Guess what I just picked up at the post office! That’s right, an awful lot of cartridge connectors (14.5 kilograms, to be precise). I will use a few of them to populate the remaining prototype boards, and then send the rest to the company for the PCB assembly. And more good news: They tweaked the SEGA connectors some more (remember, they were a bit tight before), so now they feel a little smoother than before and pretty much like the SNES ones.
Meanwhile, the cases are waiting at the factory to be shipped, but they should be picked up anytime soon. The webcam these folks are using is just awful… in order to get to the picture on the right, I had to do some serious white balancing, so it’s probably not anywhere near the truth. I’m eager to see what they really look like.
And some more goodies: the Retrode firmware now supports all four gamepads. For maximum compatibility, the user can map controllers 1 and 2 to the keyboard interface, like before. Otherwise, all four controllers are simply treated as USB joysticks.
Hello, I am very interested in the Retrode. please tell me more, Thank you very much.
“Please tell me more” – anything specific you want to know? Otherwise: http://www.retrode.org :-)
ooh that case picture looks very promising