Category: Games Consoles
I made an NES emulator. Here’s what I learned about the original Nintendo. Michael Fogleman has published an article at Medium.com talking about his experience on making a Nintendo emulator from scratch. He goes very technical, explaining hardware details of the 6502 and the NES itself. He wrote the emulator using the language Go, and all the source code is…
Let’s Play Game Expo organizers have acquired copies of Hyper Fighting for Virtual Boy, and will be doing a live demo at the event next August 1-2 in Dallas, Texas. According to Christian Deitering (best known as “Ferris Bueller” on NintendoAge), people attending the event will be able to play Hyper Fighting all day Saturday on real Virtual Boy handhelds,…
[youtube Xp-SgLJle1E nolink] Retro Collect website has reported the discovery of another long lost unreleased title for the Super Nintendo – Tom VS Jerry The Chase is on!. The user steve78 on NintendoAge forum has published some pictures of the ROMs and he’s in the process to make it work, and hopefully make the game available for the public later…
Paulo Peccin has announced at AtariAge forum that his Atari 2600 emulator has been completely rewritten, and is now 100% Javascript/HTML5, make it suitable to run directly in your web-browser without the need to install Java plugin, etc. He also tells us that the emulator is very easy to integrate into websites, and even offers help if one needs it….
The UK’s favourite Arcade, Indie & Retro video gaming expo comes to the Winter Gardens, Margate from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd August 2015. Fans of gaming are in for a real treat! PLAY is brought to you by the organisers of Play Expo and video gaming suppliers to GEEK, so will be jam packed with hundreds of games, consoles, arcades,…
[youtube qwXEew58wV4 nolink] RetroCollect shows us another great finding – the release of a cancelled Game Boy Advance game – ‘Dune: Ornithopter Assault’. The game was developed by Soft Brigade and it was set to be released in 2002 but due to financial difficulties the publisher, the game was cancelled before it could reach the stores. The game can be…
It seems retro gaming has finally become mainstream, and you will have another source of overpriced retro-goods other than eBay! GameStop is planning to launch a new pilot program for classic consoles, games, and accessories starting April 25. Stores in its NYC and Birmingham markets, which comprise around 250 store locations, will play host to the program. The systems and…
This is a hack of Alex Kidd in Miracle World, aiming to provide new challenges for fans of the original, given the game a bit of an audiovisual update, as well as to make parts of the original game flow a bit better. The hack comes as an .ips patch and should be applied to a ver. 1.1 rom of…
[youtube l5PJXMrSTDc#t=137 nolink] With the recent release of the enhanced Raspberry Pi, it was only a matter of time before gamers pushed the pocket-sized computer to its limits. Taking the source code from the popular emulator Reicast, talented developers have managed to get Sega Dreamcast classics up and running on the Raspberry Pi 2. While there’s still plenty of work…
[youtube oVLqxel_jMY nolink] There’s nothing worse than booting up one of your favourite titles only to find your save game has been lost due to a backup-battery running out of juice. While there are methods available to backup your efforts before the inevitable end of a battery’s life, an all new USB solution has just been released allowing you to…
