Hello readers! My name is Alex Mitchell and I’m a gaming enthusiast with a background in communications and film & television production. While I don’t have any professional training as a journalist, I still strive to accurately and honestly report on projects, products, and events in the retro gaming community. I could not be more honoured to be contributing to this website and hope you enjoy my articles.
P.S. My definition of “retro” is: If it has been fifteen years or two generations since the end of a game console’s lifespan.
After being teased exactly one year ago, Analogue has announced a pre-order date and more information about their latest product: an FPGA-based Nintendo 64 clone console known as the Analogue 3D. If you’ve got $250 USD burning a hole in your pocket and the time to test your luck on October 21st, 8:00AM PDT, then you […]
Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition—a fan project that has been remastering Silent Hill 2’s PC port to create a definitive version of the original game—has received its final major update this week. Update #10 dropped last Friday and includes fixes for a host of visual bugs, a modernized input configuration menu, and even a completely […]
After a lengthy absence, Fixel (aka, Felix)—the developer behind the FreeDO emulator and the 3DO ODE project—released a statement last Sunday that outlined the current status of a variety of projects they’ve been taking pre-orders for. To summarize: Fixel still plans to release everything he has announced up to this point but, because of the […]
ROMHacking.net, a repository for ROM hacks, translations, utilities, homebrew, and a variety of other software, will cease operations and go read-only as of August 1st, 2024. The state of affairs from this point forward will be as follows: Excluding account and profile information, RHDN and the content it hosted has been uploaded to archive.org for […]
Cybdyn Systems has released an update for their Playstation Optical Drive Emulator, the PSIO. Developed over the course of roughly three and a half years, this update aims to address a wide swath of compatibility and performance issues while adding new features—such as GameID functionality for use with products like 8BitMods’ MemoryCard Pro line and […]
(Update 24-03-10: Krikzz released a hotflix for the v1.06 Turbo Everdrive Pro firmware that fixes an SD card write bug.) Following a recent update for the Mega Everdrive Pro last week, Krikzz has released updates for both the Everdrive 64 and Turbo Everdrive Pro. Most of the notes in both of these these changelogs seem fairly technical, […]
If you’re a fan of the extremely limited handful of GameCube games with online and local network functionality, today is your lucky day. Swiss, a homebrew utility that extends and enhances the functionality of the GameCube platform, will have Broadband Adapter (BBA) emulation support implemented in its upcoming releases. Although Nintendo clearly prioritized developing local […]
Kineko Video, a fan group that restores lost media, has just announced that they’ve used a Doomsday Duplicator to remaster the Japanese horror film “Sweet Home“. Although not directly video game related, fans of survival horror may know that the licensed Sweet Home Famicom game is functionally the beginning of the genre, leading directly to […]
While Analogue’s consoles are advertised as a way for retro gaming enthusiasts to enjoy their original physical libraries in high-fidelity, every one of their FPGA consoles eventually receives a semi-official “jailbreak” firmware that allows them to run game titles from the SD card slot. This trend continued yesterday with the release of a jailbreak for […]
As chronicled in a recent video from Did You Know Gaming, lost content from the ephemeral Satellaview F-Zero broadcasts has been restored by fans through a ROM hack: Download the IPS/BPS patches for your version of F-Zero at the Internet Archive. The Satellaview, a hardware add on that allowed Japanese SNES owners to download games […]
