This one has been a long time coming. I’ve been trying over the years to get a Retroid device of any kind to review on our site. People hold the products in such high regard and that means something. I wanted to see what all of the fuss was about. …
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Hardware Review: Retro-Bit’s Newest Gamecube/Wii/Genesis/Megadrive Controllers
Ok. For real. Is Retro-Bit ever going to stop making things that we wished we’d had when we were younger? I mean today’s article has an officially branded wireless Genesis controller with a built-in rechargeable battery for Pete’s sake! But, we have to talk about all of the angles, okay? …
Read More »Hardware Review: Wii2HDMI Adapter from Electron Shepherd
Electron Shepherd are not a new company. I’m not sure how long they’ve been around, but they look to be dabbling in the gaming space. I think that this is a great idea since they have creative products/solutions. We all like having more options, especially in the gaming space. Today, …
Read More »How To: Mod the Wii Mini
It’s been a long time coming, but I finally had a chance to sit down and mod the “unhackable” Wii Mini. Nintendo stripped out the methods that people previously used to mod the Wii from the Wii Mini. This means the SD Card is out, the wifi connection is gone, …
Read More »Pre E3-Limited Run Games Announcements
The people over at Limited Run Games are always fantastic. We’ve reviewed some of their games, announced some of their games, and last year even met up with them at E3 and got some swag from them. They’re only ever nice and have their hearts in the right place. This …
Read More »Review: Hori SNES Fighting Commander for the Wii, SNES & NES Mini
Today, we’re going to take a look at one of the first wireless controllers that came out for the SNES Classic. It also works on NES Classic and with Wii Remotes on the Wii as well. So I thought now that it’s been out for a minute and the hype …
Read More »Retroarch Release’s New Dolphin Core for Windows/Linux
Well, it seems the team at libretro cannot be beaten! So on June 29th, they released the alpha of a new core for Retroarch the Dolphin (Windows/Linux) (Alpha release!) Now you should be reminded that this still an alpha release so a lot of work needs to be done fine-tune and …
Read More »Dolphin Emulator Updated removes D3D12 & JITIL, adds new audio back-end & fixes bugs
Just like every month, the Dolphin Team has prepared a monthly progress update which summarizes what has happened to the Dolphin Emulator over the month and this time there have been some big removals. Firstly they removed the not too old Directx12 backend. The Directx12 Backend was once added and was …
Read More »Dolphin the Gamecube & Wii emulator get some big improvements with new release ver5.0
The Dolphin emulator hasn’t seen an update in quite some time but today they have released their new version 5.0 and it has some major improvements. If you are new to this emulator, Dolphin is a free and open-source video game console emulator for the GameCube, Wii, and Triforce that runs on Windows, OS …
Read More »Gameboy turned into a portable Wii
A lot of modders/tinkers like to take game consoles and turn them into all kind of things. For example, the famous benheck has done this to countless game consoles like the Xbox360 & PS3. Modder GmanModz has also done this to a bunch of systems and now he’s turned a Gameboy into a functioning …
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 »mGBA 0.4.0 with official ports for PSVita, 3DS and Wii released
Developer Endrift updated the GBA Emulator mGBA to version 0.4.0 and added official support for the PSVita (Rejuvenate), 3DS and Wii, fixed lots of bugs and added lots of features. He mentioned that this is a major feature release so lets get right to the features of mGBA 😉 Features: Officially …
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