Sharp MZ-2500 emulation in MESS.

"Working on Sharp MZ-2500 (Super MZ), a Japanese computer system of the mid-80. It appears to be a sort of follow-up of the Sharp X1 system, with the same basic characteristic plus (attempts to) remove bottlenecks of that system (color limitations, PCG uploading etc.). I’ve seriously started to work on this system in these few days"

--> http://mamedev.emulab.it/kale/?p=1193 & http://www.bannister.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=64080#Post64080/

StarCraft 64 German Prototype Released.

CARROT (the last N64 group!) has released a german unreleased/proto version of Starcraft 64 , it should be identical to the english version but i'm not sure so you'll just have to go and try it:p

You can grab it here: StarCraft 64

SNEON64 - SPC Player for N64.

Hcs dusted off his compiling tools and released this .SPC player he made two years ago for the Nintendo 64.

"Based on the SPC decoder in Rockbox, which was based on Game_Music_Emu,
which derived some code from OpenSPC.

It uses the "emulation standard"; simply append an SPC to the end of the .n64.
You can then theoretically run it in your favorite emulator, or byte swap it to
use with your favorite backup device. -hcs"


Download -> sneon64-66.zip
Hcs homepage: http://hcs64.com

64NIC+ - Surf,irc,tweet and bbs on your C64 :)

Open up the cybernet on your c64!.The 64NIC+ is a cheap way to network with your C64,it should be noted that it does not load disk images over the network but you can use 64HDD for running stuff or buy the much more expensive Retro Replay,MMC64 or wait for the Chameleon 64 but my pockets aren't that big and the others aren't available in many stores anymore!;).

*Edit: I must be blind!, jbrain is also selling a SD adapter for the C64 so thats a great option for loading stuff:)*

The main reason to buy this device is to use Contiki and the irc,bbs,twitter clients and there are actually 2 online games made by Leif Bloomquist: NetRacer and Artillery Duel! that you can play using the 64nic+.


There is one way to actually run games/apps on the c64nic+ but it requires you to burn the games/apps to a eprom and then you can slap that on the c64nic+.

WizardNJ has made a little app where you can easily choose your own games/apps and then it merges them into a eprom image ready for burning , I don't have a eprom burner but it looks pretty straight forward.

Download Wizard's Game Cartridge Maker

You can also find precompiled images over at http://www.n2dvm.com/blog/

For just $50 this is a really great device , you even get a shell with it! but you have to cut out the holes yourself;).

I bought mine from:
http://www.jbrain.net/products/64NIC%252b.html/ and it came within a week.

Check out Dkovacs review of it on youtube:
Part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btGpXgzG1fQ
Part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2psxpnOCmcI

FlashBoy Plus - Virtual Boy Flashcart.

"I'd like to announce Richard Hutchinson's latest creation, the FlashBoy Plus! This new, second entry to the FlashBoy family expands the previous design by an internal save battery and will finally allow Virtual Boy homebrew developers to make use of game saving mechanisms in their games. Or, better put, it will finally allow people to actually use save game functionality of homebrew and commercial games on hardware.

This marks the end of the "old" FlashBoy line, none of those will be produced anymore. The last ever "old" FlashBoy (#284), which was meant as the main prize for the PVB Coding Competition 2010, is being auctioned off. The competition winner will receive a FlashBoy Plus instead.

This also means that the previously announced upcoming new FlashBoy batch will in fact be FlashBoy Plus units. Those 50 units will be available to those who preordered approximately in early October. The price will stay the same at 90 Euro.

Everyone who did not have luck this time should be happy to hear that we plan to create another batch of FlashBoy Plus units at the end of the year."

Source: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=307

Looks sweet, now if I could only find an actual VB in Sweden ;)

Rockman X6 Prototype Released (PS1)

Skaarg over at the Sonic Retro Forums has released a prototype of Rockman X6, for more info and download go here: http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2010/08/early-rockman-x6-prototype-released.html

Shin Master of Monsters Final EX - New RPG for PS2

(Click on the image for correct aspect ratio;))

Starting to feel like the PS2 will almost outlive the PS3!, this rpg came out in Japan today and has a very retro 2d look to it.

It might not be Final Fantasy but it shows that the PS2 still has a strong userbase and it will be interesting to see if it will reach into 2011:).

Official homepage: http://www.ss-alpha.co.jp/products/mofm_ps/