The good news: the plug-in adapters look gorgeous. See:
The PCB and connector manufacturers really did a great job, I am more than pleased with the quality. Even better, they also work as they should :-) Here are the final specs:
Plug-in adapter for A2600 carts
Plugs in SNES slot of Retrode. Does not work in SNES console!!
Gold-plated [...]
I am currently investigating a case where the Retrode doesn’t seem to work the way it should. In particular, it appears as if under MacOS, write accesses to the Retrode (config file, SRAM) are sometimes ignored and the files are not written correctly. For instance, after saving the config file from a text editor and [...]
I told you that our first mini-contest was going to be a hard nut, and it certainly took some odd technical thinking to crack it. Amazingly enough, 8 folks found out the solution, which is (drum roll)…
‘Tis time for another give-away, methinks :) Below you find a fine piece of music that I recorded a few years ago. It may seem a bit monotonous, but it’s a secret beauty. If you tell me the message hidden therein, you can win one of these two prizes:
(1) A Retrode logo T-shirt, nice and [...]
Et voilà, here we have lots of shiny golden Retrodes for the preorderers. I will ship them this week, just in time so you can try your brand new Retrode with your brand new Pandora :-) For all others, I have to ask you for a little more patience. Next week I will be out [...]
Here we see a box of production Retrode mainboards that I just set up and tested. Funny how the green circuit boards and the pink bubble wrap add to the christmasy mood of this shot ;-) According to the person who did the CNC machining, the cases should be delivered on Thursday or Friday, if [...]
You may remember that naming contest where I couldn’t quite make up my mind and ended up sticking to the old name. Well, with a little delay, I finally decided to rename the project after all. Back then, [Fydo] had come up with a couple of particularly nice suggestions, among them “Retrode” which has kept [...]