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Update: Tito at Macho Nacho Productions shows off this amazing mod. The Kawaii is making amazing progress, with physical prototypes now showing up online. “The ninjas can’t stop this portablizer,” says YveltalGriffin. “I received the anodized aluminum prototype shells from @Ding earlier this month. In person, they actually look better than the renders.” Read the…
A hidden deck of cards lived inside every Windows PC. No installation. No extra cost. Today, millions still play Solitaire online during their work breaks. One of the best platforms to play Solitaire online is PlaySolitaire.game. Other players play FreeCell online to test their logic. These classic Windows games began as humble desktop features. They…
Slot sequels follow a familiar pattern: preserve the theme, keep the recognizable rhythm, and revise the parts that shape play most directly. The best follow-ups do more than swap artwork or rename a bonus round. They alter how often features arrive, where value sits in the game, and how the session feels from the first…
“Will you be the Miracle Boy you’ve been waiting for?”. SamSoft’s Wonder Boy-inspired Miracle Boy in Dragon Land is now available to download for 15.00€. Described by the modern-day version of Zzap! as “a true masterpiece”, this homebrew ST title is heavily influenced by Wonder Boy in Monster World / Wonder Boy V: Monster World…
It’s very early days, though. The decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap has finally yielded a playable PC port, thanks to the efforts of 999sian. Before you get too excited, it’s worth pointing out that this isn’t finished and there are bugs present; the developer notes that “rendering and gameplay paths are…
Eight-player explosive action lives again! When the Dreamcast was put out to pasture at the dawn of the 2000s, it predictably meant that one of its key selling points – online play – was disabled as well. Thankfully, in recent years, we’ve seen the community step in to take Dreamcast games online once more –…
“It got ridiculously complicated”. A while back, we reported on Joshua Barretto‘s efforts to replicate Super Mario 64 on the humble Game Boy Advance – and that project has now inspired a second attempt to bring the game to the handheld. Fellow modder Brendan Tobias Friedly (AKA Game of Tobi) has published a video showcasing…
“Bonanza Bros. Golden Heist” was submitted on April 14th. Sega’s been very keen to leverage its library of classic games of late, releasing a new Shinobi and lining up sequels for Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe and Jet Set Radio. It also recently launched the ‘Sega Universe’ initiative, which aims to celebrate some surprising deep cuts…
it’s almost certainly not with any sort of affection. A slow, primitive-looking grind of a game with repetitive music and confusing action, Hydlide came across as nothing so much as a terrible clone of The Legend of Zelda when it hit the NES in the spring of 1989. Thanks to its opaque goals, Hydlide certainly…
Developer Paweł Juen Nowak has began porting the challenging Pico8 platformer Celeste to the Commodore Amiga, designed to display using C2P techniques which necessitate a higher-powered processor for smooth gameplay. While running well on a 50MHz 060, the port requires feedback from users on various configurations to determine optimal performance, particularly for the provided fast…