- 6 Ekim Salı
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"I Know That Was a Half-Baked Take" - Street Fighter II Artist Is Still Annoyed He Didn't Do the Cover Art for the West
"In North America, Japanese art styles like that just won't be accepted". Given the insane global popularity of Japanese animation and pop culture today, it's hard to believe that, once upon a time, Western marketers did everything they could to hide the fact that something came from The Land of the Rising Sun. There's no better example of this than video ga…
- 5 Ekim Pazartesi
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ModRetro Officially Reveals Transparent Chromatics - Dropping This Week
ℹ️ Disclosure: ModRetro has ties to Anduril Industries, a defence technology company. We are mentioning this for transparency; it does not affect our independent assessment of this product, nor does this post reflect our opinions of the company. This isn't news to many of you who have
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Zelda: Soccerina Of Time Is The Weirdest N64 Football ROM Hack Yet
🤝 Don't want to see ads? Become a premium member for $3 a month and support an independent publication today! I loved Super Mario Strikers so much when it came out on the GameCube. I've always been rubbish at games like FIFA, but Super Mario
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RetroAchievements Come To Original Hardware Thanks To This PS2 Software Plug-In
xeRAbora brings RetroAchievements to modded hardware for the first time. New homebrew software allows for RetroAchievements to be tracked and recorded from games played on original PS2 hardware, rather than through an emulator. Developed by modder "hacan 359", the xeRAbora program works in collaboration with another homebrew utility, Open PS2 Loader, to trac…
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Modder Gets Classic Video Games Playing On VHS Tapes
🤝 Like our website? Support us as an independent publisher by tipping, joining our paid community or checking out our accessories brand GAMENOOK! I'm not going to lie, I didn't know much about VHS video games before today. I owned a lot of VHS tapes of
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Feature: "If I Didn't Have These Powerful Tools, I Wouldn't Do It at All" - The Oliver Twins Explain Why They're Dizzy About GenAI
"This is an incredible time to be alive for a creator". Over the weekend of 3-4 October 2026, I attended the Play Expo in Blackpool. It was a 5-and-a-half-hour drive with Paul Drury; we attended to mark the launch of Drury's new book, The Arcade 1979-1999, and fellow book contributors Martyn Carroll and Frank Gasking also attended. The expo featured a large…
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Play Mario Kart Game Boy Demake In Your Browser For 8-bit Racing Action On The Go
🤝 Don't want to see ads? Become a premium member for $3 a month and support an independent publication today! I will never get bored of Mario Kart ROM Hacks and demakes. I love the different ways that the game has been reimagined over the years, especially
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Dev Behind AI-Assisted Daytona USA PC Port Says They Didn't Intend To Hide Claude's Involvement
Update: "It is a very useful tool". More news for fans of Sega's legendary arcade racers, as homebrewer alphanu1 has coded a PC port of crowd-pleasing IndyCar title Daytona USA, originally released in 1994. If alphanu1's name rings a bell, then that's probably because they were featured recently on Time Extension for creating a new FPGA Model 1 core - best u…
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Pokémon Arena 2D ROM Hack Mixes Retro Sprite Battles With Pokémon Stadium Gameplay
🤝 Don't want to see ads? Become a premium member for $3 a month and support an independent publication today! Every so often, a fangame arrives that could shake up the entire retro gaming scene, and Pokémon Arena looks like it could do just that.
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Castlevania's Fanmade Sega Master System Port Just Keeps Getting Better and Better
Sega fans, be fang-ful. Castlevania is a series many fans will associate with the Nintendo Entertainment System. Konami's franchise made quite an impact when it launched on the console in 1987 (1986 for the Japanese Famicom Disc System version) and would be followed by two 8-bit sequels. Titles like Super Castlevania IV, Belmont's Revenge, Aria of Sorrow and…
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This AI-Assisted Super Mario Kart ROM Hack Removes the Game's Annoying Single-Player Shortcoming
"Transforms the 1-player race view into a true fullscreen experience". Super Mario Kart was clearly designed with multiplayer in mind, and rightfully so – with two players, it's one of the most compelling experiences on the SNES. The focus on two human players competing with one another shows in the fact that, even when playing solo, you never get the full-s…
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Engineer Creates The World's Biggest Game Boy Color Special Edition
🤝 Like our website? Support us as an independent publisher by tipping, joining our paid community or checking out our accessories brand GAMENOOK! Big tech always makes me feel like a kid. I grew up with the Power Rangers and their MegaZords, for crying out loud - what do you expect?
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Essencelord, A Brand New RPG For Game Boy Color, Is Now Crowdfunding On Kickstarter
You're a wizard, Marty Butterblatt Jr. A brand-new Game Boy Color game has launched on Kickstarter, Essencelord is a top-down, loot-driven adventure set in a world of sword, sorcery, magic, and monsters - and the work of single developer Tyler Lombard. As an apprentice adventurer, having just graduated from "Marty Butterblatt's School of Sword & Sorcery", pl…
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Psikyo Memories Shmup Collection Jets Off February 2027, Physical Editions Coming For PS5 And Nintendo Switch 2
Gunbird, Samurai Aces, Strikers, and more. Tokyo Game Show 2026 is underway at the city's Makuhari Messe, bringing with it a variety of news, updates, and reveals pertaining to the world of gaming. Publisher Edia, via its show-floor catalogue, has revealed early details of a new shmup collection, Psikyo Memories, currently in development for PS5 and Nintendo…
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"We Completely Shot Ourselves in the Foot" - the Vectrex Mini Just Got a Display Downgrade
"We know perfectly well that this is not what we originally announced". The team behind the upcoming Vectrex Mini has revealed that the system will no longer feature an OLED screen and will instead use an IPS display. The team cites the cost of OLED displays as one of the main reasons for the change. Read the full article on timeextension.com
- 4 Ekim Pazar
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Super Mario Kart — Fullscreen Edition
Developer Psicopompo has just released a patch for the original Super Mario Kart that allows the 1-player mode to be in fullscreen. The original 1p mode has the race on the top and the map on the bottom, but this patch uses the entire 256×224 display area. This wasn’t just a matter of “changing the […] The post Super Mario Kart — Fullscreen Edition first app…
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The Making Of: The Elder Scrolls II - Daggerfall - "The Next Thing I Know, I'm Building One Of The Largest Procedurally Generated Games Ever"
We take a look at the history of Bethesda's groundbreaking, yet flawed, RPG classic. The Elder Scrolls is arguably one of the most successful and recognisable video game franchises of all time, sitting alongside other industry juggernauts such as Grand Theft Auto, Fallout, and Red Dead Redemption. But it wasn't always this way. Back when the series first beg…
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Double Dragons Is An Unhinged Mashup of Kunio-kun, IK+, and... WWF Superstars
Hacksaw Jim Thuggin'. Now here's an unhealthy dose of cursed, unhinged mayhem to kick off your weekend. A homebrewer has created an alternate second sequel to Technos' iconic scrolling brawler Double Dragon (1987) in the form of Double Dragons - a 100% unofficial fan game that throws as much against the wall as it does barrels at thugs. Double Dragons posits…
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"I Needed Someone Legendary With A True Passion For It" - Remembering Robin Williams' Iconic Legend Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time Ads
"It’s still one of my favourite career moments to this day". Following the publication of our interview with Julien Seri on Tuesday 15th September, 2026, we were also able to get in touch with Gabriel Moszkowski, the person at Nintendo of Europe who came up with the concept for the ad campaign. We've, therefore, updated the following article with Moszkowski'…
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Retro Recap: All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (October 4th 2026)
Splatterhouse! Anbernic RG DS Plus! TMNT! Donkey Kong! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com
- 3 Ekim Cumartesi
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Gallery: Unboxing Shinyuden's Vixen 357 - The Japanese SRPG Finally Comes To The West
Mech'in a right fuss. Back in 2019, we reported that Super Fighter Team planned to localise the excellent tactical RPG Vixen 357 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, ending decades of Japanese exclusivity for the title. Developed by Career Soft – the same team behind Langrisser, Elthlead, Gaia no Monshou and Gaiflame – Vixen 357 originally launched in 1992, and…
- 2 Ekim Cuma
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MattKC’s Genesis & CDi Controller Overview
MattKC recently posted a video that’s about how he made a Genesis to CDi controller adapter…but it’s actually a lot more than that. Matt goes over how these controllers work, starting with the origin of the connector, the Atari 2600. Matt’s overview of how that works, how the Genesis 3-button controller adapted to it and […] The post MattKC’s Genesis & CDi C…
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Give Your Game Boy A Medical Check Over With GB Test Lab
🤝 Like our website? Support us as an independent publisher by tipping, joining our paid community or checking out our accessories brand GAMENOOK! How do you know if your original Game Boy is working to the best of its ability? It's creeping closer to 40 years old, it
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A List Of Human-made Decomps & Recomps Has Arrived To Filter Out AI Projects
🤝 Like our website? Support us as an independent publisher by tipping, joining our paid community or checking out our accessories brand GAMENOOK! If, like me, you're getting a little bit jaded with the constant supply of AI decomps and recomps that are arriving every day and would
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Rare Are Rumoured To Be Making A New Crash Bandicoot Game
There are some articles that I need to sit down with a cup of tea and do a lot of research for, and there are some that I've spent my life thus far preparing to make. I've played so much Crash Bandicoot throughout my life, and
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The Halo Recomp Is Now Running On The PS Vita
🤝 Don't want to see ads? Become a premium member for $3 a month and support an independent publication today! We should have given the PS Vita way more praise back in the day. It gets overlooked a lot these days in favour of the PSP, but
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Turn Your MiSTer FPGA Into A Sega Saturn With This New 'Mercury' Kit
🤝 Like our website? Support us as an independent publisher by tipping, joining our paid community or checking out our accessories brand GAMENOOK! The MiSTer FPGA console is one of the most talked-about kits in the Retro Gaming space right now. It's a one-stop shop for
- 1 Ekim Perşembe
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Sega Saturn Themed MiSTerFPGA Kit
Df3mod, the creator of the MiSTer Ironclad, has just opened pre-orders on a complete MiSTer FPGA kit that’s themed after the Sega Saturn. The “Mercury” (which was the original Saturn’s codename) comes with a white injection-molded shell and includes everything you’d need, other than the DE-10 Nano. It’s also compatible with the MiSTer Pi, via […] The post Se…
- 30 Eylül Çarşamba
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240p/480i Compatible HDMI to YPbPr Component Video Adapter
I just found another zero-lag, HDMI to YPbPr (component video) converter that’s compatible with 240p, 480i, 480p and above. It has a standard HDMI input and the YPbPr + LR audio output cables are built-in; This is handy, but the cable surely isn’t going to be as shielded as something like HD Retrovision component cables. […] The post 240p/480i Compatible HDM…
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M64 Full Teardown
Ken from What’s Ken Making just did an full teardown of Modretro’s completely open-source, FPGA-based Nintendo 64 – The “M64”. As usual, Ken did a great job breaking it all down and I think the most interesting part of the video is the AMD Artix UltraScale+ FPGA used in the device. These FPGA’s have a lot of […] The post M64 Full Teardown first appeared on R…
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Weekly Roundup #533
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