Season 3 Episode 8 Episode 80 News: https://huguesjohnson.com/programming/java/BinToWav/ Rare's Unreleased N64 Game That Became Star Fox Adventures Leaks Online Another arcade is closing in Tokyo. RetroArch’s Open Hardware project aims to make using real cartridges on emulators easy Hacker Rewrites Crappy SNES Racer To Improve Its Framerate Sevenfold There's Been An N64 Mini-Game Hidden Inside The Switch Version Of Firewatch All This Time The Lost Vikings, Rock N' Roll Racing, And Blackthorne Re...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 80
Season 3 Episode 7 Episode 79 News: An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later [Let’s Talk] Dormant Nintendo franchises you’d like to see make a return Super Metroid knew how to tell a story and set a mood | Why I Love RESTORED DREAMCAST IS A SEGA FAN’S DREAM COME TRUE In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one can find her: The search for Ban Tran Virtual Boy Architecture NEOGEO CLASSIC COMPLETE COLLECTION RetroN Sq is a cube-shaped console for pl...
Feb 21, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Season 3 Episode 6 Episode 78 News: Polycade Is A Wall Mounted Arcade Cabinet For Retro Gamers Playing With Power: The Nintendo Story to Premiere on Crackle in March 2021 Gallery: Geeks Line's NES/Famicom Anthology Is The Most Exhaustive Look At The Console Yet Pixel FX's N64Digital Promises "Crystal-Clear HDMI Video" For Your Nintendo 64 The dream of the Sega Dreamcast died 20 years ago JagStudio Development Suite Nintendo Switch Online Reveals February's Free SNES and NES Games It's 2021, And ...
Feb 14, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Season 3 Episode 5 Episode 77 News: Super Mario World Made Mario Who He is Today Famicom documentary translated into English, includes Hideo Kojima, Keiji Inafune, and more YUJI NAKA HAD TROUBLE ON THE OFFICIAL SEGA TEST – BECAUSE OF ‘MR NEEDLEMOUSE’ Rejected Sonic Designs Appear in Eggman’s Mean Time Machine 3D PRINTED PI ARCADE IS AN EMULATION HORN OF PLENTY Original Nintendo Game Boy unboxing doesn't go as planned Axunworks JAMMA Extractor Recovered video from 1990 gives a look inside Nintend...
Feb 07, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Season 3 Episode 4 Episode 76 News: The Last Star Fighter Video Game Twin Tiger Shark JAMMA Arcade Kickstarter Nintendo artist (and Tingle creator) Takaya Imamura retires Relive the golden age of personal computers with this cool C64 case YOU GOT SOMETHING ON YOUR PROCESSOR BUS: THE JOYS OF HACKING ISA AND PCI PiBoy CM4X Is Experimental Pi’s Leaked RetroPie Handheld ODROID Go Super: Handheld retro console with a 5.0-inch display is now orderable for US$89.95 Super Mario Sunshine Mod Turns Every ...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Season 3 Episode 3 Episode 75 News: MSDEXP (MegaSD Expansion Adapter) Arcade Game ‘NBA Jam’ Will Be Focus of New Documentary (EXCLUSIVE) Miyamoto's Kids Played "A Lot" Of Sega Games, But That Just Inspired Him To "Try Harder" A Redditor is squeezing entire movies onto a single floppy disk The Nintendo Famicom Clone Craze The World's Smallest Portable Nintendo 64 Is Barely Larger Than a Cartridge How to Backup and Preserve Computer Game Cassette Tapes PlayStation emulator Bleem will soon be a Ste...
Jan 22, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Season 3 Episode 2 Episode 74 News: Ys III Walkthrough and Version Comparison (Hugues’ link) CES 2021: Arcade1Up Unveils New Cabinets For X-Men, Killer Instinct, And More KFConsole features Intel GPU and GeForce RTX graphics This New Game Boy Game Is 21 Years In The Making Linux Kernel Sees New Port To The Nintendo 64 Krikzz n8 update Raspberry Pi SNES Controller Handheld Has Its Own Screen Raspberry Pi Zero Mod Turns Tiny NES Christmas Ornament Into Functional Game Console Space Invaders Amiga ...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Season 3 Episode 1 Episode 73 We take a deep dive into the King's Quest series . Please join us and play a few games in the series. Rob recommends trying to play King's Quest 1. If it's a bit too primitive for you, Try King's Quest 6. If that is still not to your liking, please try the King's Quest from 2015. If you go that route, please at least watch a few walkthrough videos of 1,3 and 4 before playing. It will really add to the story. You can purchase the older games in bulk for really cheap ...
Jan 01, 2021•49 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Season 2 Episode 40 Episode 72 News: Anniversary: ActRaiser Turns 30 Today, And There's Still Nothing Quite Like This SNES Classic Capcom Arcade Stadium – full lineup of games The RestoMod is a limited-edition retro-looking PC with a fake floppy drive This hero turned a Nintendo N64 into a mini PC with an old Intel NUC Super SD System 3 (SSDS3) Firmware 1.03 Announcement! The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd. SuperRT: Ray tracing on the SNES SNK Is Making A New Game Co...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Season 2 Episode 39 Episode 71 News: Among Us Reimagined As Nintendo Game Boy Game In De-Make Video Sega will test fans' knowledge as part of its 60th anniversary NES palette comparisons Sonic the Hedgehog Lifetime Sales Hit One Billion Copies Sonic The Hedgehog Proved He's a Better Hero Than Iron Man Let's Rank All The Spider-Man Games, From Worst To Best A history of Intel vs. AMD desktop performance, with CPU charts galore ‘Wiiboy Color’ Is a Game Boy-Sized Nintendo Wii Switch: Return To Cast...
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Season 2 Episode 38 Episode 70 News: Tokyo losing another iconic video game arcade as Ikebukuro landmark is closing for good Sega Reveals Never-Before-Seen Nomad Handheld Prototype HyperFlash32 - Virtual Boy eInk ROM Cart Capcom reveals mini-arcade Retro Station, featuring Mega Man and Street Fighter II classics Classic Natsume titles to be re-released: Shadow of the Ninja for NES, Return of the Ninja for Game Boy Color 3dSen NES Emulator Brings New Life to Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest A STRAIGHT...
Dec 06, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Season 2 Episode 37 Episode 69 There was an audio issue. But I think it was saved by our backup recording and most of you won't even notice :-) News: https://huguesjohnson.com/features/ReturnOfMarioAndPacMan/ Apple II - Classic Games and Resources NYT guide to making a Raspberry Pi retro console The Hunt for the Long-Lost McDonald's DS Game Doom Running on the Nintendo Game & Watch A Sealed Copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 Just Sold for a World Record Price of $156,000 Miyamoto on abandoning play...
Nov 25, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Season 2 Episode 36 Episode 68 News: Electronics Boutique August/September 1997 Catalog Nintendo's New Game & Watch Hacked a Day Before Its Official Release Caterpillar video featuring life-sized game board puts a new spin on Pac-Man Toys for Bob Producer Wants to Revive 'Unconventional' N64 Game HOW TWO TWINS AND AN EGG TOOK ON NINTENDO'S SUPER MARIO PowKiddy Returns With The Vertical RGB20 How the Sega Dreamcast Revolutionized Gaming UltraPIF – Multi Region N64 PIF Replacement Zelda Theory...
Nov 15, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Season 2 Episode 35 Episode 67 News: The latency problem: why modern gaming PCs are slower than an Apple II Modder's DIY project makes the SNES Super Scope work on your flat TV ARCADE DREAMS DOCUMENTARY RELEASES NEW TRAILER WITH JOBLO INVOLVEMENT RetroShop announces the first ZX Spectrum Next Clone Board Emulate the ZX Spectrum with Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi 400 is a compact keyboard with a built-in computer The Story of Mega Man on DOS | Gaming Historian Retro Games Ltd announces a C64 and ...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Season 2 Episode 34 Episode 66 News: HUMBLE COMICS BUNDLE: STREET FIGHTER BY MEDIA DO HUMBLE SOFTWARE BUNDLE: GAME DEV STEM Check Out These Mario-themed Pancakes and Merch at the New Mario Cafe & Store at Universal Studios Japan Here's Doom running on 100 pounds of moldy potatoes Japanese Farm Hides One Hell Of A Video Game Collection A Lot of Work Went Into Making Dinos Fight In Primal Rage RetroArch beta testing Steam There's A Toad In Super Mario Sunshine That Is Trapped Alone Beneath The...
Oct 31, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Season 2 Episode 33 Episode 65 News: J.B. Harold Murder Club for the TurboGrafx-16 CD: Save RAM Analysis and Unintentional Speedrun Guide Nintendo Leak Reveals Unreleased Game Boy Advance Successor Video: A Look At Some Of The Rarest Nintendo Consoles SEGA LOOKING AT MINIATURIZING MORE CONSOLES Random: Jet Set Radio Composer Hideki Naganuma Tried To Be An Employee Of Nintendo Twice Let's Rank Star Wars Space Combat Games, From Worst To Best The history of Galloping Ghost, the USA’s largest class...
Oct 24, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Season 2 Episode 32 Episode 64 2x32=64 News: Jessie Jaeger in Cleopatra's Curse US arrests two members of console hacking group Team Xecuter 3D PRINT A PIECE OF NINTENDO HISTORY BEFORE THE REAL ONE IS GONE Upcoming Documentary Seeks To Explore The Incredible Legacy Of Street Fighter II Prototype Game Boy Advance discovered thanks to Yahoo! Auctions The original Myst is coming to VR Random: Nintendo Wanted Mario To Be "Someone Who Might Live Near You" Feature: All Hail The Game Boy Micro, The Sex...
Oct 11, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Season 2 Episode 31 Episode 63 News: Could The House of The Dead Remakes Be Coming To Stadia Trent Reznor Announces Quake Soundtrack Is Getting The Vinyl Treatment ArcadeTV’s MSU-MD Project CONTROLLING A BROKEN SUPER NINTENDO WITH MIDI MSXDev’20 final results Did You Know That GoldenEye Had A Dual-Analogue Control Option On N64? Romhack - Thy Flesh Consumed 32x Now you can program an Atari 8-bit via Twitter Arcade1Up’s Latest $399 Cabinet Features SEGA Games For the First Time Build an arcade ca...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Season 2 Episode 30 Episode 62 News: Using Reinforcement Learning to play Super Mario Bros on NES using TensorFlow Masterpiece: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island Zelda gamers get it: real-life secret, bomb-able entrance to dungeon found in Japan UNSEEN ORIGINAL SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 ARTWORK HITS THE INTERNET Pilotwings' Mellow Jazz Showed SNES Had A Sound All Its Own Retro-Bit Is Republishing Some Of Toaplan's Best Console Shooters In Physical Form Super Mario Balloon • Balloon Fight ROM Hack H...
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Season 2 Episode 29 Episode 61 News: Doodle World Kickstarter Buildbot and Github mostly restored – the current status and future plans AtGames Reveals The Legends Ultimate Arcade Cabinet Sonic 2 ex-artist shows off unapproved SEGA pitch for ‘Spellcaster’ fighting game Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World - Official Trailer Arkagis Revolution - Mode 7-like shooter available for the Sega Mega Drive Today I learned my baby’s Fisher-Price gamepad accepts the Konami Code MINIATURE FAUX FLOPPY FOR 8-BIT...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Season 2 Episode 28 Episode 60 News: Hugues’ Ultrabox review XStation Optical Discdrive Emulator (ODE) Mod Kit You can now play an ultra-rare Quake arcade cabinet at home There are 5 brand new Dreamcast games being released in 2020 MEET “TREASURE TAILS”, A GENESIS/MEGA DRIVE PITCHED BY SEGA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE Battletoads re-print Murder Manor – The first interactive adventure presented in double lo-res graphics for the Apple II Preserving The Source Code of Star Fire Custom PCB Lets You Stick a...
Aug 30, 2020•54 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Season 2 Episode 27 Episode 59 News: Hugues' new article Tiny Sega Consoles Are For Action Figures, Not Action People SNK announces $500 Neo Geo arcade cabinet with 50 pre-loaded games MINIATURE STAR WARS ARCADE LETS YOU BLOW UP THE DEATH STAR ON THE GO Check out some wonderful Playdate game demos, including a low-fi Doom How did Resident Evil 2 manage to fit on a single Nintendo 64 Cart Mysterious Sonic the Hedgehog statue polished and restored A New Game Boy Color Game is Being Released RUMOR:...
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Season 2 Episode 26 Episode 58 News: Bill English: Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91 Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) start August 16th, here’s what to look forward to! Now you can download and run the 1997 Macintosh OS 8.1 on your Windows, Mac, Linux as a standalone application Akihabara Will Look Different After This Arcade Closes Sega apologizes after exec says Puyo Puyo players eat beef bowls with cheese Developer Announces Snowboarding Game, Updates Forum Thread He Started 13 Years Ago Aft...
Aug 15, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Season 2 Episode 25 Episode 57 News This Powerful Retro Handheld Almost Puts the N64 in Your Pocket Nagoshi on SEGA making games for GameCube, was surprised by Nintendo’s unity Open Source Master System to Game Gear Converter FROM BEDROOMS TO BILLIONS: THE PLAYSTATION REVOLUTION | Official Trailer A TRS-80 Color Computer Commercial Quality Action/Fight Game in BASIC, part 1 Accidental Doom Segment: Source code for the SNES version of Doom has been released It Can Take Nearly 12 Years To Spawn A ...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Season 2 Episode 24 Episode 56 News The Designer Of The NES Dishes The Dirt On Nintendo's Early Days 7 Sonic The Hedgehog Prototypes 2020 LCL Raspberry Pi GBA Game Console Try This At Home: Build an Atari Star Wars Cockpit Arcade Machine Turbo Petscii Fighter Shantae's Very Rare, Very Expensive Game Boy Color Game Is Getting A Re-Release Nintendo News: The Lion King: A Look Back at the BRUTALLY Difficult '90s Platformer This Super Nintendo Console is Now an Awesome Nintendo Switch Dock The Mario...
Jul 22, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Season 2 Episode 23 Episode 55 News We traced Namco’s “new” Pac-Man demake to its source: A 2008 fan ROMhack Boom! It's Super Mario Bros. With John Madden's Commentary COMPARING BARE SILICON ON TWO GAME BOY AUDIO CHIPS LaunchBox 11 is Here! Record Gameplay Videos, Take Screenshots, and Save Disk Space (actually 11.2 is already out) Analogue Delays Nt Mini V2, Details New Features Star Light Mario Rare Copy Of Super Mario Bros. Sells At Auction For Record-Breaking $114,000 Turns Out I Was Calling...
Jul 16, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Series background Series started in 1987. Action RPG - meaning an action game where you gain XP to earn levels and there's a story. Loosely set in the time period of Roman conquest (100-150 BC) Sometimes compared to Zelda but Falcom had already been working on other action RPGs by then. Falcom is primarily a PC developer, console ports are by many different companies US localization is all over the place Except for I&II the games are independent stories but there are fan service references t...
Jul 09, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Season 2 Episode 21 Episode 53 News Nvidia Engineer's Vulkan Driver For Raspberry Pi Runs Quake III Over 100 FPS at 720p Boomshakalaka: How the original NBA Jam caught fire through chaos FAN-MADE RADIO DRAMA SONIC AND TAILS R LIGHT-SPEED DASHES ONTO YOUTUBE Why Retro Gaming Needs a Revolution How Arcade1Up Plans to Revive Arcade Culture Steam Launch lineup revealed Dreamcast 32MB RAM upgrade Those PS1-style Final Fantasy 7 figures are now available to order at Amazon Modern Controllers on the Sa...
Jul 02, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Season 2 Episode 20 Episode 52 News Guinness reinstates Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong, Pac-Man records The Arcade Way Back Machine Researchers still don't know why this Atari 2600 game works Legacy of the Beast - An Atari 2600 Shadow of the Beast inspiration released Coming soon – paraLLEl N64 RDP – Resolution upscaling! ZPG Pro Is A New Handheld To Potentially Rival The GPD XD Capturing a piece of SEGA's golden age. Virtua Fighter 3 and me. Emulate the NES, Sega Master System, and More on a Simp...
Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 46 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Season 2 Episode 19 Episode 51 News https://huguesjohnson.com/features/newspapers/ Gameboy Advanced SP with 2 screens? St1ka Interview with 3D NES Emulator Creator NINTENDO’S GBA DEV BOARD COULD PASS FOR MODERN DIY How Sega hopes to use Japanese arcades as streaming data centers New Saturn Castlevania SOTN Improvement Hack Utilizes The 4MB RAM Cart For Fast Loading, Smoother Animations, And More Sonic 3D Blast Is Better In 2D Fancy Coffee Table Turns Into Arcade Setup This is the best video game...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 19
