Yoei, the maker of very high quality, injection-molded console replacement shells recently released a “35th Anniversary” version for the Sega Dreamcast. And while the Dreamcast came many years after the original Genesis release, Sonic was still very much engrained in Sega culture. Plus the upcoming DC port of Sonic Mania makes this a well-timed release! […]
Customized Case With Controller Inputs A user on the r/MiSTerFPGA subreddit shared a project involving a customized case designed to add various controller inputs to their MiSTer FPGA setup. The setup is an off-the-shelf ITX case housing the MiSTer, featuring ports for Genesis, Saturn, NES, SNES, N64, and PlayStation controllers. A TTY2OLED screen, power button, […]
Mark from The Retro Channel is now selling his version of the Super Famicom / Super Nintendo digital audio mod. It’s a #nocutmod that requires you to remove the RF jack and mount this in it’s place, however it’s fully reversible. The output connector is a 3.5mm Mini TOSLINK, which can output either digital SPDIF […]
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The long-rumored Saturn graphics accelerator was real, according to an interview between former Sega hardware designers Kenji Tosaki and Junichi Naoi published last week. Not only that, but Virtua Fighter 3 and Shenmue indeed were developed with the accelerator in mind — just as rumors dating back to the ’90s claimed. In an interview with […]
MattKC recently posted a video demonstrating why the colors from an NES’s composite video output can look different, even on two identical CRT’s. This is something we’ve discussed quite a bit on this site and while we’ve posted countless examples, I thought Matt’s video summed it up really nicely and I wanted to share it […]
Here’s a fun, short video about the 2026 version of my “Retro Cart”: An RGB-modded consumer CRT that’s set up so I can easily switch between RGB and Composite for my favorite consoles…and the MiSTer FPGA too of course! You can actually use a similar trick on almost all RGB monitors as well, so this […]
Just a few months after releasing his conversion of the original Castlevania, developer Rumbleminze released another NES to SNES conversion, for the game Castlevania 2. This is actually a port of “Enhanced Edition Castlevania II“, originally by Bisqwit. Like with Rumbleminze’s previous NES to SNES conversions, this should reduce (or completely eliminate) sprite flicker and slowdown, plus […]
Pre-orders are now open for two new Sega Dreamcast controller peripherals. The first is the BitLink DC Dongle, that supports up to four virtual Memory Card’s and allows controllers to connect via either Bluetooth 5.0 LE, wired USB-C and 2.4Ghz for the BitLink DC Adapter. You can purchase just the dongle for $30, or the […]
MiSTer Multisystem 2 Two new Multisystem2 attachments have been teased, one with a small screen for core info/artwork (looks to be based on the tty2oled project) and another allowing direct play of real Game Boy Advance cartridges without dumping. In another post, Heber showed custom color experiments (blue, pink, red) for the Multisystem2, seeking fan […]
