Retro Gaming News
“There was no connection between Game Yaroze and Net Yaroze”. You likely already know about Sony’s Net Yaroze project. It was a well-publicised global endeavour which attempted to allow PlayStation 1 enthusiasts the opportunity to create games for the system. Buying in to the project provided users with a black Net Yaroze dev kit, plus…
You can help by backing its Kickstarter. A Metal Gear fan named Zac Fitzsimmons has just launched a new Kickstarter to fund his research into deconstructing the Metal Gear D — the iconic bipedal tank that features on the box art of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and that also appeared as one of the…
Featuring Hi-Score SRAM & difficulty tweaks. SNK’s Mega Drive / Genesis port of Art of Fighting is a lot harder than your typical fighting game, thanks to its punishing AI and challenging single-player campaign. But a new ROM hack has recently set out to change just that, improving the number of options available so that…
The game features music from Nobuo Uematsu. Update : The download link for the English fan translation of Dynami Tracer is now available on romhacking.net. So if you want to play one of Square’s more obscure titles from the ’90s, now’s your chance! You can grab the patch here. Original Story : Another “lost” Squaresoft…
“Social media has become absolutely useless for sharing anything meaningful”. As well as being a Time Extension contributor, Mikolai Napieralski runs Forgotten Worlds, a website about video game magazines. It’s not a magazine about video game magazines, and he’s here to tell you about it, and several other examples… My COVID fever dream has a…
“We have to start by brainstorming”. Yasuyuki Oda, General Manager of SNK Software Development Division 1, has revealed that early work has begun on a reboot of the Art of Fighting series, as well as a Samurai Shodown entry which isn’t a fighting game. Speaking to the Japanese site 4Gamer (thanks, gosokkyu) Oda said: Read…
Pre-orders are now open. Update #2 : Atari and MyArcade have opened up pre-orders for their brand new game console, the Gamestation Pro (which is not to be confused with Atari’s other recently announced retro console, the Atari 2600+). According to the store page now live on MyArcade, the device will feature over 200 games,…
Also known as ‘Brawl Brothers’ and ‘Rival Turf’. City Connection has announced that it is creating a sequel to Jaleco’s Rushing Beat / Brawl Brothers / Rival Turf series, called Rushing Beat X: Return of Brawl Brothers. The company has confirmed the game will be shown off at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. Read the…
Virtual insanity? What can be said about the Virtual Boy which hasn’t been said a million times already? Arguably Nintendo’s most high-profile commercial failure in the realm of video game hardware, this headache-inducing device is often blamed for the premature departure of the legendary Gunpei Yokoi from the company he helped build; rumour has it…
Hummer Team’s Mortal Kombat II originally launched in 1994. A popular NES bootleg of the arcade classic Mortal Kombat is set to get an overhaul, thanks to a group of homebrew developers. The project called Mortal Kombat Arkade Edition has been in development for a while already, but only recently came to our attention thanks…