I’ve wanted to do a video on the lag of Metroid since I first started Behind the Code, and that day (or period of about three months) has finally arrived. If you’ve played NES Metroid, you know there are many instances of unexplainable lag. No enemies on the screen, and it stutters. Why? We get […]
The team behind the FPGA-based ZX Spectrum Next has just successfully funded a follow-up Kickstarter. This third production run includes a more powerful FPGA, as well as new cores for the Sinclair QL and Commodore 64. Complete units start at about $400 and there’s options to upgrade the original two ZX Spectrum Next’s, board-only options […]
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Darksoft has opened pre-orders on an arcade multi-kit for the Namco System 2. For this to work, you’ll need a joystick game with a specific graphics board, so definitely check the thread (and list below) for all the details. The price is about $550 and it should ship to customers this September. More info after the […]
Atari Falcon Chips Decapped On the MiSTer FPGA forums, user pepito posted about about some custom chips for the Atari Falcon being decapped. This was a project that started back towards the end of 2024. Because of this team, we will have complete die shots of the Videl, SDMA and Combel chips. They are still […]
Developer Rumbleminze recently released another NES to SNES conversion, this time for the original Castlevania game. Like with Rumbleminze’s previous NES to SNES conversions, this is utilizing FastROM/HiROM to further speed up the data transfer. That, combined with the SNES’ higher sprite limit should reduce (or completely eliminate) sprite flicker and slowdown. This also includes rumble support, […]
I recently did an interview with Randy Linden. While most of us are probably familiar with his work, it was awesome getting the true history of Bleem and the really cool story of how the original SNES Doom port came to light. We talked about quite a few other things and towards the end focused […]
Natalie The Nerd has been archiving information needed to reverse engineer classic Nintendo handhelds and is hosting the information on her wiki for free. This information includes scans of the PCB’s, as well as scans with the protective layer removed and the copper visible. Natalie also has schematics and CPU pinouts for a few of […]
The latest model of the Fenrir optical drive emulator for Saturn appeared on the official webstore yesterday. Dubbed the “Fenrir Lite,” it sports a new purple board and is being sold for €50 (about US$58). The webstore says the Fenrir Lite is on backorder and orders will ship starting Aug. 1. That’s because Ced, the […]
The Sony PDF Sorting Project continues on ConsoleMods.org! What is it? As a refresher of the first post a year and a half ago, we’ve scraped a ton of documents from multiple Sony websites from public Archive.org backups. These documents contain Sony memos that were sent out to distributors, and operation and service manuals for […]
