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What a horrible night to have a curse… Oh, wait… An English translation patch for the FDS game, "Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin" is now available to download! You play the role of Simon Belmont seven years after the event of the previous game. Turns that after Simon dispatched Dracula, a curse was...

Mirai Shinwa Jarvas has a poor reputation. This 1987 Nintendo Famicom action RPG from Taito is known for having one of the first removable batteries for saving games. But players often complain about its poor design, dull graphics, and frequent crashes. So, ROM hacker Mentil spent about four...

An interesting development has been spotted in Nintendo's recent financial results. Eagle-eyed fans have noticed an English box art for the Famicom Detective Club remakes in an infographic showcasing Nintendo's software lineup. The box art in question is for "Famicom Detective Club: The...

An unreleased piece of software for Nintendo's Famicom Disk System has just been discovered in Japan, sparking a bit of excitement on social media that it could be a missing piece of Nintendo history (thanks @goldwing1992 for the spot). The software was discovered by Junkya.Hassy, a retro gamer...

Earlier this week, the author Florent Gorges announced the long-awaited release of The History Of Nintendo: the Story of the Family Computer and The History Of Nintendo: The Incredible Story of the Game Boy in English. As mentioned below, both books had previously only ever been published in...

The Jaleco action-adventure title Bio-Senshi DAN: Increaser to no Tatakai is being released on Nintendo Switch on September 26th, City Connection has revealed. The reissue of the game (which is being localized as Bio Warrior DAN The Increaser War) was announced back in July as part of City...

In a recent interview with Eurogamer at Gamescom, the Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami was asked which game of his he would like to revisit if given the chance, and his answer was fairly unusual. He seemed to shoot down the possibility of revisiting Dino Crisis — the winner of a recent...

Next week sees the arrival of Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club exclusively on the Nintendo Switch. Of course, we're now at the point where you'll soon have to decide whether or not you'll be picking up this "dark and twisted thriller" on the Switch. It's worth mentioning the...

As an M-rated game being published by Nintendo, there's certainly been a lot more interest in Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club in the lead-up to its release than there might have been with a more...well, Nintendo-esque content rating attached. Whether it deserves the full-blown...

Nintendo has revealed that Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club — which launches in just under two weeks — is getting a free demo next week, on 19th August 2024. But, just like an unravelling mystery, the demo will be coming in parts. The initial download will contain Chapter 1 of the...

Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club is out later this month and while Nintendo has already shared a fair bit of backstory, it seems the ESRB rating has now revealed a little more. By no means is this your average family-friendly Switch release, as it's rated 'M' and features blood...

Rainbow Arts' Rendering Ranger: R² is one of the rarest Super Famicom games in existence, but thanks to a partnership between Ziggurat Interactive and Limited Run Games, it's now heading to the Switch and will launch this Winter. Although initially announced back in 2022, Ziggurat and Limited...

We love it when classic NES / Famicom games just seem to prance onto the Switch eShop with no prior warning (though we just happened to miss the warning for this one. This time, two classic Jaleco games have made their way onto the hybrid console courtesy of publisher City Connection: Pinball...

Red Art Games has announced a partnership with Sunsoft to launch a new collection for Nintendo Switch, dubbed Sunsoft Is Back! Retro Game Collection. The compilation will launch digitally on 6th September for $9.99 / €9.99, with a physical edition to follow via the Red Art Games website on 4th...

Masahiro Sakurai is once again delving into his video game knowledge with a video all about the intricacies of NES and Famicom audio. What begins as an introduction to the consoles' different audio processing channels (pulse, triangle, noise and DPCM), soon turns into a history lesson about how...

Game Description: Lutter is an role playing game for the Family Computer Disk System. Translation Description: This is an English translation of Lutter for the Family Computer Disk System. Well it doesn't look like there was much to translate in the first place, but what IS translated is nice...

A group of fan translators has just released a new English patch for the Japan-exclusive Nintendo Famicom board game Shuffle Fight. Originally launched in 1992, Shuffle Fight is part of Banpresto's Compati Hero series, and features figures from series like Mobile Suit Gundam, Muteki Koujin...

Unless you're a dedicated Famicom collector, it's unlikely that you've heard of Metal Slader Glory. Released right at the tail end of the Famicom's life in 1991, the year after the release of the Super Famicom, Metal Slader Glory never made it out of Japan, and it proved to be a massive flop for...

Game Description: Oh great, it's one of these things. You know, one of those text adventure games that nobody likes. I'm not trying to trivialize the genre or anything, but…well, the ability to really enjoy this type of game has more to do with a quality that one possesses - a virtue, if you...

Just recently, we reported on the newly announced Official Joy-Con Charging Stand for the Switch (which is totally to allow users to charge their Joy-Con when used as additional controllers with the 'Switch 2' - wait, where are our tinfoil hats?). Amid all the initial confusion, however, we...