With the advent of 5G service looming on the horizon, it looks like both Amazon and Verizon are ready to take a piece of the gaming pie away from industry giants Microsoft, Nintendo, & Sony. Recently, an article published by The Verge states that
The Nintendo Wii’s life is coming to an end. Released in November 2006 in the USA, the Wii enjoyed over 12 years of game releases. Many of these releases were through the Wii shop, and on January 31, 2019, the shop will shut down.
The Japanese Sega Saturn game Linkle Liver Story has just been given a full English translation! The game, as well as the color manual can now be experienced in English for the first time! Things like this are why romhacking is so important to me, as translations allow entirely new groups of people to experience […]
There’s now a 3D printed case available for the MiSTer FPGA kit. It can be ordered in different color configurations and has models for both the full kit + IO board, as well as the HDMI-only version with a fan. Sadly, the glow-in-the-dark option isn’t available on only the IO ports, would might be a […]
Someone just posted the steps they took to restore a physical map for the game Phantasy Star II. It was pretty cool to see someone go through similarly painstaking steps to restore the original artwork, as many of us often to do restore games and consoles. For things like this, I’m usually a fan of […]
One of the Sonic Mania Developers just posted a few videos talking about a demo they were pitching for a new Darkwing Duck game. The demo uses music from the NES game and has similar controls, however the team added the grappling hook as well. Also, instead of using an “HD” style remake like with Duck […]
Furrtek has just posted a progress update to his MiSTer FPGA core for the Neo Geo. While it’s not quite in a usable state, it’s an exciting advancement from his Patreon post a few months ago. There’s some speculation that this core will require a larger RAM upgrade than is currently used on the MiSTer, […]
The MK2+ project set out to bug-fix, improve, and expand Mortal Kombat 2 Arcade into an unofficial “Ultimate MK2”, and its creator Paul Eischer (@zpaul2fresh8) has expanded his plans to also improve Mortal Kombat 1 & Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, and renamed the project Mortal Kombat Plus mortalkombatplus.com. Paul has now fixed nearly every bug […]
Onimata.tv has released MUCOM88 on Github, a suite of tools created by legendary video-game music composer Yuzo Koshiro for creating music on the NEC PC-88 series. They have included the original software for NEC PC-8801, and a new Windows build with samples of Koshiro’s work included. Mucom88 has been released for free. This is a […]
8BitDo just released the N30-NS controller for the Nintendo Switch. They’re currently advertising it as a controller for Switch Online. Just like the cosmetically identical N30 (specifically designed for the NES Classic), the N30-NS is an NES shaped controller that has 4 face buttons (2 of them being turbo buttons), 2 shoulder buttons (new and […]
