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March Update
🕑 Added 2023-03-14 01:16:47 +0000 UTCHey y'all!
Hope you're all doing much better than we are. Hay fever really took its toll on us this year (apparently 10x worse than last year in Japan), you can really hear it in some videos this month.
Gun4IR Review
After seeing Retro Ralph's video last year, I knew I needed to try this modified Guncon.
A few months back I started chatting with JayBee (Gun4IR creator), and he's a really nice guy. He knows how to treat his customers and really looks after his community.
The Gun4IR is a neat controller, and we can certainly recommend it if you want a reliable (Frank) zapper.
Here are a couple of questions that are usually asked:
Q. Is it better than Sinden?
A. I honestly wouldn't know, I don't have any hands-on experience with the Sinden, but I DO know of the main differences.
- Gun4IR uses 4 lights you add on the side of the screen, Sinden uses a bright white border around the screen. To get that working on Batocera, you'd need to either add a video overlay.
- Gun4IR uses the Guncon or Guncon2 and modifies upon Namco's original design. Sinden has an original shell.
Q. How is the lag?
A. This is EXTREMELY difficult to test. You aren't only comparing the original Guncon to the modified version, but also CRT vs IPS, then add the latency per emulator and OS that is being run.
JayBee has uploaded a couple of videos to show the latency levels, and honestly, I never had an issue with this zapper. (https://youtu.be/sE9FgECUapY)
It seems there may be a Sinden VS Gun4IR divide, much like the Nintendo vs Sega console arguments in the schoolyard.
Best Wireless Controllers for A500 mini
This question keeps popping up on Facebook, but much like Whack-a-mole, you answer one, and a day later the very same question appears.
Hopefully, this will help anyone who needs it.
Make your SNES Games run faster IPS Patch Guide
I've been wanting to make a video regarding Kandowonto's StarFox Ex hack since the early versions were released, and finally, that itch was scratched.
Since StarFox EX has been covered by Matt Matei, he's recently been busy converting several Super Nintendo games to use FastROM.
What is FastROM?
Game developer studios had the option to choose either SlowROM or FastROM in their Super Nintendo cartridges. SlowROM is essentially a slower memory chip, meaning it COULD bottleneck some games when shifting graphics, but is cheaper to produce. Speed differences are 2.68mhz vs 3.58mhz.
You can download his IPS patches for free on his Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/Kandowontu/
Here is a list of all of his converted titles (as of March 14th, 2023):
Super R-Type, Space Invaders, Faceball 2000, Super Mario World, Super Punch-Out, Mario Paint, Super Mario All-Stars + Mario World, Super Mario All-Stars, Steel Talons, Flying Hero, Yoshi's Island, Stunt Race FX, Choplifter III, Ashita No Joe, Kido Soukou Dion, Super Adventure Island, SimAnt, Shin Nekketsu Kouha, Super Buster Bros, Ranma 1/2, Phalanx, The Ninja Warriors, Return of Double Dragon, Skyblazer, Magical Pop'n, The Ninja Warriors Again, TMNT: Turtles in Time, Thunder Spirits, Magic Sword, Pocky & Rocky, Super Turrican, Final Fight Guy, Final Fight, Rendering Ranger R2, Aladdin, Deae Tonosama Appare, Ichiban, Rushing Beat, Hook, Wild Guns, Actraiser, Super EDF, Joe & Mac, Super Smash TV, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Darius Twin, Megaman X3, Top Gear, Bio Metal, Rock N' Roll Racing, SimCity, Megaman X2
Easily Fix your PS3 Move Controller
If you grab a PS3 Move controller- it will more than likely be posted as "untested", as the battery is dead. This is a quick video showing how easy it is to revitalize that controller that looks like an ice-cream... To be used for Just Dance.
Speed up Metal Slug 2 / FBNeo
If you ever wanted to speed up Metal Slug 2, or jump into dip settings- this video shows you how... On Batocera, EmuELEC, basically any frontend that uses RetroArch and the FBNeo (or FBAlpha) core.
This is how we got the Pandora box to run Metal Slug 2 so well.
Super Famicom Mini Review
This has been on the bucket list of reviews to do since last year... I like it quite a lot tbh.
Is there much point in getting this over the US or EU version? No ... not really, unless you are a collector. There are a few exclusive games, but many are unplayable unless you know Japanese.
You can use Hakchi on the Japanese version, we can actually change the language, add games, and even add other system choices via RetroArch, but personally, I'd rather leave this as a Super Nintendo.
Outside that, we hope you're all doing well. It's the end of the school year for me, so I'll have a few weeks holiday. This means looking after my daughter, and maybe embarking on some crazy project. Last year we built a racing rig. That was fun :-)
All the best,
Team Pandory
