Alex Mitchell

GCLoader Pre-Orders open Monday, July 31st

The GCLoader, a GameCube optical drive emulator from Daniel Kraak (meneerbeer) and Dan Kunz (citrus3000psi), will finally be back in stock this coming Monday, July 31st. Released in 2019, the GCLoader was the first commercially available ODE for the Nintendo GameCube, boasting improved functionality over existing SD card interfaces and (after an awkward initial release) […]

Upgrade Your NES Games With HD Graphics Packs

Retro Gaming is a funny thing, we’ve seen romhacks, homebrews, FPGAs and emulators, so you’d think we’d have exhausted all options by now. Turns out that’s not the case, because a new scene cropped up right under our noses: HD Graphics packs for NES games. That is to say, you take the original NES rom, […]

Matthew Underwood

Kaze’s F3 2022 Mod/Hack Trailer Showcase

Nintendo 64 rom hacking legend, Kaze Emanuar has just put out his fifth annual F3 presentation. This is a roundup of trailers for some of the best looking retro or retro adjacent mods and rom hacking projects that are targeting release in the next year. It’s mostly stuff centered around retro consoles, though there are […]

Retro Kevin

NES Emulation on the Nintendo 64

Recently Krikzz posted a new “core” for the Everdrive 64 X5 and X7 rom carts that replaces the Neon emulator for NES emulation on the Nintendo 64. This update uses the FPGA in the newer Everdrive 64 carts with the goal of getting a more cycle accurate experience than what the Neon emulator could provide. […]

Rany Battikh

EverDrive N8-PRO OS update v2.13

Krikzz has just released a new firmware update for the EverDrive N8-Pro rom-cart. In this new update, Krikzz added support for yet another NES/Famicom mapper. For the uninitiated, mappers refer to the different hardware configurations used in some NES/Famicom carts to bypass the console’s limitations. Some of the most common uses of mappers include: extra […]

Vanessa (Vanessaira)

Closure of Nintendo Wii U/3DS eShops

On 15th February 2022 Nintendo announced on Twitter and their support page.  That they will be shutting down the ability to purchase games from their eShop for the Wii U console and 3DS handheld family of systems.  The planned date for this closure will occur sometime in late March of 2023.  Other critical dates include […]

Alex Mitchell

Retro Fighters Announces A GameCube Pad… Again!

For the second time in as many months, Retro Fighters is going back to the GameCube well with the BattlerGC: a wireless GameCube controller that is identical to the BladeGC (which we covered here on RetroRGB a few weeks ago) but with a stick layout that is faithful to the OEM controller’s original offset design. To […]

Alex Mitchell

Swiss and GC Loader Updates Improve Write Support

Two enthusiast developed projects on the GameCube—GC Loader and Swiss—have released important updates over the last month that work together to enable exciting new functionality for fans of the lil’ purple lunchbox. GC Loader—an optical drive emulator developed by Daniel Kraak—is a modification that replaces the GameCube’s built in disc drive with an SD card […]