virtual Boy, and to kick it off Benj Edwards of vintagecomputing.com revealed the Virtual Boy dual arcade stick that he will be selling, the BX250. The dual stick is designed with buttons in several arrangements suitable to all VB games including the rare Street Fighter Homebrew. Benj currently […]

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Capcom CPS-2 Metal Case

TR Fight Stick is working on a Capcom CPS-2 Arcade case. You may remember that he also sells a CPS-3 metal case, and is also currently at work on metal and wood Dreamcast shells. The CPS-2 case shares features of both: https://www.arcade-projects.com/forums/index.php?thread/7638-cps-2-custom-metal-case-work-in-progress/ I want to share with you one of my CPS2 design. It is […]

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Guardian Force Arcade – De-Lag Patch Playable on Darksoft STV Multi

Daifukkat.su AKA trap15 released a patch to cut down on some of the input latency built in to the Sega Titan ST-V Arcade game Guardian Force. GF is beautiful shoot ’em up, but suffers from 5-7 frames of input latency built in to the sloppy code. The patch removes 2 frames of lag from the […]

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SegaSonic Bros MD Released – Sega Genesis

As I reported previously, Dustin O’Dell is porting the unreleased Sega System C2 Arcade prototype “SegaSonic Bros” to the Sega Genesis. Today he released it for free. The game is completely playable and just has some polishing before it’s complete. I tested it on the latest MiSTer Sega Genesis core and it feels like a […]

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MiSTer Pack List v3.0 Released – Updater Script Special Edition

I just pushed MiSTer Pack List v3.0 to Github. V3 is a complete redesign based around the new functionality of the Updater Script by Locutus73. I worked with Locutus behind the scenes and he designed the script around the file-layout of the MiSTer Pack List. Basically, it’s so integrated now that you will never have […]

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MiSTer gets Game Boy Color Support

Bruno AKA brNK has added Game Boy Color support to MiSTer’s Game Boy FPGA core. This is an early first release so support is hit or miss, but GBC support is under heavy development by Bruno and will be excellent when complete. Games that are supported reportedly play great. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Gameboy_MiSTer/  

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MiSTer Updates Roundup Week of 12/16/2018

In the world of MiSTer there were new cores released this week, core updates, and more. SmokeMonster MiSTer Pack List v2.0 ReleasedDatabase: https://github.com/SmokeMonsterPacks/EverDrive-Packs-Lists-DatabaseRelease Notes: https://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?101715-EverDrive-Packs-Release-Thread&p=1934764#post1934764 New Arcade Core: Jousthttps://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Joust_MiSTer/ New Arcade Core: Stargate (AKA Defender II)https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Stargate_MiSTer New Arcade Core: Robotron 2084https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Robotron_MiSTer/ New Arcade Core: Bubbleshttps://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Bubbles_MiSTer/ New Arcade Core: Splathttps://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Splat_MiSTer/ New core coming soon: Odyssey2https://github.com/Kitrinx/Odyssey2_MiSTer SNES […]