Retro gaming

C.E.S. Gaming Highlights (Hyperkin, My Arcade, Arcade1Up, Retro-Bit)

Hello one and all! We’re sure you’ve seen separate articles about the varied items from different companies being shown off at CES. But now that CES is over, we’ve decided to make one cohesive article for your scrolling pleasure. This focuses on the stuff that gamers might find interesting and …

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Dynarec Recompiler released for N64/Retroarch on the Nintendo Switch!

The Libretto team have been quite busy lately with making great progress on the N64/Mupenplus64 core for the Nintendo Switch via Retroarch. Their first major release was the overclock feature which improved the emulator significantly and brought sound and smooth gameplay on a bunch of N64 titles. The Libretto team …

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Review: New GameShell Revision!

Some of you may remember when we reviewed the Gameshell from Clockwork. Well, recently they reached out to again and asked if we’d like to review the newest revision. I figured why the heck not! If they have new features and capabilities and improvements, we should test it out and …

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Review: PowerA’s Licensed Gamecube Controller for Switch

With Smash Bros. Ultimate being out, we reached out to the folks over at PowerA to see if they could spare some controllers for us to review. We wanted to give our readers a fair chance to find out about these third party controllers that are out now from PowerA. …

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RetroArch is finally coming to Jailbroken PS4’s

Just the other day Libretro announced that they will be releasing an Xbox One Port of RetroArch and the next day they show Retroarch working on the PS4. The main reason we have not seen Retro Arch on the PS4 was due to the lack of a few tools missing but with …

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Review:Atari Flashback Classics Volume 3

So today’s review is a bit different than other game reviews that have been written on our site in the past. This is the first major compilation that we’ve reviewed in a long time. And in fact, it may be the largest compilation game that we’ve ever reviewed on Hackinformer. …

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How to upgrade the Arcade1UP cabinet to a full on arcade system with 1,000’s of games

The Arcade1UP cabinets are a great way to replay your favor arcade games, with the looks and feel of a real arcade cabinet. If you picked up one of these cabinets an had it for a few weeks the nostalgia factor is starting to wear off and you’re probably thinking what else …

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PlayStation Classic gets an early Christmas gift!

Just like other classic consoles on the market that have been hacked, they eventually get Retroarch ported to it. Retroarch is amazing all in one emulator set up that is on multiple systems and it was just a matter of time when Retroarch was going to be ported to the PlayStation Classic. With the …

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Could Sony get it right the second time around with the PlayStation 2 Classic?

The PlayStation brand was a force to be reckoned with in the mid-90s ever since they made there console debut in September of 1995 due to a joint deal went bad between another console maker Nintendo. Fast forward 23 years, Sony jumped on the mini retro console ban wagon with …

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BleemSync a safe way to add more games to your PlayStation Classic

The first tools to hack the PlayStation Classic where not the safest to use. Everyone was warned about the risk of using it and it could damage the console to where it might not start again. Now we have a safe alternative to gpghax called Bleemsync from pathartl. It still …

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PlayStation Classic can now use a USB Flash Drive to load other games

Most of have seen what hackers had to do to get into the PlayStation Classic by solder to the UART port but that’s all change thanks to madmonkey, DanTheMan827, & skogaby. Now, this payload launcher method is in its very early stages and has the potential to can damage the PlayStation Classic if you don’t …

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PlayStation Classic has been Hacked!!

The PlayStation classic hasn’t been out more than a few days and hackers from around the world have been going at it. PlayStation Classic、eMMC書き換えてシェル入れるようにしてみた pic.twitter.com/qTpI3JVw21 — NV(*´ω`*)@2日目ト36a (@nvsofts) December 5, 2018 タイミングが同じ過ぎて笑う /etc/passwdのrootを書き換えてシェル入ったところwww あと、神をも恐れぬスタイルなので、ダンプのバックアップも取らずにD0接続のままマウントして書き換えたw で、コンソールに入れたのでここからdd if=/dev/mmcblk0 でイメージ取得中ww pic.twitter.com/1JHcQZL7Ah — ひろみつ (@bakueikozo) December 5, 2018 SDカードリーダーを使った PlayStation Classic の eMMC ダンプについてまとめました …

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