Retro News

“It’s like if you gave control to a 6-month-old baby who can hit buttons”. We recently covered the story of the Rose Tinted Spectrum YouTube channel being taken down for seemingly no real reason before being thankfully reinstated, but we’ve done some digging since then and have discovered that YouTube’s heavy-handed content guidelines are causing…

It’s called “Retro Gold”. AYANEO’s Pocket Micro handheld is one of the most impressive devices of its type, offering potent emulation power in a genuinely travel-friendly form factor. The company has revealed that it’s launching a new variant of the device in 2025 which comes in the same colourway as the classic Nintendo Famicom –…

“This is obscenely well made”. Starteam’s Sonic Galactic is a fan-made Sonic game which compares very favourably to Sonic Mania, and its latest demo has recently become available for download. As noted by Digital Foundry’s John Linneman, the new demo is astonishingly polished – so much so that you could tell us this was a…

You can also boot copied discs now. The Saroo flash cart for Saturn has become an essential upgrade for Sega’s 32-bit console; it allows games to be booted via the system’s expansion port without having to make any internal modifications. Its creator, tpunix, has been slowly improving its features and compatibility during 2024, and the…

Update: Version 1.1 can now be downloaded. Quintet’s classic SNES RPG Illusion of Gaia (also known as Illusion Of Time) has just received a new fan translation 30 years after it launched in North America. Like so many RPG localisations of the period, the English script was pretty awkward – but thankfully, a fan by…

But “don’t get too excited”. For a system that was never officially released, the SNES PlayStation has certainly eaten up plenty of column inches over the past few years – and understandably so. This union between Nintendo and Sony could have revolutionised the 16-bit market, but ultimately, the deal was broken off when Nintendo became…

Console got a whole new game in 1990, not a port. Given that it was once famous for the quality of its arcade games, it’s somewhat odd that Sega produced so many home console titles that were connected with their coin-op parents in name only. Both the Genesis / Mega Drive and Master System ports…

Single-RAM core also coming to MiSTer FPGA. Atari’s Jaguar will soon be playable on the Analogue Pocket thanks to the efforts of FPGA developer Mazamars. The core was shown in action during Pixel Cherry Ninja’s recent live stream, which also showed off the single-RAM Jaguar core for MiSTer FPGA. Read the full article on timeextension.com…

“We’ve never seen anything like this before”. While it’s fair to say that modern-day television sets produce a sharper, brighter and more colourful image than ones from a few decades ago, there’s no denying that CRT TVs have their place in the world of retro gaming. Many vintage games were designed to be viewed on…