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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…
Ocean’s Gary Bracey will also be there. Tickets are now on sale for this year’s Nottingham Video Games Expo, and it has been confirmed that former Rare artist and designer Kev Bayliss will be in attendance. The event – which takes place at the Crowne Plaza on Saturday 18th July 2026 – marks its fifth…
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An official N64 port was considered back in the ’90s, but never finished. Footage has emerged of a work-in-progress Tomb Raider port for the N64, suggesting Core Design’s classic 3D platformer could soon be coming to the 64-bit system unofficially. The footage was uploaded to YouTube last month, on April 13th, 2026, by a user…
If you’ve never heard of Super Mario Kart, then I guess you were living in a cave, as this game series which first appeared in 1992 on the SNES, was one of the most addictive arcade style racing games ever to appear on a TV screen. So to see someone try to create a Mario…