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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...

Pigsy, the developer behind the Genesis / Mega Drive port of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, has teased another Castlevania-related project – but before you get too excited, it won't be a full remake of the game. Instead, Pigsy has shared a mocked-up screen of Castlevania III: Dracula's...

There are plenty of ways of connecting your Dreamcast to a TV set or monitor, including SCART, composite, VGA and – thanks to the wonders of modern technology – even HDMI. Many people continue to swear by component cables, mainly because they can be twinned with upscalers like the RetroTink 4K...

The homebrew community is no stranger to amazing achievements, be it hacks of already existing games with entirely new characters, stories and levels, to even outstanding and technically impressive ports of certain titles to other consoles or systems, and this time it's Sonic's time to shine...

Our friends over at The Dreamcast Junkyard were lucky enough to speak with former Sega peripheral development manager Kenji Tosaki recently, and he mentioned that the company had very early ideas about creating a motion-sensing controller that would have pre-dated the Wii by over a decade. When...

The Dreamcast is a console which perhaps made a more significant impression on the world of gaming than its humble sales figures would suggest. It was the first home system to launch with the ability to connect to the internet and pioneered many other cool features – such as the VMU for saving...

While there are many unkind souls out there who will tell you that the Sega CD isn't worth a look, this oft-maligned add-on for the Genesis / Mega Drive played host to the excellent Sonic CD – arguably the closest thing to a killer app it could muster. The game has now been ported to the...

Description: This is a revision of Castlevania: Bloodlines (NTSC-U) to update the gameplay options, cutscenes, and colours. Gameplay changes: Region lockout is bypassed. The remixed Castlevania 1-2 tracks are enabled by default when the player picks up the final upgrades. The player can select...

Description: This is a near perfect hack that adds the Spindash into Sonic The Hedgehog. It is perfect in execution and effect. The only thing lacking is the spin animation during peelout. Use on a clean rom to ensure it works. ROM / ISO Information: Sonic The Hedgehog (USA_ Europe).md CRC32...

Limited Run Games has today announced it is releasing a physical Switch version of Valkyria Chronicles Remastered, with pre-orders now open until 22nd September 2024. There'll be three different versions available - the standard copy, a Gallian Edition and a Ragnite Edition. Here's the full...

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 [Fri 23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 BST]: Pigsy has released a new video showing off some of the recent developments related to his Symphony of the Night Genesis port. Update [Mon 25th Dec, 2023 14:25 GMT]: Pigsy has released a playable demo - Merry Christmas! You can download it here...

If you're someone who has an affinity for the Sega Master System, then you might be interested in checking out Star Runner — a new action-puzzler game for PC that was recently released on itch.io and is designed as a bit of a love letter to the classic Sega machine. The game was developed by...

The Sega Game Gear already has a ton of great shoot 'em ups, but it could be about to get another later this year, in the form of the Suzuki Plan's promising naval barrage game Battle Marine (as reported by @GGEAR_TARO). Battle Marine was released on Steam earlier this year in February and was...

Publisher Read-Only Memory is reprinting its superb Sega Dreamcast: Collected Works book. Originally published back in 2019 and written by award-winning author Simon Parkin, the book is produced in collaboration with Sega and is packed with "never-before-published materials and specially...

Hard-working Mega Drive / Genesis ROM hacker Billy Time Games has released a patch for Technosoft's beloved vertically-scrolling shooter Elemental Master which offers new features, cheats and the ability to save your high score. The Elemental Master EXTRA patch features the following gameplay...

Sonic X Shadow Generations seems to be hitting all the right notes, doesn't it? This remaster of the beloved Sonic Generations is going above and beyond with lots of new features, mostly surrounding Shadow the Hedgehog, and the whole package is, so far, looking really promising. SEGA's latest...

SEGA is back with another (another) new look at Sonic X Shadow Generations, the focus this time being on Shadow's fresh Doom Powers. These are the abilities that the edgy hedgehog will be relying on to take down hoards of foes across each stage. We had already spotted some of these in action in...