GamingNov 11A fan port brings a delisted Pac-Man phone game to Dreamcast, using your own Android game file
GamingNov 11Nintendo's NES security patent made the console and cartridge solve matching calculations together
GamingNov 11PlayStation 1 vs. PlayStation 2: the 8MB card holds backups, but PS1 games still need their old card
GamingNov 11PlayStation 3 vs. PlayStation 4: 512MB split memory became 8GB shared memory, but PS3 discs stayed behind
GamingNov 2Game Boy Advance had 36 times the original Game Boy’s work RAM and kept its cartridges useful
HardwareOct 30OnePlus Ace 7 Pro Puts a Cooling Fan's Vents in the Camera Island and Drops the Ultrawide
GamingOct 30Windows Vista Dropped Space Cadet Pinball Because Its 64-Bit Port Let the Ball Fall Straight Through the Plunger
GamingOct 29Sony's $85 See-Through PS5 Controllers Show the Insides, While the Matching $75 Console Covers Hide Them
HardwareOct 28iQOO's Neo12 phone hides a 59-blade cooling fan and a 9,000mAh battery inside, from about $630
HardwareOct 28Honor's Win2 Gaming Phone Puts Two Fans Inside, One Spinning at 31,000rpm, and Is Still Rated IP69K
RetroOct 27MattKC ran the Philips CD-i off a USB-C phone charger by building a board that asks for 9 volts and flips part of it to the minus 5 volts the console needs
GamingOct 25Civilisation Pocket Squeezes Civ Onto the Neo Geo Pocket Color, and Losing Everything Just Leaves You Watching the Rivals Play
SoftwareOct 25HatchZip extracts archives from the end and cuts off each finished part, so a 180 GB game unpacks on a nearly full disk
GamingOct 25One Must Fall 2097 Remastered Rebuilds the 1994 Robot Fighter in TypeScript and WebGL, With F2 Swapping VGA and HD Mid-Fight
GamingOct 23Quake Now Runs on the Atari 8-Bit, Five Days After Kweepa Fit It on the Commodore 64 as Wireframe Rooms and Stick-Figure Monsters
GamingOct 23A Kumité Player Asked for Fighter Faces That Bleed in Stages. Polytricity Added Them to His New Commodore 64 Karate Game 18 Hours Later.
Hacks & BuildsOct 23Aaron Christophel's Aspire PIXO Vape Now Runs DOOM on Its Own Chip, on an Engine Built for a 32 KB Clamp Meter