Remember when Xenon 2 released? The Bitmap Brothers were all the rage, Speedball 2 to The Chaos Engine, these guys were delivering solid gaming action. I played their titles on the Commodore Amiga and also on the Atari ST. So as someone that played both Xenon 1 and 2, I’m excited for this release and […]
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The developer behind the Castlevania SotN ROM hack “Rondo of the Night” is working on a standalone game, which is a spinoff from the world of SotN, it’s not a ROM hack this time but is instead a Windows PC game. I had the chance to try an earlier build and my initial thoughts were […]
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Core Developer Boogermann has shared in an X post, a timeline of graphical hardware reimplemented in HDL, and honestly, it looks breath-takingly good. The game shown at the end is called “Nibbler”. It’s not a game I’m familiar with but at fist glance it looks like Pac-Man had a baby with the Snake game and […]
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Homebrew Super Nintendo developer Digifox has shared some more footage of his upcoming beat em up called “Triple Impact”. It looks like it came straight out of the 90’s. The latest feature that has been shown off, is CPU controlled second player. This especially interests me, as when I play games at home, it’s usually […]
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The MiSTer Pi has taken the MiSTer FPGA world by storm, it significantly reduced the price of entry into FPGA Gaming and naturally brought a lot more users to the niche. There have been a few cases made for the MiSTer Pi, some from Retro Remake (the company behind MiSTer Pi) themselves, as well as […]
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As we are celebrating the launch of Metal Game Solid, we’ll be doing a series of giveaways, starting with the excellent Analogizer by RndMnkIII, which he has kindly donated. If you’re unfamiliar with what the Analogizer is, it’s a device that lets you output your Analogue Pockets display to a legacy display such as a […]
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If you want to try out the latest nightly version of the Sharp X68000 core, then head on over to the MiSTer FPGA Discord server. Here’s an invite. You’ll need to head over to the “unstable nightlies” channel to find this updated core. The update has been provided by developer dshadoff (David Shadoff). David states […]
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This is not a red herring that Redherring32 is making a portable GameCube. This is the same engineer that previously brought us the handheld Original Xbox. So you know this project is in good great hands. They emphasise in a series of X posts (linked blow) that this is not a Wii but an actual […]
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Although my favourite era of gaming came a few years later, I did experience the ATARI 2600. That black joystick with that one district red button was mind-blowing at the time. I was very young when the 2600 was released and did not own the system, but instead played it at around a family friends […]
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It’s no secret that we over at Metal Game Solid love ROM Hacks. Mario Kart 64 Amped Up is the pinnacle of Mario Kart 64 ROM hacks. It adds so much to the game including brand new tracks, some from other games like Diddy Kong racing and a whole lot more. It adds assets from […]
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