Today, flash cartridges are common tools used by lots of people to fuel their retro gaming habit. These devices are designed to play ROM files from writable memory, usually an SD card, on your original console. Giving you the power to play pretty much anything released for that particular system. Thanks to enterprising engineers like Krikzz you can easily buy a flash cartridge for just about any popular cartridge based video game console. Owning an Everdrive N8, the NES flash cartridge by Krikzz, has been…
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The first video game console my parents ever bought me was a Nintendo Game Boy. My sister and I each got one for Christmas one year. I got the original grey model and she got the clear model, and from that day forward I loved handheld gaming. The years went by and on another exciting Christmas morning I unwrapped a teal Game Boy Color and fell in love all over again. A few short years later, Nintendo released the Game Boy Advance and as I…
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In gaming, there is nothing more devastating than losing a save file you worked hard on. In retro cartridge based gaming, save files are generally stored on the cartridge and a small amount of power is supplied to the cartridge by an on board battery to retain the data. Today, some of these batteries are 30 years old and a lot of them are at the end of their life cycle. Once that battery dies, your save files die with it. I have had this…
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In 1993, Nintendo released new and improved revisions of both the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and the Nintendo Famicom in Japan. North America got the NES-101, more commonly referred to as the Top Loader, while Japan got the HVC-101, more commonly referred to as the AV Famicom. Both models vastly improved upon their older counterparts and are absolutely fantastic pieces of hardware. The AV Famicom is my favourite NES hardware revision. I think it looks a little sleeker than the Top Loader and…
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Mighty Final Fight Final Fight is an arcade classic that has been beloved in the gaming community since it hit arcades in 1989. It was ported to the SNES and even received two sequels on the system, but did you know it was also ported to the NES? In July of 1993 Capcom released Mighty Final Fight for the NES, a more lighthearted spin on the Final Fight story with a colourful chibi art style. PLOT Being that Mighty Final Fight is a port of…
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If retro gaming in RGB is a hobby you enjoy you have probably experienced the problem of having fewer inputs available on your monitor or upscaler than RGB enabled consoles you want to have hooked up. The natural solution is to find some sort of switch box and many of us have turned to using RGB matrix switchers made by professional AV equipment manufacturer Extron. The Crosspoint series of switchers by Extron have become incredibly popular among retro gamers due to their high number of…
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When it comes to getting the best picture quality possible out of your Nintendo 64 there are a number of different options. The path you choose depends on how you want to play and what version of the console you own. In the world of analog video signals, RGB is king. If you are new to the RGB gaming community and would like an introduction to what it is all about then head over to this page where I layout the basics of what you need…
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If you are interested in retro gaming as a hobby or just looking to satisfy a nostalgic craving to play some of your old Nintendo cartridges and have just connected an old console directly to a modern display, you have probably come to realize that your old games don’t look as good as you remember. I am not talking about the graphical style by any means because to my eyes, that has aged perfectly. What I am referring to is the video quality itself. Loads…
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A complete list of all games released for the Nintendo Game Boy Color in North America. This list includes GBC exclusives and non exclusives. The list can be sorted, searched and easily copied into a spreadsheet to help you when hunting for games in the wild. If you find any errors in any of our console library lists please let us know through our contact page.
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