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.
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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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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PLASMAAA!!! The Mystical Ninja returns in Goemon 64: Recompiled
Plus, a fan translation of a Game Boy Color Pokémon-alike, 16 years in the making.
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The summer grab bag issue
Defcon level: Game Boy. Medabots mastered. Majora HD'd. Wario meets Apple.
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Inside the fan translation of PS1 JRPG Ancient Roman: "Excavation site or crime scene, whichever you fancy"
How the "worst PS1 RPG," a now-legendary kusoge, got its moment in the spotlight.
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ShadPS4 ignites a Bloodborne brouhaha while PCSX2 powers up to 2.0
ShadPS4's lead dev talks about Bloodborne progress, while a PCSX2 dev talks us through a new upscaling feature. Plus, Dolphin gets RetroAchievements!
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Sony's new PS2 classics on PS5 are the latest in a long line of official emulation getting it wrong
Plus: Emulating the Skylanders Portal of Power on Cemu, no toys required.
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Welcome back, Sparkster
Rocket Knight Adventures gets a long-overdue emulation collection, while the Wii U gets a most unlikely new controller.
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Why you should emulate Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast, this year's definitive summerjam
Driving into summer with a breezy retrospective on one of the all-time arcade racers.
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N64 Recompiled interview: Diving into the game-changing twist on emulation
"I didn't expect to get nearly this much attention," says the programmer behind the native PC port of Majora's Mask. Is it emulation? We'll get into that.
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Interview: First details on the $99 MiSTer FPGA clone board aiming to stop "people getting screwed" on overpriced hardware
Taki Udon talks about cutting the price of the MiSTer's DE10-Nano board in half. Plus, emulating the PS1's weirdest controller and Tokimeki Memorial's... arcade version?
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iOS emulation kicks the heck off: What's here now and what's next
A deep dive into what is suddenly the hottest scene in mobile emulation.