Alex Mitchell

Krikzz Releases Multiple Everdrive Updates

(Update 24-03-10: Krikzz released a hotflix for the v1.06 Turbo Everdrive Pro firmware that fixes an SD card write bug.) Following a recent update for the Mega Everdrive Pro last week, Krikzz has released updates for both the Everdrive 64 and Turbo Everdrive Pro. Most of the notes in both of these these changelogs seem fairly technical, […]

Alex Mitchell

BBA Emulation Demonstrated In Swiss

If you’re a fan of the extremely limited handful of GameCube games with online and local network functionality, today is your lucky day. Swiss, a homebrew utility that extends and enhances the functionality of the GameCube platform, will have Broadband Adapter (BBA) emulation support implemented in its upcoming releases. Although Nintendo clearly prioritized developing local […]

Alex Mitchell

Fan Group Kineko Restores “Sweet Home”

Kineko Video, a fan group that restores lost media, has just announced that they’ve used a Doomsday Duplicator to remaster the Japanese horror film “Sweet Home“. Although not directly video game related, fans of survival horror may know that the licensed Sweet Home Famicom game is functionally the beginning of the genre, leading directly to […]

Alex Mitchell

Jailbreak released for Analogue Duo

While Analogue’s consoles are advertised as a way for retro gaming enthusiasts to enjoy their original physical libraries in high-fidelity, every one of their FPGA consoles eventually receives a semi-official “jailbreak” firmware that allows them to run game titles from the SD card slot. This trend continued yesterday with the release of a jailbreak for […]

Alex Mitchell

Lost Satellaview F-Zero Content Recreated By Fans

As chronicled in a recent video from Did You Know Gaming, lost content from the ephemeral Satellaview F-Zero broadcasts has been restored by fans through a ROM hack: Download the IPS/BPS patches for your version of F-Zero at the Internet Archive. The Satellaview, a hardware add on that allowed Japanese SNES owners to download games […]

Alex Mitchell

Portal 64 Has Been Removed From GitHub

(Updated on January 13, 2024) James has released a video on their YouTube channel about this topic and the online patching utility is gone from the web. Portal 64—a Nintendo 64 port of Valve’s Portal, independently developed by James Lambert—appears to have been shut down. In a YouTube video released on January 13th, 2024, Lambert […]

Alex Mitchell

Golden Axe 32X Now Works On Real Hardware

While a few of Sega’s arcade classics—including After Burner, Virtua Fighter, Space Harrier, and more—received enhanced ports on the 32X, Golden Axe was only ever released for the original Genesis/Mega Drive. It’s a fine version of the game that preserves a lot of the magic that fans experienced in arcades, but Jeroen Visser (aka jvisser) […]

Alex Mitchell

Pre-Orders open for BioFury 3DO Physical Release

World of Games, a publisher that is focussing on releasing physical copies of independently made games for older consoles, has just announced a physical NTSC-only release of the 3DO homebrew “BioFury”:  https://worldofgamespublishing.com/shop Developed by RetroLoveLetter, BioFury is a first person shooter in the tradition of Wolfenstein3D but with a Resident Evil style twist. For folks with […]