Retro gaming news covering classic consoles, computers, hardware, homebrew, preservation and new releases.
VGNY Soft marks September 11 with nine factory-pressed physical Dreamcast releases spanning homebrew, Visco arcade conversions, and 16-bit European classics.
dreamcast · 2026-09-11 · news
Team OffBroadway's solderless FlippyDrive ODE begins shipping for DOL-101 GameCube consoles alongside in-stock kits for Panasonic's rare Q hybrid.
gamecube · 2026-09-11 · news
Ohio's largest retro gaming convention opens Preview Night at the Huntington Convention Center with 200+ free-play arcade & pinball machines and 350+ vendors.
multi · 2026-09-11 · news
Developer Alphanu1 runs Virtua Racing at near full speed on a MiSTer FPGA Sega Model 1 core, representing a landmark for early 3D flat-shaded arcade preservation.
arcade · 2026-09-10 · news
City Connection announces cult 1991 NES punch-em-up Shatterhand arrives September 24 in JALECOlle, featuring rewind, satellite companion buffs, and archival material.
nes · 2026-09-10 · news
Retroid officially prices the clamshell dual-screen Pocket Duo at $269, while the Duo Lite starts at an aggressive $149 with pre-order discounts for early adopters.
multi · 2026-09-10 · news
An unreleased Super Nintendo prototype of Rare's cancelled Project Dream—the pre-rendered adventure that evolved into Banjo-Kazooie—is uploaded to the Internet Archive.
snes · 2026-09-10 · news
Hamster releases Data East's eccentric 1987 arcade platformer Karnov on Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series, featuring the fire-breathing Soviet strongman.
arcade · 2026-09-10 · news
Koei's landmark 1990 Sengoku simulation Nobunaga's Ambition II launches on Switch 2 and PS5 as part of Hamster's Console Archives retro preservation initiative.
nes · 2026-09-10 · news
Square Enix launches Torneko no Daibouken: Fushigi no Dungeon - A Slightly Wonderful Remaster on modern platforms, revisiting Chunsoft's 1993 roguelike foundation.
snes · 2026-09-10 · news
D4 Enterprise brings Kogado Studio's obscure 1991 NEC PC-9801 puzzle game Sabnack to Nintendo Switch via EGGCONSOLE for $6.49.
pc · 2026-09-10 · news
Badger Punch and Thalamus Digital release Roguecraft DX on Steam, expanding the 2024 Amiga homebrew turn-based roguelike with wilderness zones, new floors, and pet badgers.
amiga · 2026-09-10 · news
Community reverse-engineering teams log new matching-decompilation commits on September 10 for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Super Mario Galaxy.
ps1 · 2026-09-10 · news
MadMorigan discloses that Claude was used to assist the text unpacking and reverse-engineering pipeline for the newly released Sega CD Shadowrun English translation.
mega-cd · 2026-09-10 · news
Microsoft expands Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition with The Baltic Powers, introducing Danish and Polish civilizations, Independence rules, and 25+ maps.
pc · 2026-09-10 · news
Nihon Falcom launches Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure on Switch 2, maintaining modern access to the seminal 2010/2011 PSP Crossbell RPG duology.
multi · 2026-09-10 · news
Nalua Studio announces Gley Lancer: Overdrive, rebuilding the 1992 NCS/Masaya horizontal shooter for real Neo Geo AES/MVS hardware, PC, Switch, PlayStation and Xbox.
neo-geo-aes · 2026-09-10 · news
G-Mode, room6 and Game Studio announce NEXT: The Portopia Serial Murder Case, fully reconstructing Yuji Horii's foundational 1983 detective adventure for modern platforms.
pc · 2026-09-10 · news
Sunsoft announces Retro Game Selection 2 for Switch, PS5 and PC on December 17, compiling formative 1980s Famicom titles including Ikki and archival rarity Maharaja.
nes · 2026-09-10 · news
QUByte, Piko and Bleem announce the Gaelco Sports Collection for PC and consoles, reviving World Rally 1 & 2, Squash, Touch and Go and Snow Board Championship.
arcade · 2026-09-10 · news
Nalua Studio launches a Steam demo for Necro Pop while actively targeting authentic SNK Neo Geo MVS arcade and AES home cartridge hardware for 2027.
neo-geo-aes · 2026-09-10 · news
Happinet and Kohachi Studio announce Navinosuke: The Yo-kai Buster for Switch and PC in 2027, reviving a cancelled 2000s GBA-era RPG from Nazca veterans.
gameboy · 2026-09-10 · news
Developer Daniel Welch successfully runs a native port of Nintendo's Star Fox 64 on genuine Sony PSP hardware with 60fps visual interpolation over 30Hz game logic.
n64 · 2026-09-10 · news
ROM hacker Psicopompo fixes Alex Kidd in Miracle World's 40-year-old punch collision flaw with an elegant 121-byte Z80 assembly patch that fits into unused bank space.
genesis · 2026-09-10 · news
Developer Odelot introduces Hardcore Mode to MiSTer FPGA RetroAchievements cores, locking save states and cheats to deliver authentic hardware-grade achievement verification.
nes · 2026-09-10 · news
Callumsmilee releases Pokémon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire Plus 1.1 'Faraway Travels', expanding the 2003 GBA classic with 22 new Pokémon, a secret area, and bonus stages.
gameboy · 2026-09-10 · news
The Commodore 64 scene delivers five fresh CSDb releases late on September 10 from Shadow, Genesis Project, Hokuto Force, and Raiders of the Lost Empire.
c64 · 2026-09-10 · news
Developer ArugulaZ returns to Atari 2600 homebrew with No Quarter, an arcade platformer where Byron (Kid Kodiak) dodges acid rain and gathers coins within an 8K cartridge.
atari · 2026-09-09 · news
Wave Race 64 arrives on PC via static recompilation using N64Recomp and RT64, delivering native widescreen presentation and high refresh rates without breaking original water physics.
n64 · 2026-09-09 · news
Hammacher Schlemmer partners with Commodore as the first official online retail partner for the C64 Ultimate, bridging modern HDMI/Wi-Fi conveniences with classic vintage computing.
c64 · 2026-09-09 · news
Tomaz Stih adapts Digital Research's iconic GEM graphical desktop to boot directly into the Linux framebuffer, avoiding X11 and Wayland for ultra-lightweight retro computing.
pc · 2026-09-09 · news
Developer GloriousCow extracts the physical microcode ROM directly from photographs of the NEC V20 processor silicon die using computer vision and CNNs to achieve cycle-accurate emulation.
pc · 2026-09-09 · news
GOG collaborates with the Big Box Collection to provide interactive rotatable 3D scans and printable cardboard reproduction templates for iconic classic PC game boxes.
pc · 2026-09-09 · news
A new Universal 2 Mac Source Ports build of UZDoom 5.0.1 arrives for Apple Silicon and 64-bit Intel, providing modern notarized compatibility for classic Doom-engine games.
pc · 2026-09-09 · news
Post-Direct technical analysis reveals Nintendo is extensively rebuilding Ocarina of Time for Switch 2 with manual jumping, dashing, free camera traversal, and microphone melody input.
n64 · 2026-09-09 · news
PLAION REPLAI postpones the Neo Geo AES+ modern console recreation almost a full year to September 16, 2027 due to component constraints and unprecedented worldwide demand.
neo-geo-aes · 2026-09-09 · news
Retroid's first full trailer showcases the Pocket Duo's 180-degree hinge, active cooling fan, and unique dual 120Hz OLED screens in asymmetric 16:9 and 4:3 ratios.
multi · 2026-09-09 · news
Pepasjc releases a full English fan translation for the 1996 PlayStation port of Hideo Kojima's cyberpunk adventure Snatcher, translating 12,000+ strings and adding voice subtitles.
ps1 · 2026-09-09 · news
Compile's anime-styled 1996 Japanese Sega CD RPG Shadowrun receives a complete English fan translation from homebrew developer Erebus thirty years after launch.
mega-cd · 2026-09-09 · news
Compile's 1998 Sega Saturn RPG Madou Monogatari—the isometric origin story of Puyo Puyo's Arle Nadja—is fully translated into English by paul_met and brandnewscooby.
saturn · 2026-09-09 · news
Author Kim Justice and Golden Slumbers Ltd announce The Rubber-Keyed Wonder, a 200+ page commemorative book examining 48 defining Sinclair ZX Spectrum games for its 45th anniversary.
zx-spectrum · 2026-09-09 · news
Dadako and Rainy Frog confirm handheld-styled 2D stealth action title Spy Drops Gaiden launches October 12 on Steam, featuring Virtua Cop-style mini-games and CRT presentation options.
pc · 2026-09-09 · news
Naughty Dog's orange marsupial turns 30, marking three decades since Crash Bandicoot debuted on PlayStation and pioneered corridor-style 3D platforming.
ps1 · 2026-09-09 · news
RPCS3 developers enable direct physical Blu-ray disc streaming, allowing gamers and preservationists to boot PS3 optical discs on PC without dumping ISOs first.
pc · 2026-09-09 · news
Classic Amiga hardware receives a charming new 16-colour PAL platformer with Foxy's Run, demanding 1MB Chip RAM and evoking the European golden age of Amiga jump-and-runs.
amiga · 2026-09-09 · news
1985 coin-op City Connection is disassembled and transformed into native 68020 assembly, delivering full hardware-scrolling AGA planar visuals on stock Amiga 1200 hardware.
amiga · 2026-09-09 · news
CS-Lab issues firmware release candidate 2.282 for Warp 68060 accelerators, enabling USB drives, ASIX Ethernet adapters, USB gamepads, and persistent HDMI/DVI output.
amiga · 2026-09-09 · news
Amiga Future's May/June 2022 edition (Issue 156) is now freely readable online in German and English, documenting post-1994 hardware and homebrew history.
amiga · 2026-09-09 · news
CSDb records a massive wave of Commodore 64 releases on September 9, including Empire 64, a 512-byte Baricade game, fresh SID tracks, and OCA's 6502 assembly tutorial.
c64 · 2026-09-09 · news
ZUN's legendary 2002 bullet-hell shooter Embodiment of Scarlet Devil is reborn as Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic on Steam and consoles with a remade soundtrack and 10 languages.
pc · 2026-09-09 · news
Retroid has revealed considerably more about its mysterious Pocket Duo handheld, confirming two 120Hz OLED displays with an asymmetric 16:9 upper and 4:3 lower screen layout.
multi · 2026-09-08 · news
One of the Sega Saturn's most unusual Japanese exclusives is officially available to Western players today as City Connection's Culdcept The First Saturn Tribute launches.
saturn · 2026-09-08 · news
NES Radar transforms Nintendo's original 8-bit console into a live air-traffic display by pairing a custom NES ROM with real-time ADS-B aircraft data over a 9600-baud serial link.
nes · 2026-09-08 · news
Antstream has been confirmed as the development team behind both The James Pond Legacy and the upcoming Alien Breed 35th Anniversary retro compilations.
amiga · 2026-09-08 · news
Fliegeralarm Games has released a playable demo of Battle of Aldebaran, bringing cockpit-driven space combat and 256-colour AGA presentation to the Amiga 1200 and 4000.
amiga · 2026-09-08 · news
A new browser utility at amigaicon.madzel.de allows retro creators to design authentic Workbench 1.x two-colour icons and export them directly as genuine Amiga .info files.
amiga · 2026-09-08 · news
Open-source antivirus project AmiGuard is appealing to the Amiga community for vintage infected floppy disk images and virus samples to document and detect historical Amiga malware.
amiga · 2026-09-08 · news
Fresh development commits across the MiSTer FPGA ecosystem spotlight hardware preservation for the 1977 RCA Studio II console family and 1983 Dragon's Lair Laserdisc arcade hardware.
arcade · 2026-09-08 · news
Two landmark Nintendo reverse-engineering efforts received new source-code activity: the ongoing Super Smash Bros. Melee decompilation and Petari for Super Mario Galaxy.
gamecube · 2026-09-08 · news
FPGAworld 2026 opens today in Stockholm, bringing together programmable-logic engineers and highlighting how modern FPGA advancements drive classic hardware preservation.
multi · 2026-09-08 · news
The Amiga music and demoscene communities are mourning German tracker artist Dennis Lohr (Psyria), celebrated for decades of dedicated music production on classic Amiga hardware.
amiga · 2026-09-08 · news
Heritage Auctions closes offers today on an exceptionally early boxed 1978 Apple II cassette featuring Bob Bishop's Star Wars adaptation alongside an unlicensed Star Trek game.
apple-ii · 2026-09-08 · news
Nintendo broadcasts a dedicated Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct today, celebrating forty years of the legendary adventure lineage with a special retro focus on Ocarina of Time.
nes · 2026-09-08 · news
Anbernic has provided its clearest demonstration yet of the upcoming RG DS Plus, and the new dual-screen handheld looks considerably more ambitious than a simple Nintendo DS emulator.
multi · 2026-09-07 · news
Retroid's Pocket 6 has reached Amazon in the United States, providing buyers with a more conventional purchasing route for one of the higher-performance Android retro handhelds currently on the market.
multi · 2026-09-07 · news
Analogue Pocket owners interested in Nintendo's arcade history have received another openFPGA update today, with the community core recreating Punch-Out!!, Super Punch-Out!! and Arm Wrestling updated to version 0.3.4.
arcade · 2026-09-07 · news
The inexpensive MiniLoong Pocket 1 has received an unusually interesting firmware upgrade for serious retro players, with Leaf OS adding 120Hz display capability and black frame insertion.
multi · 2026-09-07 · news
Making a genuine Sega Mega Drive or Genesis game capable of running on original hardware is about to become considerably more approachable as MD Engine reaches final 1.0.0.
genesis · 2026-09-07 · news
PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 has received another development update on 7 September, with pre-release version 2.9.34 landing with a low-level microVU emulation fix.
pc · 2026-09-07 · news
The effort to preserve the enormous library of browser games created with Adobe Flash has taken another step forward, with Ruffle's 0.6.0 self-hosted web package reaching npm distribution.
pc · 2026-09-07 · news
The Game Boy homebrew scene has produced platformers, RPGs, puzzle games, music tools and even photography software over the years, but Retro Tarot takes Nintendo's grey brick in a rather different direction.
gameboy · 2026-09-06 · news
PDRoms added Magic Puzzle Ball to its Game Boy Color news feed on 6 September, bringing developer devgb's fast-moving puzzle project to the attention of another corner of the retro community.
gameboy · 2026-09-06 · news
The Game Boy Advance has received one of the more technically intriguing homebrew projects of 2026 with VECTOR, a Portal-inspired puzzle game written specifically for Nintendo's 2001 handheld.
gameboy · 2026-09-06 · news
More than four decades after the Atari 2600's commercial heyday, developers are still finding reasons to squeeze new games into the venerable machine.
atari · 2026-09-06 · news
The Nintendo Entertainment System receives another new homebrew entry this weekend with Waffle Man and the Flyer Floaters, a 2026 release credited to DobyGames and newly catalogued by PDRoms on 6 September.
nes · 2026-09-06 · news
The Game Boy Advance homebrew revival is gaining a surprisingly substantial sports title with FCFA 2026 from VG Source Game Studio.
gameboy · 2026-09-06 · news
The Commodore 64 has another new game to deliver alongside all those pizzas. Pizza Boy 64, created by Ricky Derocher, has entered the wider retro-news cycle on 6 September after appearing through C64 community channel...
c64 · 2026-09-06 · news
One of the biggest pieces of FPGA news on 6 September concerns Taito's F3 arcade hardware, which is now the subject of an actively developing MiSTer core.
arcade · 2026-09-06 · news
MiSTer FPGA users have another arcade shooter to explore following the arrival of support for Double Wings, the vertically scrolling arcade game from Mitchell Corporation.
arcade · 2026-09-06 · news
MiSTer FPGA has always prioritised hardware accuracy over console-like presentation, but a new frontend called Degauss is attempting to make navigating large retro libraries considerably more polished.
multi · 2026-09-06 · news
One of today's most gloriously obscure FPGA developments concerns the RCA Studio II, a console so comprehensively overshadowed by later machines that many players have never seen one outside a museum or retro-computin...
atari · 2026-09-06 · news
Fans of Cave's notoriously demanding arcade shooters have a substantial MiSTer FPGA update to investigate.
arcade · 2026-09-06 · news
One of Nintendo's strangest hardware experiments has become considerably more accessible through MiSTer FPGA.
n64 · 2026-09-06 · news
A new project called NeoConnect VirtualBus is attempting to resurrect one of the more unusual capabilities found in portions of the Neo Geo ecosystem: direct communication between separate systems.
arcade · 2026-09-06 · news
MiSTer FPGA development is moving into increasingly ambitious territory with ongoing work on an Apple Macintosh Quadra 800 core.
pc · 2026-09-06 · news
The MiSTer FPGA ecosystem's PC side has received another significant boost through improvements to the z486 core.
pc · 2026-09-06 · news
The Amiga implementation on MiSTer FPGA has taken a substantial step toward covering more of Commodore's sprawling hardware family.
amiga · 2026-09-06 · news
MiSTer FPGA has gained one of its stranger capabilities: playing DVDs. RetroRGB's 6 September roundup reports that developer Joe Daniels has released a dedicated DVD core capable of handling both physical DVD discs an...
multi · 2026-09-06 · news
The MiSTer implementation of Irem's M72 arcade hardware has received an important technical update, with RetroRGB reporting the changes as part of its 6 September FPGA roundup.
arcade · 2026-09-06 · news
A large batch of quieter MiSTer FPGA changes published in the 6 September roundup may be every bit as useful as the headline-grabbing new cores.
multi · 2026-09-06 · news
The Amiga community has gathered in Spoleto, Italy today for the sixth Passione Amiga Day, an entire event dedicated to keeping Commodore's famous 16-bit computer family active rather than merely nostalgic.
amiga · 2026-09-06 · news
The Commodore 64 scene has not taken Sunday off. CSDb, the long-running Commodore 64 Scene Database, is recording several releases dated 6 September 2026, demonstrating once again that C64 activity extends far beyond ...
c64 · 2026-09-06 · news
Sony's first PlayStation is officially old enough to be recreated as premium LEGO nostalgia.
ps1 · 2026-09-06 · news
Classic Macintosh users have received another worthwhile MiSTer FPGA update, this time targeting the Macintosh LC core.
pc · 2026-09-06 · news
Another slice of 1980s arcade history has joined the MiSTer FPGA ecosystem with the release of a new core for Ring King, the boxing game remembered for its exaggerated animation, unusual visual personality and relentl...
arcade · 2026-09-06 · news
Fixing timing issues for budget-friendly Saturn loading convenience.
saturn · 2026-02-13 · news
Absurd, unnecessary, and absolutely ruling the homebrew scene.
saturn · 2026-02-13 · news
The best ROM hacks remix muscle memory for a gold discovery experience.
nes · 2026-02-13 · news
The modern GBA SP fantasy: Truly pocketable clamshell emulation machine.
multi · 2026-02-13 · news
Reminder: Digital shelves vanish. Deadline for Jurassic Park is March 31, 2026.
multi · 2026-02-12 · news
A handheld built around your physical Genesis collection is finally landing.
genesis · 2026-02-12 · news
Vita design clones signal enduring demand for comfort-object handhelds.
multi · 2026-02-12 · news
Proof the modding community is still inventing new reasons to revisit classics.
n64 · 2026-02-11 · news
Weekly drops continue building a playable, legal library of arcade rarities.
arcade · 2026-02-11 · news
Collector bait and a celebration of lost N64 history from the FPGA experts.
n64 · 2026-02-09 · news
Hamster's new model shifts the focus from subscriptions to individual ownership, launching with Cool Boarders and Ninja Gaiden II.
multi · 2026-02-06 · news
Native port efforts and revived PC-port attempts give hope to Saturn fans.
saturn · 2026-02-06 · news
The first-ever home release of Ridge Racer's lost arcade classic is set for February 26.
arcade · 2026-02-05 · news
Another 80s racer gets a legit release, making classics “one-click playable.”
arcade · 2026-02-05 · news
Recompilation projects preserve the N64 feel while fixing performance and controls.
n64 · 2026-02-05 · news
Modern physical retro collecting gets a flagship boost with DOOM on Evercade.
multi · 2026-02-04 · news