After fixing a memory mapping issue which affected Contra III and Krusty’s Super Fun House, we’re back at a reported 100.00% compatibility for SNES games! (opens a bottle of beer) On that occasion, I also fixed the wrong ROM size detection on Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Meanwhile, [JonY] pointed out a firmware bug, so the [...]

Setting out for new adventures: I am currently looking into building an adapter for *Atari 2600 games. Here is a fabrication shot of a couple prototype PCBs which I should receive later this week. If this works, it might be a cheap way to open the Retrode for other systems.

My mom is usually not too enthusiastic about me spending a fortune (and lots of time) on the invention and production of novelty gadgets, instead of finishing my PhD and getting a real job. This time, however, she surprised me with this neat collection of Retrode dust protection pouches made from some old comic fabric [...]

Good news: the final cases have arrived. They turned out a bit more golden than I expected, and they’re of really nice quality. As promised, here are two photos. After sealing the boxes again, I took them to the post office right away, so in a few weeks they should come back from the machining [...]

Thanks to [FelixV] for the video!