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Super Famicom: The Box Art Collection Book: 250-in-1
Stu Brett is a musician and a graphic designer, but he’s most famous for blogging about his Super Famicom game collection as Super Famicom Guy. He’s partnered with Bitmap Books and veteran video game journalist Steve Jarratt to release a coffee table book featuring Super Famicom box art from his collection.
Super Famicom: The Box Art Collection measures 9.8″x 9.8″ and contains high resolution photos of around 250 Super Famicom covers as well as summaries of the respective games.
You may have heard of the book last year, when Stu launched a Kickstarter fundraiser for it. However he wasn’t sure if he was going to run into copyright issues at the time, so he canceled the fundraiser. It looks like he got that sorted out though, and the book will be available for pre-order soon.
Keep an eye on Bitmap Books’ Twitter page and website for pre-order details. Head to Nintendo Life for more shots of the book as well as a tentative list of the featured games.
[via Den of Geek]
Ayaka Matsuno’s Retro Geeky Cookies: Game Girl Scout
Ayaka Matsuno loves to make edgy cakes, cookies and other pastries. Her edible pop art ranges from depictions of sneakers, cartoon sketches and animals. She also made cookie versions of classic geek items: life-size Game Boy cartridges and cassette tapes as well as a tiny Super Famicom with an equally small TV.
Make sure your browser allows cookies and head to Ayaka’s blog to see more of her edible art. Note that some of her work have adult themes.
[via Tiny Cartridge]
Sony Nintendo PlayStation Prototype: History Awaits
In 1988, Nintendo hired Sony to make a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Famicom to compete with the Sega Mega CD. But Sony also made a standalone version of this “Super Disc” add-on – a console that could play CD games and media as well as Super Famicom cartridges – and presented it at CES in 1991. Redditor analogueboy appears to have a prototype of that 2-in-1 system, which after a series of events straight out of the fevered dreams of Hollywood’s scriptwriters would eventually lead to the original PlayStation.
Responding on an Assembler Games thread, analogueboy said, “My dad worked for a company, apparently one of the guys he used to work with, I think his name was Olaf, used to work at Nintendo and when my dads company went bankrupt, my dad found it in a box of “junk” he was supposed to throw out.” Many are guessing – or hoping – that this Olaf is Ólafur Ólafsson, the former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, which helped bring the original PlayStation to the public.
This prototype looks a bit different from the one that’s been publicized, but their controllers appear to be the same. The layout of the buttons on the two prototypes are very similar as well. I hope analogueboy can revive the PS4’s great grandfather and see what its inside its test cartridge and disc.
[via Reddit & Assembler Games via GamesRadar]
Retro Freak Multi Cartridge Console Also Rips Games: Emulator’s Wet Dream
Game backup devices and hardware mods let you extract the data from video game cartridges into playable ROMs, but most of them require deep technical knowledge and are each compatible with only a few – if not just one – consoles. Cyber Gadget may change all that with its upcoming Retro Freak console.
For starters, Retro Freak is a hardware emulator, similar to the Hyperkin systems and other retro consoles. It will let you play cartridges from a variety of old systems, namely the Famicom, Super Famicom, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine SuperGrafx. It also has an HDMI output and supports 720p upscaling, instant saving and cheat codes for certain games.
The console will come with an SNES-style controller, but it will also work with both modern gamepads such as the DualShock 3 and DualShock 4. You’ll also be able to connect classic controllers to the unit, but you’ll need USB adapters for those gamepads.
But what sets it apart from its competitors is the aforementioned ability to make playable software copies of those supported cartridges and save them into its internal memory, and from what I understand this will be a relatively easy process.
Now I might be wrong because I’m only working off of Google Translate here, but it seems the Retro Freak’s internal storage has a small capacity so you’ll need micoSD cards for extra storage if you want to rip a lot of games. That’s supported by Cyber Gadget’s statement that the console has an anti-piracy measure, wherein the ripped copies will only work on the Retro Freak unit that was used to rip them. In other words – probably, in theory – you may be able to save the ripped ROMs elsewhere, but you’ll only be able to play them on one Retro Freak console.
Cyber Gadget hasn’t mentioned a price or release date for the Retro Freak, but if this is legit this is going to be one of the most useful – and controversial – pieces of video game hardware ever made.
[via RetroCollect]
Gundam as Classic Consoles: Hyperdimension Gundamia
We’ve seen Optimus Prime and Megatron as the PlayStation and Sega Mega Drive respectively. Here are various Gundam dressed up as even older consoles: Famicom, Super Famicom, Sega Mega Drive, PC Engine aka Turbografx-16 and two Game Boys.
Mangaka ikkyu019 made these gaming-themed gunpla. His model-painting skills may not be up to par with his drawing skills – if Google Translate is to be believed, ikkyu019 calls his Super Famicom Gundam “embarrassing” – but they’re all still cool. He’s no Sei Iori, but where else are you going to see a Gundam with a Power Glove? His RB-79 Balls are also visual puns – look closely at their windows to see what I mean.
Head to ikkyu019’s blog to see more of his Gundam.
[via Tiny Cartridge]
SNES & Super Famicom-themed Backlit GBAs: Super Family Entertainment
Retro console mod shop Rose Colored Gaming is going to release two special Game Boy Advance variants this month. The shop’s Super Family Entertainment series features the original Game Boy Advance with an SNES and a Super Famicom paint job. Both variants will also sport the GBA SP’s backlit display.
In addition to the spot-on paint job and the appropriate logos, it seems like the handhelds will also have boxes printed with the same design as the SNES and Super Famicom’s packaging.
There’s no word on exactly how much these beautiful handhelds will cost, but Rose Colored Gaming did say that they will be more expensive than its other GBA mods, which typically go for $160 (USD) to $175. You can see in progress shots of the handhelds on Rose Colored Gaming’s Facebook page.
[via Rose Colored Gaming via GoNintendo]
SNES-001 Advance gives two retro gamers a screen to play, guarantees no fights for TV time (video)
There's been no shortage of SNES mods with built-in screens. They almost always tend to overlook one fundamental problem, however: with only one screen, gamers have to either share one tiny LCD or play solo, and neither option will make that Street Fighter II nostalgia trip a pleasant one. Frequent console modder Downing has offered a fix with a key trade-off. Although his Super Famicom-like SNES-001 Advance is decidedly non-portable, each gamepad has its own LCD to show what would normally go to one screen, even with audio. Both controllers are custom-molded creations that still plug in the old-fashioned, wired way. Downing certainly isn't hoarding his creation, despite it being one of a kind. An auction for the console (with a $500 buy-now price) is still well underway as of this writing, making sure that at least two Double Dragon fans will be happy without cutting into their less sentimental roommate's Netflix marathon.
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