Retro Games/Hardware/Emulation

“There’s so many ways to play the N64. You do not need to support Palmer Luckey’s little project.”

After two long months, MAME 0.289 is ready, and it’s an undeniably massive update! But before we talk about emulation, there are a few more mundane things to mention. Our Windows binary releases now include the SDL sound output and joystick input modules. The sdljoy joystick input module now supports game controllers with up to 128 buttons. The Win32 debugger module handles dynamic UI scaling changes. Finally, outputs have been overhauled, improving performance and fixing issues, but you may need to update your configuration if you’ve got external programs hooked up, and some artwork files may need updating.

“Back in February of 2025, we sat down with some of the original team from Argonaut Games who worked on the very first Croc game on the PS1 and spoke to them about their upcoming Croc remaster. When we asked Argonaut’s founder Jez San about whether we would be seeing Croc 2 being remade in the near future, he told us that they would love to see it happen, but Croc 1 had to do the numbers first. Well, it seems that it’s happening, because Argonaut have released a new trailer with footage from their Croc 2 remake, and it’s looking amazing!”

A batch of previously unseen videos from the Golden Age of coin-operated gaming for you this week. Lyle Raines was one of Atari Coin-Op’s most influential employees. He arrived at Atari with a Bach…

So this is my written article covering the Retroid Pocket Nova. This one might be interesting to you because as well as chatting to Retroid, I asked them to share a couple of the early design renders of the Nova with me to feature in here.

Bo, drx, and Saz from the Hidden Palace video game preservation community are joined by the Internet Archive’s Jason Scott to discuss what’s involved in properly archiving and showcasing thousands of game previews, prototypes, and press discs.

I don’t mean “in a PSX style”, this is actually a game for PlayStation 1. It’s short (only two worlds implemented) but very charming.

Video description:

The 4 OG Xbox releases for Win11 seem to be emulated indeed and XWine1 already found a way to play more games with the embedded emulator

An experimental PlayStation 5 emulator built in C# — PS5-faithful dashboard UI, native CPU execution, HLE syscall layer, and Vulkan rendering. Based on SharpEmu by par274. - Release CraziiEmu v0.27-alpha · craze1pirate/craziiEmu

Are the games for the OG Xbox on Win11 emulated?

Bitter sweet because I’m pretty sure this means we lost real one. RIP

PlayStation 5 emulator for Windows. Contribute to KytyPS5/KytyPS5 development by creating an account on GitHub.

RPCS3 developers say the PlayStation 3 emulator may eventually run games without requiring users to install Sony’s PS3 system software. The project has now replaced another firmware component, called cellSysmodule, with code implemented directly in RPCS3.

Gameboy emulator in Java and Kotlin. Contribute to trekawek/coffee-gb development by creating an account on GitHub.

Works great on MuOS, hopefully Deluxe is just around the corner

A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay. Immerse yourself in a period drama that intertwines romance with murder mystery, as a young cleric who must resist or give in to the charms of a strikingly beautiful maid.

The CD case was all warped due to heat, the CD didn’t survive either :/

Their compatibility list notes 75.33% are Playable, 22.93% can go in-game but not be finished and only 1.69% can’t get past the intro.

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/68610854

I played this game way to much on my old Tandy 1000EX

PS2 emulator NetherSX2 gets a Switch port

In July 1996, Kenji Eno visited Nintendo HQ to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto as the first of his “cross-talk” series.

Some gameplay if you have no idea what this is.

Context

The TRIMUI Brick Pro is one of the most interesting retro handhelds to come out lately. Typically these companies beef up the processors and specs for a ‘sequel’, but TRIMUI kept the same insides and just built a bigger body with thumbsticks.

Copy your floppies before bit rot gets them.

Unfortunately, beyond a bunch of vague marketing speak about “the golden age of portable gaming” and the rebirth of “a true icon” that the company presumably cannot reference directly (for legal reasons), not much is really known about this device yet. We don’t have any images of it, and none of the specs have been revealed just yet. As a result, it’s too soon to make a definitive judgement on whether this will be a worthy addition to your collection or another unremarkable handheld to add to the pile.

A few weeks ago I wrote about taking a chance on a cheap "junk" PSP-2000 from Japan, replacing its faulty charging port, and ending up with one of the nicest handhelds I own.. One of many PSP’s I’ve bought though.

Not really a surprise; a Lenovo device “in name only” anyway.

I had a couple Wisdom Tree Game Boy games as a kid, never knew there was a port of Spiritual Warfare until recently. Excited to find a copy for a not ridiculous asking price!

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/49129778

After the recent post about thousands of chiptune music from cracking teams in mp3 format, I wanted to share an already well known collection of Commodore 64 music in their original tracking format. To play these SID format music files, an audio player that supports the format is required.

In case anyone is wonder why progress on the emulator appears slow or feature requests feel ignored, we are currently still understaffed and have, in addition to new bugs reported every day that have to be fixed, a backlog of items on our internal TODO list such as:

Here’s the full list of games:

You can also grab it all from IA: https://archive.org/details/Keygen-Music-Archive

Psychic Force 2012 (サイキックフォース2012, Saikikku Fōsu 2012) is a 1998 arcade fighting game developed by Taito as the sequel to their 1996 title, Psychic Force. After its arcade release, it was ported a year later to the Dreamcast home console, becoming one of its earliest titles when it was released in Japan on March 4, 1999.