Retro Game Restore (RGR) recently took a moment to answer questions regarding their work on the upcoming Original XBOX (OG XBOX) Console Clear/Replacement Shell project. It has been awhile since our last update, and many of our viewers might not be users on twitter to follow RGR. So to bring everyone up to speed. Here […]
As chronicled in a recent video from Did You Know Gaming, lost content from the ephemeral Satellaview F-Zero broadcasts has been restored by fans through a ROM hack: Download the IPS/BPS patches for your version of F-Zero at the Internet Archive. The Satellaview, a hardware add on that allowed Japanese SNES owners to download games […]
The master crafted video game art piece known as Super Metroid is now available as a port on Personal Computers (PC). Like Zelda Densetsu Kamigami no Triforce (The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past) released a few months prior. Super Metroid is now in the same position being available to play via extracting […]
The FXPak Pro (nee, the SD2SNES Pro) has received a new hardware revision that should be shipping to customers as of the date of this article. Although functionality seems to be the identical to previous FXPak Pro revisions, Rev.D is different enough that the current beta firmwares are not compatible with it. If you’ve received […]
(Update 22-09-19: An update has been released for the SNES core, bringing a few fixes and enhancement chip changes. Because the Pocket is designed differently than the DE-10 Nano board that powers the MiSTer, it’s going to take a little more time for the Pocket port of the SNES core to support all of the […]
(Demo showing off the capabilities of the Super MIDI Pak) RetroRGB recently had the opportunity to do a follow up interview with Rian Hunter (cejetvole) the creator of the Super MIDI Pak. A device that allows musicians and enthusiast of the Super Famicom/Nintendo to use their console as a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) synth. […]
The Super MIDI Pak is a specially made Super Famicom (SFC) cartridge designed to turn your Super Nintendo (SNES) into a MIDI synth. The purpose behind the project is to allow users direct access to their SNES’s musical hardware. For which its many different musical applications could be utilized. RetroRGB was recently able to follow […]
Castlemania Games has recently opened pre-orders for Retro Game Restore‘s entire line of translucent replacement shells for classic consoles and peripherals. RGR‘s 90s-looking shells have been slowly but surely gaining popularity among retro gaming enthusiasts for the past year and a half. With what started as a single run of PC Engine clear shells back […]
A new MIDI synth interface called the Super MIDI Pak is available for pre order on their website SuperMIDIpak.com. This custom cart turns your Super Famicom/Nintendo into a polyphonic MIDI synthesizer, and gives users direct access to the consoles sound chip. This can be accomplished by either connecting via MIDI cables to a keyboard, etc […]
After nine updates, a Bahamut Lagoon fan translation project—led by notable emulation developer Near, with a script by prolific translator Tom—has finally reached v1.0 status on the 25th anniversary of the game’s original release date. Although the initial beta release was stable, feature complete, and playable to completion, the seven week open beta gave the […]
