To combat unlicensed games and win back confidence of retailers in North America and Europe, the NES and all licensed games came with a lockout chip known as the 10NES or CIC. In this episode we take a look at this chip , the clone chip that was developed by Atari and how it took 20 years for the homebrew community to reverse engineer the chip and the challenges they faced.
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New Metal Slug Console and Mobile Games Take Aim at a 2020 Release
It’s been a while since we’ve heard about the new Metal Slug game in development, but Korean subsidiary SNK Interactive has announced that the game is slated for release within 2020. Not only that, but there will also be a new smartphone game that has yet to be officially announced. [Thanks, Inven via @Gatoray on Twitter!]
Both games are currently in development at SNK proper in Japan and are separate from the Metal Slug IP smartphone game that is being developed by Tencent’s Timi Studio. Development on the mobile game is currently 80% complete, and the game is set to be a “2D side scrolling card-type game” that will release for both iOS and Android devices.
Japan: Nintendo applies for new trademarks including Game Boy Advance and Wii U
Nintendo has recently filed for seven new trademarks in Japan sparking speculation. These trademarks were applied for on 12th May 2020 and were published today 8th June 2020 and include Game Boy Advance and Wii U. Game Boy Advance games have long been rumoured to be next on the list of Virtual Console games for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. As always we shall have to wait and see whether these trademarks amount to anything new.
Nintendo now says that the accounts of 300,000 Switch users have been hacked
Do you have a Nintendo Switch? Did you also have a Nintendo 3DS or Wii U?
If you answered yes to both of those questions, there’s a possibility your Nintendo Switch account was one of about 300,000 that was breached by hackers.
Nintendo announced the breach in April, but it doubled the number of affected accounts in an update this week “as a result of continuing the investigation.”
Far Cry 6 set outside of US, return to exotic setting, July 12 reveal
The news is coming from Gamereactor.dk, which says that Far Cry 6 will be officially unveiled during the event. The site said (translated): “The last [Ubisoft] game scheduled to be released before April (unless Ubisoft decides it’s this game that should be postponed due to COVID-19 or that there are too many AAA releases in a fairly short window) is set to be a Far Cry”.
It continues: “I don’t want to ruin Ubisoft’s plans by giving you all the information, but I can say with certainty that those of you who didn’t like Far Cry 5’s North American setting are likely to find this game more interesting when it’s officially unveiled during Ubisoft Forward on July 12”.
NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Review – It’s A Beast!
In this video, we take look at the all-new NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX developer kit! This little board is the big brother of the Jetson Nano and rightfully so! With a 6-core NVIDIA Carmel ARM®v8.2 64-bit CPU backed by a 384-core NVIDIA Volta™ GPU with 48 Tensor Cores on paper this looks like a very capable machine. In this video we unbox go over the specs test out some developer demos then move on to see how this thing handles everyday use and finally wrap it up with some Gamecube emulation using the Dolphin emulator! Of course, this is a Raspberry Pi killer but its hard to compare the two because of the huge price difference.
The Story Of NEO GEO | Featuring Modern Vintage Gamer, RetroRGB, Jenovi, & Neo-Alec
To many gamers in the 90s, The Neo Geo AES was the ultimate home console. While many other consoles claimed to bring an arcade experience home, they did so by downgrading graphics, sound, and other compromises. The Neo Geo on the other hand, brought truly perfect Neo Geo MVS arcade games to the home with ZERO compromises. If you owned a Neo Geo AES console you got to play actual 1:1 arcade games at home. But this level of quality came at a steep cost with the console’s Gold Bundle coming in at over $600 for just the console, controllers, and one game. Individual games were also extremely expensive, averaging $200 or more each. This is the story of how SNK brought its highly successful arcade games to the home with one of the most expensive consoles of all time and after becoming one of the biggest names in gaming in the 90s, lost everything and yet somehow rose from its ashes.
#Nvidia RTX 3080 Images Leak But We’re Not Entirely Convinced
Nvidia 3080 Graphics Card Images Leak
In terms of the design, if this leak is accurate, then we’re certainly going to see something wildly different from Nvidia in terms of their prior ‘founders edition’ style models. There are, however, a number of factors surrounding these images that do need to be taken into consideration.
This NES Emulator is INCREDIBLE!!! | #3DSEN PC
Geod has done the impossible. He’s created an NES emulator that changes your original NES roms and transforms them into 3D! 3DSEN has been in development for over 5 years and even has a VR version you can pick up on Steam. 3DSEN PC Steam release set for June 19th 2020!
How to make Sega Genesis Repros, Homebrew & Prototypes with Krikzz Flash Carts + LED mod preview
How to make a Sega Genesis reproductions using Krikzz FlashKit programmer MD & FlashKit cart MD.
How to make custom Sega Genesis & Mega Drive cartridge labels video link: https://youtu.be/q2a5Xq70XLI