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Like many people who are probably reading this site, I grew up playing consoles like the SNES and Genesis, which featured styles of games that aren’t nearly as common today. While I love new games and in many ways they can be far superior, they’re not always the style or experience someone is looking for. Some of the biggest pet peeves of modern games are loading times, constant software updates and often long “training sessions” required before the gameplay even starts. Heck, even many of the games are significantly longer! Someone looking to game during the small bits of free time they might have, often look to classic consoles and handhelds that provide a way to just jump in and start playing; Many classic games can be completed within an hour and are a satisfying experience.
The most common styles of games found on those platforms are different too. There are similar games available for newer consoles, like Shovel Knight, The New Super Mario Bros, Ori and the Blind Forest and (of course) Axiom Verge. Still, the amount of 2D vs 3D graphic games made is very small, so I often find that to enjoy that style, you need to go back to some of the classic consoles, which was the original catalyst for this site…
The journey to experience retro video game awesomeness started in October 2011 when I discovered a (low quality) Retro Controller Adapter for the Wii. After a few months of playing virtual console games on my Wii via the adapter, it started to feel like a tease; I got to use the original controller, but I missed the look of a CRT, as well as not having any lag on my games!
I soon realized if I wanted a “real” experience, I had to get the real thing and as a result, I ended up building the Retro Cart. I was happy playing all the old games the way they were meant to be played, on the original hardware, on a high quality CRT TV that brought out the best in the older games. After that project, I thought I was done…
Then, I re-discovered RGB and my retro video game life changed forever (I knew about RGB as a kid, but it was so unfathomably expensive back then that I just put it out of my mind). Even though it was less than three months from the time I completed the Retro Cart, I knew I had to start over. I was able to use most of the same equipment I already purchased, but there were some key differences. I dug so deep into it, that I decided to document exactly what I went though via a Google Doc, just in case “a few of my friends” ever wanted to do the same. I eventually gathered so much information that Cousin Scott suggested I make it into a website, so if other people wanted to walk down the same path, they could skip all the research and follow one easy to read guide. Hopefully I succeeded!
St1ka has just posted his review of the game Dune for MS DOS, based off *the movie from the 80’s. While Dune 2 may have had more of an impact on gaming, the original was interesting as it was a combination of a point & click adventure game and a real-time strategy game. While St1ka’s […]
Here’s this week’s roundup! An audio-only version, is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and for direct-download: https://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2020-07-22_211.mp3 Video available on YouTube (above), LBRY and Bitchute: Please consider signing up as a supporter! Either hit Join, tip or pledge on this video, or sign up through the following services: https://www.floatplane.com/channel/RobertNeal / https://www.patreon.com/retrorgb T-Shirts: https://www.retrorgb.com/store.html All equipment […]
*Updated July 23rd 2020, see below A developer posting under the name “uniq games” has just created an automatic script that converts video files to a format that’s compatible with the Sega Genesis when using a Mega Everdrive Pro. The videos run at an extremely impressive resolution of 288×192 at 30fps! According to the dev, this […]
Modern Vintage Gamer just posted a video talking about the newly released source code for Doom on the Super Nintendo, as well as its history. It’s interesting that the “Reality Engine” created to run Doom on the Super FX 2 chip was much different from the official Doom source code and created by one developer, Randy […]
This video highlights GBS Control, the amazing custom software from Rama that converts the mediocre GBS8200 scaler into an AWESOME piece of retro gaming hardware! I’ll cover the basics from assembly & programming, to lag testing and comparisons. Donate to Rama: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ramapcsx2 GBS8200: https://amzn.to/2Y1gLju ESP8266 WiFi Module for GBS Control: https://amzn.to/3g3Ex4R Clock generator: https://github.com/ramapcsx2/gbs-control/wiki/Si5351-Clock-Generator-install-notes https://amzn.to/32a89Kb […]
A developer has just released both a 3D printed design and PCB layout for an open-source Sega Master System to Game Gear cartridge adapter, called the MS2GG: https://github.com/ms2gg/doc/wiki This would be a replacement for original cartridge converters, such as the Master Gear Converter. Since the Game Gear is essentially a portable Master System, you get pretty […]
The emulator/dev tool Emulicious has just received another major update. According to the developer, this update ads a Hot Spots view for the profiler, a CPU tab for the Memory Editor and a dialog to add watchpoints. It also added support for MIDI devices to be used with MSX emulation. As a note, while emulicious […]
One developer has started a project that created a completely open source code for HDMI output on FPGA devices. This is opposed to using licensed code, or using the DVI protocol over HDMI ports. If you’re looking to create any HDMI-outputting FPGA devices, this might be worth looking at: https://github.com/hdl-util/hdmi/ A note about using HDMI: […]
The Swiss team has been hard at work as usual, implementing even more options, bugfixes and features into the latest few revisions from r836 to present (currently r856). One of the major updates is new streaming audio emulation, that will allow audio from many previously incompatible games to work fine when launched from SD cards […]
Retro Gaming Cables has just listed stock of brand new (old stock) official Sega RF adapters for the Sega Saturn. They’re all model MK-80106, which are meant for NTSC TV’s not PAL: https://bit.ly/saturnrf I imagine it might be surprising for some people to see a post about using RF on a website called RetroRGB, but […]
