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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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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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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.
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Analogue hypes up groundbreaking N64 console (while quietly shoving openFPGA into the corner)
Also in this issue: a lovely Fire Emblem fan event full of cool romhacks, and a photograph of a videogame cartridge I recently paid a man $50 for.
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The DuckStation interview & Intel's new FPGA plans, analyzed
DuckStation developer Stenzek talks new and upcoming features, while Intel makes moves that could shape the future of MiSTer and hardware emulation.
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Get hyped for PCSX2 2.0 — and learn to spot a fake emulator scam
Longtime PCSX2 dev talks about the upcoming stable release, 3 years in the making.
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A Playdate with the N64 MiSTer core (aka the 'I'm on a boat' issue)
A new interview with the dev behind the MiSTer's most-anticipated core, and an overview of the Playdate's emulation scene.