The speaker company Kanto has just released a more powerful version of their “Ora” line of magnetically shielded speakers. The “Ora 4’s” output 140 watt (70w RMS), versus the previous Ora’s 100 watt (50w RMS) and a slightly lower frequency response, with a tradeoff of being about one inch larger on all sides. The main […]
Modretro has released the source code for the Chromatic Game Boy Color handheld and the FPGA code it’s running appears to be a fork of the MiSTer’s GBC core. I believe this is compliant with the open source license, which is always excellent to see. It’s also a nod to how incredible some of the […]
Over the last few months, developer IQ_132 converted many classic Neo Geo MVS games over to the often forgotten Neo Geo CD. Thanks to his hard work, many titles that never made the transition from the Neo Geo MVS to the Neo CD now have a second life at home on SNK’s other consumer hardware. […]
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Can we run Ghosts ‘n Goblins on the NES at 60 fps? Yes! …Kinda? It’s complicated. Micronics was responsible for developing several games on the NES, and their results were a bit messy at times. Let’s dive into what Micronics did to update NES graphics between video output frames and also figure out why the […]
From patches to change Cyber Speedway’s soundtrack and fix Die Hard Arcade oddities to a new Saturn Tribute game and an update on the Sakura Wars 2 fan translation, there’s a lot going on in the world of Sega Saturn! Here’s a roundup of some of the news stories in the Saturn fandom recently. Patch […]
When QMTech released their Cyclone V FPGA board with built-in SDRAM, I was intrigued with the possibilities. I’d been thinking about building a handheld MiSTer for quite some time, and I thought that the slimmer profile of this board would make it a good candidate for that project. When I got my hands on the […]
The developer Apocalypse is now selling a cartridge adapter that lets you play Colecovision games on the Sega Master System. This does on-the-fly translation of the memory and port mapping with zero lag added, so think of this truly as an “adapter” and not “emulation”. The price is $70 plus shipping and it includes the […]
Master Linkuei recently posted minor updates to his “Arcade Edition” romhacks for the Genesis / Mega Drive version of the original and the 32x version of Mortal Kombat II. These romhacks aim to make these versions closer to the arcade versions, with a long list of changes and tweaks applied. Download each from the links […]
I’ve just put together a video overview of the brand-new DreamConn S from Chris Daioglou of DreamMods.net. While no official product page exists for it yet, by purchasing a DreamConn+ from his website today, you are automatically signing up for a DreamConn S. With that out of the way, let’s talk about this amazing wireless […]
