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“They had to know this thing was a dead duck back in early 2020”. The Intellivision Amico feels like a distant memory now, but there’s still plenty of interest in picking through the wreckage of Tommy Tallarico’s ill-fated home console. Electrical engineering legend and long-time Analogue collaborator Kevin ‘Kevtris’ Horton has gotten his hands on…

A proper jewel. If you’re old enough to recall the battle between the PS1, N64 and Saturn at the close of the 1990s, then you’ll no doubt be aware that by 1997, Sega had effectively thrown in the towel in the West. Sony’s 32-bit console was dominant in pretty much every market, but in Japan,…

This new hack unlocks the content. Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits Bushidou Retsuden, also known as Samurai Spirits RPG, launched in 1997 on the Neo Geo CD, Sega Saturn, and Sony PlayStation, and is one of the rare times the series deviated from the one-on-one fighting game template. It was a unique release in that each version…

Unique in a market that desperately needs it. For the past several years, there has been shockingly little innovation in the gaming handheld space. Most products adopt the same candy bar design, with a few outliers chasing nostalgic designs like the Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo 3DS, or even PS Vita. But the Anbernic RG…

In 2020 I told you of a new game that was released by RetroSouls called ‘Old Tower‘. A game that featured a wicked soundtrack, an awesome loading screen, and superb graphics by a worthy team of RetroSouls. Well, fast forward to today, and if you remember playing this game, will be pleased to learn that…

“I have files dating back to 2006 for this one”. Translation group Aeon Genesis has released an English patch for the 1998 PS1 title Real Robots Final Attack, 20 years after the project began. Developed by Banpresto and part of the Super Robot Wars series, which pulls together famous mecha from various anime and manga…

Beat-em-ups, also known as belt scroll action games in Japan, were all the rage in the 1980s and 1990s in arcades. Players controlled beefy characters who pummeled their way through thugs of a dubious nature with their fists, or a special weapon if they were lucky, through 2.5-D urban environments. Most of the time, they…

MiSTer FPGA Multisystem 2 Pocket is in development. The team behind the MiSTer FPGA Multisystem 2 has revealed that it is currently working on a portable version of the system. The new device promises “all the fun of MiSTer – in your pocket” and is currently deep in development as the team explore the ideal…

All thanks to OmniDrive. A new tool has been released which allows you to legally rip optical media for a wide range of classic consoles using your PC’s Blu-Ray drive. OnmiDrive is a firmware modification for MediaTek MT1959-based optical disc drives manufactured by Hitachi-LG Data Storage, allowing the drive to read proprietary game discs for…

“JTCPS3 is finally coming together”. Ever since the MiSTer FPGA project took off, there’s been a hypothetical debate about how far it can be pushed in reproducing the performance of classic hardware. Capcom’s powerful CPS3 arcade system is one of the platforms many people assumed might be out of reach, but developer JOTEGO has been…