Unity Engine For PS1?! - This Week In Retro 264

Bring big imaginations and big keyboards as we tackle the latest Retro eXo creation, a breakthrough in modern game development for the original Sony PlayStation, and breathe new life into those old digital video camcorders on the shelf. Chris shows off a holiday photo, there's a birthday... all this, and much more, in This Week in Retro episode 264!

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00:00 - Show Opening

03:03 - Undiscovered Text Adventures Abound Story Link: https://www.retro-exo.com/if.html Original TWiR coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUtxKUkJaXk

17:34 - New Life For PlayStation & Wii Story Link: https://psxsplash.github.io/ Bandwidth appeal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZ-XHiDBow MacOS X on Nintendo Wii: https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html Windows compatibility: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260407-00/?p=112213

31:38 - Housekeeping - News links found below

36:57 - Video Editing Like It’s 1999 Story Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/firewire-on-a-raspberry-pi/ Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuKeW45OL-g

46:18 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

PicoGUS 4.0: https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v4.0.0

Oldversion returns: https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/oldversion-is-back-and-better-than-ever/

RIP Yoshihisa Kishimoto: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/double-dragon-creator-yoshihisa-kishimoto-has-passed-away

New Amiga Double Dragon: https://www.indieretronews.com/2026/04/double-dragon-near-arcade-experience.html

Arcade photos: https://www.thescroller.net/83840/20-photos-what-arcades-used-to-look-like/

Arcade manuals: https://arcadeRTFM.com

Breakout for ZX81: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NheQgCtFgI

End of Linux support for i486: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-1-finally-dropping-support-intels-37-year-old-486-processor/

Episode Credits:

"PlayStation-SCPH-1000-with-Controller.jpg" image by Evan-Amos. Public domain.

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