The Super Nintendo was released in North America in 1991 and it featured an almost identical lockout chip from the NES known as the CiC. By 1994 cartridge based disk copiers became popular which easily circumvented any region protection. In this video we look at different methods Nintendo used to detect copiers and lock out backup copies.
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Before Nintendo and Atari: How a black engineer changed the video game industry forever
Atari. Magnavox. Intellivision.
Each evokes memories of the golden age of video games, which brought the first wave of consoles you could connect to your home television.
But there’s an oft-forgotten person from that era whose contributions to the industry still resonate today: a black engineer named Jerry Lawson.
Lawson oversaw the creation of the Channel F, the first video game console with interchangeable game cartridges – something the first Atari and Magnavox Odyssey systems did not use.
The Creator of the Konami Code, Kazuhisa Hashimoto, has passed away.
The Konami code is easily the most memorable cheat code in gaming, spreading its wings outside of the gaming world to appear in song lyrics, movies and television shows. To this day, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start, is an Easter egg you can still find in AAA games, and has appeared in the likes of the Castlevania and Metal Gear Solid series, to name a few.
The Konami code is the brainchild of Kazuhisa Hashimoto – the developer of the Famicom port of Gradius. It’s now being reported that Hashimoto has sadly passed away.
Eastern Iowa man wins 20 million points, world record playing Japanese arcade game in his kitchen
Not many people have a full-size Galaga arcade game in their kitchen but Jordan Dorrington at Cedar Rapids does.
“My wife decided that she would never see me again if it is in the basement so we had to put it right here in the kitchen so she could sit on the couch and watch TV while I try to break a record,” he said.
Galaga is a Japanese arcade game released 1981 and let’s just say Dorrington is addicted to it.
Jordan recently broke the Galaga world record with 20,980,450.
And yes he did it in his kitchen. To break the world you have an incredible amount of skill, patience, and endurance.
24″ Xtension Gameplay Jr Arcade Cabinet Review – It’s Awesome!
The all-new Rec Room Masters 24″ Xtension Gameplay Jr. Arcade Cabinet is amazing and in this video, we take a look at this new Arcade Cabinet. With real SUZO HAPP buttons and sticks an Ultimate I-PAC Usb encoder and support for the Raspberry Pi Running Retropie Or PC this cabinet is shaping up to be one of my favorites can it beat Arcade1Up cabs? In my option yes it can and does. This is a DIY arcade cabinet and you will need to add your own 24 inch TV or Monitor plus a Raspberry Pi or PC running LaunchBox, Hyperspin or whatever your favorite emulation frontend is but once you have this up and running it’s gonna be hard to stop playing!
Innovate Asterisk Unveils a 3D-Printed RaspberryPi 4-Powered Tablet
Voice-over-IP specialist YouTuber Innovate Asterisk has published a step-by-step guide to assembling a Raspberry Pi-powered tablet, comprised of common off-the-shelf parts and housed in a custom 3D-printed case.
“The concept of the project is to develop a 3D-printable, Raspberry Pi-based tablet. All parts (components) must be easy to obtain and readily available,” Innovate Asterisk explains. “It must have a battery, and it must be the primary source of power (meaning, it will charge up with a cable plugged in, but must have enough power to run without it.) It must be able to operate perfectly fine without a keyboard (meaning, everything in the user interface should work without an issue even if you don’t have a keyboard and mouse plugged in.)”
How the Sony PlayStation Net Yaroze DevKit brought Indie Game Development to Consoles | MVG
The Story of the Sony PlayStation Net Yaroze – The Consumer grade Development Kit that was sold in 1997 and how it brought Indie development to video games for an affordable price.
DIY Clear Atomic Purple Nintendo Switch Lite!
They are finally here! New shells for the Nintendo Switch Lite are up for sale right now and in this video, I installed the Transparent Atomic Purple Shell and it looks absolutely amazing! I’ve wanted to do this since the release of the Nintendo switch lite but no one had the shells available until now. In my opinion, this is the ultimate mod for the Nintendo Switch Lite!