ShankMods just released a new video covering the mythical 43″ tube TV — the Sony KX-45ED1, more widely known as the Sony PVM-4300. This unit is the largest CRT TV that was ever sold, with previously nothing but two pictures of it online and a couple manuals proving its existence. An incredible amount of information […]
The latest video showing off progress on a homebrew recreation of a Tomb Raider 2 demo on Saturn comes with plans to expand the scope closer to the final game. In the description of the video uploaded Friday, fan developer RetroRaiderJohn said he’s ditching his original idea to recreate the PC demo of Tomb Raider […]
The developer Apocalypse is selling a cartridge adapter he’s calling the MarkMaster, that lets you play Japanese 8-bit Sega games on non-Japanese versions of the Sega Master System. That includes Mark III / MK-2000 cartridges on both SMS and Genesis / Mega Drive, as well as the earlier SG-1000 and SC-3000 carts on SMS only […]
The Pioneer LaserActive is a hybrid LaserDisc/video game machine, released in late 1993 that, through the use of various add-on modules, could play Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and NEC TurboGrafx 16/PC Engine games. NEC also licensed the player design from Pioneer and created one with their own livery – the NEC PCE-LD1 player accompanied by the […]
Developer Infidelity has just publicly released his latest NES to SNES conversion, this time for the first three Ninja Gaiden games – Note that this has nothing to do with the original SNES Trilogy, but are the NES originals manually ported to the SNES’ hardware, combined into one SNES ROM called the “Ninja Gaiden Trilogy”. As with his […]
MsMadLemon recently released her latest album, Subdued Light. As with her previous albums Step Aside, Paradox and (my personal favorite), Zaman, Subdued Light was created on an Amiga. If you’d like to hear more about it, check out the video above. Also, all her albums are free to listen to on her Bandcamp page and there’s […]
The speaker company Kanto has just released a more powerful version of their “Ora” line of magnetically shielded speakers. The “Ora 4’s” output 140 watt (70w RMS), versus the previous Ora’s 100 watt (50w RMS) and a slightly lower frequency response, with a tradeoff of being about one inch larger on all sides. The main […]
Modretro has released the source code for the Chromatic Game Boy Color handheld and the FPGA code it’s running appears to be a fork of the MiSTer’s GBC core. I believe this is compliant with the open source license, which is always excellent to see. It’s also a nod to how incredible some of the […]
Over the last few months, developer IQ_132 converted many classic Neo Geo MVS games over to the often forgotten Neo Geo CD. Thanks to his hard work, many titles that never made the transition from the Neo Geo MVS to the Neo CD now have a second life at home on SNK’s other consumer hardware. […]
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