I’m Matt B (Matteusbeus), I run a small YouTube channel that looks at Sega console hardware and homebrew.
https://www.youtube.com/c/matteusbeusRetroDev
Well over a year ago back in March 2022 XProger posted on Twitter a short video showing what looked to be Tomb Raider running on the Sega 32x. I got talking to him to find out more and he said I could preview the game when he felt it was in a suitable state to […]
Victor Luchitz has just published 32x Doom ‘Resurrection’ v3.0. I imagine some may have thought the game couldn’t improve anymore at this point and they’d be very much in the wrong!: https://twitter.com/vluchitz/status/1693004325595775146 I won’t cover every single new change in this post, but I will cover the biggest Sega 32x boundary pushers! First up we have […]
Victor Luchitz has been at it again! This time he’s create a sound driver for the Mega Drive that allows the Sega CD’s PCM sound hardware to be accessed when running a cart based game. The driver supports playback of up to 8 mono sound streams played via the Ricoh RF6C164 chip. Samples are uploaded […]
Victor Luchitz has released a short paper discussing how he applied an adaptive data caching architecture to Doom 32x: Resurrection and sped up the games rendering pipeline by 30%. This is a follow up to his previous release about renderer, coding and platform optimizations. The paper also includes a a nice overview of the Sega […]
By now a lot of you should (I hope) have played the fantastic new port of Doom for the 32x by Victor Luchitz. The port is one of the few games on the system to make use of the 32x’s two SH2 processors. To accompany the latest v2.2 update of the game Vic has published a […]
My latest video takes a step back from modern dev in Sega homebrew and instead looks at some old skool projects from over a decade ago that have unfortunately been all but forgotten. The video covers the Genesis’s (much spoken about at the time) 512 color Fantom Bitmap mode engineered by Oerg866 (Overdrive / Overdrive 2) and […]
