Ex-Sega engineer creates ‘super realistic’ CRT monitor emulator — incredible retro offering even includes TV screen tapping to fix picture
 Ex-Sega engineer creates ‘super realistic’ CRT monitor emulator — incredible retro offering even includes TV screen tapping to fix picture

A CRT emulation project has implemented percussive maintenance support. Just hit it for a chance to improve the picture.

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Modder successfully runs Counter-Strike clone at 60 FPS on the original Sony PSP — created his own Rust-based 3D engine to power 480 x 272 gameplay, also works on PS Vita

OpenStrike is a Counter-Strike clone built for the PSP, and the project is already running at 60 FPS with bot rounds.

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Minecraft shown running on Game Boy Color and Game Boy in 3D with textures — developer coaxed 3D look out of barely-there hardware

Because getting it to run on the Game Boy Advance clearly wasn’t hard enough.

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Sega’s $5M investment saved Nvidia in 1996, now Jensen Huang is heading to Tokyo to mark 30 years of partnership — Akihabara event will include a GeForce RTX 5090 FE lottery, an RTX Spark presentation, and more

Nvidia and Sega have scheduled an event next week to celebrate their history and longstanding friendship.

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Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists
 Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists

Flipping the infamous early 1990s anti-piracy campaign messaging on its head, the Future Nostalgia Project is asking retro hoarders to Copy That Floppy!

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Germany’s massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world’s largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media

A German effort to assemble the world’s largest publicly accessible video game archive is being wound down after roughly €1.5 million in public funding expired.

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HamsterOS jams a 32-bit GUI operating system in a single 1.44 MB floppy disk — retro OS for 386-era hardware should make for easy living with DOS machines and software
 HamsterOS jams a 32-bit GUI operating system in a single 1.44 MB floppy disk — retro OS for 386-era hardware should make for easy living with DOS machines and software

HamsterOS fits on just a single 1.44 MB floppy disk, and it’s set for a full release this November.

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Designer turns discontinued E-Ink dev board into a 60Hz Game Boy handheld — dual-core chip runs at 100% to power handheld, 960×540 display employs ultra-low-cost ESP32-S3 microcontroller
 Designer turns discontinued E-Ink dev board into a 60Hz Game Boy handheld — dual-core chip runs at 100% to power handheld, 960×540 display employs ultra-low-cost ESP32-S3 microcontroller

The hardware is discontinued and the experience isn’t perfect, but the fact that the emulator exists at all is a true technical achievement.

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Cancelled Xbox 360 version of GoldenEye 007 gets recompiled for PC — ‘No emulator, the game runs as a real native executable,’ insists dev

GoldenEye Recomp v1.0 has been released, providing ‘a native PC port of GoldenEye 007 built by statically recompiling the original game into C++’ with no emulation involved.
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Retro gaming enthusiast attempts loading games to Sega Genesis from a vinyl record player, recording game data as sound — Mega EverDrive Pro and Pi Pico 2 board not enough to overcome limitations of the turntable

A quirky tech enthusiast attempted to load Sega Genesis console games through a vinyl record player.

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