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Last year the company known as ModRetro released an FPGA-based Game Boy and Game Boy Color handheld console. Those consoles were advertised as limited editions and sold out on the ModRetro website. I bought and reviewed one and had an overall favorable opinion of the device. Now eight months have passed and ModRetro is releasing not only a new batch of consoles but also accessories for all Chromatic consoles. I ordered a new console and the new accessories to put them to the test. What has changed? Are there improvements?
The New Chromatic
Let me start with what has not changed. When you order a console the items you get in the box will be the same: the console, 3xAA ModRetro-branded batteries and the Tetris cartridge (which I reviewed separately). That is about it in terms of what is unchanged. Even the box for the new units is slightly redesigned. The old box showed off games that were available for sale on the ModRetro site, but the new box shows screens for a game called "Mega - The Viper Wars" that either does not exist or has not been released.
When the console was originally released last year its price was $199.00 regardless of color or markings. Six standard color variations were offered on the site and with either English or Japanese markings. There was a GameStop variant for sale on GameStop's site and a "Logan Paul" edition sold on the ModRetro site. Both variants were priced at $199.00 but only had an English marking option. All these consoles have a "1st EDITION" marking on them.
The new edition of the Chromatic console is offered for a base price of $199.99 and in all the standard colors (Midnight, Wave, Leaf, Inferno, Volt, Bubblegum) plus a new Cloud color (very SNES-like color scheme). Only English console label markings are available for this edition. These are only available from the ModRetro site. These new Chromatics no longer have a "1st EDITION" marking and only have two color stripes on the bottom left-hand corner of the console instead of three. The middle stripe is gone and the end stripes no longer straddle the edge of the console. This should reduce wear as these colors are printed over the magnesium alloy shell.
The new edition of the Chromatic comes with a Gorilla Glass screen in the base model. An upgrade to a Sapphire Glass screen is available for an extra $100.00. All 1st Edition Chromatics, including the GameStop exclusive, came with Sapphire Glass screens. The Sapphire Glass screens have a small "SAPPHIRE" marking below the bottom of the active display. The GameStop variant is still available for purchase at the original $199.00 price, so if you want a Sapphire Glass screen and do not want to pay the premium, you can still buy that variant at the time of writing.
The main advertised difference between the Gorilla Glass and Sapphire Glass screens is the hardness of the screen. Gorilla Glass comes between 6-8 on the Mohs scale, Sapphire Glass between 7-8. The Mohs scale measures scratch resistance but Gorilla Glass is officially rated with a Vickers Pyramid number, which measures the impact on the screen. Most generations of Gorilla Glass measure between 550-650HV. In short, Sapphire Glass is harder and heavier than Gorilla Glass and offers superior scratch resistance but Gorilla Glass is cheaper and is less prone to shattering on impact.
Comparing both displays, both are equal to my eye in terms of clarity. Gorilla offers slightly superior brightness than Sapphire at the same brightness levels but there is more backlight bleed from Gorilla. Gorilla is less reflective, which may be important if you are in a setting with a lot of ambient or bright light. If in sunlight, find some shade and you should have a nearly equivalent experience with either screen.
The internals bear a comment or two, but there are some improvements. There is one less screw needed to unscrew in order to get the mainboard out of the case. The D-pad trace near the pivot has been moved enough that the pivot cannot wear against it and break the trace. My new Chromatic's mainboard has a microSD card slot soldered onto the board whereas the old Chromatic's only had pads.
There are other minor changes from the old consoles to the new ones. The black RF shield in the back is thicker. The gaps between the power switch and IR window and the shell are tighter. You are also less likely to get a scuffed IR window due to a softer liner used in the new Chromatic's box. The battery cover no longer has the rubber pads on the sides to help hold in the batteries. The metal tabs on the battery cover are in different places and thicker. The bottom of the new enclosure has a plastic piece screwed in to help latch the battery cover. There is a slight ridge or lip behind the volume wheel on the new Chromatic's bottom shell.
The speaker on the new Chromatic can reach a significantly higher volume than the old Chromatic. However, there is still a lot of noise when both the audio jack and the USB port is connected to the same PC. This makes streaming video and audio less than ideal because the console cannot transmit audio over USB. As of Firmware v4.0 audio can be streamed alongside video over USB, making the audio quality no longer an issue.
There are slight improvements to the build quality. There is no roughness around the power LED. There were no scuffs on the plastic bits like the IR window or the Tetris cartridge that came with my console. The EverDrive GB X7 worked fine with the new Chromatic.
Accessories
In addition to the new consoles, ModRetro is offering three new accessories, all in their own boxes or packaging with the same colorful, cutesy style as the console's box.
The long-awaited "Rechargeable Power Core" (the battery pack announced alongside the original Chromatic) is finally available for $29.99. The battery pack was mentioned with the initial announcements of the Chromatic but has been MIA until now. This pack fits into the battery compartment of any Chromatic, no tools required, and can be charged by the USB Type-C connector. There are contacts in the battery cavity to make contact with the battery pack and the battery can be easily removed for instances when the console will not see use. This limits unnecessary drain from the battery pack.
The Chromatic can use standard Alkaline, Lithium or rechargeable AA batteries (three required) but cannot charge the latter. ModRetro claims 16 hours of gameplay on a full charge and recharging takes 2-5 hours. These numbers are dependent on the game being played and the power source connected to the Chromatic, respectively. The battery has a 2250mAh capacity and adds about 1.5 oz to the weight (no more than AA batteries) of the Chromatic. It comes with a braided USB Type-C to USB Type-C charging cable, 3.25 feet long.
The second new accessory is a link cable, sold for $14.99. I believe ModRetro made their own so they would not have to listen to customer complaining of flaky vintage cables or poor quality modern cables or have to recommend Analogue's link cable. The Analogue link cable is high quality but it is a competitor's product. Unlike the Analogue link cable the Chromatic link cable does not have a switch for GBA compatibility. GBA link cables are wired differently from GB/GBC cables and require a switch to support GBA and GB/GBC consoles. The Chromatic Link cable is advertised at 6.5 feet, which is slightly longer than Analogue's 4.75 feet. It is also a braided cable as opposed to the plastic sheathed cables from everyone else. Analogue's cable also supports GBA multiplayer and the original Nintendo GBA link cables were shorter than the 8-bit link cables.
The ModRetro site says that its link cable is not compatible with the original Game Boy but that is not the whole story. The Game Boy DMG connector is only physically different from the link cable connector on the later 8-bit Game Boys. The same cables are used for the Game Boy Pocket, Super Game Boy 2 and Game Boy Color. The Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Player and Analogue Pocket are compatible with these cables when playing Game Boy or Game Boy Color games. Nintendo made an adapter, DMG-14, that can convert the smaller GBP/GBC plug into the larger DMG plug. I was able to play a multiplayer game of F-1 Race between the Chromatic, the ModRetro link cable and a DMG-14 in an original Game Boy. I had no trouble using the ModRetro link cable, even with the Game Boy Printer. The link cables are compatible with non-Chromatics.
The final new accessory is the Mod Kit, also $14.99. This includes 9 pairs of A & B buttons, 2 D-Pads, 2 D-Pad Membranes, 4 button membranes, a Start and a Select button, an IR Window, a Power Switch and a Menu button. There is also included some stickers, a double ended bit driver with a 3.8mm security screw bit and a tri-wing bit and an end cap for the bit driver. These parts can be used to customize the look and feel of the cartridge or to fix broken parts. One set of membranes have a softer action press than the other. One of the D-Pads has a short pivot post and the other has a longer pivot post. Once you start breaking open the cardboard covering the back of the blister pack, you will need to find a new way to store these parts.
Button colors are subjective but the big improvement here is the longer D-Pad stem. This eliminated the issue of being able to press opposite directions, which can break some games. The black membranes are supposed to be softer than the gray ones, but I have not noticed much of a difference in the short time I have used them. The included screwdriver is magnetized.
The Koss Porta Pro headphones are still available but only in the standard six color variations. Speaking of Chromatic, there is no red or violet/purple console available or green, blue or yellow buttons in the ModKit. (A red Chromatic was shown during the Classic Tetris World Championship event last year.) I think ModRetro might come up a little short in its spectrum-encompassing branding.
The Chromatic's box states "Designed in California, Assembled in Mexico." The packaging for the Chromatic accessories says "Designed in California, Made in China." It is likely that the "assembly" on the console's box means the assembly line functions of putting the console together (placing the buttons and membranes, screwing in the PCB and shell) and putting it in its box, not soldering electronic components to the PCB. It is more likely that board soldering is done in China but Mexico is not impossible.
Firmware Update v3.2
The new Chromatic and the Battery Pack tell you to update your firmware and give you stickers with QR codes to do this. There last firmware for the Chromatic was released on May 21 (v3.2), so you do not need to rush out to update your old Chromatic if you have updated it since then. My new Chromatic was on the latest firmware out of the box but that may not always be the case going forward. Make sure to update your Tetris cartridge, just in case. ModRetro keeps a changelog documenting updates for any games it sells.
The v3.2 firmware update brought many fixes to the platform but the webcam-identified video based output now no longer uses the RGB color space but the YUV color space with 4:2:2 chroma subsampling. This results in blurrier color but makes the "webcam" compatible with macOS and Discord, as a ModRetro representative explained. Black and white and grayscale are unaffected and still perfectly sharp. The captures I made of the system with launch day firmware are as sharp as a tack. ModRetro is looking at workarounds to the problem but the firmware upgrade tool does not allow for downgrading firmware. The v4.0 firmware is unchanged in this regard. See the link above for details on how to downgrade the firmware (it is not easy).
There is a change to the Chromatic's custom color palettes for monochrome games. The Right + A + B palette is unchanged from prior firmware but the Left + A + B now evokes a Game Boy Light. Another newer option in the menu allows for smooth transitions. This is useful in a game like The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening where there is a lot of flicker when Link goes in and out of houses, caves and labyrinths.
Conclusion
The new Chromatic offers some quality of life improvements over the old Chromatic. The screens are not so different that you may feel left with second best if you do not fork over the extra $100 for the Sapphire screen. The accessories improve on the console experience. At this point the console's only major flaw is one of its main advertising points, the USB video capture. At present the capture is fuzzier than it needs to be on the horizontal axis with color video and could be fixed. and audio quality is bad if it is connected to a line input to the same PC that is capturing video. Connecting just the line in to the PC without the USB connection allows for high quality audio capture, for what it is worth. This can be fixed in software by permitting USB video and audio capture together as a proper capture device, but this has to be implemented by Gowin, the maker of the FPGA, in its development kit. If this is done the Chromatic would be far better for streaming and capturing GB and GBC gameplay than it currently is.
I bought my new Chromatic and one of each of the accessories on July 10 and received my console on July 31. As a prior Chromatic owner I received a 15% off coupon, before it my order was $259.96, after application it was $230.95 (including $9.99 shipping).
In terms of FPGA handheld placement, the new Chromatic is still well-behind the Analogue Pocket in terms of features and value for money. If I did not have a Pocket I would much rather use the Chromatic over the FunnyPlaying FPGBC. The Chromatic's screen is incredible, bright, sharp, 1:1 pixel resolution (no scaling) and no lag. The simulation quality is excellent and the cartridge slot is deep enough to keep your original cartridges firmly in place. If you want a modern way to play your Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges on the go, the Chromatic is the best option after the Analogue Pocket in my opinion.
In brief: The Atlantic tropics are getting a little busier, but at present none of the potential systems are a concern for land. Meanwhile, the Desert Southwest is going to be at the center of a heat wave this week, which means some extreme temperatures and continued high wildfire danger.
Tropics: Busier but within the realm of what’s typical for August
We’ll start in the Atlantic today. We’ve got two areas highlighted by the National Hurricane Center.
Two areas of interest, including one invest on the board today. (NOAA NHC)
Let’s start closer to the U.S.
Invest 95L
The disturbance we had thought might be of most interest through next week is trying to get its act together off the Carolinas. Invest 95L is attempting to look the part this morning.
Invest 95L is due east of the Outer Banks. It may develop into a tropical or subtropical system before exiting tomorrow. (Weathernerds.org)
Invest 95L is expected to pretty steadily work east-northeast and out to sea. Modeling is in good agreement that this will exit stage right quickly.
Various AI ensembles and the traditional European ensemble all agree that this will quickly turn out to sea. (Google Weather Lab)
Conditions for development should become rather hostile over the next couple days, so this will probably succumb to environmental conditions eventually as it moves out to sea. Bottom line: Decent chance to develop; no threat to land.
Broad 30% area of interest
Looking out farther into the Atlantic today, a very large 30% area has been drawn that covers almost the entire central Atlantic. There’s not a whole lot doing out there at the moment, but it appears that a wave will exit Africa and may begin to attempt to develop by mid to late week. When we look at the European model ensemble picture, we can see that the majority of the 51 ensemble members are doing something out there by later this week, but since they can’t exactly resolve where that might occur, the area of possible interest is rather sprawling.
A large area of possible slow development later this week in the open Atlantic. (Weathernerds.org)
The overall pattern in the Atlantic this week will feature a pretty broad “weakness” in the subtropical ridge east of Bermuda. This should allow for any sort of developing storm to exit. A weaker, disorganized wave may just plod along west northwest.
Friday’s upper air weather pattern probably is conducive to a system moving more NW than W in the Atlantic. (Tropical Tidbits)
You never like to overthink these things too much, so it seems pretty simple. That said, if the forecast weakness ends up stronger or less impactful than predicted today, that could change the overall profile of risk with this wave. For now, it’s probably not a concern for land, but it’s probably also a good idea to monitor its progress later this week.
Behind that, there’s no real defined risk that I can pick up on over the next 2 weeks, but it’s the time of year to keep watching, as I’m sure something will materialize at some point. For now though, the takeaway is that the Atlantic is becoming more active but within the bounds of what’s normal for this time of year.
A Desert Southwest heat wave
The weather pattern has calmed a bit lately, with more moderate temperatures a bit less in the way of extreme rain and such. That said, it does look like the heat is going to crank up this week. When you’re talking about possible temperature records in the Desert Southwest, you know it’s hot. High pressure is going to flex its muscles in that region this week, and in fact, the percentage of European ensemble members showing an all-time record strong upper level high pressure system is well up over 50 to 75 percent this coming week (Wednesday).
The Desert Southwest is going to be a blast furnace this week. (Polarwx.com)
That doesn’t guarantee that we’ll see a record, but it sure suggests that whatever this is is going to be extreme. In fact, we’re already seeing numerous record highs or near record highs being forecast in the Desert. Phoenix is expected to hit 117° on Thursday, which would break a daily record by 5 degrees and match the all-time August record high temperature last set in late August 2023.
Several record high temperatures are forecast to be approached or exceeded this week in the Desert Southwest, with Thursday shown here. (NOAA)
The 111° is Tucson is only one degree shy of the August record as well.
We may see more than one record fall this week in Phoenix and Tucson.
Forecast temperatures for the next 7 days in Phoenix. (Weather Bell)
Broadly, the Southwest will also experience multiple days of records threatened. More importantly, it looks dry this week with most moisture limited. Any rain will be limited to the Plains or perhaps deep into Mexico.
Rainfall over the next 7 days is expected to be virtually non-existent in the Southwest. (StormVista Weather Models)
This will likely lead to continuing wildfire concerns, and critical fire danger is forecast for Utah tomorrow and Tuesday. Red Flag Warnings are already posted for both days.
Several wildfires, including the now 60,000 acre Monroe Canyon fire are burning throughout Utah, a situation that may worsen some Monday and Tuesday. (State of Utah)
Conditions may be a little less extreme in Arizona for wildfires, but it’s possible that Red Flag Warnings are hoisted there too this week. Either way, the West is already a bit of a tinderbox, and this week will do nothing to help that situation.
Austin-area arts teachers interested in teaching aids and school supplies for all ages, take note. Austin Creative Reuse (ACR), a conservation-focused nonprofit, will host its third annual pay-what-you-can Educator Extravaganza on Saturday, August 9, from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. at its Windsor Park facility.
The event is a partnership with Austin Independent School District sustainability staff. New this year is a resource fair, featuring partners including the National Wildlife Federation, Texas Disposal Systems, the City of Austin Urban Forest Program, and Austin nonprofits Keep Austin Beautiful, Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering, MINDPOP creative learning systems, and the EcoRise environmental literacy organization, each of whom will provide free resources for incorporating sustainability approaches, environmental education, and STEAM curricula into classrooms.
Madison Knapp, Community Programs Manager, said in a press release, “Supporting local educators is a crucial part of ACR’s mission, and we look forward to this event each year as it allows us to provide affordable, sustainable supplies to educators to stock their classrooms for the upcoming school year. Partnering with Austin ISD Sustainability and adding a resource fair this year will connect educators with even more resources that can help them start the school year strong.”
Resources available to arts teachers on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis include office supplies and classroom tech from Goodwill Central Texas, along with gently used arts and crafts supplies and materials donated by individuals and businesses.
Cupertino, CA- Apple TV+, the free-spending streaming service run as a ploy to lower its parent company’s tax bill, announced today that it has financed, produced, and set fire to a monument of American entertainment that will never be surpassed. “This was audacious, even for us,” said Head of Worldwide Programming Zack Van Amburg about […]
Canceling a subscription should be easy, Democratic lawmakers insisted Wednesday, introducing a bill to revive the Federal Trade Commission's so-called "Click-to-Cancel" rule.
The FTC hoped to enforce the rule due to "increasing reports of consumers losing time and money from intentionally difficult subscription cancellation processes," lawmakers said. But cable companies sued to block the FTC rule last year, arguing that the FTC failed to conduct an economic impact study before making it easier to cancel over a billion paid subscriptions in the US.
Earlier this month, a federal appeals court nullified the rule, agreeing with an administrative law judge that the FTC skipped a regulatory analysis required to pass the rule since compliance costs would exceed $100 million. That study would have included cost-benefit analyses of alternatives to the rule, in addition to gauging the rule's effectiveness in comparison to those alternatives.
The OBBB introduced policies for taxes, government assistance, student loans, and immigration, with varying timelines and types of changes. USAFacts provides a reference that shows start and end dates for each policy, with colors to indicate if a policy is new, an end to a current policy, an expansion, or a restriction.
The view provides clarity for something that can seem amorphous to casual onlookers.
The United States added 22,332 megawatts of power plant capacity in the first half of this year, and the vast majority of it was utility-scale solar, batteries, and onshore wind.
Natural gas was next, and there was zero new coal or nuclear, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Through 2030, the US energy landscape looks a lot like these last six months in terms of the mix of new power plants, with solar and batteries leading the way, according to the EIA’s list of planned power plants.
AI tools are widely used by software developers, but those devs and their managers are still grappling with figuring out how exactly to best put the tools to use, with growing pains emerging along the way.
That's the takeaway from the latest survey of 49,000 professional developers by community and information hub Stack Overflow, which itself has been heavily impacted by the addition of large language models (LLMs) to developer workflows.
The survey found that four in five developers use AI tools in their workflow in 2025—a portion that has been rapidly growing in recent years. That said, "trust in the accuracy of AI has fallen from 40 percent in previous years to just 29 percent this year."
As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level public health officials authority to ignore federal recommendations.
Among the handful of oft-discussed problems with Substack:
Their 90/10 subscription revenue split isn’t usurious, but it’s high compared to competing platforms — especially once you reach an even mid-tier level of popularity.
The only way this independent publishing game works, by any credible definition of “the long run”, is to build your own audience. Substack has indies convinced that they build an audience for you through some sort of secret-sauce network effects, but I’ve seen no evidence that’s true. Writers with established reputations and readerships joining Substack are helping build Substack’s brand, not their own.
Less commented upon but just as bad is the branding trap. Substack is a damn good name. It looks good, it sounds good. It’s short and crisp and unique. But now they’ve gotten people to call publications on Substack not “blogs” or “newsletters” but “substacks”. Don’t call them that. And as I griped back in December, even the way almost all Substack publications look is deliberately, if subtly, Substack-branded, not per-publication or per-writer branded.
Consider Paul Krugman. Krugman was an op-ed columnist for The New York Times from 2000–2024. But last year the Times wanted to cut him back from writing two columns a week plus his Times-hosted blog/newsletter to writing just one column per week and killing the blog. In an interview with Columbia Journalism Review early this year, Krugman also revealed that after over two decades, he’d started butting heads with his editors over style, tone, and even subject matter:
“I’ve always been very, very lightly edited on the column,” he
said. “And that stopped being the case. The editing became
extremely intrusive. It was very much toning down of my voice,
toning down of the feel, and a lot of pressure for what I
considered false equivalence.” And, increasingly, attempts “to
dictate the subject.”
So Krugman rightfully and righteously told the Times, politely, to fuck off and struck out on his own. Reading Krugman this year, on his own site, has been like rediscovering cane sugar Coca-Cola after drinking the cheaper-to-produce corn syrup variant for a few years. This is The Real Thing — the unadulterated tart-tongued and sharp-elbowed Krugman I remember devouring during both the Bush and Obama administrations. The only hitch: Krugman hung out his independent shingle at Substack — which makes it a shingle under a shingle.
My suspicion is that for a certain class of writers and media commentators who, heretofore, have spent their careers at big-name publications — newspapers and magazines dating back to the print era, TV networks from the cable-is-king era — they actually find comfort writing under the auspices of Substack. See also: Terry Moran, who bounced to Substack after ABC News declined to renew his contract — despite 28 years at the network, including this recent classic — because of a tweet decrying Donald Trump and White House ghoul Stephen Miller. I suspect Moran, and perhaps even Krugman, perceive Substack as conveying a sort of badge of legitimacy. Self-published books, for example, used to be the refuge of kooks and no-talent hacks. I think some who spent their careers working at prestige outlets — especially those like Krugman and Moran, who are a bit older (than me) — feel a bit naked without one. But there’s no real prestige at Substack and never will be. I, for one, am fine with Substack’s liberal philosophy of letting anyone write there, but that means, well, anyone can write there.
Here’s a recent example of the Substack branding trap that irks me — grating like fingernails on a chalkboard — and which I think proves my point. Krugman last month was interviewed by Steve Inskeep at NPR, regarding Trump’s “grotesquely illegal” tariffs levied on Brazil. Introducing Krugman, Inskeep describes Krugman’s current work thus:
The people watching the tariff debate include Paul Krugman. He is
a writer and economist, formerly for The New York Times, now
writing independently on Substack, which is where I often find
him. And since he’s in the United States, I pay no tariff. Mr.
Krugman, welcome to the program.
So far, so good. That’s a fair description. But, concluding the five-minute interview, Inskeep goes with this:
Paul Krugman writes for Substack, formerly with The New York
Times. Thanks so much.
Paul Krugman does not “write for Substack”. No one would say that Jason Snell “writes for WordPress”, or that Jason Kottke or yours truly “writes for Movable Type”. No one says Molly White, Casey Newton, or Craig Calcaterra “writes for Ghost”, or that Oliver Darcy “writes for Beehiiv”. Only with Substack does anyone perceive creator branding as being subservient to the platform — something that ought to be seen merely as an interchangeable CMS — like that.
That is not by happenstance. It’s a trap and it is by design. It’s exactly what Substack wants, and exactly what independent writers and content producers should not.
The vote rescinded $1.1 billion that Congress had allocated to CPB to fund public broadcasting for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. In a press release, CPB explained that the cuts "excluded funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades." CPB president and CEO Patricia Harrison said the corporation had no choice but to prepare to shut down.
"Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations," Harrison said.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has placed unbelievable pressure on drone developers on both sides of the war, who have responded with astounding innovations that include:
first-person view (FPV) drones so maneuverable they can be piloted right through a broken window pane to hit indoor targets
ground drones for both combat and transport
Many drone developers are now chasing the next big thing—AI built right into the drone, allowing it to make autonomous targeting decisions if its communication links are cut.
But sometimes you don't need high-tech software, agility, or stealth. Sometimes, you just need a really, really big drone that can carry an entire e-bike and deliver it to a soldier stranded several kilometers away.
Move over Burj Khalifa, you’ve got to check out this just listed North York penthouse condo with breathtaking views of nothing whatsoever. Featuring floor to ceiling 360 degree panoramic windows surrounding the full suite, future residents can take in the sprawling vacuousness of the surrounding area. From parking lots, to undeveloped fields, to a small […]
