With the holiday season upon us, you might not know what to get for the tinker in your life. These micro PC’s are great for any kind of project, like making a retro gaming console, media center, radios, weather station, embedded devices or just a standalone computer. So I thought it would …
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NES Classic Mini turned into a Retro Pie
We all knew that this would happen sooner or later, where someone buys an NES classic mini and guts it to make a Retro Pie/ Emulation Station. That is exactly what Dr. Moddnstine did with his NES mini, you might remember Dr. Moddnstine from this 126gb floppy drive mod that is just an …
Read More »You can now boot a Raspberry Pi 3 from a USB storage device
Just recently a tutorial has popped up on how to boot your Raspberry Pi 3 from a USB storage device such as a flash drive or USB hard disk. Now anyone that has a pi or pi2 know that this nothing new to boot from a USB drive but for the …
Read More »Retropie VS Android TV on the Raspberry Pi3
Over the weekend I had a chance to sit down and play around with Raspberry Pi3. The pi3 is quite nice, with it having wifi & Bluetooth built in, plus a little boost in performance compared to the Pi2. What I normally do with a new Pi is I like to put it …
Read More »Android TV ported to the Raspberry Pi3
Google announced that they would be making a version of Android that would work on the Raspberry Pi a few weeks ago. You can check the repository for it here, but so far there hasn’t been much activity on it. Now the Geek Till It Hertz has beaten Google to the punch with …
Read More »Review of the 8Bitdo FC30 Pro Bluetooth controller
The 8Bitdo FC30 Pro Bluetooth controller will bring back memories of the Super Nintendo controller as it feels very similar. It has a full set of controls, like most common controllers, do today and it’s compatible with Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, and Macs, it even works on the Raspberry PI …
Read More »Why game collectors often use Flashcards and CFW!
I’m writing this today not as a why you should use Flashcards and CFW. Instead, today I’m going to discuss why some gamers/collectors use flashcards and CFW (custom firmware) to play their beloved games. Now there is a large part of collectors that own some very valuable games. Some of these games are …
Read More »8BitDo’s Retro Wireless Controllers – Connecting So Many Platforms!
As gaming peripherals have always existed since gaming, great peripherals have endured the decades of demands from many gamers; that the controllers simply work the most important feature above all else, even regardless of style. However, that doesn’t mean that there haven’t been attempts to combine gaming aesthetic and function – …
Read More »Raspberry Pi: The Gameboy Zero
Following our last write-up about ‘What’s the best game console to turn into Emulationstation?‘ the Raspberry Pi obviously couldn’t make it to the results as it’s no gaming console if we put it that way.. BUT we thought it definitively should get mentioned separately! Additionally (if you aren’t following us …
Read More »What’s the best game console to turn into Emulationstation?
Most of us love playing old school games on our consoles to revisit our childhood or if you always wanted a game or system that you couldn’t get your hands on, like the NEO-GEO. I figure I would list the some of the best game consoles to turn into emulation stations, …
Read More »New Raspberry Pi 3 is 50% faster with 64-bit ARM, Wifi & Bluetooth
Today marks the Raspberry pi 4th birthday and what better way to celebrate it with a release of new Pi. This new Pi3 will include wifi, Bluetooth, and with another big difference, it’s 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 clocked at 1.2 GHz, also it’s still priced at $35 dollars. The new Pi is …
Read More »Raspberry Pi2: Retropie 3.5 the best version of them all.
For the past week, I have been playing around with the Raspberry pi2; retropie ver3.5 and I got to say its pretty solid this time. In older version sometimes emulators just wouldn’t work or games that worked now froze. In this new version 3.5 most of the bugs are all …
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