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Four Contemporary Devices Elevating the Vintage Gaming Experience

create your own classic arcade swiftly.

Certain gadgets provide ease of use, such as the MemCard Pro, which enables you to swap out a collection of vintage memory cards for a single larger-capacity card. Other products, like 8BitDo’s adapters and Retro Fighter controllers, allow you to link contemporary gamepads to your vintage consoles, enhancing your playing comfort. Additionally, there are some must-have items, like the remarkable RetroTINK-4K, capable of upscaling video output from retro consoles to 4K resolution. Below, we have outlined four of the top gadgets and accessories that will make your retro gaming experience feel genuinely contemporary.

MemCard Pro

One of the most beneficial features of modern gaming is the capability to save game progress directly to your console’s internal storage. However, this was not always the reality. In the past, to save your progress on retro consoles such as the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and GameCube, you required an external memory card. Yet, one memory card could rapidly turn into several, as official options were limited to a maximum of 8MB of storage (or 1 MB for the PS1), forcing you to make the tough decision of either overwriting an old save or purchasing another card for additional save space.

8BitMods’ MemCard Pro memory cards eliminate this issue entirely. Compatible with PS1, PS2, and GameCube, the MemCard Pro is a singular memory card that allows you to insert a Standard microSD, providing up to 1TB of storage for your game saves (depending on the inserted SD card). However, you probably won’t require that much space, as each 1GB of storage can accommodate up to 122,880 PS1 game save blocks or

SolidRun P100 COM Express Type 6 Module Boasts LPCAMM2 Memory and 12-core AMD Ryzen AI Embedded P185 SoC

Ryzen AI Embedded P100 COM Express module

We just reported that the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series has been expanded with six additional SKUs, and, timed with that, SolidRun has announced its new P100 COM Express Type 6 module family. These compact (95 x 95mm) modules are among the first to support the newly released 8- to 12-core Zen 5 SKUs, with up to 50 TOPS from the NPU and 80 TOPS of total system AI. Another fairly unique feature of the new SolidRun computer-on-module is support for LPCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory. The company uses a screw-lock mechanism to deliver high-bandwidth LPDDR5X performance (up to 9600 MT/s) while maintaining the mechanical reliability required for “systems in motion,” such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), heavy machinery, and rail systems. A mini-ITX development kit for the module is also available. SolidRun P100 COM Express Type 6 module SolidRun P100 COM Express Type 6 module specifications: AMD Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Series […]

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Framework Increases RAM and Storage Prices Once More

For the fourth month in a row, Framework is increasing prices on RAM and storage for its modular PCs due to ongoing shortages from suppliers. An update to Framework’s blog on Tuesday states that DDR5 RAM will now cost $13 to $18 per GB, up from February’s rate of $12 to $16 per GB. This […]

AltStore PAL, an Alternative App Store, Joins the Fediverse

AltStore PAL, the alternative iOS app store available in the European Union and Japan, is joining the social web. In a post on Wednesday, AltStore PAL announced that users across Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky can now interact with apps that developers choose to federate on its explore.alt.store website. Any likes from the social web will […]

OpenAI’s Sora Video Generator Reportedly Coming to ChatGPT

OpenAI’s Sora video generator could soon become a built-in feature in ChatGPT, as reported by The Information. Sora is currently only available on its website or as a standalone app, which has fallen shy of the popularity of ChatGPT. This update would allow users to access Sora’s video generation capabilities directly within ChatGPT itself, much […]

Microsoft’s next Xbox, Project Helix, will barely reach alpha by 2027

We’re here at the 2026 Game Developers Conference, where Microsoft “VP of Next Generation” Jason Ronald is talking about a topic near and dear to many gamers’ hearts: the future of Xbox. Ronald says the next Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip with “an order of magnitude increase in raytracing performance” […]