Retro Gaming News
“I’m very happy with the result”. For the longest time, people doubted that the MiSTer FPGA system could ever host an N64 core – but that has now become a reality. As we reported a while back, Robert Peip / FPGAzumSpass has been working tirelessly on an N64 core for MiSTer, and it recently got…
“This is highly disrespectful”. Promising 3DS emulator Citra was taken down recently as collateral damage in Nintendo’s shutdown of Switch emulator Yuzu, but a rival emulator – known as Lemonade – has swiftly stepped into the spotlight. There’s just one problem: it seems the team behind it has stolen code from Citra. Pablomf6, who worked…
Little Samson is highly sought after by collectors. Little Samson, one of the hardest NES games to track down, has been spotted in a job lot of titles up for sale on ShopGoodwill.com, a non-profit auction site connected with the chain of Goodwill charity/thrift stores in North America. Released by Taito to poor sales in…
Room clear! When UK studio Bitmap Bureau began its noble quest to get Xeno Crisis on every system imaginable – including Neo Geo, Dreamcast, GameCube and N64 – it became something of a running joke that the SNES, one of the most popular classic consoles of all time, never seemed to get any love. That…
A website has also been launched. The Japanese developer and publisher Edia has revealed that it is now working on a revival project based on Telenet Japan’s Celtic-inspired RPG series Tenshi no Uta (thanks Gosokkyu!). Tenshi no Uta (sometimes translated to “Song of the Angel” or “Angel’s Poem”) was one of the launch titles for…
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could… After years of keeping them off-limits, Apple recently relaxed its stance on retro emulators on its iOS devices, paving the way for a flood of old-school titles on iPhone and other products. While that flood hasn’t hit the Apple Watch as yet, The Verge…
Working title: ‘Atari STE 50fps Racer’. Atari ST developer Jonathan Thomas is perhaps best known for his work on the Atari STE version of Pole Position and for being part of the team which is porting Gremlin’s Lotus to the ST – but he’s also working on his own racing game for the computer, and…
Ready to…? Back in the day, Nintendo got pretty inventive when it came to prolonging the lifespan of its Game Boy hardware. Devices like the Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer expanded the appeal of the ageing handheld, and some Game Boy Color cartridges even had special features built-in – such as ‘rumble’ force…
Title was originally released in 1985 in Japan. PC-88 RPG Hydlide II: Shine of Darkness is coming to the Project EGG range on Nintendo Switch, it has been revealed. Released for the NEC PC-8801 in 1985 and later ported to the MSX, this game is the sequel to the highly influential 1984 original. One of…
And they’re now on sale! Earlier this week, GOG announced that it had partnered up with the Japanese publisher SNK to release 24 of its classic games on the digital storefront. The new additions include notable titles such as Metal Slug 4 and a couple of games from the KING OF FIGHTERS series like THE…