Hello readers! My name is Alex Mitchell and I’m a gaming enthusiast with a background in communications and film & television production. While I don’t have any professional training as a journalist, I still strive to accurately and honestly report on projects, products, and events in the retro gaming community. I could not be more honoured to be contributing to this website and hope you enjoy my articles.
P.S. My definition of “retro” is: If it has been fifteen years or two generations since the end of a game console’s lifespan.
I had to check my calendar to make sure it wasn’t Groundhog Day, because Krikzz just announced another Core model Everdrive—this time for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx line of consoles. If you followed their announcement last week of a Mega Everdrive Core, this post is going to sound very similar because the concept is pretty much […]
Like I mentioned in an article earlier this month, owners of later-revision MemCard Pros are getting an impressive new firmware that backports some—but not all—features from 8BitMod‘s MemCard Pro2. Because this firmware only applies to the second hardware revision of the MemCard Pro, 8BitMods is rolling out a discount program that would give early adopters […]
While there’s still a long way to go before it is feature complete (or should I say, komplete?) 3DO homebrew developer 3DO HD has dropped a public beta for their 3DO Mortal Kombat 2 port. Putting aside the missing bits for a moment, this is incredibly impressive work and it’s not hyperbole to say that […]
Krikzz, the developer responsible for the Everdrive brand of flash-carts, has announced a new model of Everdrive for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: The Mega Everdrive Core. Pitched as a budget friendly cart, the Mega Everdrive Core loses the MegaCD/SegaCD functionality of the Pro model but also costs half as much—coming in at roughly $100USD. There […]
The MemCard Pro series of products from 8BitMods are literally game changing inventions for original hardware enthusiasts. When paired with the right ODE or homebrew software, they can generate a functionally limitless supply of save game storage for the GameCube, Playstation 2, and the original Playstation. These memory cards can also be used to enable […]
Cosam—an enthusiast hardware developer in the retro gaming scene—has released their Sega Neptune PCB project, giving Sega fans the ability to make their own version of the unreleased console. While the 32X will probably always be remembered as a controversial add-on for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, there was a time when Sega had planned to […]
PixelFX, the team of developers responsible for the Morph 4K scaler and Retro GEM HDMI mods, has opened up pre-orders for a version of the Retro GEM that is compatible with 3DO consoles. Released in 1993, the 3DO belongs to the fifth generation of video game consoles along with the N64, Playstation, and Sega Saturn. […]
A homebrew port/demo for “Batman Returns”—a SNES exclusive 16-bit Konami beat-em-up from 1993—was released for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive this week, giving Sega fans the chance to experience it on original hardware. The team behind this port includes programmer TiagoSC, artist Gabriel Pyron, and musicians Inglebard and Vector Orbitex. The demo only contains the game’s […]
Star F… *ahem*… I mean, “Starship: Centauri Alfa” received an unofficial PC port this week, allowing fans of the original game to enjoy it rendered at higher resolutions and framerates. The port itself is obviously not bundled with any of the original game’s copyright materials, so if you’d like to enjoy it then you need to […]
After being teased exactly one year ago, Analogue has announced a pre-order date and more information about their latest product: an FPGA-based Nintendo 64 clone console known as the Analogue 3D. If you’ve got $250 USD burning a hole in your pocket and the time to test your luck on October 21st, 8:00AM PDT, then you […]
