I made GameCube Joy-Cons

You’ve seen all the fake GameCube Joycon Renders. I decided to make real ones. This video was several months of assembly and several months of editing. Hope you enjoy it. These JoyCons are real, but they are not for sale. They were a pain to make, and I will not be making another set.

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!

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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