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The Saturn benefitted from a 4MEG RAM cartridge which allowed developers to store more information and create arcade-perfect ports of games like X-Men vs. Street Fighter and King of Fighters '96, and ended up being one of the more unique aspects of the console's accessory library. A decade ago...

Update [Tue 20th Aug, 2024 11:35 BST]: Mauro Xavier has offered an updated look at his latest Mega Drive / Genesis project, Driftin' Rage in an exciting new video uploaded to his YouTube channel. The video shows an extended look at the stylish vehicle selection screen, as well as some direct...

The New 8-Bit Heroes's director Joe Granato revealed that the popular NES development software NESmaker will soon be changing its name to Retro Game Forge and will also be adding support for SNES development. NESMaker, in case you're unaware, is a software development tool that currently costs...

Australian Comedian Tommy Dassalo is getting his very own Game Boy Color game, thanks to the talents of Gumpy Function / Tom Lockwood. Called Super Dassalo Land, it launches this Friday (August 9th) and will serve as a prequel to Dassalo's free-to-watch stand-up comedy special Scam Artist...

Hello everyone, this is IconGrabber. A homebrew that one can probably best describe as an unofficial steamgriddb.com client for the Nintendo Switch. You can search for games and then preview and download icons that you want. After that, you can apply any icon to any installed title of your...

Dont see any post here but see that on Reddit. Its made by a dev called Clownacy and all credits go to him. Background from his GitHub page: When Pixel made Cave Story, he compiled the original Windows EXE with no optimisations. This left the generated assembly code extremely verbose and easy...

Earlier this week, the homebrew developer Cursed Bootleg released the first demo for Trick Tactics, a promising new card-based RPG for the original Game Boy. The demo sees players embark on an epic quest across a fantasy world after their village is attacked by monsters, wandering through...

Remember when Sega first demonstrated the power of its Dreamcast console by showing a 3D model of then-present Shoichiro Irimajiri being manipulated and illuminated in real time? Well, fast-forward a few decades, and the development community has taken this concept to the next level, thanks to a...

Hi, You might already be aware that an old Godot port was originally made by TheCruel a long time ago. As they won't be able to continue working on it for....some reasons, I ended up taking over where they left off and updated the version of godot to 2.1.7 (the version of the original port was...

Mauro Xavier, the fan developer behind the hotly anticipated Final Fight MD, has revealed a new original game that he is developing for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. Driftin' Rage, as the project is called, is a 16-bit racer for the Sega console inspired by classic games like OutRun, Top Gear...

Update [Tue 30th Jul, 2024 17:30 BST]: Woodfrog has announced the name of his new SNES game and has also released its first trailer, giving a closer look at what you can expect from the in-development title. As revealed in the trailer published on Twitter, the project will be called Till & Hat...

The solo developer Tim Fitzrandolph (otherwise known online as Walaber) has announced today in a press release that he will be bringing the upcoming PC racing game Parking Garage Rally Circuit to the Sega Saturn and Nintendo Switch, following fan requests — provided it manages to sell well...

Remember Tengen? From 1987 to 1994, it was a subsidiary of Atari Games focused on creating unlicensed titles for the NES by attempting to circumvent Nintendo's licensee restrictions. After obtaining a copy of the Nintendo lock-out program, Tengen was well on its way to creating its own NES...

We recently reported on the news that Sega's unreleased Neptune console – a Mega Drive and 32X combined – is getting an unofficial resurrection in FPGA form thanks to a Brazilian company called GamesCare. The GF1 Neptune will also get its own exclusive games, the first of which has been...

Indie developer Pacnsac Games has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new NES game which takes plenty of inspiration from Konami's Metal Gear. In fact, if we were being slightly unkind, we'd go as far as to suggest that it's little more than a rip-off and even uses near-identical sprites to...

F-Zero was a real system seller for the SNES; while you could argue that the console didn't need another 'killer app' when it had Super Mario World, the futuristic racer showed off its Mode 7 rotational prowess and arguably turned heads a lot more effectively as a result. It's no coincidence...

After a long wait, we now finally have a date for when Roguecraft pre-orders will open. According to a recent tweet from the game's publisher Thalamus Digital, published earlier this month, you will be able to pre-order the game from July 1st. Three different physical versions will be...

A new fan-made port of Metal Slug has been released for the Sega Dreamcast which is even better than the 1996 original. Developed by Ian Micheal, this port leverages the developer's DreamNeo CD Neo Geo CD emulator to deliver the smoothest and most feature-rich conversion of the game yet seen...

LennyTube Youtube on the Nintendo Switch (NRO format). Rationale The YouTube title on the Switch is only usable if one is not banned, since the title in question logs in on Nintendo Network. Whilst it's possible to bypass this by patching the YouTube app, this is far from ideal as the resulting...

Dune II is regarded as one of the most influential RTS titles of all time. Based on the famous sci-fi novels by Frank Herbert, it took the epic battle for Arrakis and turned it into a real-time contest of cunning, strategy and resource management, paving the way for subsequent games like Command...