Mobius Strip Tech is now selling custom Sega Triple Bypass boards for the Sega Nomad handheld! These kits upgrade the RGB video, as well as the audio from both the headphone jack AND the speaker!!! When purchasing these kits, you’ll need to specify if you’d leaving in the original Nomad screen, or using an aftermarket […]
Month: January 2020
Krikzz has just tweeted a picture of an upcoming version of the Everdrive GBA x5, that’s the same size as a standard Game Boy Advance cartridge! This revision should be functionally the same, meaning this is just an aesthetic upgrade, however this might have been the single most requested change to the design. Krikzz also […]
I’m very proud to announce I (Bob) will be doing a panel with Jeremy and Benj from Retronauts at PAX East in Boston. It’s Saturday, February 29th from 7PM – 8PM at the Bumblebee Theater! The theme is “The Media is the Message”: From punch cards to MicroSD chips, video games have appeared on an […]
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funnyplaying.com has recently released an IPS screen replacement kit for the Game Boy Color. This apparently uses the same screen as the GBA IPS kit, with a different ribbon cable for the GBC: https://funnyplaying.com/collections/gameboy/products/for-gbc-ips-high-light-backlight-lcd-kits Installation requires you to cut plastic on the inside of the case, making it an irreversible mod. Luckily, replacement GBC housings […]
The Sega 32X has famously unreliable video quality, with some units exhibiting serious noise. Kevtris posted about this a few times on Discord over the last year, and I asked if he could share his solution. Kev pointed out that the problem is due to the 32X’s switching power supply, which introduces a lot of […]
The creator of the really awesome remake of Super Mario Land for the SNES has just posted one more revision: https://archive.org/details/newsupermarioland I honestly thought the game’s v1.1 revision had fixed all the complaints people had, but the creator has added the following changes: Further improved gameplay & camera movement. Improved Power Ball functionality. Level design closer to […]
Dan aka citrus3000psi has just tweeted a teaser of the next revision GCLoader: One that requires no soldering at all! As shown in the picture above, Dan was able to source a connector that allowed you to simply remove the DVD drive and plug the GCloader in it’s place. I honestly didn’t think the original installation […]
I have been on a quest to improve my MiSTer video capture setup for 2020, with the goal of improving my channel’s videos and streams. Few people might realize this, but MiSTer supports resolutions far beyond its default video modes. It supports any resolution between 240p to 1440p in a console’s native 60/50hz timing, by […]
MattKC just posted a video that, if true, points out an interesting choice by Nintendo’s Mario 64 dev team: Apparently they didn’t use optimization when compiling the C code used in the NTSC versions of the game. This resulted in certain areas being really slow and dropping well below the goal of 30fps. The video […]