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.
Announced in 2015, the GGMSX adapter set out to play MSX1 cartridges on a Sega Game Gear — a piece of scene hardware made possible by a shared family tree between the two machines.
Of every games console ever made in serious numbers, the Atari 2600 had the worst television picture — and it was not close. When the machine launched in 1977 it offered exactly one way to reach a TV:
A 64DD flash cart story begins with an absurdity: the Nintendo 64DD was itself the add-on meant to make the N64 rewritable — a magnetic disk drive that bolted underneath the console and took 64MB disk
By the spring of 2015, the cartridge-playing retro console had a clear front-runner in Hyperkin’s Retron 5, and a clear limitation: it stopped at the usual suspects. Cyber Gadget’s Retro Freak console
Amstrad’s Plus machines spent decades as the CPC range’s overlooked chapter — better hardware, a cartridge slot, and almost no software that used either. The C4CPC flash cartridge, released in April 2
Every Commodore 64 owner eventually learns the secret: the 1541 disk drive is not really a peripheral. It is a second computer. Inside that beige box sits a 6502 processor running at 1 MHz — the same
At a glance: Hyperkin RetroN 5 (2014) · Emulation-based clone console · Plays NES, Famicom, SNES, Super Famicom, Genesis/Mega Drive, Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges · HDMI out
Hardware: Super Retro Trio (Retro-Bit) · Plays: NES, SNES/Super Famicom and Genesis/Mega Drive cartridges · Output: Composite & S-Video · Released: 2014 · Launch price: $69.99
Every Dreamcast carries a time bomb. Sega’s GD-ROM drive — a proprietary cousin of the CD drive — was never the most robust mechanism, and after two decades of laser wear and tired motors, the console
Before the Steam Deck, before the flood of Chinese emulation handhelds, there was a brief golden age of the Android gaming tablet — and its champion was a Shenzhen slab called the JXD S7800B. JXD, sho