"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.
The summer grab bag issue
Defcon level: Game Boy. Medabots mastered. Majora HD'd. Wario meets Apple.
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.
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!
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.
Welcome back, Sparkster
Rocket Knight Adventures gets a long-overdue emulation collection, while the Wii U gets a most unlikely new controller.
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.
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.
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?
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.
N64 MiSTer dev moves on from making cores to create a new retro game for a console he's mastered: "I know how to use all of their power to my advantage"
Interview: FPGA developer Robert Peip looks back on the last year of N64 development, and what comes next. Also: Apple's allowing emulators on iPhones? Well, maybe.
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Going for it! with Acediez: Behind the new fan translation of the PS1's Goemon Oedo Daikaiten
Goemon: The Grand Cycle of Oedo's fan translation is out. Here's how it was made.
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WTF happened to Yuzu, and what comes next?
The likely repercussions of the most dramatic emulation events in recent history, and a small tribute to Akira Toriyama.
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Evercade Gloved, PS Portal hacked, and 18 screenshots from 18 Fist of the North Star games for the hell of it
We're all over the place this week. I blame Glover.
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Inside the 10 years it took to translate – and fully understand – one-of-a-kind RPG Linda Cube Again
It took 10 years to translate Linda³ Again, but almost 30 to peel back the mysticism of what this one-of-a-kind RPG is truly about.
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How upscaled HD texture mods are made
Plus: A quintessential Japanese roguelike gets translated, a new MiSTer Core, and the Megami Tensei game you've never heard of.
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Substack to Ghost migration guide: How I imported my newsletter and set up Mailgun and Cloudflare
How to migrate a newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost installation.
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How a romhacker discovered 3 Saturn Bomberman prototypes hidden in demo discs for 28 years
Plus, the .hack//Link translator who wouldn't give up, a pile of Mega System 1 MiSTer cores, and a new CMS!
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The 2023 send-off: Substack's Nazi problem and a quick guide to the Analogue Pocket's new display modes
Time to find a new home for Read Only Memo in 2024? Probably! Let's talk about why.
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Goodboy, galaxy — and hello Jipang
How -- and why -- do you go about making a Game Boy Advance game in 2023? And why was Tengai Makyou a big deal in 1989?
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How the Famicom’s ultimate “legendary shitty game” got translated after 36 years
And another fan translation: the much less shitty Samurai Shodown RPG is playable in English after 26 years, itself!
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Hilltop Works: Next translation after Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, an obscure PS2 RPG, is "The most exciting game I've ever worked on"
Plus, the emulation handheld scene heats up to boiling with Ayaneo's new "Remake" series.
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A summer vacation in November
Long-awaited fan translation Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 is here at last, and it's glorious. Also: an unreleased Daredevil PS2 game is preserved and playable.