Category: Nintendo News
retrogamedev over at NintendoAge forums has shared some News about his new NES Homebrew game in development called betelgeuse. Retro describes the game as a “Zelda 1 Like Shooter”. From what we can see, the graphics resemble similarities to NES Zelda and the game has “Shoot’ em up” aspects thrown in. He also mentions that game engine is almost complete (sprite engine, collisions, animations and sprite…
For those of you that bought a Nintendo Switch, you must be wondering where are the games? Well they are coming.. just not very fast. Yes there are quite a few Indie Game titles available for the system, as well as some cool Neo Geo games. I’m sure you all bought Breath of the Wild, but some hardcore gamers have…
Eurogamer website has published an article stating that sources close to Nintendo confirmed a SNES Classic will be launched this year. Last week we published a post talking about the end of production of the NES Classic, and we even mentioned that possibility of a SNES! It seemed just natural that with the success of the NES Classic, Nintendo wouldn’t…
Nintendo is famous for being behind on shipments of its most successful products, like the original Wii and more recently, the NES Classic. To get one NES Classic for the listed price at your local retailer, you would need to be very lucky or stay in lines for hours before the doors were open. An almost impossible task for most of…
This year, Canada is celebrating 150 years and releasing a commemorative $10 bill is part of the activities planned for this year. And this is vintage/retro how? You might be asking… The retro-gaming bit is that the Bank of Canada website showing off a beautiful 360 degrees rendered bill (which you can flip around) hides an easter egg that can be…
Playtonic is about to launch Yooka-Laylee for the Nintendo Switch, as well as PC, XBOX One and PS4. We can’t wait to play the official successor to Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie, it’s gonna be awesome! I’m sure just like us, you have all been waiting for the third installment for some time now. Now you’re probably wondering why we are talking about…
Latest updates over at romhacking.net are as follows: DuckTales 2 – Two Players Hack Mod 1-player game to support 2-players game simultaneously. Second player is Darkwing Duck! New in version 1.4a (31 Jan 2017): Select for 1 player or 2 players game. 1 player game matches original. Game slowdowns reduced. Improved sprites showing on hardware/with sprite limit enabled. Many bugs…
We just had some fantastic exclusive News in our inbox today! Antoine Gohin (glutock), creator of Twin Dragons Demo for the NES, just announced that the nesdev compo 2016 demo version has been released! You can download the rom from the link below. Many thanks for the heads up Antoine. :) Download: Twin-Dragons-20170131-0.074.nes Original Post: vitno.org Forum Thread: nintendoage.com
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Twin Dragons is a very cute upcoming platformer by glutock for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is very near completion and is an entry for the NESdev compo 2016, which ends on January 31, 2017. What’s Working: Horizontal scrolling, Actors animations, basic physics, one-way platforms, Dragon’s fireballs, Simple enemy AI, Background collisions, Actor/item collisions, items/power-ups, moving platforms (horizontal and vertical), basic sound effects and 45° slopes. Left to do: add flying…
