Hacking the Schlage WCO100 (OC810) & adding to Surveillance Station

Now I know this is not your typical retro game related post… however… it is a hack… the camera is at least 6 years old (is that retro?) and is something I have been doing at home that I thought I would share… I promise there won’t be too many non-game related posts… anyway, without…

The C64 Mini – Initial Impressions

When I was young, I never had a Commodore 64. My 8-bit gaming was primarily with the ZX Spectrum (48K) and then moving into 8-bit gaming consoles such as the Sega Master System, Game Gear and the Nintendo GameBoy. So why did I buy a C64 Mini I hear you ask?!? Well I have always…

MTV for the Plex Generation!

Over the years I have collected various music videos & concerts (primarily ripped from my DVD collection) and they have been sitting in Plex for a few years now barely being played. Along with these music videos, I have a number of VH1 behind the music episodes recorded onto DVD-R back in the day. All…

PlayStation Classic–Multiplayer options with BleemSync 1.0 + my current setup

As part of my various projects that I do with these consoles… I strive to have a simple interface with wireless multiplayer where possible.  2 players at a minimum but ideally 3-5 or more. The idea of having a Netflix / Plex like experience where you sit around with friends, sync your controllers and choose…

PlayStation Classic – My personal theme updates (BleemSync)

Another quick blog post to say that I updated the splash screen that occurs during the boot sequence as well as a matching menu screen. I also updated the music that plays during the initial menu options where you select between RetroArch and BleemSync. Here is where I got the music from originally: I then…

PlayStation Classic – Ridge Racer with Enhanced Resolution & Scan lines @ 720p (BleemSync 1.0)

Another quick post about the PlayStation Classic… this time with footage of me trying to get the best look and feel for PS1 games on a large screen TV (65 inch Samsung). PSX games looked great back in the day but now with high resolution screens; the low resolution of the PlayStation looks terrible upscaled….

PlayStation Classic with BleemSync 1.0 – Initial Hack

This is just a short post… I managed to pick one of these for $35 in the sale when I count the points on my card too ($47 originally). The hype says it was no good out of the box… and no doubt there was a level of sluggishness to some of the games (not…

4 player fun on the (S)NES Classic with Nintendo Four Score games possible?

Now that retro hardware is aging, one of the experiences I miss greatly is multitap fun on the kind of games you would get on 8 & 16 bit systems. There is a simplicity in these games that just don’t cut it in games made today…  this is not surprising given that even with the…

Custom Genre Art for your (S)NES Classic

As part of creating my perfect (S)NES Classic solution, I needed a way to make game selection easy for me, family & friends.  This is especially important when dealing with thousands of games across multiple game systems. In my setup you select the system (NES or Super Nintendo for example) and you are the presented…

Creating my perfect NES / SNES Classic setup

For the last couple of months now I have been striving to create my perfect NES / SNES Classic setup by using Hakchi tools and adding various games, mods & hardware. This blog post will show the current setup and potential vision for future changes.  As such, it will be regularly updated as I work…

Open Fodder: The Amiga classic remade for Modern PC’s + other ports

Over the thanksgiving weekend, I bought myself a new laptop which I then proceeded to load with emulators and my favorite Open Source games. This brings me to the subject of OpenFodder which recently added support for Cannon Fodder 2. Take a look: My preferred method to play this is via my Microsoft Surface Go……

Rename your files based on rules or regular expressions – Tool: ReNamer

When you’re working on these open source handhelds or complete rom packs, you often have a need to rename files, change file extensions so that they work with the various emulators or simply to help organize the sheer volume of games you have on your memory card. With Micro SD cards getting cheaper and cheaper,…