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Sega Genesis Games Loaded Off a Vinyl Record — and What It Means for Retro Collectors

🔥 Sega Genesis Games Loaded Off a Vinyl Record — and What It Means for Retro Collectors

A Sega Genesis loaded a game off a vinyl record using a cartridge-port adapter and FSK audio decoding. What it means for retro collectors.

Mike Perry · 2026-06-13 · news · 9 min · trend 95

Voodoo5 5500 PCI Boots on a Modern Z77 Board: Retro-on-Modern Just Got Easier

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 10 min · trend 82
Hacker Loads Sega Genesis Games Off a Vinyl Record

Mike Perry · 2026-06-14 · 10 min · trend 80
Sega Genesis Loads Games From a Vinyl Record in Viral Retro Hack

Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 8 min · trend 78
Sega Genesis Games Loaded Off a Vinyl Record: How the Hack Works

Mike Perry · 2026-06-07 · 10 min · trend 78
Lenovo G02 Retro Handheld Ships Preloaded With Thousands of Games

Mike Perry · 2026-05-30 · 10 min · trend 78
Sony Ends Physical PlayStation Disc Production by 2028

Mike Perry · 2026-07-09 · 9 min · trend 75
Inside the Creative Katana V2X Soundbar Teardown — and What It Says About Sound Blaster

Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 10 min · trend 75
Why That Game Boy Clone Runs Too Fast — and the Crystal Fix

Mike Perry · 2026-06-05 · 10 min · trend 72
Lenovo G02 Retro Handheld Reportedly Ships With Pirated Game Library

Mike Perry · 2026-05-29 · 10 min · trend 72
Retro Nintendo Switch 2 Dock Channels the N64 and Holds Six Game Cards

Mike Perry · 2026-07-15 · 17 min · trend 70
Someone Got Linux Booting on a Sega Genesis: What the Megadrive Hack Shows

Mike Perry · 2026-07-01 · 6 min · trend 70
When a Game Boy Clone Runs Too Fast: The Crystal-Swap Fix Behind a Viral Repair

Mike Perry · 2026-06-15 · 14 min · trend 65
Lenovo G02 Retro Handheld Reportedly Ships Preloaded With Pirated Games

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 9 min · trend 60
That Game Boy Clone Runs Too Fast — and the Fix Is a Clock Crystal

Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 7 min · trend 55
Modder Runs a Counter-Strike Clone at 60 FPS on the Original PSP

Mike Perry · 2026-07-22 · 9 min
Ex-Sega Engineer's 'Super Realistic' CRT Emulator — What It Means for Retro Mini-Consoles

Mike Perry · 2026-07-18 · 10 min
Jensen Huang Heads to Tokyo as Sega's 1996 Bet on Nvidia Is Remembered

Mike Perry · 2026-07-16 · 10 min
Ex-Sega Engineer Builds a 'Super-Realistic' CRT Emulator

Mike Perry · 2026-07-16 · 10 min
A Practical Look at the PlayStation Architecture — and Why It Still Matters

Mike Perry · 2026-07-06 · 9 min
The Hackaday Europe 2026 Retro PC Build: What They Actually Built and Why It Matters

Mike Perry · 2026-07-05 · 9 min
Why Retro Cables Are Melting Into Their Cases in Storage

Mike Perry · 2026-07-05 · 7 min
256GB microSD Drops to $32 — but for a Game Library, a SATA SSD Still Wins

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 4 min
Sega's TMSS Explained: The Lock-Out Chip Behind the Genesis, and Why It Still Trips Up Reissues

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 15 min
Super Mario 64 Nintendo DS Port Lands With Multiplayer Support

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 10 min
Homebrew Hardware Mod Gives the NES a Graphics Upgrade

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 8 min
NES Graphics Upgrade Mod Gains Community Traction

Mike Perry · 2026-07-03 · 2 min
Hacker Loads Sega Genesis Games From a Vinyl Record Player

Mike Perry · 2026-06-15 · 10 min
Someone Just Loaded a Sega Genesis Game from a Vinyl Record — Here's How (And What It Means for Retro Preservation)

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 10 min
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Boots in a Modern ASUS Z77 Board

Mike Perry · 2026-05-30 · 9 min

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