Category Archives: video games

PS5 Stick Drift Fix

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Reverend

Following-up on my PS4 charging port fix, I decided to double-down and fix the PS5 stick drift issue that one of the controllers still has even after endlessly pressing down and rotating the stick clockwise and counterclockwise (NB: this method … Continue reading →

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PS4 Controller Fix

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Reverend

I’ve been using the PS4 controllers for my RetroPie and Batocera given the PS5 has replaced the former console.* The PS4 gave our family a solid 10 years of work (after a fix or two), but it’s now slated for … Continue reading →

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Polybius

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Reverend

In the things I learned today department, a high schooler named Antonio dropped by bavastudio. He was grooving on the old video games in the space, and as it happens he’s a bit of an retro gaming geek so we … Continue reading →

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YoloBox Pro, Madden 2001, and a Reason to Stream

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Reverend

The rainy weekend in Trento provided a good excuse to play with the YoloBox Pro that’s been sitting on my shelf. I regularly chat with Tim about all the streaming he’s doing at Reclaim Arcade, which was an added push … Continue reading →

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RetroNAS: Networking for Retrogamers

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Reverend

Taylor Jadin blogged about experimenting with RetroNAS as a tool to help organize the various devices he uses to play games on his various retrocomputing devices. He describes the tool in the following way: It does a few different things, … Continue reading →

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bavacade Update 1-19-2025

Posted on January 19, 2025 by Reverend

This week was pretty productive on the bavacade front by making real headway on the plan to start cleaning up the small things. I knocked out quite a few things on the list prepared in the last update: Switch Robotron 1P and … Continue reading →

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More Retrogaming Fun with Batocera

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Reverend

My colleague Noah Dorsett turned me on to Batocera a few weeks back, and over the holiday break I took some time to install it and mess around—and I’m glad I did! Batocera is an open-source and completely free retro-gaming … Continue reading →

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Retropie Overscan Settings for 27″ CRT

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Reverend

I currently have two Retropie setups: one on a Raspberry Pi 3b and the other on a Raspberry Pi 4b. I did this to work through some issues I was having getting the OS updated from the Raspbian Stretch to … Continue reading →

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Atari 2600 on the 3DS

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Reverend

Atari 2600 emultaion running on a 3DS About 7 or 8 years ago I figured out how to bypass region-lock on the Nintendo 3DS so my kids could play the games we bought in Italy. With the release of the … Continue reading →

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A Shout-Out to the Zilog Z80

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Reverend

As referred to in my previous post, I’ve been struggling to figure out what specific Z80 processor I need to get my spare Scramble PCB working. I had the main processor for the board, which was a Zilog Z80 chip, … Continue reading →

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