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It is growing trend to see SD card adapters for classic retrogaming hardware such as the Sega Saturn and the original Playstation (or Playstation One, just for fun). Soon we will be able to add the Commodore Amiga to this list of classic retro gaming hardware that has an SD card adapter available. Right now […]
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Hardware Hack: Playstation to Receive SD Card Adapter, Possibly by Year’s End
October 27th, 2014 
Carl Williams We have recently covered similar SD card adapters for other platforms so it is only fitting to cover the Playstation version that is currently in the works by the talented team behind the “PSIO”. PSIO stands for Playstation Input/Output for those that don’t know and it could be out by the end of the year.
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Hardware Hack: Sega Saturn to Receive SD Card Drive
October 18th, 2014 Carl Williams Okay, the Sega Saturn, nearly a blacker sheep than the Sega 32X in many gamers minds, is finally getting some love from hardware hackers. We have seen the Sega Dreamcast receive the bulk of the interest from hardware hackers in recent times while the Saturn just sits all lonely in its own corner of shame. […]
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Top 3 Arcade Games Without Good Home Ports (Top 3 Tuesday)
March 16th, 2017 Michael Crisman Every developer crowed they were “bringing the arcade experience home” whenever a smash-hit arcade game received a console translation. Until the PS1 era, most of us took these boasts in stride because we knew in our hearts there was no way the games we loved in the arcade were going to look or sound the […]
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Top 3 Import Games (Top 3 Tuesday)
March 1st, 2017 Michael Crisman Once more into the trenches, fellow Retromaniacs! This week, the studlier, more ruggedly handsome, infinitely cooler Michael (aka MichaelBtheGameGenie) raised a new topic which requires our input. Today’s video, which you should absolutely go and watch before you get any further into this column, requests his legions to choose and explain their Top 3 Import […]
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Wacky Wednesday: Sony, Square, Sega and the 9-9-99 Debacle
September 9th, 2015 Michael Crisman There are many ways to deliver a “screw you” message to your enemies. From Twitter insult wars to full-blown industrial espionage, corporate trickery has a large palette from which to pick a prank. Trading one-liners and one-upping one another’s ads happen every day, but every once in a great while the fates align to create truly […]
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Wacky Wednesday: Sheena Easton Beats Defender. Literally.
December 17th, 2014 Michael Crisman Scottish singer Sheena Easton exploded onto the pop music scene in the 1980s with a ridiculous number of back-to-back chart-topping hits, went on to record with some of the biggest names in music of the day (including Kenny Rogers and Prince), performed the title song to the James Bond film “For Your Eyes Only”, and […]
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Wacky Wednesday – Konami’s Nintendo Hack
September 2nd, 2014 Michael Crisman This week’s Wacky Wednesday offering doesn’t focus on any specific hardware or software, but rather the ingenious way one company hacked their way through Nintendo’s old third-party-software regulations. A round of applause for Konami, if you please, for creating Ultra Games…
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New FPGA Based Sega Genesis Flash Cart Breaks New Ground
June 17th, 2019 Carl Williams The Sega Genesis is gaining in popularity again with Sega finally announcing the full lineup for their Sega Genesis Mini giving fans reason to be happy, and some mad. Outside the official products realm we have things like the MegaSD, a new Sega Genesis FPGA based flash cart that is breaking new ground.
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AtGames Legends Flashback Hacked Custom Firmware Released
January 25th, 2019 Carl Williams Ah, good old AtGames, the company that seemingly has more money than sense. While I will not waste your time with my opinion on them beyond that first sentence, the AtGmaes Legends Flashback product is the subject of this discussion. It has been hacked to improve game support but obvious design choices that do nothing […]
