First Press Games has launched a Kickstarter for a new Nintendo Famicom & NES platformer, Project Blue. Both versions have both been successfully funded, but if you want to secure the exclusives there are still 10 days until the Famicom campaign closes on 07/18/2020. The NES campaign was funded in 2019 and carts will be […]
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Retro hardware manufacturer Analogue released several statements today regarding the latest revision of their NES FPGA console, the Nt Mini Noir (a.k.a., the Nt Mini V2). Unsurprisingly, they opened by announcing that the release date for the console had been pushed back four months—from a June/July window to November 2020. While they neglected to elaborate […]
Woozle64, a developer responsible for the excellent GBA Consolizer, has teased the development of a similar modification that enables HDMI output from a Nintendo DS. Making good progress on the DS Consolizer. pic.twitter.com/pdU6KSTUnu — Stephen (@Woozle64) April 27, 2020 Consolization is a colloquial term for a mod that converts a portable game system in to something […]
A few weeks ago, Bob brought us word about Trophy, a new action-platformer for the NES that he was able to play in person at a convention. If you missed the post, Trophy is a Capcom style game that is very much reminiscent of Mega Man with elements of Duck Tales and other NES classics […]
Infidelity updated his incredible Zelda – The Legend of Link, which is a total ROMhack of the NES Legend of Zelda that creates an all new game, complete with new graphics and sprites, a new overworld and levels, and a new script. It’s an all-new adventure for lovers of the legendary NES title. The hack […]
Legendary translation group DDSTranslation released English translations of Ganbare Goemon 2 and 3 at romhacking.net today. Long considered gems of the Super Famicom library, the legendary Goemon series is starting to open up for English speakers after decades of pleas from fans. The Goemon games are extremely difficult to translate because of they way they […]
I recently started collecting old Nintendo Power magazines (because I can’t help myself). I originally had a subscription from mid 2000 til the end. I got to enjoy some good years, but I feel like the REALLY good years were everything prior to me getting the magazines. Anyways, after thumbing through Vol 68 (January 1995) […]
Krikzz tweeted a picture of a new EverDrive N8 Pro, an updated to his N8 flash cart for the Nintendo NES and Famicom. The Pro boasts 16MB of ROM memory (up from 1024kb), an I/O co-processor, a new FPGA, and a USB port for devs. No price has been announced yet, but he gave an […]
Hyperkin revealed their upcoming budget clone of the Nintendo 64. ModernVintageGamer compared their previews with emulators and found that it’s based on Mupen64, an open-source software based emulator that has been around the block for a long time. Mupen64 runs on pretty much every platform under the sun already (phones, computers, etc), so you can […]
Thunderstruck, a long-time Virtual Boy coder from PlanetVB forums, has released an open-source Vectrex emulator that runs on the Nintendo Virtual Boy. It currently runs Minestorm only, and very slowly. The author is hoping that another coder will come in and do the “boring” work of optimizing and improving it. Details on how it was […]