Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon LeafGreen are off to a strong start on the Nintendo Switch eShop. Shortly after going live digitally, both titles shot up the eShop sales charts in multiple regions, with FireRed reportedly taking the top spot and LeafGreen close behind — a solid performance for titles that are essentially enhanced re-releases. Under […]
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Let’s be clear, this is purely theoretical. With AI driving up demand for DRAM and NAND, RAM and storage prices are trending upward. Data centers and AI infrastructure get priority, and everyone else feels the ripple effect. Here’s the interesting part. Modern AAA games regularly exceed 50-100GB. They’re expensive to host, expensive to patch, and […]
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This might be one of the coolest crossovers in retro hardware right now. 8BitMods’s VMUPro is, at its core, a modern take on the classic Dreamcast VMU. A memory card. For a Sega console. And yet, here we are talking about Game Boy multiplayer. The VMUPro doesn’t just act as a memory unit, it runs […]
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Jotego’s Progress on Cores and Framework Jotego has released a status report detailing ongoing work across several arcade games and the NEO-GEO Pocket + Color core. Framework & Handheld Updates A primary focus for Jotego’s team is the implementation of a NeoGeo Pocket game saving feature. Arcade Protection Decryption Work continues on bypasses for the […]
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Wizzo has just pushed one of the most interesting updates to Zaparoo yet, the platform can now download and install games directly via NFC. Instead of just launching ROMs already stored on your MiSTer, a tap can now trigger a full game download and automatic install. The first rollout features 10 Atari Jaguar homebrew titles […]
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New Arcade Core Developments for MiSTer FPGA A series of early 1980s arcade titles have recently made it to the MiSTer FPGA platform by developer RodimusFVC. These releases represent a significant expansion of the developer’s contributions to the FPGA scene, following their initial work on the game Tutankham. Currently, these cores require manual installation via […]
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The Nintendo 64 classic F-Zero X has reached a major milestone, now sitting at 97.25% decompiled according to decomp.dev. The project, tracked publicly on decomp.dev, shows that nearly the entire game’s codebase has been successfully reverse engineered into human-readable source code. With just a small percentage remaining, the finish line is clearly in sight. Decompilation […]
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We previously covered the announcement of this release, but at the time it was still unclear what exactly would be improved in this updated version of Final Fantasy VII. Now that it has officially launched on Steam, the details have been revealed. Set in the dystopian city of Midgar, the story follows Cloud Strife, a […]
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The MiSTer FPGA project has reached a new milestone in retro hardware recreation with the community-driven release of the 125MHz Nintendo 64 CPU core. Building on the foundations laid by lead developer Robert Peip, this “94MHz+” experimental build pushes the DE10-Nano’s Cyclone V FPGA to its practical limits, offering a significant performance boost for the […]
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The Triforce arcade system represents a unique era of collaboration in gaming history. Named after the iconic Zelda artifact, the platform was a joint venture between Nintendo, Namco, and Sega. Because the hardware was fundamentally based on the Nintendo GameCube architecture, it has long been a holy grail for emulation heads. Recent developments in the […]
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