Hello, I’m ChrisFratz. But you can call me Chris. When it comes to retro gaming, I personally love emulating a lot. Along with modern ports and remasters I think it’s one of the most important things in retro gaming as it’s one of the most accessible ways to play these old games.
If you wanna here what I have to say about other kinds of things you can follow me on my twitter, though what I say on there are my thoughts alone.
On February 20th, 2021, the Twitter account Forest of Illusion released a a beta of the game Dinosaur Planet for the N64 which eventually became Starfox Adventures released for the GameCube. The ROM was found on a CD in the possession of a Swedish collector with a file date of December 1st 2000. Today we […]
On January 29th, the YouTube Channel Graslu00 uploaded a full longplay of the canceled 360 port of Rare’s GoldenEye 007. Planned to be released sometime in 2007 for the Xbox 360 this port was canceled because they couldn’t get permission from Eon Productions Ltd. who are owners of the James Bond franchise to release it. […]
A few months ago, I discovered a channel called Video-Game OST HQ, which has a bunch of N64 music in high quality, better than what you can hear from the original game. They have both regular and HD+ versions of the music. The HD+ versions seem to have some virtual surround sound added to the […]
On January 19th, the twitter account Forest Of Illusion released a beta for Zelda 64 (yep not Ocarina of Time) that is most likely dated to sometime around Spaceworld 97. Now, we don’t have the whole build as the data was found on a dev cart had the final build of F-Zero X. And that […]
The YouTube channel FrameRater recently uploaded a video showing a decompiled PC port of the 2013 mobile versions of Sonic 1 and 2 which has just been released for Windows. The 2013 mobile version of Sonic 1 and 2 were built on Christian Whitehead’s Retro Engine, a custom engine he developed for making modern 2D […]
On December 31st, 2020, HIdden Palace streamed on Twitch an unreleased prototype of the original Sonic the Hedgehog from before the game was set to release. It has a bunch of differences in both level design and graphics, most notable being some of the backgrounds in zones like Marble Zone (shown on the left), and […]
I recently came across something called The 16-Bit Audiophile Project, which is dedicated to archiving and preserving game soundtracks in the highest quality possible. Through the use of professional recording equipment, they’re able to get high resolution, extremely accurate recordings straight from the original hardware. They post their own releases, but also allow for community […]
