Selena the Retro-Princess

The 4 mouses listed above in order on my hardwood floor. The Genesis mouse has it's cord wrapped.

Here's a quick look at some of the mice I have for my consoles: Super Nintendo, Genesis, Dreamcast and Playstation!

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #retrocollecting

Controlling Episode 1 Racer on the screen with two N64 controllers in my hands in the foreground

For #throwbackthursday here's a good retrogaming PSA:
You can use a cheat code (RRDUAL) on the N64 version of Episode 1 Racer to control it like the arcade cabinet with a seperate analog control for each hand/engine!
(It's actually super hard like this though! 😅)

#retrogaming #starwars

The SGB Commander controller with the original Super Famicom controller, side by side, showing the difference in cable length. The SGB Commander appears roughly 3x as long!

One more thing about Hori's Super Game Boy Commander controller for SNES / Super Famicom that I find worthy of comment: it has the longest cable I've seen on a controller released in Japan. Typically they were notoriously short!

#retrogaming #snes #nintendo

It's also interesting that the Super Game Boy and the Japanese-exclusive Super Game Boy 2 have different clock speeds from one another (SGB2 was accurate to the original Game Boy) and so the Speed button on this controller results in two different reduced playback speeds depending on which SGB it is

It's not possible to input the code within the 25ms limit without using the controller's macro

The Super Gameboy Commander Controller from Hori connected to my Super Famicom (with Broadcast Satellaview attached to the bottom) with Super Gameboy 2 in the cartridge port and Kirby Blockball in it

The Super Gameboy Commander controller from Hori let's you control features on the Super Gameboy that you can't access any other way.
Such as slowing down the game speed!
To accomplish this, when set to SGB mode it sends a special input macro within 25ms. Only possible with this gamepad.

My Hori Super Game Boy controller in front of my "Game Man" to which is it connected. Donkey Kong 94 (original Gameboy game) is connected to the system

A close-up look at the controller itself with the box behind it. You can see the speed and mute buttons, A and B button are coloured like the Game Boy, it also has a faux speaker in the corner to mimic the Game Boy design

Holding my SGB Commander controller up while Mario Kart Super Circuit (GBA) is on the screen from my Game Man

I built my "Game Man" a few years ago (a consolised GBA) and bought a "Super Gameboy Commander" to play it with.
It's a controller by Hori with a unique Gameboy-inspired configuration and special features for use on Super Gameboy!

#retrogaming #retrocollecting #gameboy

Direct descendant of the Sidewinder!

Selfie at the door of my games room - visible in background is my Neo Geo MVS, Super Famicom, Sega Menacer and CRT

Hanging out in my games room today and getting intoxicated later! Have a great weekend everyone! ♥️

#selfie #retrocollecting

My Game Gear with the GG Aleste 3 title screen

The trend of modern developers releasing games on vintage hardware will always amaze me.
Playing Aleste 3 on Game Gear from 2020

There's also obviously Earthion for Genesis, Namco put Pac-Man CE on NES, there are so many recent examples and I love it !

#retrogamijg #shmup #sega #gamegear

Neo Turf Masters for Neo Geo CD on my TV screen, NGCD icon on my Dreamcast VMU /controller in the foreground

For #throwbackthursday it's time for the periodic reminder that with very few exceptions the Neo Geo CD library is available as self-bootable disks on the Dreamcast!
Faster load times than the original and runs amazing! How cool!

#retrogaming #neogeo #sega #tbt

My Super Famicom with the Broadcast Satellaview on the bottom next to my Famicom with the Famicom Disk System on the bottom

I like my Nintendos with some junk on the bottom!

(yes I know,there's the 64 DD, too!)
#retrogaming #nintendo #bsx #fds

Mario Picross puzzle revealing a Rice Ball, joke is a reference to a poor translation in the Pokemon cartoon show.

Oh, I see it now! It's one of those Jelly Donuts from Pokemon!

#joke #picross #pokemon #snes

Heh, I understand the confusion
It's not what it looks like.
I re-shelled an FX Pak Pro (which DOES have a real time clock, btw) into a "Nintendo Power" flash cart for funzies.
I indicated this in the ALT text for the images as well.

A nice close-up picture of my Broadcast Satellaview attached to my Japanese Super Famicom, with a re-shelled "Nintendo Power" flash cartridge in the system

The Broadcast Satellaview bios booting up on my TV (BS-X for short)

My Broadcast Satellaview in the foreground, the TV in background welcoming me back to the BS-X service, asking which downloaded title I want to launch

The Nintendo Broadcast Satellaview was added to my collection after my last collection post!
Of course the service is gone, but with it's bios and a cart with a real-time clock, you can get a good sense of what it was once like!

#nintendo #retrogaming #retrocollecting

Selfie of me rocking my new, white, v-neck t-shirt with the classic Hudson Soft shirt

There was no women's cut t-shirts for the now-defunct, once-prolific developer Hudson Soft whom I love.
So I paid to have one printed!

Maybe most famous for Bomberman, the bee in their logo is named Hachisuke, and the name "Hudson" comes from a train!

#hudson #selfie #retrogaming #gamedev

A list of cores on my Analogue Pocket with PocketQuake highlighted

A picture of PocketQuake running, you can see the low-res textures, but it's identifiably Quake!

This was an unexpected but welcome thing to wake up to! Quake running natively on the Analogue Pocket!
Definitely a bit choppy at times and with low-res textures and questionable audio, but it's still super rad.
It also supports the link cable for LAN play!
#retrogaming #quake #fpga

The top of the two Virtual Boy stands, the old one on the right showing the two metal "bumps" I mentioned, compared to the bottom of the new VB accessory which has no spot for the "bump" though you can see where they WOULD be

The new Virtual Boy stands lack the metal bumps to align with guide holes because there are no such holes in the new VB.
This means the new stand works with the old Virtual Boy, but the old stand won't work with the new one.
(Interestingly you can see where the holes WOULD be on the new accessory)

Interestingly, only in one direction! I can personally confirm I've attached my OG VB to the new stand, but the old stand can't mount to the new VB because there are guide holes that are missing!

New Switch VB accessory with it's lenses/filter removed (left) old VB with it's visor/faceplate removed (right)

To clarify what I mean when I say the visor isn't removable:
On the original VB the faceplate with the foam on it pops off leaving the lenses in place (system on the right)
This is a common piece to be missing, but the way the lenses pop off on the new VB (left) is different and not interchangeable

There are confusing words around this. I mean like the face plate the whole section with the foam and lenses used to be a separate piece you would remove. This plate is no longer easily popped-off, and therefor cannot be used with an original unit

Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild both already feature a stereoscopic 3D "VR" mode by default, so it was fun to test the Virtual Boy accessory and see a 3D polygonal Mario in red on my VB in 2026!
Like a future that never happened, but here it is!
#nintendo #mario #virtualboy

The new Virtual Boy accessory in it's box next to my original Virtual Boy

A wide side-by-side of the two google sections, new version in the left showing sharper lines around the nose, and lack of removable tabs for the visor

The two stands next to each other. The new one has a slight lip at the top where it secures to the console, but are otherwise nigh indistinguishable

The two Virtual Boys assembled and side by side, side and shape and colour all match and it's difficult to distinguish them apart at a glance

Like a lot of people, my new Virtual Boy accessory for the Switch came in this weekend and I had a lot of fun comparing it against my original!
The stands are just about identical, but there are some changes to the design around the nose, and the visor is also no longer removable.
Really interesting

Mario & Wario in the TV screen in the background, my SNES mouse in the foreground

Played SNES Mouse game MARIO & WARIO this weekend. I learned about it on a cereal box as a kid but then it wasnt released here.
But the JP version is fully in English with the Japanese title screen DISABLED
The theory is that the JP market got the copies of the game that were intended for NA release

The (very dusty) old controller with plastic L button sunked into the housing

The PCB inside the controller, with close up of the removed button section and my hand holding the button

The new Litton soldered into place with the plastic L button cover resting on it

Another exterior pic showing the L button aligned properly, no longer sunked into the housing

Thanks to airline luggage handling, the L-button in this poor old wireless retrobit Genesis controller had become impacted.
I had to remove the old switch inside and solder in a replacement.
Good as new!

#diy #retrocollecting

My emailed shipping notification for the new Virtual Boy hardware for Switch

IT'S HAPPENING!
My new Virtual Boy hardware from Nintendo is shipping!
I'm excited to get to compare it to my original Virtual Boy! I'm curious about possible interchangeability!

#retrogaming #retrocollecting #nintendo #virtualboy

My Famicom Disk System on my floor, controller 1 undocked and pulled foward. A yellow disk protrudes from the disk slot.

Gameplay screenshot (captured from an Emulator) showing the very classic Mario Bros arcade game play

A picture of the game in my TV at a special screen that reads "Good Job, Lena - you scored 100,000 points!"

Another favourite of mine I haven't posted about enough is Kaettekita Mario Bros for the Famicom Disk System.
It's like the arcade original but with air controls, different modes, naming your file, and just an all-around improvement to the game I was already a big fan of!

#mario #retrogaming #fds

Discord comment parodying the "tears in rain" monologue with a picture of Roy Batty in the rain. It reads: I was in the Minecraft *Alpha*. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Creepers on fire off the shoulders of alpha biomes. I watched caves glitter in the dark near imperfect bedrock layers. All those moments will be lost in time, like sand blocks in lava. Time to die.

I absolutely did not get the recognition this comment deserved

Two pics, top: me holding the tiny VMU/ game boy like device Bottom: the button panel opened up to show it's memory card connector

Two pics, left: the clock on the PocketStation Right: Squall from VII on the PocketStation screen

Two pics, top: the PocketStation in my PSOne Bottom: the PocketStation in my PS2

Here's another thing I apparently never posted here - my Sony PocketStation.
Sony's answer to Sega's VMU!
Organiser, clock, minigames!
Planned for release outside of Japan but it never happened, though some NA games still released with support for it like FFVIII.

#retrocollecting #sony #playstation

It's commonly requested at my parties! I've been lucky enough to play with the full group quite a lot!