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January 2nd, 2013, 23:55 Posted By: wraggster
[Hailrazer] over on the Made by Bacteria forums was a bit tired of all his consoles cluttering up the space underneath his TV. No worries, though, because it’s actually fairly easy to combine a Gamecube and an N64 into one system that looks very professional.
While [Hailrazer]‘s Gamecube was left reasonably complete, not including the addition of a mod chip and SD card to hold Gamecube disk images, the N64 portion of the build required quite a bit of hardware hacking. After finding a Game Boy Advance player for a Gamecube – a neat hardware add-on that allows you to play GBA games on a Game Cube – [Hailrazer] thought he found the perfect enclosure for an N64 case mod.
The guts of the GBA player were thrown out and the guts of an N64 were carefully filed down to fit inside their new home. An Everdrive 64 holds almost every US N64 release on an SD card, making access to the cartridge port unnecessary.
A switch on the side of the Gamecube toggles the video and audio output between the Gamecube and N64. It’s a neat little setup, and packs two consoles into the space of the tiny Gamecube.
http://hackaday.com/2013/01/02/a-gam...onsole-mashup/
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January 1st, 2013, 22:03 Posted By: wraggster
As we skip back in time once a month to scope out old systems, dramatic licence made it inevitable that we'd meet one time-travelling the other way.
 The Atari 7800 ProSystem: test-launched then put into suspended animation during the early '80s market crash only to be resuscitated years later, like Brendan Fraser, into a world it wasn't really cut out to deal with.Atari's windmilling efforts to repeat the success of the 2600 should be required reading for all today's big console hawkers. That first console had wiped the floor with its rivals, but the market crash, Atari 5200 apathy and licensing snarl-ups after the Tramiel buyout did a sound job of buggering up the encore.
Only after Japan's wild bull charge into the West did the 7800 stir in 1986, post-crash, to invite the NES andMaster System to a bracing scuffle. It was dirt cheap,ranhundreds of Atari 2600 games outof the box and had the attention ofAtari's arcade arm, barelybreaking a sweat as it towed coin-powered juggernauts into the living room.http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ne-atari-7800/
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December 30th, 2012, 21:58 Posted By: wraggster
In case you weren’t aware, there’s a new Neo Geo console on the block. It’s called the Neo Geo X and brings back more than a few pains of nostalgia for classic arcade games of the 90s. After receiving their brand new Neo Geo portables, members of the Neo Geo forum decided to do a teardown on one of their newest consoles and found something interesting:this thing was made for hacking.
Officially, the Neo Geo X will get new games released on SD cards. The first run of these consoles – the gold edition – have 20 games preloaded onto the system convientently stored on a microSD card buried underneath the screen. After looking at this microSD card, forum user [Lectoid] discovered the 20 preloaded games and the bios for the system, all completely unlocked and ready for hacking.
Already a few forum members have the AES Unibios running on this tiny portability Neo Geo, giving them the capability to play every Neo Geo game ever made. Since the Neo Geo X uses the same processor as some other handhelds, there’s great hope for completely unlocking this new console and running emulators on it.
http://hackaday.com/2012/12/30/break...eld-wide-open/
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December 30th, 2012, 00:24 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.aep-emu.de/
A new version of the 3DO emulator 4DO based on FreeDO is available.
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Changes:
Binding to Console Events – Users can now bind console events (such as Save State, Load State, Fullscreen) to input devices (keyboards, gamepads, joysticks). Save state without reaching for the keyboard!
German Language Support – Thanks to the efforts of lenne, German translations are available
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December 29th, 2012, 01:09 Posted By: wraggster
FF4kster is an attempt to make an all-in-one comprehensive editor for Final Fantasy 4 (Final Fantasy 2 US).
For a long time it seemed like there were all sorts of information known about data in the FF2US ROM which no existing editor could manipulate, and even with the existing editors you would often need to use several different ones depending on what you wanted to achieve.
Thus, the goal of this project is to create a single editor that allows the user to manipulate any of the known data from FF4. In its current state there are still a lot of known data that it is not yet capable of editing, but it does currently have the ability to edit several kinds of data that no other currently existing utility can.
This is being actively worked on, and periodic updates featuring bug fixes and the ability to edit new kinds of data can be expected.
RHDN Project Page
Relevant Link: (http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/914/)
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December 29th, 2012, 01:08 Posted By: wraggster
After what seems like an eternity, the translation for Arabian Nights is finished. This project has nothing to do with the previous translation effort of Yonin no Translators and is done from scratch. After languishing for years, the project received a major boost when LostTemplar signed on to do the reprogramming. In a matter of months he has produced some very high-quality stuff. The script was also translated by Eien ni Hen and is a joy to read. A lot of work went into this game and we hope everyone enjoys it this holiday season.
RHDN Project Page
Relevant Link: (http://www.au-ro-ra.net/index....php?page=antrans&lang=en)
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December 27th, 2012, 02:20 Posted By: wraggster
After what seems like an eternity, the translation for Arabian Nights is finished. This project has nothing to do with the previous translation effort of Yonin no Translators and is done from scratch. After languishing for years, the project received a major boost when LostTemplar signed on to do the reprogramming. In a matter of months he has produced some very high-quality stuff. The script was also translated by Eien ni Hen and is a joy to read. A lot of work went into this game and we hope everyone enjoys it this holiday season.
RHDN Project Page
Relevant Link: (http://www.au-ro-ra.net/index....php?page=antrans&lang=en)
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December 27th, 2012, 02:19 Posted By: wraggster
Cless and his Phantasian Productions are finally starting to get close to the finish line with their long running Tales of Phantasia translation.
The project has finally reached the Beta testing stage and Cless is still aiming for a 2012 release.
For more info check out the Phantasian Productions site.
Relevant Link: (http://www.tales-cless.org/)
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December 27th, 2012, 02:03 Posted By: wraggster
To kick-start this new column of features we thought it would be best to go back to where it all started. Everything has a beginning and videogaming magazines are no different. No matter where you are from, you will bound to have read, or at least heard of, Computer & Video Games magazine or its many aliases (C+VG, C&VG, CVG...). C+VG was launched in the middle of October 1981 (cover dated November 1981) by publishing company EMAP and is generally considered among videogaming magazine historians as the world's very first magazine - by a mere couple of weeks, granted - to be totally dedicated to videogaming..
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/news.html
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December 26th, 2012, 02:03 Posted By: wraggster
After witnessing the fall of the DS, DSi, 3DS and PlayStation Vita, it's no surprise to hear that the Neo Geo X has succumbed to the talents of the homebrew community, but it is a little shocking how easy the handheld was to conquer. Upon cracking the device open, enthusiasts were surprised to find no copy protection to speak of -- just a lightly glued MicroSD card. The folks on the Neo Geo forum wasted no time experimenting, and soon found that the handheld's Bios and game ROMs can be successfully swapped for new games or custom loaders. Substitute files need to retain the name of the file they replace, and swapped games remain mislabeled in the Neo Geo X menu, but the trick has already allowed some users to install the popular AES Unibios. The community hopes that the discovery will eventually allow them to tweak the handheld's TV-out resolution and enable manual switching between AES / MVS game modes. It's hardly a "hack," considering the SD card is completely unprotected, but it's a good start. Check out the source link below to peer at the device's insides, or just to watch the community in action.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/24/n...ial-game-roms/
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December 26th, 2012, 01:51 Posted By: wraggster
The Neo Geo X handheld has suffered a slight delay in Europe, although apparently the US launch stock has sold out.
The machine was supposed to launch in Europe earlier this month but despite going on sale in the US there’s no sign of the unit in the UK.
"Blaze and all our European distributors are collecting our stock this weekend from Asia and shipping it over Christmas to all our customers," a Blaze spokesperson toldEurogamer.
"In the UK, Funstock are our exclusive retailer for the Christmas season and they wrote to everyone to tell them 10 days ago when they would be getting theirs, so everyone who has placed an order is 100 per cent in the loop.
"I have received feedback today that all our distributors in Europe have now pre-sold all their stock. We have kept a quantity back for the New Year, but expect, ourselves, to be totally sold out early January."
Blaze also claims that the US launch has been a big success.
"US distributor Tommo released the first of their stock in the US version the day before yesterday,” he added. “They have totally sold out and this has been a great boost for us in Europe as it has reviewed very well and our web sales went absolutely crazy yesterday. I have not seen anything like it before."
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/blaze...ellout/0108641
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December 26th, 2012, 01:35 Posted By: wraggster
This heavily populated PCB is a recreation of the original arcade version of Pong. That is an important distinction because the home version of Pong used a specialized chip to do much of the work. This is basically all stock logic, which explains the high component count. We wonder how many quarters it took just to pay for all 66 chips at the time?
[Pong74ls] was the person who took on this project. There is an original schematic available, but it’s incredibly crowded and rather difficult to figure out. Fortunately [Dan Boris] has already done a lot of the heavy work. He took the one-page nightmare and turned it intoa sixteen page plan for building the original board (look for the schematic link under technical details).
Before the board could be laid out some redesign work was necessary. It sounds like some of the original chips are out of production and suitable replacements needed to be found. The board was then laid out in Eagle before sending the design off to a fab house. There was just one error which didn’t allow the ball to bounce when hitting a paddle while travelling downward. A couple of jumper wires fixed that right up!
http://hackaday.com/2012/12/22/fabri...ng-schematics/
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December 19th, 2012, 23:49 Posted By: wraggster
For playing around with video signals and trying to create a an interesting microcontroller project, you can’t do better than the classic Pong. We’ve seen our share of microcontroller-based pong builds, but rarely have we seen an 8-pin microcontroller recreate every part of the first video game.
[Tim] started his PIC12F1840-based Pong build with just a few buttons for controls and a video output. This in itself is somewhat of an achievement, as [Tim] used all the data memory and every GPIO pin on this small microcontroller.
He had time to optimize his build and ended up adding the bleeps and bloops of the original Pong to his build. He’s got an interesting design on his hands, and also what is probably the smallest Pong clone in existence.
http://hackaday.com/2012/12/19/build...n-8-pin-micro/
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December 18th, 2012, 15:31 Posted By: wraggster
An innovative reinvention of cult platform the Neo Geo is now on sale.
The Neo Geo X Gold Limited Edition is available from Blaze for £175 in the UK. It costs $199 in the US, although some retailers – notably Amazon – are selling it for as much as $245.
For your money you get a handheld games console packaged in a Neo Geo console style housing that also acts as a charging station. It also has composite and HDMI outputs so it can hooked up to a TV or monitor and a Neo Geo X Arcade Stick.
20 AES games come pre-loaded on the system.
Potential buyers will be hoping that the device enjoys a smoother ride than Blaze’s last handheld, the GameGadget, which shipped with crippling functionality flaws, attracted virtually no support for its content store and was eventually discounted to just £40.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/175-n...le-now/0108372
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December 14th, 2012, 00:06 Posted By: wraggster
Ben clearly has way too much spare time on his hands, but he decided to see just how well an antiquated ZX Spectrum would hold up to modern EMC requirements. His blog is a good read if you're looking for something to do while pretending to work! From the blog: 'This year is the 30th anniversary of one of my favourite inventions of all time, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. A few weeks ago, I finally bought one: a non-working one on eBay that I nursed back to health. Fortunately there was very little wrong with it. Unfortunately it's a 16K model, and a fairly early one at that, which won't run much software in its native state. This probably accounts for its unusually pristine condition. We took half an hour in the chamber to perform an approximate series of EN55022 measurements, to check its radiated emissions against today's standard. The question is, what have we learned as an industry since 1982?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...ldnt-fly-today
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December 9th, 2012, 23:26 Posted By: wraggster
New SNK ARCADE MVS Magic Key released!
Here is neo team new product: SNK MVS Magic Key + MVS convertor 2in1 !
NEO SNK MVS-Magic Key Spec:
* MVS to AES convertor function, let your AES home console to play the MVS arcade cartridge (not support the clone multi MVS cartridge)
* SNK game cheat code,support all SNK MVS original arcade cartridge
* SNK game region select,it can change something in the game,like the language and "FATFURY" motion efect
* 8Mb game rom is modifiable
* Can upgrade Magic Key BIOS via USB port, plug and upgrade
* Can upgrade the CPLD hard core via NDP kit
On sale here --> http://www.ic2005.com/shop/product.p...tner=wraggster
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