It’s the nature of time that the old ways must give in It’s the nature of time that the new ways comes in sin When the new meets the old it always ends the ancient ways And as history told the old ways go out in a blaze! Shiroyama – The Last Stand, Sabaton This […]
Retro Fighters has just opened pre-orders on their upcoming controller for the Sega Dreamcast: https://retrofighters.com/our-collection/strikerdc-dreamcast-controller/ While I’m excited there’s another controller choice for Dreamcast users, it’s important to remember how important controller quality is: Your controller is your body’s interface between you and the game. The ergonomics and quality of the controller play a major part in […]
Ingo Korb aka Unseen has just released firmware version 3.0 for GCVideo-based devices. This release aimed to fix the remaining video issues, as well as improve compatibility. One other impressive addition is the groundwork for future firmware updates to be performed through the system, not requiring external programming hardware! That means that if all works […]
The modshop @Consoles4You from Switzerland was kind enough to give me their new XBox2Wii Component adapter for review. This pass-through adapter allows you to use a Wii Component cable on your OG XBox. The XBox2Wii is sold 24.90 CHF (~23€ or ~25.6 USD) on Consoles4You website on this page. A bundle version with @HDRetroVision Wii […]
The talented community member @Retrostuff_org (so not Adam Zey, aka @Guspaz who owns webshop retrostuff.ca) has made good progress regarding Region mod on the Philips CD-i players. While most of the models can be simply modded for 50/60Hz, changing properly from PAL to NTSC or vice versa is tricky. In his article, the person behind […]
I acquired a SNS-102 controller and wanted to do a teardown to see if there was anything special about this SNES controller vs the original SNS-005 controller. I only recently found out this controller existed after watching MLiG’s First Party Controllers video. Naturally when Try said there was something “different” about the controller I had to […]
Kevin Mellott has just announced an updated version of his single flash carts. These are designed for use with his custom programmer and are aimed at dev’s looking to sell their own homebrew. The carts feature 8kx8 SRAM, which means your savegame files will be stored after the Virtual Boy is powered off, without the need […]
Furrtek has just posted a video that gives us a glimpse into how he decaps his chips and how he begins his reverse-engineering process. To anyone unfamiliar with this, please allow me to explain: In order to create accurate FPGA (hardware emulation) cores, you essentially need to recreate the original hardware in HDL (Hardware Description […]
Hyperkin has once again released a product destined to be a giant turd and a waste of our time and money: The Retron Jr. This time, they’re not even hiding their disdain for us, as the emulation console is flying a middle finger right at us on its side. Let’s step back for a moment […]
Last year, I reported on an effort by Gc8tech to scan the rare Nintendo Power Cartridge Service Manual in high resolution. The Nintendo Power service (not the magazine of the same namesake) was a kiosk based flash cartridge that Nintendo offered in Japan, where users could buy an SF-Cassette that could be reflashed with games […]