Matt Hughson has announced that Super Sunny World is entering the final stages of development, with a private beta planned for the new year. The goal of the closed testing phase is to gather player feedback and identify remaining bugs as the project approaches completion. The NES platformer has been in development for quite some […]
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The original Contra Force for the NES has received an early NES-to-SNES port, with a first public beta now available. The project comes from developer infidelity, known for high-quality conversions that bring NES titles to SNES hardware. This initial beta is fully playable from start to finish. The only notable omission at this stage is […]
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Aeon Genesis has released an English translation for Splatterworld, an obscure and previously unreleased prototype connected to Namco’s Splatterhouse series. The game is a quirky RPG spinoff in the style of Wanpaku Graffiti, mixing cute visuals with playful horror themes. Originally developed for the Famicom in 1993, it was never commercially released and only surfaced […]
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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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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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