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XRGB-mini Framemeister EuroSCART Adapter Wiring Comparison

Nix McRetro // 6th June 2013 // YouTube

Just some film from the cutting-room floor. I thought it never hurts to see what is inside a SCART-style connector and how the wiring is actually arranged. This is particularly relevant to the Framemeister because its supplied 21-pin RGB adapter uses the Japanese RGB21 arrangement rather than EuroSCART. The connectors... Continue reading

Apple Macintosh LC 475 Game Demo - Hangman Plus

Nix McRetro // 2nd June 2013 // Apple, Gaming, YouTube

Great game to play, watch me fail miserably at guessing letters! Running off a 2GB CompactFlash card with 1.9GB of free hard drive space for even more 68k games! Continue reading

Sega Saturn Sophia SIMM CART DIP Switch

Nix McRetro // 1st June 2013 // Devkit, Repairs, Sega

Here’s a test of the SIMM CART switch on SW2 at the front of the Sega Saturn Sophia Programming Box. My first interpretation was that it simply selected between the internal SIMM memory and the Saturn cartridge slot. Sega’s development documentation shows that it is more complicated than that. What... Continue reading

Wolfenstein 3D on Sega Saturn: Early VBT Port Test

Nix McRetro // 29th May 2013 // Devkit, Gaming, Sega

VBT over at ASSEMblergames has been working on getting Wolfenstein 3D running on the Sega Saturn. More specifically, this is early Saturn support for Wolf4SDL. This build seemed to work in emulators, but I could not get it behaving properly on my actual hardware. Keep up the good work and... Continue reading

Sega Saturn Sophia 171-6692B SH-2 Power Cable Adapter

Nix McRetro // 27th May 2013 // Hacks, Repairs, Sega

Sega Saturn Sophia 171-6692B SH-2 Power Cable Adapter

Any other console, I probably wouldn’t bother mentioning this, but since it is Sophia, she gets a mention. My 171-6692B SH-2 CPU cards are not quite the same as the better-documented 171-6692D boards. Most importantly for this particular problem, they are missing the second power header used by the usual... Continue reading