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Like most Sonic fans, we love the GBA's 'Advance' Series. We have fond memories of playing through the Advance trilogy (and even the tangentially related fighting RPG and pinball spinoffs) in the early 2000s, but bar the SonicN N-Gage port and a Virtual Console release in Japan, we haven't had...

Update [Tue 10th Sep, 2024 20:00 BST]: It looks like 8BitMods' VMU Pro will feature a color display: Original Story [Sat 3rd Aug, 2024 19:30 BST]: If you've heard of the name 8BitMods, then you'll almost certainly be aware of the fact that the company creates an amazing line of 'new' memory...

Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 are beloved among Sonic fans, but not just for the fast-paced Sonic (or Shadow) stages or the cracking music. The Chao Garden, a side activity in both games, is beloved even today, and fans have been dying to see a standalone Chao Garden game where we can...

Description: This hack restores the original colors for the Batman & Spider-Man bosses that appear in Stage 6-3 from the prototype version of this game. It also makes the Staff Roll appear on the international side of the ROM as well. ROM / ISO Information: Super Shinobi, The (Japan).bin...

Yesterday marked 25 years since the North American launch of the Dreamcast, and Limited Run Games has joined the celebrations with a Dreamcast Trading Card game. The series contains "over 200 premium trading cards featuring art from the system's most iconic games and franchises", which will be...

Retro Fighters is launching a new Dreamcast controller inspired by the best fighting game pad of yesteryear. Produced by ASCII, the Pad FT had a brilliant rolling D-pad and six face buttons, making it perfect for the many amazing fighting games on the console. Now, Retro Fighters is...

It was back at the end of last year that SEGA announced it was working on reboots for a variety of franchises including Crazy Taxi, and at the time we were treated to short snippets of gameplay footage for each title. This time we've got much more than that though. Over on Twitter, an account...

The Dreamcast is now 25 years old – it launched in Japan at the end of 1998, and recently celebrated a quarter-century since its North American release. The first home console to come with internet connectivity out of the box, Sega's final domestic gaming system will have given many players...

Description: This is a hack which adds levels that were scrapped from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Sega Genesis. The levels in the hack are listed below: Emerald Hill Zone Chemical Plant Zone Aquatic Ruin Zone Casino Night Zone Hill Top Zone Wood Zone: (scrapped from final release) Dust Hill Zone...

Description: Kirby in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 features Kirby and Waddle Dee as the lead protagonists to defeat Dr'Robotnik. Kirby can inhale monitors and most enemies but cannot copy their abilities, Waddle Dee has no unique moves. Life counter function as Health points and the only way to obtain...

It appears there have been some more gameplay leaks of Sega's legacy revival projects. This information comes from a leaker formerly known as 'Midori'. According to the source, the footage on display is still "early" in each game's development cycle. First up, we have a look at the Crazy Taxi...

The Sega Dreamcast has started to gain some love by their homebrew community this year, with games like Doom 64 and Sonic Mania receiving unofficial ports to the last main Sega console. Today, another beloved classic title has joined the ranks of games being ported unofficially to the console...

We try to keep politics out of our reporting here at Time Extension, mainly because it seems to cause nothing but trouble 99.9% of the time, but we couldn't resist this one – yes, someone has added the Democrat Vice President nominee Tim Walz to Crazy Taxi. If you're wondering why this has...

Sega's Super Hang-On is one of the company's best 'Super Scaler' racers, but you really need to experience the arcade original to get the full impact, thanks to its authentic handle bar interface. Of course, if you're comfortable hacking stuff, then you could always take @DrTomTilley's...

A free fan game was launched on itch.io earlier this week that crosses Sega's classic shoot 'em up series Fantasy Zone with the mobile hit Flappy Bird. And unsurprisingly, it's just as addictive as the games that inspired it. Fantasy Zone - Flappy Opa-Opa was built in just one week by the...

Description: This is a hack of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Sega Genesis that adds features from Sonic 3 into it. The features are: Features Slightly redesigned Title Screen. Knuckles is playable with all his moves from Sonic & Knuckles. File select screen ported. All item monitors from Sonic 3...

Description: A full hack of Sonic the Hedgehog 1, with tons of features, brand new levels, playable characters, Sonic CD style gameplay (minus the extended camera), and more. I created this Sonic the hedgehog hack back in October 31, 2011 (Halloween), everything has been changed and feels like a...

If you've been looking for an excuse to revisit Streets of Rage 2, then today's your lucky day. The prolific ROM hacker and "retro mad scientist" BillyTime!Games has just released a brand new IPS patch for the classic 1992 sidescrolling beat 'em up, which adds a simple levelling system to the...

Description: This ROM patch restores the characters in Streets of Rage 3 to their superior Bare Knuckle III colors. The current version (3.13) restores the changed characters' (ie. Axel, Blaze and Skate) sprites, status bar icons and cut scene pictures amongst other things. ROM / ISO...

Description: ReConstruct: Phantasy Star IV is a careful edit of the official localization that takes care to use the established lore terms from Phantasy Star games previous, while using more natural and concise English and fixing a few translation errors. Also available on Steam. Implements...