Month: February 2019

The Game Boy’s Second Life: A Conversation with Retro Modding’s Olivier

The Residual Media Depot team recently had the pleasure of visiting Montreal-based Retro Modding. With Olivier, the founder and owner, we discussed entry into the modding scene, the political economy of hardware modding, and the nuts and bolts of video game modification and preservation.

/ February 27, 2019

Forensics: Genesis 1 component-mod

What makes this Sega Genesis “High Definition Graphics” model 1 unusual is that it has a full set of gold-plated AV jacks added to the rear, for component video (YpBPr) and stereo sound. In this post, we open it up to see what's inside.

/ February 7, 2019