All Things Retro
Japanese exclusive gets fan-made translation patch. Japanese Sega Saturn exclusive Dungeon Master Nexus is now playable in English, thanks to the efforts of fans (thanks, @DRPGBook). The patch provides “a complete fan translation” for the 1998 title, which was developed by Software Heaven and published by Victor Interactive Software. Dungeon Master designer Doug Bell has…
A Steam version is coming soon. City Connection & Happy Meal’s enhanced update of the 1983 Jaleco arcade game Exerion is out today (September 21st) on Nintendo Switch, with a version for Steam also planned for the future (thanks GoNintendo!). Final Exerion, as the update is called, is the first in a planned trilogy of…
The Scheme originally released for the PC-88 in 1988. Update : Pre-orders are now open for Yuzo Koshiro’s newly rearranged version of his classic PC-88 soundtrack The Scheme, Limited Run Games has announced. There are three different options available to pre-order. These include a black vinyl record ($29.99), a signed gold vinyl record ($49.99), and…
The game is inspired by early Chinese folk beliefs. The first-time game developer Weiwei Leung and publisher Incube8 Games have officially launched the Kickstarter for Aaling the Ghost, a promising new Game Boy Color RPG inspired by the Han Dynasty funerary arts and the Qu Yuan poem “Summons of the Soul” (Thanks RetroDodo!) The game…
The finest games on Commodore’s beloved 16-bit system. While gaming history tends to be dominated by home consoles, it’s important to remember that, at one point, many players got their fix from a home computer. During the ’80s and early ’90s, powerful 16-bit machines like the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga went toe-to-toe with the…
For the ridiculous price of ¥999,900! As spotted by SuddenDesu on Twitter earlier this week, an extremely rare and undumped piece of Mega Drive software called WonderMidi has just gone on sale in Japan on Yahoo Auctions for an eye-watering price of ¥999,900 (roughly £5,462/$6,765). Wonder Midi was a Victor-developed program created for the special…
The Sega Pluto visits Sega Europe’s HQ. Back in 2013, a forum poster named Super Magnetic blew the collective minds of the Sega community when they revealed the existence of the Sega Pluto, an unreleased Sega console from the 1990s that was essentially a cost-reduced Sega Saturn with built-in NetLink. Only two prototypes are believed…
Pre-orders are open now! If you’re one of those people who still can’t get enough of playing Tetris on the Game Boy all these years later, then we’ve got some great news to share with you. Matt Hughson, the developer of the incredible NES homebrew From Below, has just announced the launch of From Below…
“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…