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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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?
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!
Hilltop Works: Next translation after Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, an obscure PS2 RPG, is "The most exciting game I've ever worked on"
A summer vacation in November
Analogue hypes up groundbreaking N64 console (while quietly shoving openFPGA into the corner)
Bonus ROM: How an emulator can add multiplayer to a singleplayer game
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
