The Morgan City Retro Con convention announces its 2026 edition. The event will focus on classic video games, comics, and pop culture from past decades. It will take place at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium in Louisiana, United States, during the weekend of February 28 to March 1.
Emulation and retro hardware: beyond the pixel 🕹️
A recurring technical theme at these events is the evolution of emulation. Solutions like FPGA are analyzed, which replicate the original hardware at the circuit level, offering a precision that emulated software does not always guarantee. The challenges of preservation are also discussed, such as the durability of cartridges and the migration of data from obsolete physical media to stable digital formats.
The I had it at home syndrome 😅
It is a documented phenomenon: after seeing the price of a Super Nintendo cartridge in the exchange section, your memory rewrites itself. Suddenly, you swear that your mother accidentally sold that copy of EarthBound that is now worth a small fortune. Nostalgia, apparently, includes a financial self-deception function to make the pain more bearable.