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The Switch needs more Saturn games like ‘Panzer Dragoon’
If you love the Sega Genesis (or the Mega Drive, depending on where you live), there are countless ways to get your 16-bit fix. You can boot up a modern compilation, play them for free on your smartphone, or, soon, buy an adorable microconsole that p...
This Media Player Looks Like a Tiny SEGA Saturn
While the SEGA Dreamcast and Genesis were arguably their most memorable consoles, the 32-bit Saturn was quite fun to play too. I spent many a day flying through the skies on the back of a dragon in Panzer Dragoon II Zwei. Now, there’s a media player that looks just like the 1990’s 32-bit console.
The Activo CT10 now comes in a SEGA Saturn design. The Japanese audio player is being made in a limited run of 500 each of light and dark grey, and they each come pre-loaded with the console’s startup sound and a couple of other music samples. They even come packaged in a box that looks like the one the console originally came in.
The audio player itself seems pretty solid, with a quad-core CPU, and Astell & Kern audio processing circuit, and a clean, easy-to-use touchscreen GUI. It supports Bluetooth playback with aptX and aptX HD, and has Wi-Fi built in. It’s got 16GB of on-board storage, but supports microSD expansion up to 400GB. It’s too bad that it doesn’t actually play Saturn games – maybe it can be hacked to do that.
Emulator Cabinet Works with 75 Controllers, 30+ Consoles and 2 Happy Players
These days you can run dozens of classic games on a PC using emulators. If you’re good with modding hardware, you may be able to connect the right controller for the console you’re emulating. But if you’re Patrice Daubaire, you take it one step further. Patrice hacked 75 controllers to make them compatible with over 110 gaming systems.
Patrice calls his ingenious mod the Multi Video Game System 2 or MVGS 2. He managed to universalize 75 controllers – from an Atari 2600 joystick to aPlayStation controller – so that they’ll work with different gaming systems via a custom VGA adapter. Patrice claims his system has zero input lag and that the controllers weigh more or less the same as unmodified ones. Patrice was also able to add additional functions like a quick save button on some of the controllers.
To present his invention, Patrice built the MVGS 2 Dream Station, a PC with over 30 gaming system emulators. It has a nice cabinet with a built-in monitor and lets up to two players geek out. He also setup a rotating display stand for the controllers.
Pick your jaw up from the floor and head to the MVGS 2 website for more information.
[via Hack A Day]
NiGHTS into DREAMS… HD-port Coming This Fall, XBLA, PSN, PC
A whimsical classic on the Sega Saturn is getting a “dreamy” HD treatment, with NiGHTS into DREAMS… coming through your digital gaming network of choice.
History notes that the Sega Saturn was a poorly managed 32-bit console that crashed and burned upon arriving in the North American gaming scene, but let ...
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Project Unity stuffs 20 classic consoles into one: if you can’t play it, it’s probably too new (video)
Most gamer who want to play with more than one or two vintage console platforms often turn to software-based emulators that may or may not be above-board. How about stuffing all of the authentic hardware into one controller and one base unit? Modders at Bacteria's forums have developed Project Unity, an attempt to natively address 20 consoles across 17 actual platforms folded into a single device. The gamepad, arguably the centerpiece, includes two each of analog sticks and directional pads, along with multiple shoulder buttons and a central button grid that can either be used to steer an Intellivision or fill in for otherwise missing controls. Stuffing the unique controller hardware into one gamepad obviously presents problems with board sizes and the laws of physics, so much of the relevant circuitry sits in modified NES cartridges. Our only dismays are the lack of original Xbox support and the slightly imposing challenge of aggregating and modifying that much classic gaming componentry in one place -- if you're more concerned about convenience in your retro gaming than preserving the original feel of that Sega Master System or SNK NeoGeo, though, you've just found Utopia.
Project Unity stuffs 20 classic consoles into one: if you can't play it, it's probably too new (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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