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iPad, meet the Retrode

Great news, everybody! Starting with firmware v0.17d (coming up in a few days), the Retrode will be fully compatible to the iCade protocol, meaning that you can use it to connect original SNES and Sega controllers to iPad! Watch Phil Howard of Gadgetoid UK, who also suggested this new feature, give it a test run [...]

Sega Master System and Game Gear Plug-in adapter

As previously reported, Matthias and myself have been working on a Master System and Game Gear plug-in adapter.

I am very pleased to now say that we have a fully working adapter, which (I think) will go into production at some point later in the year.

You can read all about how it came to be over [...]

Retrode on Linux/PS3/Dockstar

Yes, world, it works on PS3 also! Hunter Davis of HunterDavis.com tested the Retrode 2 on various devices including PS3 and Android 4.0!  His blog illustrates how you can use an original SNES Controller and Cartridge with your PC, PS3, or Dockstar.

HunterDavis.com additionally reports that the Retrode works fine on a stock PS3, as [...]

Neo Geo Pocket plug-in ??? (Japanese)

This just in: looks as if a Japanese Retrode user has managed to build and run a plug-in adapter for Neo Geo Pocket games. Unfortunately my Japanese is, uhm, rather weak. Any Japanese speaker care to translate? Also, does anyone know the NGP’s bank switching mechanism for >16Mbit carts? With the proper knowledge, it should [...]

First Retrode Meeting in Cambridge, MA

Dear friends in the Greater Boston area,

I’ll be coming to Cambridge in a little bit, and figured this might be a nice opportunity to meet local Retrode users and chat about this and that over a beer. I will bring my Retrode, a bunch of SNES gamepads and a laptop, so if you have any [...]

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User story #1: Virtual Boy adapter

Retrode user [JonY] from Leicester (UK) stumbled across a document that describes how to read Virtual Boy cartridges using a Genesis dumper.Starting with a PCMCIA connector and the cart of his least favourite Mega Drive game, he began connecting the address and data lines, as well as voltage supply and the chip enable signal. Some [...]