Loïc *WydD* Petit put the new Samurai Spirits PS4 demo to the test and found some frightening lag under the hood. 8 frames of input latency, or 134ms. That is extremely sloppy coding for such a legendary fighting IP. Samurai Spirits PS4 Demo input lag results. This is the worst lag I have ever measured. […]
For years people have discussed the concept of an open-source supergun (devices used to connect arcade game PCBs to TV and PVMs), and the era is now upon us with the launch of Minigun by Frank_fjs, creator of the Sentinel Supergun. The Minigun is designed with simplicity, cost, easy of construction, and safety in mind. […]
Loïc *WydD* Petit undertook the massive job of writing a complete PCB trace-out for the Capcom CPS-2 Arcade B-Boards (game boards). There were around 850 traces in total, and he has shared his work in a Google doc. Hopefully this will be archived and preserved for posterity. I considered this as my holiday puzzle. When […]
Irken Labs has released a successor to their JVS-PAC, which is basically a keyboard encoder for JVS IO boards, so you can use the direct JVS wiring standard on, say, a MAME PC without re-wiring anything. The advantage of JVS-PAC 2 compared to an ultimarc JPAC is, for example, direct usage of the JVC IO […]
Thunderstruck, a long-time Virtual Boy coder from PlanetVB forums, has released an open-source Vectrex emulator that runs on the Nintendo Virtual Boy. It currently runs Minestorm only, and very slowly. The author is hoping that another coder will come in and do the “boring” work of optimizing and improving it. Details on how it was […]
sverx at the SMS Power Forums is developing a tool suite for the Sega Master System that is inspired by Artemio’s 240p Test Suite. So far it includes some basic but very useful video tools and a graphical controller test. Sverx will post the source on Github when it reaches v1.0, and is open to […]
MordecaiWalfish, a member of my Discord, contacted Datapath about their recent Vision drivers breaking compatibility with OBS and other capturing programs in Windows. An old workaround for this was to use the outdated drivers that still supported kernel streaming, but this is no longer necessary in Windows following the release of Vision 7.1.9.4. Datapath Visions […]
Indie studio Tangram Games has opened a Kickstarter to fund a physical release of Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe for Game Boy Color & Game Boy through First Press Games. Just like the original Tobu Tobu Girl, the the Deluxe ROM will be made freely available through Itch.io and its source code will be on Github. Tobu […]
I spent several weeks completely rebuilding Project Peacock from scratch, and it’s finally ready. PP is a list of every shoot ’em up, or shooter-element game for the PC Engine platform (minus active indie): PC Engine, TurboGrafx-16, SuperGrafx, PC Engine CD (all variants), and Turbo Duo. Actively sold indie games are purposefully kept off the […]
Loïc Petit released an open-source project to build an add-on for the Arduino Mega that allows you to easily dump or flash Capcom CPS2 Arcade EPROMs for people who want a dedicated device, or who don’t have a full EEPROM burner setup. This solution is tailored specifically to CPS2, and includes security injection based on […]
