Hardware desk. If it has a cartridge slot, an FPGA board or a weird controller, Hank has opened it up and put it back together — usually better. Writes the gear reviews and hardware spotlights.
By 2016 the Game Boy Advance had a flash-cart problem: the carts that existed were small, fussy about save types, or tied to creaky PC software that belonged to another decade. The EverDrive GBA X5, f
Every so often, a joke refuses to stay a joke. The Hyperkin SmartBoy began life on April 1, 2015, as an April Fools’ concept render: a chunky shell that would swallow a smartphone, add a D-pad and but
Most clone handhelds cheat. They run an emulator on generic phone-grade hardware, approximate the experience, and hope you do not notice the input lag and the sound drift. This Revo K101 Plus review c
The spring of 2016 was a golden moment for NES nostalgia, and one of its neatest products was also one of its smallest. The NES Retro Receiver, announced on 25 April 2016 by 8Bitdo in collaboration wi
N64 de-blur work starts with a hard truth: the fuzziness you remember is not one problem, and no single fix removes all of it. Plug a Nintendo 64 into a modern television and the picture looks smeared
The BitBoy is what happens when a preservation problem meets an elegant cheat. This hardware review’s subject, first sold in a limited run of one hundred units in October 2015, is a Game Boy Printer e
At a glance: 8Bit Music Power (2016) · Producer/illustration: RIKI · Publisher: Columbus Circle · Platform: Nintendo Famicom (and compatibles) · Release: 30 January 2016 · Content: 12 tracks, 44 minut
If your Saturn’s laser is dying — and after thirty years, plenty are — a Sega Saturn optical drive emulator is the fix that removes the moving parts from the equation entirely. Rhea and Phoebe were th
Cyber Gadget’s Retro Freak reads real cartridges from a dozen systems — and with its gear adapter, Game Gear and Mark III join in.
At a glance: GPD XD (2015) · Android gaming handheld by GamePad Digital · 5-inch 720p touchscreen, clamshell design · Rockchip RK3288, built for emulation · Score: 7.5/10