It's amazing! It's here! MiSTer's Saturn dev breaks down his new 3DO core and why it may never be *quite* perfect
Plus: Catching up with a spring blossom's worth of recompilation progress in just the last 2 weeks.
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Quest 64 Recompiled: The "classic" RPG like you've never seen it before
Plus: some beautiful pixel art in '90s JRPG form, translated.
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Dreamcast emulator DEmul returns from the void after 7 years with groundbreaking support for Sega's Hikaru arcade board
A tale of two new frontends: exoWin the best of times, iiSu the worst of times
The future of the past
Vagrant Story decompiled: A lone fan is dutifully working towards the remaster Matsuno's masterpiece deserves, one line of code at a time
ROM Greatest Hits
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
Dinosaur Planet Recompiled is the perfect game to kick off a new era of N64 archaeology
The Before Crisis crisis: How hackers are rebuilding the lost Final Fantasy VII mobile game piece by tiny piece
