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These days you can run dozens of classic games on a PC using emulators. If you’re good with modding hardware, you may be able to connect the right controller for the console you’re emulating. But if you’re Patrice Daubaire, you take it one step further. Patrice hacked 75 controllers to make them compatible with over 110 gaming systems.

Patrice calls his ingenious mod the Multi Video Game System 2 or MVGS 2. He managed to universalize 75 controllers – from an Atari 2600 joystick to aPlayStation controller – so that they’ll work with different gaming systems via a custom VGA adapter. Patrice claims his system has zero input lag and that the controllers weigh more or less the same as unmodified ones. Patrice was also able to add additional functions like a quick save button on some of the controllers.

To present his invention, Patrice built the MVGS 2 Dream Station, a PC with over 30 gaming system emulators. It has a nice cabinet with a built-in monitor and lets up to two players geek out. He also setup a rotating display stand for the controllers.

Pick your jaw up from the floor and head to the MVGS 2 website for more information.

[via Hack A Day]

Fashion works the same way as video games – there is always room for retro to make its mark. It is said that you should not throw out your fashionable clothes, as you can never quite tell just when it might come into fashion once again, many decades down the road. When it comes to computer games, however, older games will never come back in vogue as technology progresses, but one thing is for sure – there will always be folks who do not mind playing games from an older era. This is where the $149.99 a380 Pocket Retro Game Emulator comes in handy, where this handheld gaming system that contains a slew of classics in your pocket.

We are talking about thousands of games in your pocket here, as the piece of hardware looks a wee bit like the GameBoy Micro, but it is capable of so much more. We are talking about the likes of NES, SNES, GBA, Sega Genesis, and Neo Geo ROMs running on a piece of hardware that loves nestling in the palm of your hand. The a380 Pocket Retro Game Emulator would sport 4GB of internal memory with a microSD memory card slot for expansion purposes, while doubling up as a portable media player to boot. Just in case you get sick and tired of your MP3 playlist, you can always rely on the built-in FM radio for some random entertainment. The a380 Pocket Retro Game Emulator comes with a 3.2” WQVGA LCD display at 400 x 240 resolution with a 500MHz processor and USB 2.0 connectivity.
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Instructables member cunning_fellow made brass belt buckle with a crude handheld gaming device built-in. He calls it the Asteroid Belt, probably because the first game he’s making for it is an Asteroids ripoff.

I really like the brass case that cunning_fellow made for the device. It seems to be upside down in the pictures though. Or did cunning_fellow make it that way so it would be right side up from his point of view when he’s wearing the belt? Cunning fellow.

Head to Instructables to see more of the Asteroid Belt. Cunning_fellow clearly didn’t bother explaining his process in layman’s terms because the project requires advanced tinkering and programming skills. He did say, “If 1000 people all moan at me at once I could be persuaded” to make and sell more of the belt. He clearly underestimated the average Internet user’s moaning capability.

There’s already a number of Amiga emulators for Android, but using them has so far required you to provide your own Amiga system files to actually get that emulation started. Cloanto’s set out to change that today, though, releasing its Amiga Forever Essentials app for Android that comes complete with officially licensed ROM and OS files for the reasonable cost of one dollar. As the company explains, it worked with the makers of Amiga emulators like UAE4Droid, AnUAE4All, UAE4All2 to ensure the system files are auto-detected (you’ll still need to use at least one of those other emulators in conjunction with Forever Essentials), and it’s thrown in a few bonuses like Workbench 1.3 and the First Demos disk images to get you started. It also says that this is just the first of a planned series of “Essentials” packages for other platforms, but it has few specifics to share about those at the moment, saying only that it’s hopeful it can “help make retrocomputing more accepted on other app stores.”

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Source: Amiga Forever, Google Play

It was yesterday when we brought you word that the Ouya console which runs on the Android operating system is able to support emulators of older classic consoles, too, Well, this $99 console can be said to be the console that could, where apart from running Android games on your spanking new HDTV, it also has enough firepower underneath the hood to run as a classic computer. In fact, developer Paul Lamb has been sweating his brains out to port the open source Frodo C64 emulator so that it will play nice on the Ouya, and if you would prefer to translate that to simple English, it means you will treat the Ouya console the same way as that of a Commodore 64 computer.

Of course, with the Ouya possessing naturally better hardware compared to the original C64, it should be able to run the emulator without running into performance issues, assuming that the port is successful, of course. In fact, Lamb is also responsible for porting the Mupen64 Nintendo 64 emulator to run on the Ouya. Would this cause the Ouya’s price to make it worth its weight in gold?

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