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The Raspberry Pi 4 Is Now Out

The Raspberry Pi 4 Is Now Out

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The Raspberry Pi, a longtime staple of DIY tech projects, has finally received an upgrade. The Raspberry Pi Foundation revealed the fourth model of their small circuit board this morning, and it’s for sale effective immediately. The Raspberry Pi 4, like the other models, is a card-sized board that comes packed with ports — in this case two USB 2.0, two USB 3.0, one HDMI, one Micro SD, an audio port and an Ethernet jack. Its CPU is three times as powerful as the previous Pi, and this one comes in three different versions depending on how much RAM you’re looking for — up to 4GB. A 1.5GHz quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPU (~3× performance) 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB of LPDDR4 SDRAM Full-throughput Gigabit Ethernet Dual-band 802.11ac wireless networking Bluetooth 5.0 Two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports Dual monitor support, at resolutions up to 4K VideoCore VI graphics, supporting OpenGL ES 3.x 4Kp60 hardware decode of HEVC video Complete compatibility with earlier Raspberry Pi products The Raspberry Pi

The Problem With Game Preservation

The Problem With Game Preservation

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This week during the Game Developers Conference, Frank Cifaldi, head of restoration at developer Digital Eclipse, hosted an hour-long talk on game preservation. Frank’s company is frequently hired to get older games working on modern systems; one of Digital Eclipse’s most recent projects was transferring the original 8-bit Mega Man game into a format that would play on today’s consoles and phones. Polygon was there and wrote down the most interesting points. What got Frank interested in game preservation was what happened to films when there was no preservation effort for media of any kind. “According to the Film Foundation, over half the films made before 1950 are gone,” Cifaldi said. “I don’t mean that you can’t buy these on DVD. I mean they’re gone. They don’t exist anymore.” Cifaldi went on to say the figure prior to 1920 is even worse at an 80 percent loss. “That terrified me. I wasn’t particularly a film buff, but the idea of these works just disappearing forever and never being recoverable scared

Retro Freak: Japan’s Ultimate Classic Console

Retro Freak: Japan’s Ultimate Classic Console

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There is now a game console announced for Japan that accepts carts and cards from Famicom, Super Famicom, Mega Drive, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, TurboGrafx-16, Genesis, SNES, PC Engine and Supergrafx. It plays them all, from all regions (except, for unexplained reasons, NES in America). It’s called the Retro Freak, and it will bring every imaginable 8 and 16-bit game to you in HDMI. There’s more: it takes any controller, and I do mean ANY controller: there is a USB slot in the device that will accept anything you can plug into it, and since there are USB adapters for every console controller in existence, you can use them all. Even PS4 controllers will work with the Retro Freak. If this all sounds too good to be true, it sort of is. The Retron series of consoles released by Hyperkin in the US also work in a similar way: through emulation, not from custom chips. The machine copies the ROM onto temporary memory and runs the

No, Nintendo Is Not Making A Smartphone Emulator

No, Nintendo Is Not Making A Smartphone Emulator

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You may have heard Nintendo has filed a patent for a Game Boy emulator that could run on any device. Specifically, the patent says it’s for “A software emulator for emulating a handheld video game platform such as GAME BOY, GAME BOY COLOR, and/or GAME BOY ADVANCE on a low-capability target platform.” It’s the “low-capability target platform” that’s getting some people excited, as it could mean anything. Some of the more ignorant news outlets have taken this to mean Nintendo may have finally blinked on their long-standing policy of only allowing their games on their own devices. This is unlikely to anyone familiar with how the company actually works. Allowing any Nintendo game on iPhone or Android, even a decades-old Game Boy title like Alleyway, would fly against everything Nintendo stands for and everything we know about their arrogant pride. They have said multiple times protecting their IPs is far more important to them than making a quick buck, Mario Teaches Typing notwithstanding. CEO Satoru Iwata put it this way