Tag: Famicom
More news from the fantastic Speccy website Planeta Sinclair. Tank 1990 is a new game for the ZX Spectrum, a clone of the 1985 Arcade/Famicom game Battle City, a Japanese game by the mighty Namco. Tank 1990 is a shoot ’em up with some strategy involved. There is also a Russian Speccy version which was released in 1995 by Scorpion…
Gimmick! Yumetaro Odyssey is a ZX Spectrum game that greenwebsevilla has been working on for the ZX-DEV Conversions Compo since September 2017. Today we bring you some exciting News that the game has finally been released! Gimmick! Yumetaro Odyssey is based on the Famicom/NES game “Gimmick” published by Sunsoft. The game is a side-on platformer with many levels connected to one main…
Romhacking.net have updated their website with some brand new hacks and translations patches. Rom Hacks Adventure Island 3 – Googie Edition (Complete)(Adventure Island III)(NES) Megaman 5 Ridley X Hack 4 (Complete)(Mega Man V)(NES) Metafight EX – Backwards Compatibility Patch (Improvement)(Blaster Master: Enemy Below)(GB) Megaman X – Generation (dashfix) (Addendum)(Mega Man X)(SNES) Air Fortress 2 (Spoof)(Choujikuu Yousai: Macross)(NES) Trans Formers Z…
Latest updates over at romhacking.net are as follows: Rom Hacks F-Zero – Stage 12 – Caught! (Complete)(F-Zero)(SNES) Super Mario MCB Color Edition (Improvement)(Super Mario Bros.)(NES) Todos Contra TCHECO (Spoof)(Rockin’ Kats)(NES) Super Puzzle Fighter II for color-blind people (Improvement)(Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo)(ARC) Overhead (Bug Fix)(Final Fantasy III)(SNES) Super Puzzle Fighter II GBA for color-blind people (Improvement)(Super Puzzle Fighter II)(GBA) Rockman…
The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver known for their work as video game developers. They began to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school, contributing their first type-in game to a magazine in 1983. They worked with publishers Codemasters for a number of years following their first collaboration Super Robin Hood, most…
Musashi no Bouken is a role playing game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game plays like Dragon Warrior, like any other similar games in that era. The main character was based on a famous legendary Japanese hero. This is a complete English translation. Download the patch below, check the link for patcher programs, have fun ;) Download: Musashi.zip Patcher Programs: http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/
Kotaku UK has published a short article showing some pictures of one of Nintendo’s storage rooms, featuring mint Famicom and other jewels that a lot of collectors would give a kidney to have! The article shows other pictures that will make you wish to have the key of that locker! Link: Kotaku
The AVS from retroUSB is one of the most compatible and accurate NES clones on the market. Powered by an FPGA chip allowing the device to very closely mimic the hardware on an actual Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom. The system is compatible with original NES controllers and runs original NES cartridges. More details and video review below. Video: 720p wide screen HDMI output,…
Nowadays, it is all about the Internet, right? We can buy anything from almost anywhere, and for people who chase the latest and greatest collectable retro-game there are good options around the globe. However, sometimes it is nice to be able to shop using the old fashion way: driving to a physical store, browse the titles, talk to the sales…
Disk System, a japanese exclusive add-on to the Nintendo Famicom known as the Disk System allowed the 8-bit console to load games from a re-writable source. Thanks to that interface, it was possible to come with a modern storage solution: FDSStick, a Famicom Disk System (FDS) drive emulator. The FDSStick adapter comes with a USB port on one end, and…
