I've updated retrogamecabling.com with more systems, more custom items, better color handling, updated all the examples, and also an example from my own messy setup. It looks MUCH better in this view than in real life, haha :) Take a look!

Introducing OmniDrive! A firmware modification for MediaTek MT1959-based optical disc drives manufactured by Hitachi-LG Data Storage that enables features that allow for better, more complete reading of discs, including proprietary game discs. github.com/RibShark/Omn...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Ever wonder what it takes to port a retro game to a modern console? Emulators are just one piece of the pie...or pancake, as it were! Revenue sharing and licensing hell and legal battles, oh my! Listen on as @gamedocs.bsky.social and Bill Litshauer of @implicitconversions.com dive deeper!

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

I've been waiting for this longer than I've been waiting for Metroid Prime 4.

Here's a quick aspect ratio correction of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social's recent find! Here's hoping the full tape turns up one day!

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Giving Mario and Rabbids Sparks of Hope a try after seeing it heavily discounted in typical Ubisoft fashion. So far I’m delighted that I can have a team that doesn’t include a Rabbid character, but I’m disappointed that it can’t run in 60fps, even on the Switch 2.

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

70% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

My first pass at my workshop setup using @jonasrosland.bsky.social's app, with some added context and feedback! retrogamecabling.com if anyone wants to try it out for themselves!

Paging @retrorgb.com and @mylifeingaming.bsky.social, you guys will appreciate this!

This right here? This is the peak of video game graphics.

Maduro was a dictator. But let's not pretend Trump cares about democracy. He cozies up to dictators all over the world when it suits him. Trump has been clear: he wants Venezuela’s oil. That’s not democracy. That’s imperialism.

Climate change isn’t abstract. It has a price tag. In 2025 alone: • 23 billion-dollar disasters • $115 billion in damages • The most expensive wildfire ever recorded I break down the data — and why this pace isn’t sustainable. open.substack.com/pub/rebekahj...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

I’d like to see justice within my lifetime, if it’s not too much to ask. Maybe we can start at the top.

BREAKING: ICE killed a Minnesota woman in broad daylight & there must be accountability. But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down. They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.

I’m really proud of how this event went overall, but man it was more work than I was expecting! I think my favorite find of the bunch was the Tony Hawk TV ad, with second place being the the Tenchu Dog, and third going to the Ninja Gaiden beta footage that nobody had seen before.

Our health care system is collapsing. Housing is unaffordable. 60% of people are living paycheck to paycheck. Instead of trying to "run" Venezuela, Trump might try to do a better job running the United States.

The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.

I was worried today’s post would be the least interesting of the pile but if this is indeed new footage from the 2002 beta that makes this an awesome find. Can anyone confirm?

I’m actually going to try to make some progress on this on my Twitch stream tonight! Not doing any transfers yet, still troubleshooting a bunch of equipment in the pipeline, starting with the fan on the Black Magic Capture card! 8:00 EST tonight if you want to see! twitch.tv/kazoodac

I’m still in awe of how good this capture looks. The other Betacam SP tapes look good, but this is just a whole different league.

I unironically love this.

I love a good 30 second spot, and this one is a delight. So happy to have helped unearth this gem.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

it’s a time of year where people often feel isolated, alone & the shadows of the world seem closer. I’ve lost friends during this time of year, people who I know would have found the light again. just a reminder to reach out to friends, family or support organizations. just take that first step.

Once upon a time I thought there was no way an analog video tape could contain better quality footage than a digital video file. I was a fool. A naive fool.

Merry Christmas everyone! We've got presents for the game preservation community this year: under the tree are 11 professional Betacam tapes from Activision, Tecmo, and Vivendi! We'll be opening one per day starting tomorrow, so join our discord if you want to vote on which one to open first!

Merry Christmas from me and my new buddy 🤖

Happy holidays, everyone! We've got something special for the game preservation community this year, and just couldn't wait till tomorrow to share a little preview! Keep an eye out for another announcement tomorrow, and join our discord if you want to participate!🎄https://discord.gg/JQbGjPwE

Is holiday dumps another name for seasonal affective disorder

Calling all 6502/NES programmers! We recently preserved and shared a source code snapshot of the lost Police Academy game! Which is great, except it's in a pretty bad state. I'm hoping there's enough to "revert" back to its trade show demo. Any interest in helping? www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pgm4m...

There are days where I love MacOS for not bombarding me with ads...and there are days when I question why it has cached 100GB of the same 15 seconds of a podcast I have never and will never listen to. Today is one of those days.

I'm the Unreleased NES Games Guy, so "revive a lost NES game and get it officially released" has been on my bucket list for a long, long time. That it is a fundraiser cartridge with 100% of the profits helping even MORE preservation work happen is even cooler than I'd hoped. I'm proud of this.

Scientists were puzzled by the sudden increase in CO2 in Philadelphia today until they realized it was just the entire city breathing a sigh of relief.

Happy Giving Tuesday! If you're looking to be generous to a scrappy little nonprofit working to help preserve video game history, we'd appreciate the support! 🥰 hitsave.org/support-us/

It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate

Metroid Prime 4 comes out in 3 days. I’ve been waiting for this game for 7 long years, but with how much work I need to get done this week still ahead of me, I might not even be able to start it until the week after. 7 years is a long time, but I’m expecting this week is going to feel even longer.

This took a really long time but I was finally able to stitch together all the scans for this 1987 #Nintendo Famicom calendar with rare art for #Mario, #Zelda, #Metroid, Murasame Castle, and the Mario Anime. The cleaned 2400dpi files are uploaded with RAWS incoming: archive.org/details/1987...

Today we'd like to express our gratitude to the game preservation community! Whether you're scanning, dumping, researching, maintaining, programming, interviewing, donating, or any of the other innumerable tasks involved, it's because of your passion that game preservation persists. Thank you! ❤️

Playing Metroid Prime 3 on the Wii, but loading of a hard drive instead of a disc…this is a delight. The doors just open. It’s incredible!

I *really* want to know what they meant when they said “the fighting sections are much like Street Fighter in Link’s ability to fight and move.” Maybe the fact that you can strafe around an enemy? Even then, it’s a stretch.

I need more commercials like this in my life.