Nintendo 64 rom hacking legend, Kaze Emanuar has just put out his fifth annual F3 presentation. This is a roundup of trailers for some of the best looking retro or retro adjacent mods and rom hacking projects that are targeting release in the next year. It’s mostly stuff centered around retro consoles, though there are […]
Recently Krikzz posted a new “core” for the Everdrive 64 X5 and X7 rom carts that replaces the Neon emulator for NES emulation on the Nintendo 64. This update uses the FPGA in the newer Everdrive 64 carts with the goal of getting a more cycle accurate experience than what the Neon emulator could provide. […]
Krikzz has just released a new firmware update for the EverDrive N8-Pro rom-cart. In this new update, Krikzz added support for yet another NES/Famicom mapper. For the uninitiated, mappers refer to the different hardware configurations used in some NES/Famicom carts to bypass the console’s limitations. Some of the most common uses of mappers include: extra […]
On 15th February 2022 Nintendo announced on Twitter and their support page. That they will be shutting down the ability to purchase games from their eShop for the Wii U console and 3DS handheld family of systems. The planned date for this closure will occur sometime in late March of 2023. Other critical dates include […]
For the second time in as many months, Retro Fighters is going back to the GameCube well with the BattlerGC: a wireless GameCube controller that is identical to the BladeGC (which we covered here on RetroRGB a few weeks ago) but with a stick layout that is faithful to the OEM controller’s original offset design. To […]
Two enthusiast developed projects on the GameCube—GC Loader and Swiss—have released important updates over the last month that work together to enable exciting new functionality for fans of the lil’ purple lunchbox. GC Loader—an optical drive emulator developed by Daniel Kraak—is a modification that replaces the GameCube’s built in disc drive with an SD card […]
Ingo Korb, one of the developers behind the GCVideo project—the basis of virtually every available HDMI and/or component video output mod for the GameCube and Wii—released a new firmware revision last Saturday that implements a handful of helpful bug fixes. Especially important for those of you revisiting the GameCube’s excellent catalog of horror games this October, […]
Retro Game Restore the aftermarket console case maker has recently put out the pre order page for their clear smoke colored console case. This product is for the Super Famicom (SFC) / PAL Super Nintendo meant to help replace damaged and/or yellowed cases. As well as those interested with just a neat and interesting looking […]
Third party controller maker Retro Fighters is wrapping up their pre order phase for the new BladeGC controller. The BladeGC is a new 3rd party wireless Nintendo Gamecube, Switch, and PC compatible controller, which will utilize 2.4GHz wireless technology. Retro Fighters states the controller will have around 10+ hours of battery life as well as […]
YouTuber HistoricNerd (Ian) has just released his much anticipated video chronicling the development and launch history of the Nintendo 64. Ian’s newest video is a great showcase of his 3D video rendering skills along with the classic HistoricNerd we all know and love. His video leaned heavily on the sourced articles and video clips references […]
