Retro Gaming News
The hack has been dubbed “F-Zero: Vintage Velocity”. Back in November of last year, we told you about a new ROM hack that introduced almost all of the stages from the GBA game F-Zero Maximum Velocity into the SNES original. Well, now it appears that a new group has also done the exact opposite, implementing…
Two Giga Carts coming this year. Blaze has revealed that its Evercade line of systems will soon benefit from “Giga Carts” – larger cartridges with more storage space. This new higher storage capacity will pave the way for bigger titles, allowing Blaze to bring modern-day releases to the system. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
Konami, give this man a job. Konami had been sleeping on the Metal Gear series for the longest time following its split from franchise creator Hideo Kojima, but it has finally begun giving it some attention via a Metal Gear Solid 3 remake and a collection of classic titles. There’s still room for much more…
Coming “soon” to Steam. Over the weekend, the Brazilian developer Ludic Studios gave an update on its in-development Steam shoot ’em up Wind Runners as part of #screenshotsaturday, and it looks set to be a modern take on classic 2D dogfighting games like Wings of Fury and Jetstrike. Wings of Fury, in case you’re unfamiliar,…
FunnyPlaying’s new GBA motherboard makes it possible. It’s a sad fact that gaming hardware, like any other piece of consumer tech, has a finite lifespan. Buttons break, internal parts fail and, eventually, consoles are going to cease working. To prolong the lifespan of machines like the Game Boy and GBA, we’ve seen a host of…
The next entry in the Seiken Densetsu series. Square Enix has just released a new Japanese trailer for the upcoming Visions of Mana, and it’s a wonderfully nostalgic ride through the history of the series. The trailer begins back in 1991, with a young boy walking into his local games store and picking up a…
Their back catalogue will be available through Materia Store in the future. If you’re a lover of video game music, you’ve probably come across the name Ship To Shore in the past. The boutique record label is fairly well-known in the VGM community for its quality reissues of classic video game soundtracks on vinyl, previously…
PS1 motherboard was “cut in half, folded like a book”. Only last week, we reported on a portable PS1 that was built into a Japan-only controller. This is an impressive achievement, but it’s one that was built around emulation and not original hardware. For all of the PS1 purists out there, we advise you to…
“To be clear, I’m not pissed at the developer”. Apple recently changed its App Store policies to allow retro gaming emulators to appear on its iOS devices, finally bringing the likes of the iPhone in line with Android handsets, which have been able to play emulators since day one. It didn’t take long for an…
Update: Pixel Cherry Ninja and Pramod Somashekar make peace. Update: It seems Pixel Cherry Ninja and Pramod Somashekar have now buried the hatchet and have moved on, which is great news: Original Story : It’s fair to say that Field-Programmable Gate Array chips have revolutionised the way we play retro games in the modern era….