Thanks to Printables user kakurohe, a 3D-printable I/O shield is now available for Megaswitch HD users who are installing in a Retro Game Restore case. This will allow for a clean look and dust protection…and if you have a resin printer, you might even be able to get a clear look to it as well! […]
8BitDo have just opened pre-orders on a “retro-inspired” number pad with mechanical buttons, that’s meant to be a companion to their NES/Famicom-themed “Retro Mechanical” keyboards. The “Retro NumPad” is available in the same four color schemes as the keyboards and also offer the same bluetooth, 2.4GHz RF and USB connections. The price is about $45 […]
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MiSTer Clone Taki Udon posted mockups of the IO ports for the upcoming consolized MiSTer consoles. Included are ports for composite, component, VGA, HDMI and more. There are 4 versions: Budget versions that will accept either Genesis or SNES cartrdges. These are meant to support only one system. A mainstream version that will have […]
The folks over at HiSpeedIDo (pronounced High-Speed-I-Do) have just released their latest screen mod for the Game Boy Color. This is a significant technological leap from their previous Q5 IPS mod and is currently the only OLED screen mod available. That’s right, you read that correctly—this is an OLED mod for the Game Boy Color! […]
Yahel from Wrestling With Gaming has just released a short, but great video about official “Flash Carts” Nintendo released in Japan in the late 90’s. These carts could be purchased and re-programmed at Lawson stores in Japan and could store multiple games. There was one for the Super Famicom, as well as one for the […]
An exciting piece of open source software has been released for creating, editing, and sharing levels for Super Mario 64. And it has been released as a Romhack of the game, which means it might be safe from no-fun Nintendo taking legal action against it. Let’s take a look at what we know so far.
Retro Castle is now selling the “Lava FC” – A new Famicom console that offers 720p HDMI, RGB, S-Video and Composite Video outputs. It’s a zero-lag device and is compatible with almost everything I threw at it, as it uses original Famicom CPU and PPU chips, with all new circuitry around it. Essentially, this is […]
A bevy of updates to the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA have targeted problems with specific games’ graphics. One prominent one that was fixed recently was Cotton 2, whose VDP2-drawn backgrounds were reported in January as having problems. “I’ve seen that srg320 is working quite intensively on the VDP2 these last days,” said Kubo, […]
Razor sharp analog RGB video has always been coveted by North Americans. Aside from some rare models, consumer NTSC CRT TVs lacked the ability to display native RGB. Over the past decade, RGB mods have picked up steam in the CRT enthusiast community. The original RGB modifications involved tapping into the unused RBG and blanking […]
