Raspberry Pi 4 and the State of Emulation

The modern ideal of pixel art is a fallacy. Videogame art crammed onto cartridges and floppy discs were beholden to the CRT display technology of their day. Transmitting analog video within the confines of dingy yellow-RCA-connector-blur, the images were really just a suggestion of on-screen shapes rather than clearly defined graphics. Even when using the superior RGB-video-over-SCART cables, most consumer grade CRT televisions never generated more than about 400 lines, so the exacting nature of digitized plots became a fuzzy raster when traced by an electron beam. It wasn’t until the late 90s when the confluence of high resolution PC monitors, file sharing, and open source emulation software that the masses saw pixels for the sharp square blocks of color that they are.

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Node-RED Laser Shooting Galler

When you think of a shooting gallery, you might envision a line of tin cans set up along a split-rail fence, or a few rows of ducks or bottles lined up at a carnival. But what do these have in common? You, standing in one spot, and shooting in the same general direction. You’re exposed! If those targets could shoot back, you’d be dead within seconds. Wouldn’t it be more fun if the targets were all around you in 360°? We think so, too.

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REDREAM On the Raspberry Pi 4! Full Speed Dreamcast Emulation!

In this video, we take a look at the Standalone version of REDREAM running natively on the Raspberry Pi 4! As of making this video, it is still in beta but with the games I’ve tested so far, we are getting full speed Dreamcast emulation on a Raspberry Pi finally! Games tested in this video Marvel vs Capcom 2, Dead or Alive 2, Soul Caliber, sonic adventure 2, Hydro Thunder, Tony hawks pro skater 2 and Shenmue.

Top 10 Retro Gaming Handhelds of 2019 [Win 2/ZPG/Digi Dock/RG350/Moqi I7s]

A little late with this one, but this is my retro rewind for 2019 featuring my top ten best retro gaming handhelds of 2019. There was a ton of good competition in the space this year from the RG350 to the Moqi I7s, so narrowing it down to 10 was a little difficult. This list includes many handhelds that I’ve already reviewed on this channel and a few new ones.