Back in the 90's if you wanted to make backups of your Super Nintendo cartridges, you'd need a game backup device, also known as a SNES disc copier. These devices would allow you to dump almost eve...
2024-03-25 11:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A deep dive into the Nintendo 64 Rumble Pak - an addon device that added force feedback vibration to the player. in 1997 this was the very first rumble device introduced into video games. In today'...
2024-03-18 11:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A closer look at one of the more interesting peripherals for the Nintendo 64 - the Expansion Pak. Released in 1998 With Donkey Kong 64, it expanded the N64 System RAM from 4MB to 8MB and was also s...
2024-02-27 12:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The Wii U was a system that Nintendo would rather forget. But for modders, it's nearly the perfect console which can play the (almost) entire back catalog of Nintendo games that game before it - an...
2024-02-19 12:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The Nintendo 64 launched in 1996 is a powerful piece of hardware that's capable of many impressive things. One of those is playing old retro games via emulation. The N64 is capable of emulating the...
2024-02-10 12:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If you're running a 3.00-4.51 Firmware PlayStation PS5, you can easily jailbreak and enable it for homebrew thanks to the amazing efforts from the community. In todays episode we take a closer look...
2024-01-27 12:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. In November 2001 Gearbox Software would port Half-Life to the Sony Pl...
2024-01-24 12:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
My Sony PlayStation 3 Slim hasn't had much use in recent years, so let's Jailbreak it with a Custom Firmware (CFW). With a 4.90 CFW we can not only play homebrew games and emulators but with a back...
2024-01-16 12:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
4 years after the release of the Pi4, here comes the all-new Raspberry PI 5. This new iteration of the Raspberry Pi promises more power in a size that's as compact as ever, while still keeping the ...
2024-01-10 12:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Alien Resurrection on the Sony PlayStation PS1 has a secret cheat code that has never been discovered - until now. It enables you to play backup discs without any additional mod chip or soft mod. I...
2023-12-19 12:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the more interesting ports to the Original Xbox is Half Life 2 released in 2005. It was handled internally by Valve as their first but important step to bring the Source Engine to consoles f...
2023-12-11 12:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Video game emulation in 2023 has gone from strength to strength and in today's episode we discuss the Best Emulators that I've been using in 2023 and showing off their features. These all run...
2023-12-09 12:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The RetroTINK-4K is the latest evolution of the RetroTINK line of video line doublers and upscalers - and it's a gamechanger. It comes bundled with so many different options and it will handle just...
2023-11-29 12:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the story of how I inadvertently became a software pirate in the 80's starting with the Commodore 64 and then to the Commodore Amiga where one program would change everything, X-Copy Pro. P...
2023-11-13 12:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Microsoft recently announced the Xbox 360 Store closure for all digital purchases in July 2024. And in today's episode we take an all-new look at a hacked Xbox 360 and how it's still an amazing sys...
2023-11-06 12:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Quake II on the original Sony PlayStation 1 is a port that really shouldn't have been possible, yet the team at Hammerhead Studios, skilled with their experience building 3D Worlds on the PlayStati...
2023-10-30 11:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Earlier this year FPGA developer Robert Peip started work on the "impossible" implementation of a Nintendo 64 FPGA core for the DE-10 Nano used in the MiSTer open-source project. Many thought it to...
2023-10-23 11:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1990, Nintendo both developed and published StarTropics a fun tropical action game adventure game. StarTropics came packaged with a physical letter, which set up the story and was used within th...
2023-10-16 11:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Recently on an old OG Xbox development kit Hard Drive, I uncovered some prototype and unreleased games, but I wasn't finished. A mystery third game that would end up being a previously unreleased g...
2023-09-25 11:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
With the recent Gamescom report that new next generation Nintendo hardware was shown running a tech demo of Breath of the Wild at 4k @ 60FPS, in today's episode I break out the modded Mariko revisi...
2023-09-18 11:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post
A fan reached out and asked if I could help dump an old hard drive that came from an Original Xbox Development Kit. Of course, I said yes - and was able to preserve 2 games including one that was n...
2023-09-04 11:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever wanted to run Bloodborne at 60fps on your PS5? Well now you can! We take a closer look at libhijacker - a new homebrew tool that works in conjunction with an exploitable PlayStation PS5 (runni...
2023-08-28 11:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Red Dead Redemption on the Nintendo Switch is a very good port, and with some homebrew utilities, a modded Switch, and some overclocking it can run much better - up to 60fps. In this episode we tak...
2023-08-21 11:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Development of the Nintendo 64 began in 1993 in partnership with Silicon Graphics, using the codename Project Reality, then a test model and arcade platform called Ultra 64, but was its final desig...
2023-08-07 11:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The Sony PlayStation Portable or PSP was launched in 2004 and was a very popular and powerful handheld. But in 2023 is it still worth the trouble to use one? In today's episode, for around $5...
2023-07-31 11:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Doom 3 on the original OG Xbox is a port of the original PC game from 2004. However, just exactly how do you port a game from the PC that demanded lots of memory and a fast CPU and GPU, to an OG Xb...
2023-07-17 11:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post
In 2010 Ubisoft unveiled a brand-new form of DRM for Windows PC Gaming that would require single player games to connect to an authentication server to check for the existence of an internet connec...
2023-06-26 11:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Vita3K is the world's first functional experimental open-source PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android. It's starting to achieve a good level of compatibility - so it's tim...
2023-06-19 11:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post
RPCS3 is a PlayStation 3 emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac. In this episode we take a look at the V0.0.28 update, its advancements this emulator has seen in the past year with some impressive res...
2023-06-05 11:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Cubic Ninja was the most important Nintendo 3DS game ever created thanks to its QR Code entry point into the world of unsigned code and homebrew on the 3DS. It's where it all began, and in today's ...
2023-05-22 11:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post