While cleaning out the Ben Heck Show shop in fall of 2018 I found a long-lost project languishing in a junk box. I wondered, could it be saved? Over the course of 2019 I slowly brought the project back to life and documented it along the way. Enjoy!
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ODROID GO ADVANCE First Look And Test – Could This Be The Best Retro Handheld of 2020!
So I got my hands on the all-new Odroid Go Advance and its already turning out to be my favorite Retro emulation handheld! This is not a review video this is a first look, early testing, and my initial thoughts. The Go Advance releases at the end of January 2020 and its a DIY Retro Emulation handheld powered by a Quade core 1.3Ghz CPU with a 3.5 inch LCD screen that looks like an IPS display AND IT RUNS EMULATION STATION JUST LIKE RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi. Even though I’m using beta software in this video the perforce in all the emulators I’ve tested is amazing from PS1 to N64! I believe this will be the must-have retro handheld once of 2020!
Homebrew Wars : Original Xbox vs Nintendo Wii | MVG
The Nintendo Wii and Original Xbox have excellent homebrew capabilities. But which one is better overall? Lets take a deep dive and compare both systems.
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.
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.
How To Easily Add More Games to The Sega Genesis Mini / Mega Drive Mini with ProJect LUNAR!
In this video, I show you how to easily add more games to your Sega Genesis Mini or Sega Mega Drive Mini using Project Lunar! The Developers have done an amazing job with Thai and also made it very simple to add games to genesis mini internal storage!
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.
How To Easily Add More Games to The Sega Genesis Mini / Mega Drive Mini with ProJect LUNAR!
In this video, I show you how to easily add more games to your Sega Genesis Mini or Sega Mega Drive Mini using Project Lunar!
A PSP/PS Vita Clone that Runs Android – Much W1 Review / Snail iReadyGo
So I got my hands on the 2015 Snail Much W1 78P01 android emulation/Android gaming phone also know as the IReadyGo Handheld. Powered by an 8 Core MediaTek MTK6592 at 1.7Ghz with a Mali 450MP4 GPU at 700Mhz and 2Gb of ram but how does it handle emulation in 2020? Should you buy one? Let’s find out! I test out some Sega Genesis, GBA, NeoGeo, Dreamcast, PS1, Dreamcast, and even PSP.