Let's reverse-engineer how someone reverse-engineered a secret hiding in F-Zero GX for 23 years
Plus: Open source FPGA hardware's going to give the busy Android scene a run for its money.
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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.
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.
How upscaled HD texture mods are made
Substack to Ghost migration guide: How I imported my newsletter and set up Mailgun and Cloudflare
How a romhacker discovered 3 Saturn Bomberman prototypes hidden in demo discs for 28 years
The 2023 send-off: Substack's Nazi problem and a quick guide to the Analogue Pocket's new display modes
ROM Greatest Hits
"Failure can't be an option:" Taki Udon breaks down the last year of 12 hour days, 6 days a week he poured into the SuperStation, his dream MiSTer FPGA console
After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME finally cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64
"This is the first:" The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive
The Before Crisis crisis: How hackers are rebuilding the lost Final Fantasy VII mobile game piece by tiny piece
