The Atari Jaguar 6-button “pro” controllers are finally open for pre-order and must be ordered in pairs: https://hoskinson-industries.myshopify.com/products/atari-jaguar-pro-controller The project started about a year ago, with the goal in mind to create the highest-quality reproduction controllers. Great efforts have been made so that the outside is equal in quality to the original, official Atari controllers, with […]
Darksoft, in collaboration with Apocalypse (who is also currently working on other mutlis) have recently announced that they will be developing and releasing a multi kit for Capcom’s CPS1. It all started with an interest check thread on arcade-projects.com in late 2017 that has now turned into a quasi pre-order list. A CPS1 multi surfaced […]
MiSTer IO board v5.5 added a USB jack that is used as a direct serial link to the FPGA core, for ultra low-latency (32ns) inputs, to be used for things like controllers, MIDI, etc. ElectronAsh & rattboi are already working on a controller add-on board with DB15 (Neo Geo MVS/AES/CD, and Arcade), DB9 (Genesis, Atari, […]
John Linneman had just posted an excellent review of Mega Man 11: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2018-mega-man-11-is-capcoms-sonic-mania-moment He covers absolutely all ground, including variable input lag between versions!: “The main point here, though, is that Mega Man 11 offers excellent, responsive controls that are a perfect fit for the series – high-speed camera shots reveal that Xbox One X delivers […]
Sony just released PS3 firmware version 4.83, which breaks some components of the PS3Xploit jailbreak. One of the main developers behind PS3Xploit has tweeted his warnings about upgrading and it’s advised that anyone with (or who was planning) a jailbreak should stay on the 4.82 firmware. PS3 Firmware 4.83 released, breaks ps3Xploit 4.83 PS3 Update […]
Smokemonster just posted a great overview of the MiSTer FPGA platform. He explains what it is, how you can use it…and how to get some of the amazing FPGA cores!
Here’s this week’s roundup! Audio-only: http://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2018-10-10_118.mp3
Developer FURiOUS has just forked his own branch of the SD2SNES firmware and added support for savestates on non-special chip games! This is a very cool addition and something that will be a tremendous help to speedrunners who prefer practicing specific sections of the game; Now all practice can be done on original hardware without […]
A California resident who sold jailbroken PS4’s loaded with stolen software is being sued by Sony. In my opinion, good. This was not a case of jailbreaking for homebrew, this was a person who loaded games that are currently being sold onto PS4’s he jailbroke and then promoted the theft of more games. I often playfully […]
Pre-orders for the PlayStation SD loader called the PSIO are now open to everyone for just over a hundred USD. There’s no word on when these will actually ship, but I hope it’ll be sooner then their past orders – I received mine fifteen months after ordering!! I’d assume a long wait, as the PSIO team […]
