Playing vintage games, such as those from the steeped-in-nostalgia Master System, Megadrive, NES and SNES days, has always been somewhat of a legal minefield. ROM downloads, as abandoned as those old games may seem, are frowned upon both by the companies who once sold those games, and the enthusiast communities who still enjoy playing them. [...]
Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
From Snega2USB To Retrode 2: A Comprehensive History
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Pandora Gamma Video
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010EvilDragon demonstrates a great little app that lets you adjust the Gamma depending on what you’re running. Tone down those obnoxious SNES/Genesis era colours, or enhance your favourite classics. This is a mighty good quality video to boot.
ODROID Developer Edition Shipping Worldwide At $349
Friday, December 11th, 2009ODROID, aptly named because it is truly odd in appearance, has begin shipping worldwide in the form of a developer edition which includes full source code and schematics along with a handy array of accessories: the debug board, TTA20 to USB Cable, 2 Batteries, a 2GB MicroSD card and an 8GB class 6 SDHC card. [...]
Near Production Pandora Pictures And Video
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009As the Pandora inches closer to production the dev team are appeasing the slathering appetites of Pandora pre-orderers the world over with pictures and video of what amounts to be the closest thing to a final Pandora we’re likely to see until mass production actually begins. The only differences: the gloss (instead of matte) finish [...]
Mupen 64 On Open Pandora
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009It’s not perfect, it’s not even really impressive at this stage, but it makes up for that with oodles and oodles of promise. Suffice to say, playable N64 on the Pandora is more or less a certainty and we’ve surely got the dual analogue to thank for making it an awful lot more comfortable than [...]
Snega2usb Connect Your SNES And SEGA Genesis Carts As Mass Storage
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Born on the same forums as the Pandora console, Snega2usb is a re-envisioned cartridge ripper that shows up as mass storage, making it an absolute synch to simply drag and drop ROMs right off your dusty old cartridges, or even play them right off the cart. It’s now available to pre-order and needs your support [...]
Odroid Space Megaforce Gameplay Video
Thursday, October 1st, 2009The Odroid looks quirky, but any avid arcade gamer will understand the reasoning behind its, albeit somewhat borrowed from and remeniscent of the Wanderswan, control scheme. See over the fold for a video of Space Megaforce on this potential, but perhaps quite worthy, thief of Pandora’s attention.
Linux-based PSX Emulator On The Pandora
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Craig has finally uploaded another video to YouTube. This time it shows off a Pandora PSX emulator in action, with the CPU clocked to 550mhz. The slight stuttering in sound should, with any luck, be ironed out with further optimizations. If all else fails, over-clocking should give us Pandora fanatics full speed PSX emulation in [...]
MiFi 2352 Mobile WiFi Hotspot First Impressions
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009I’m perplexed at the widespread, comparatively anyway, adoption of 3g USB dongles in lieu of far better and more flexible alternatives. So perplexed, in fact, that I decided to try one such alternative, the MiFi 2352 from Novatel Wireless, to see if there’s really a glaring flaw keeping it from the mass market, or if [...]