How the makers of CrankBoy finally cracked 60 fps Game Boy emulation on the Playdate
Plus: A fantastic anime series' DS tie-in gets an English translation.
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ROM returns: Striking gold in El Dorado
Also this issue: a plus-sized portion of patch notes and an utterly unkown PS2 horror game, back online.
Stop reading this and go play a brilliant emulated tour of the Mac's UI
Like Digital Eclipse's docugames, Marcin Wichary's "Frame of preference" is pioneering how to use emulation to tell a story.
In the shadow of the Switch 2's launch, Switch 1 emulation lives on
Plus: How's that GameCube emulation on the new console, anyway?
One rotten fan can spoil a community, but only if we let them
Thoughts on the BS emulator developers deal with every day, and what we can do about it.
Interview: 15 years after the servers shut down, FromSoft's singular mech game Chromehounds is back online
The PvP mech battler is finally playable online in Xbox 360 emulator Xenia, and I talked to the modder making it happen.
Dinosaur Planet Recompiled is the perfect game to kick off a new era of N64 archaeology
You can now play an unreleased N64 game on your PC at 4K and that rules. Plus: a new Sega Saturn emulator and a Puyo Puyo roguelike!?
Inside the long-awaited fan translation of Sega Saturn masterpiece Sakura Wars 2
Sakura Wars translation crew: Interviewed. Plus this issue, Princess Crown for the Saturn, 120 fps GameCube games(!?) and more.
The big Gundam game emulation special
Walking Gundam encyclopedia Tom Aznable takes us on a tour of 4 underrated Gundam greats from the '90s and 2000s.
N64 Recompilation is about to have a big 2025
Get ready for N64 Recompiled to make its grand re-debut with mod support and more game ports on the way. Plus: a once-lost Mega Man Legends spin-off, saved and translated.
So Nintendo's really gonna just keep on DMCAing Switch emulator forks, huh?
Plus: PS3 emulation on Android makes impressive progress and two cult classics get English translations.
Democratizing retro(arch) shaders for emulators and beyond
Meet ShaderGlass, the new king of convenient post-processing. Plus, a new benchmark for static recompilation and some very nice hot air balloons.
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What 'RT' and 'HDR' have to do with fixing obscure graphical issues in 20-year-old PS2 games
A deep dive into some very specific PCSX2 improvements, plus news on the MiSTer's Sega Saturn core and a dash of Kamen Rider.
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SegaNet for 2025: Dreamcast emulator Flycast introduces a new way to play online
Also this issue: Truly playable Bloodborne in ShadPS4 (and clearing up the confusion on that 60 fps patch DMCA).
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The fan translation extravaganza: Tales of Rebirth, Team Innocent and 6 more games you can now play in English
Including a re-translation of SNES classic Illusion of Gaia and a Saturn Bomberman. Plus, the MiSTer's getting a 3DO core and a new Taki Udon FPGA console.
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I'm giving away a boxed copy of Front Mission to celebrate 2,100 subscribers
Everyone subscribed to Read Only Memo on Saturday, January 4th 2025 will be entered to win.
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The Before Crisis crisis: How hackers are rebuilding the lost Final Fantasy VII mobile game piece by tiny piece
Plus RPCS3 turning a Raspberry Pi 5 into a PSP-esque PS3, a new feature for the Sega Saturn MiSTer core, and some fan translations due in 2025.
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Turns out a lot of stuff happened 20 & 30 years ago: the accidental anniversary issue
Celebrating milestones for the Sega Saturn, Nintendo DS and... Detective Conan?
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The budget MiSTER Pi is back, and this time Taki Udon has a whole team behind him
Plus, we're bringing the emulation scene to Bluesky.
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The MiSTer's N64 core goes Turbo while Princess Crown on the Saturn takes its sweet, sweet time
The "finished" N64 MiSTer core has life in it yet — and so does a fan translation more than a decade in the making.
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So who's getting an Analogue 3D?
Plus a roundup of NES games on the SNES, the latest on Bloodborne PC and SNES save states on the MiSTer.
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And then there were none, as a Nintendo 'threat' drives Ryujinx offline
Farewell to the second Switch emulator, and with it an untold loss of talent from the emulation community.
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Party time in Yharnam: How Bloodborne emulation has gotten so much better in just the last 2 months
Booting Bloodborne "doesn't require any hacks anymore," a ShadPS4 developer tells Read Only Memo, though there's still a whole lot of work to done.
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"It's thinking:" a dive into Dreamcast emulation, 25 years after 9/9/99
This week, let's just follow our rainbow.