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Circuit Bending on the Mega Drive

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // Hacks, Sega, YouTube

Here’s a whole bunch of circuit-bending footage I found from what feels like a different life, way back in August 2016. Sonic 3 seemed much less willing to fall apart under the particular bends I tried, while Sonic 1 just goes with the flow, slapping a glitch here and a... Continue reading

Xbox DVT4 XBpartitioner and Game Demos

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // Devkit, Microsoft, YouTube

And this video concludes the six-part Xbox DVT4 series. What a ride it has been. The original hard drive was imaged under Ubuntu, though my old notes aren’t clear about which tool made the image. I mentioned fatxfs, but that lets us mount and poke around the FATX filesystem on... Continue reading

Xbox DVT4 Running UnleashX

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // Devkit, Microsoft, YouTube

Sometimes I leave the raw footage for these videos sitting on my computer way too long. This DVT4 series dates back to early 2019 and, by the time I edited it, I couldn’t remember what half of the clips were supposed to demonstrate. This one is a perfect example. I... Continue reading

Xbox DVT4 Network Update (XDK 5933)

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // Devkit, Microsoft, YouTube

We bring the DVT4 from XDK 5849 on the recovery ISO up to XDK 5933. I called this the “latest available XDK” at the time, though it’s still unclear whether 5933 was an official release or an internal build. I couldn’t get the update process working from Windows 10, but... Continue reading

Cooking with McRetro: McMuffin Madness

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // News, YouTube

We haven’t done a Cooking with segment in quite some time. As you can see not much has changed. I do miss the days of simpler cooking where we could just dump a bunch of choc chips into custard or cover a sugared cinnamon doughnut in more sugar and call... Continue reading