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“Knowledge of the previous games is wholly unnecessary to enjoy the story”. The third game in Racjin and Square Enix’s trilogy of PS2 games based on the manga series Fullmetal Jacket has received an English fan translation, courtesy of the fan group Anime Game Translations. Fullmetal Alchemist 3: The Girl Who Succeeds God (otherwise known…

“The first static recompilation of a Wii game”. Last week brought the announcement of the “first static recompilation of a Wii game” — Mario Kart Wiicompiled — generating a lot of buzz and excitement across social media, as well as enthusiastic headlines across a ton of different gaming and tech websites. However, something worth noting…

“One of the best Gradius clones I’ve ever played”. Doujin shmup Spolous has a sequel, and it’s free to download. As spotted by Crypticus on social media, Spolous II is a side-scrolling 2.5D shooter with music by Naoya Kamisaka. The visuals hint at a fusion of Konami’s Gradius and Techno Soft’s Thunder Force, which is…

Quintet’s ‘Brightis’ has a fan translation, but, of course, there’s a catch. It seems to be an increasingly common thing in the retro space lately to see an exciting announcement, only to find out that there was some hidden catch that you weren’t originally aware of, hiding just a few clicks away. Case in point…

Is that a Game Boy in your pocket? The Game Boy Pocket turns 30 today. It launched in Japan on July 21th, 1996. It would arrive in the US on September 2nd, 1996. The first revision of Nintendo’s insanely successful Game Boy handheld, the Game Boy Pocket, launched months after Pocket Monster fever had gripped…

“Would there be any human soul in what was created?”. Indie developer Mauro Xavier made headlines a while back for his amazing unofficial port of Capcom’s Final Fight for the Mega Drive / Genesis before making waves of a different kind by revealing he was using GenAI to create the music for one of his…

The Need For Speed debuted on the 3DO in 1994. A homebrew developer is working on bringing Electronic Arts’ 1994 3DO racer The Need For Speed to the real Atari Jaguar hardware, in an experiment to see how far they can push the almost 33-year-old hardware. Budfolk is the developer of the Atari Jaguar homebrew…

Amid continued staff layoffs and studio cut, eight more games, including indie hit Celeste are set to be removed from the Xbox Games Pass network at the end of the month, according to Pure Xbox. As of July 31st, the following games will no longer be able to be assessed on the service. Back to…

Save the day! While FPGA gaming offers an amazing level of accuracy when compared to software emulation, there are things that the latter offers that give it an advantage – one of which is the ability to save your progress at any time. Save states on FPGA platforms aren’t impossible, but they’re a lot harder…