Nice, got a soft spot for Batman and Robin, even thought it's nigh on impossible without cheating. Great soundtrack too (super similar sound to Red Zone).

Blue Swirl wrote:

How Sonic R used the Saturn hardware:

Jeez ...  Sonic R was a symphony of code. Parallel assembler? Wow.  I did some DSP programming when I was on my year in industry but I had a parallel FORTRAN compiler for matrix operations which operated on all elements at the same time.  Most of my year was doing parallel procedural coding on transputer networks using Occam 2.

That was bad enough......I can't imagine how hard it must have been to get synchronised.

I do like a bit of the amusingly named Sega Lord X on Youtube.  It's fairly basic stuff - kinda how games journalism was in the era he specialises in - but he sure knows his onions. 

Currently watching Ugly Sega Saturn Games, love it.  The absolute state of Time Commando.

It's given me an idea for a quiz.

davyK wrote:

Jeez ...  Sonic R was a symphony of code. Parallel assembler? Wow.  I did some DSP programming when I was on my year in industry but I had a parallel FORTRAN compiler for matrix operations which operated on all elements at the same time.  Most of my year was doing parallel procedural coding on transputer networks using Occam 2. That was bad enough......I can't imagine how hard it must have been to get synchronised.

He does more on Sonic R. The Saturn couldn't do environment mapping (shiny surfaces), but he managed to find a solution.



Fucking voodoo.

I had a hard time finding Vita-specific emulators. Ended up emulating a PSP on the Vita and running the PSP emulators through that. GBA games have never properly worked, SNES is usually ok, MD ok too. But there's often some little thing that goes wrong, some audio bit that comes out crunchy or graphical glitches.

I sold my 3DS, not that I'd be able to stomach more than 25 minutes of haxxing. I'm thinking shiny new machine tbh, might sell the Vita to part fund it.

I'm making do on the hacked handhelds until some kind of dream machine comes along. Something like a Steam Deck with Windows that can run whatever emulators a PC can run. Steam Deck is nearly there but those button placements seem like a deal breaker. I need a little info of how people are getting on with those after release as well.

I guess the Analogue Pocket will be able to run a bunch of stuff as it will have that additional core that's open to developers or whatever it was. Expensive and won't be able to play modern stuff like a hacked Vita though. And again, Saturn is a generation off (someone's at least working on an FPGA core though).

Hobbyists are amazing.

Nice find Moot, I have just gone balls deep and ordered print copies for issues 1 & 2.

I'm all for this just hope it's interesting!!

Yes I have, you can pick them up relatively cheap now as people are jumping on the Retrotink 5x train or waiting for the OSSC Pro.

I'm really happy with mine from videogame perfection. My initial unit had an issue with tge audio which they resolved straight away.

https://videogameperfection.com/products/open-source-scan-converter/

As it's open source you can pick them up much cheaper from Aliexpress (£70) and lots of people have, but just be aware if it goes kaput you'll have very little come back.

￡65.71 12%OFF | OSSC HDMI-compatible Kit for Retro Game Consoles PS1 2 Xbox Sega Atari Nintendo,US Plug Add EU Adapter
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Yeah. I have 2 CRTs. Have a nice 4:3 21" Panasonic. It's currently rotated for shmups. The other is a Samsung 4:3 25". A 25" 4:3 is quite a big screen. It's great!     My daughters (in their early 20s) can hear a squeal off the CRTs though.... I don't but that is a concern. They also take up a fair bit of room.

Both have brilliant picture. Lovely vibrant colour. Losing light gun games wouldn't really be a problem as I don't play them that often. VC1&2 on Saturn, HOTD2 on DC and Confidential Mission on DC is all I have.

At the price they are I could afford to audition an OSSC and see how it works but I'd consider holding onto the smaller CRT for shmups.

My PC has a 25" widescreen monitor on a rotatable stand and I can play my TATE Steam and MAME shmups on that and I'm more than happy with it. I'm betting I'd be happy with an OSSC.

Works on all mine and my JPN Saturn has sync on Luma. The only problem I have is with the Jaguar and I haven't got to the bottom of that one yet other than resetting things in different orders!

Nice. Cheers for the info.  I have my J-N64 RGB modified so I'd be able to try that out too. The only console that is s-video is my J-Gamecube.

Thinking about it now I was probably remembering the xrgb mini requiring an adaptor for EU RGB SCART.