Tutorial & Guides

Tutorial & Guides

The Most Ultimate PSVita Retro Game Pack out there…

About a month ago over at Arcadepunks.com user, CrazyMac released one of the most ultimate retro game packs for the PSVita out there, equaling 150 gigs of retro goodness. This retro game pack has everything you could ever want on the PSVita or PSTV. Updated notes are at the bottom …

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Where to get ROMS/Backup games for those Emulators in 2021..

Ok here’s the rundown if you are new to Emulation. It is the process of simulating the hardware of one machine on another machine so that the second machine is able to run software designed for the first machine. The most popular type of emulation, video game emulation, is when …

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Review/Instructions: NES TopLoader No-Cut LED Kit from Fragoltech

Why does the front loader NES get to have all of the fun?! It has a cute little LED light in it to let you know there is power flowing to the machine. So why can’t the top loader NES get the same benefit?? Well, if you’ll allow, in this …

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How To: Install Tonyhax for PS1

It’s been a long time coming for this. It’s primarily because we knew there would be more updates and improvements. We wanted to wait for the “it’s as good as it’s going to be”, but the creator of Tonyhax just kept working. And then, out of left field, came FreePSXBoot. …

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Hardware Review: Game Gear Capacitor Kit from RetroSix

We’ve already talked in-depth about RetroSix’s replacement Game Gear shell, lens, buttons, membranes, CleanPower GG and all of the quality of life improvements that they make. If you’re not caught up on that yet, feel free to check that out here. But if you’re already on the up and up …

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How To: Install Magic Screen kit into Game Gear

Recently, we had reviewed the Magic Screen kit from retroKAIstore, click here if you want to read it. The model we had was a model 1 board and they no longer sell it. The review remains valid still because their model 1.2 fixes every issue I had complaints on and …

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Flash News: Android 10 for Nintendo Switch Released

Android has existed on the Nintendo Switch for quite some time now. It’s definitely had its issues and even with hotfixes, it always sort of left something to be desired. Today is the day that most of that changes. Let’s you and I talk about some of the biggest news that …

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Hardware Review: Sega Game Gear “Magic Screen” from RetroKAI.store

We’ve covered Gameboy stuff out the yin-yang, you know it and I know it. What should we talk about now? How about that awful Game Gear screen that has a bad backlight and draws far too much power? Sound good? Because we have a new set of products from RetroKAI.store …

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Hardware Review: Sega Game Gear Replacement Parts from RetroSix

As we previously mentioned, we’re moving past Gameboy upgrades for the time being. We’re going to cover parts and replacement pieces for the faithful Sega Game Gear. Today we’re specifically covering the shell, buttons, lenses, and Clean Power GG from Retro Six. It’s a lot to cover, so buckle up, …

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How To: Update your GCLoader

This is a quick tutorial on how to update your GCLoader. The article is not going to cover how to install the hardware or how to set up your SD Card for use in the GCLoader. We already have an article discussing installation here. And we have another one instructing …

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How To: Set Up SD Card for GCLoader

This article is a follow up to the one that we recently dropped. If you bought a PNP GCLoader and need to have some help installing the device, check out that article here. If you’ve already gotten it installed and you’re looking for help setting up your SD Card, you’ve …

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How To: Install PNP GCLoader and SD2SP2 Into Gamecube

Today we’ve got a video that covers opening up the Gamecube and installing a GCLoader PNP inside. The video also briefly talks about how to pop in an SD2SP2. It’s a long form video where-in I just kick back and show how simple it is to do these tasks even …

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