Announced back in October 2018, Collectorvision’s Phoenix has recently gone up for pre-order. Following recent announcements, the aforementioned system went beyond being just a Colecovision FPGA-based console. First, listed on Collectorvision’s pre-order page are 4 purchasing packages, ranging from $200 to $1000. The system will be optionally bundled with Caverns of Death and/or an SNES […]
A new beta software image tailored towards the RGB-Pi hardware is now available to the public. For anyone new to the product, the RGB-Pi is a device that plugs directly into the GPIO pins of a Raspberry Pi and outputs audio & video over a SCART connector. The developers of the product have also put […]
Insurrection Industries now has an updated version of their Carby GameCube HDMI adapter available for purchase! This version has a slightly tweaked board design, ships with GCVideo firmware v2.4c and now comes in black. It’s still the same price of $75, which includes a remote control, HDMI cable and free shipping to the US! In […]
The upcoming arcade platform EXA-Arcadia appeared in full force at the Japanese Amusement Expo [JAEPO], with a number of cabinets (mostly Viewlix) set up and ready to play with a large variety of horizontal and vertical games, ranging from new Shoot ’em Ups to Fighters. ArcadeHeroes.com has been covering the new platform since it was […]
Furrtek has just posted a Neo Geo FPGA progress update on his Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/progress-january-24218461 The post is subscriber-only, so I don’t want to share the whole story…but it looks like Furrtek has games running!!! At the moment, it’s video only, but he thinks he’ll be able to integrate Jotego’s YM core pretty easily. Please consider supporting […]
Video Game Perfection has just received full stock of their SNES & N64 mod boards. On hand is the SuperCIC (NTSC/PAL + IGR), Digital Audio and SNES & N64 RGB board, designed by Peter Bartmann. If you’re in the UK and are looking to upgrade your SNES, their store has everything you need: SNES: https://www.videogameperfection.com/products/nintendo-bypass-amp/ N64: https://www.videogameperfection.com/products/nintendo-64-rgb-bypass-amp/ […]
Jeremy S Cook from the tindie.blog featured an article talking about the Auto Optical Audio Switch from Beni Skate. Currently being made by Beni Skate (or wait-listing if sold out). This device allows users to connect multiple audio sourced inputs or outputs, in via SPDIF or Optical Toslink much like a gscart or gcomp switch […]
@FFVIMan is a french retrogamer notorious for being active in region modding consoles for years. His website is a reference for the last decade when it comes to play games from other regions. He has worked with @Borti, @ikari_01, Akira76 and Niluje to come around issues like CIC, D4/$213F… You can follow the progress made […]
Midiori from user TD-Linux, is a brand new expansion MIDI card for the Sharp X68000. This card would allow X68K users to interface with the various MIDI Tone and Sound Modules such as the legendary Roland MT-32 or CM-32L for example. This custom board uses the exact same chips that are used on the official […]
Here’s this week’s roundup! Audio-only version, available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and wherever podcasts are heard: http://origin.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2019-01-23_133.mp3
