Brian Hargrove has just received stock of his Neo BIOS Masta VMC products. These devices allow Neo Geo MVS consoles without a memory card slot a way to “virtually” save onto this expansion board. The save aren’t transferable like a normal Neo Geo memory card, but at least the option is there. It’s my personal […]
As promised, Analogue has just put cartridge adapters for their Mega Sg up for sale. Go to the main store page and scroll down to purchase. They’re approximately $70 for a set of three including shipping: https://www.analogue.co/store/ The three adapters included are: Game Gear cartridge adapter MyCard adapter (Sega Card) Mark III/SG1000 cartridge adapter Please remember […]
The Koryuu transcoder is for available for purchase at Video Game Perfection for around $95 (with PSU): https://videogameperfection.com/products/koryuu-transcoder/ As previously reported, the Koryuu is a device that converts composite and S-Video signals to YPbPr Component video. Of course, this won’t convert the quality of a composite video signal, however this will allow an increase in […]
TrekkiesUnite118’s English translation of the Saturn version of Grandia is moving along at a good clip with just a few outstanding items to be done until it’s considered complete. The most recent official status update from the forum: Fix all the voice synchronization issues. Fix the alignment issue with “Your Initiative” and “Ambushed!” in the […]
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A developer named Martin has just written a detailed post about the experience of reverse engineering the BKM-129x input board used in some Sony BVM monitors: https://immerhax.com/?p=422 The project is still in progress (the above picture is a mockup), but a complete board is currently in the works. If there’s any brave dev’s out there […]
Sega had documentation showing the 32X as supported on the CDX but never released the necessary mount for the union to happen. This may be a case of the FCC not approving the devices being paired, or just Sega getting cold feet with the 32X not doing as well as expected. We may never know, […]
Analogue have just re-opened pre-orders on their DAC: A Digital To Analog Converter that allows for Composite, S-Video, Component Video and RGB output from all compatible Analogue devices (currently the Mega Sg and Super NT). Depending on your region, the total price including shipping is around $100: https://www.analogue.co/store/#dac They also announced that their Mega Sg […]
Recently Neal from the YouTube Channel Retro Man Cave (RMC) invited fellow YouTuber Dr. Andrew Armstrong from Back Office Show, to show off the latest update to his product. The “Ultimate Joystick Interface” version 2.0 is Dr. Armstrong’s latest iteration of his analogue joystick interface. This product allows old analogue joysticks and peripherals to have […]
The Atari Jaguar has no protection against reversed polarity power supplies, so if a positive-center PSU is mistakenly connected it will destroy several components in the console rendering it dead*. It is common knowledge that you can add a diode to protect against this, but I searched for proper instructions without luck. ElectronAsh was kind […]