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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.
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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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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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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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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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The big Tears of the Kingdom catch-up: Emulation and modding 1 month later
Plus: ROM's first mini guest column, from Noclip's Danny O'Dwyer, a hot new Taito MiSTer core and two sweet fan translations.