Improvements keep getting made to the highly anticipated Super Station One MiSTer FPGA by Retro Remake. This time, it improves the disc-reading speed. See below a full list of the mentioned features and improvements. General Performance: Disc reading performance on the SS1 has been significantly improved to be indistinguishable from loading from an SD card […]
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M2 has surprised retro gaming fans with the sudden release of Night Striker Gear on Steam, dropping without a prior public announcement and delivering what is billed as a long-awaited sequel to the 1989 arcade classic Night Striker. The original game launched in arcades by Taito, putting players in a futuristic, on-rails shooting ride in […]
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Developer Falco Girgis shared an impressive milestone on social media, showing a hardware capture of Esppiral rendering a scene from Final Fantasy X running natively on an actual Sega Dreamcast. In the short clip, Yuna can be seen on-screen, smoothly animated with authentic lighting and shading effects, proving the Dreamcast’s hardware is still capable of […]
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…. But Still a Long Way to Go!! FPGA core developer pgate1 has brought a Sony PlayStation core to the Analogue Pocket, something many considered impossible. That hasn’t stopped the developer from continuing to update the core, with the latest update released just a few hours ago. You’ll find a list of changes below, and […]
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A long-missing Japanese-mobile installment of the Resident Evil (Biohazard) franchise, titled Biohazard: The Episodes, has been unexpectedly recovered by preservationists. The feature-phone game had been considered lost to time, but a working build was recently extracted and made playable. While the recovered version appears largely intact, some unlocked characters and extra content remain missing, hinting […]
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After years of being tied to RetroArch, DOSBox-Pure is now available as a standalone emulator, bringing its user-friendly approach to DOS gaming directly to desktop systems. The new release, called DOSBox-Pure Unleashed, can be downloaded for free on Windows, macOS, and Linux. This version keeps everything that made the RetroArch core popular—automatic mounting, save states, […]
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Disclosure: I was provided with a review copy of this game, All opinions in this review are my own and have not been influenced or altered in any way by the developers. When I first saw Spindle, I expected a charming indie throwback with some light adventure gameplay. What I didn’t expect was how much […]
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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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The fan-made sequel Altered Beast 2 – The Seven Depths of Hell has reached Alpha 4, now available on itch.io. Created by developer Fabiano Ferreira (fabianodigital), this ambitious project continues to expand the classic Sega series on real Mega Drive hardware. The new build, released on October 18, 2025, refines gameplay, adds new animations, and […]
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Mario Kart 64: ITEM BLAST is a brand-new ROM hack for Mario Kart 64 that brings a host of quality-of-life improvements — but more importantly, it introduces four new items that truly elevate the player experience. These include a giant mushroom that makes you grow in size, a power-up that turns you into a massive […]
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