Veteran shoot-em-up developers Cave are hitting back the arcades, after almost 8 years of absence, with the release of DoDonPachi Saidaioujou Exa Label, through the exA-Arcadia platform. Every since their first effort back in 1995, with the original DonPachi, Cave have been synonymous with the bullet-hell sub-genre in general and established quite a household name […]
Day: March 24, 2020
A project was recently launched called OpenTendo that’s an open-source hardware recreation of the original 1985 Front-Loading NES motherboard. This allows you to remove the CPU, PPU and lockout chip from your original NES and transfer them to this board that’s made from 100% brand new replacement parts. As the main chips are still from […]
RetroRGB.com has long been missing an important section for an excellent console: The Original Xbox! With the release of Chimeric Systems’ excellent plug & play HDMI ADC cable, I thought now was the time to add it! This video and the new page on the website should present everything you’d need to start using your […]
Ben Heck recently had a chance to inspect and repair a rare Sega Pluto Prototype. It appears to have mostly standard Sega Saturn internals, with a few extras such as a modem and a hard drive. There’s still many unanswered questions though: What was the hard drive used for? Did it have the extra ram […]
Jotego has been releasing beta versions of his MiSTer & MiST Capcom CPS-1 Arcade FPGA cores to his patrons, allowing fans to dive into the largely unported CPS-1 library. Each week he has brought a few new games to the core, and he intends to support the entire CPS-1 library. The core is currently private, […]