Other resources

General

  • RetroRGB has lots of great written information on getting the best video quality from your consoles.
  • My Life in Gaming is a YouTube channel with a lot of information on getting the best video quality from your consoles.
  • Hazard City is run by scaling aficionado Fudoh and has reviews of just about every upscaler.
  • FirebrandX’s web site has custom Framemeister profiles for just about every console and palettes for use with the NESRGB mod.
  • Console5 Tech Wiki has parts lists and many guides on modifications and repairs (mostly involving parts and kits they sell).
  • Shmups forum is frequented by many modding enthusiasts and is a great place to find information or get help.

Repros and homebrew

  • Romhacking.net hosts many useful utilities for making your own cartridges as well as translation patches, ROM hacks, and homebrews.
  • NesCarDB has just about all the info you could ever need about what boards and chips are used by different NES games.

Supplies

Cables and accessories

  • Retro Access is a US seller of high-quality RGB cables.
  • Retro Gaming Cables is a UK seller of high-quality RGB cables and accessories.
  • Video Game Perfection sells the OSSC upscaler and mods.
  • Solaris Japan sells the Micomsoft X-RGB Mini Frameister.
  • SuperG makes and sells high quality automatic SCART and component switchers.
  • Behar Bros mostly sells VGA boxes for the Dreamcast, scanline generators, and RGB/component transcoders.

Flash carts and optical drive emulators

  • Krikzz’s Everdrives, the standard in flash carts.
  • Deunan’s optical drive emulators for the Saturn (Phoebe and Rhea) and Dreamcast (GDEmu)
  • TerraOnion’s Neo-Geo AES and MVS flash carts, Super SD System 3 for PC Engine, and MegaSD for the Genesis/Mega Drive. Neo-Geo carts available in the US from Stone Age Gamer.
  • Cybdyn Systems PSIO Playstation 1 add-on that allows playing games from flash memory.

Parts

  • Console5 sells many parts and kits for repairing and modding consoles.
  • Tim Worthington’s shop is the home of the NESRGB, N64RGB, 2600RGB, AV Driver, and several other useful mods.

Repros and homebrew/hacks

  • Muramasa Entertainment sells new PCBs for use with NES, SNES, and Genesis games.
  • RetroStage sells new universal PCBs for use with NES, SNES, and Genesis games as well as the N64 Blaster for flashing N64 games to a cartridge.
  • MCUmall GQ-4X Programmer can program just about any EPROM and EEPROM chip.