Today I’m going to try and establish a new type of article for MGS, the Community Project Spotlight. In these articles I will focus on a lesser known ROM Hack, Homebrew, Translation patch or other interesting Classic Gaming Community topic that I think might be of interest to our readers. For this first article I’m […]
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The Analogue Pocket has two Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) cores available via Open FPGA: one by Spiritualized and another ported from the MiSTer FPGA core by Adam Gastineau (Agg23). FDS Compatibility Addition: The Spiritualized core already supports Famicom Disk System (FDS) games, but the Agg23 core has been recently updated by Terminator 2K2 to add […]
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Remember that long-lost Splatterhouse RPG for the NES that recently got discovered and preserved? All us non-Japanese speakers were itching to play it. Well, the good news is, it’s now being translated. This is all thanks to the work of Lazarus_DS and FCC (thanks, guys!). For more information on this game, check out our original […]
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The GameTank is a unique, modern gaming platform designed to offer a retro-style 8-bit experience, but built with a radically different and more powerful architecture than the classic consoles it seeks to evoke. Rather than relying on custom Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) like its 1980s counterparts, the GameTank is an entirely open-source hardware and software […]
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Pushing the NES to the Limit: An Early Look at Ninja Dynamics’ New Title Ninja Dynamics‘ upcoming NES game looks like it will push the console to its limits. The game has no title yet, but it looks like Contra with the addition of vehicles like Monster Trucks. Some new additions they have mentioned are […]
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After more than three decades, Splatter World, a lost Famicom horror RPG based on Namco’s Splatterhouse series, has finally surfaced online. The game appeared anonymously on 4chan’s retro gaming board around Halloween and was quickly confirmed to be fully playable in emulators such as FCEUX. Originally thought to be a canceled spin-off of Splatterhouse: Wanpaku […]
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After claiming Perils of Darkness would be his final Zelda 1 hack, creator The3Dude has returned with one last surprise. The Legend of Zelda: Mirror of Worlds is a massive NES overhaul created through advanced ASM hacking, merging both quests into a single, expanded adventure. The Recorder has been transformed into the new Mirror of […]
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We’ve been talking a lot about how good the recent updates to the MiSTer FPGA’s NES core have been. The changes were added to the Analogue Pocket core courtesy of Terminator2K2 (a tweak of agg23‘s port), but there were some compromises in the form of missing mappers. The good news now is that the latest […]
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Capcom’s 1990 NES title Ningen Heiki: Dead Fox (The Human Weapon: Dead Fox) has received a full English translation thanks to a new patch by BlackPaladin. Known outside Japan as Code Name: Viper, the game is often seen as Capcom’s take on Rolling Thunder, blending side-scrolling gunplay with platforming and hostage rescue elements. Players take […]
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Developer BadComputer has released his new homebrew game Astro Climber—a vertically-scrolling arcade action platformer for the Sega Master System / Mark III—with full public download access. The game, launched on 20 October 2025, was created to mark the 40th anniversary of the Mark III’s original launch in Japan. It features 32 stages, a grapple-hook mechanic, […]
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