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Prince of Persia clean artwork by Hirohide Shikishima used on the cover of the Fujitsu FM Towns, Sega Mega CD / Sega CD, NEC PC-98, PC Engine CD, and Sharp X68000 releases. Image depicts the hero bare chested and wearing a turban, with his arms open and fists clenched, while facing the palace seen in the distance. There's a sword carved into a rock on the left side with a gleam coming from a hanging pendant. There's a ominous dark cloudy sky with some dark and red tones where Jaffar can be seen up top with his hands reaching for the palace.
The artwork of #PrinceOfPersia by Hirohide Shikishima used on the cover of the #Fujitsu #FMTowns, #Sega #MegaCD/#SegaCD, #NEC #PC98, #PCEngineCD, and #SharpX68000 releases. This is a v2. Removed logo, taking few liberties, applying some clean/retouch without upscaling.
Opa Sega Style
FANTASY ZONE: THE MAZE
SEGA 1988
MASTER SYSTEM
If you need a Neo CD SD loader and can wait until june of this year, don't buy one from Aliexpress, you'll regret it.
The "Last And Greatest Mystery" Regarding The Sega Saturn Has Been Revealed.
It's 1992, there's a Republican president with a war in the middle east and a recession.
It's 2008, there's a Republican president with a war in the middle east and a recession.
It's 2026, there's a Republican president with a war in the middle east...
Another happy customer. She wanted to listen to the OST of Castle In The Sky, so I popped the CD into my newly fixed console. Since the TV has quite a nice sound system this combination works quite well for the job. 😄
There we go, nailed it!
It seems to have trouble with the spindle height or something. Sometimes it starts the spin but stops, other times it goes on but seems to be scraping. If I use a magnet from a PCE Duo, it works flawlessly. Even loads quicker than before the recap.
Ok, let's do this thing! Recapping the PC Engine CD-ROM².
#RETROGAMING #restoration #pcengine
SameBoy just updated its hyper-accurate Game Boy emulator to 1.0.3
The open-source emulator brings new fixes and stability improvements to its macOS, iOS, Windows, and libretro versions.
#Retro #emulation #gameboy #opensource
The National Videogame Museum Has Acquired A "Mythical" Nintendo PlayStation. (Image: @nvmusa)
Today I bring you one of the very first things I played on one of those shitty clone consoles you'd see as a kid, with hundreds of games.
#RETROGAMING #taito #Nintendo #DMG #GBC
Air Zonk clean artwork used on the cover of the NEC TurboGrafx-16 in North America. Image depicts Zonk featuring his trademark sunglasses and lightning bolt on his forehead, with his left side of the body exposing his exoskeleton. Electricity can been seen flowing from him contrasting with the flat blue toned background.
The artwork of Air Zonk used on the cover of the #NEC #TurboGrafx16 in North America. It was also used for advertisement in South Korea and a calendar in Gekkan PC Engine - Issue 53 - February 1993. Removed logo/text, applying the usual upscale/clean/retouch process. [1/2]
This is your semi-regular reminder that IBM’s “supercomputer” Deep Blue had a grand total of 30GB of RAM in 1997.
With that “strength” it could calculate 200 million chess positions per second, which placed it about 8-12 moves ahead of any Grand Master on the planet.
BUT…
Mamoru Oshii's 30th Anniversary Ghost in the Shell Interview: The Complete Translation
Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii sat down for a 30-question interview to celebrate the film's 30th anniversary. We translated the whole thing...
#GhostintheShell #MamoruOshii #Anime #Interviews #Fallout4
This comic nails my thoughts on every person who chose to live and work in Dubai
"We Need As Many Hands As Possible" - There's A New Volunteer-Driven Effort To "Preserve Myrient's Legacy".
I love this! I showed it to my dad (now age 94) and he was thrilled and amazed to see the music he composed in 1989 interpreted in this way.🙏❤️
YouTube thumbnail of a 90s PC on a desk running Quake with the text "O.D.E. for PC" overlaid and an obligatory Big Red Arrow.
New Video: The PicoIDE is a brand new IDE optical and hard drive emulator for classic computers. Based on the Raspberry Pi RP2350 and ESP32, it's easy to use, open source, low cost, fully featured, and set to be an absolute game changer for the vintage computing hobby.
youtu.be/MG_t0Ti3_rY
Nobody wanted to hear this... until I had receipts.
The Vimm's Lair saga:
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The Dreamcast deserved better. We think we've finally delivered it.
BitLink DC - 2.4G wireless, virtual memory cards, accelerometer & gyro, keyboard & mouse support and a WebUI. With your original Dreamcast Gamepad.
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Oh, I really like this game. Not only do I like the visuals, I like the feel too.
#RETROGAMING #Sega #namco #MegaDrive
Don't tempt me Jeff...
RGB Scart cables built during the weekend
- Neo-Geo AES
- Playstation 2/3 15/33khz CSync
- OG Xbox
- Sega Dreamcast
More details on each cable on the thread below ⬇️
#RGB #retro
Yeah, I need to do mine too. Hopefully, this week. We'll see. Life has a habit of throwing curve balls.
I'm live, testing @takiudon.bsky.social's SuperStation One MiSTer console. Come see how it performs: www.youtube.com/live/LNPaCeq...
