A videogame emulation digest: News, interviews and deep dives into MiSTer cores, fan translations, and more.

The fan translation extravaganza: Tales of Rebirth, Team Innocent and 6 more games you can now play in English

Including a re-translation of SNES classic Illusion of Gaia and a Saturn Bomberman. Plus, the MiSTer's getting a 3DO core and a new Taki Udon FPGA console.

I'm giving away a boxed copy of Front Mission to celebrate 2,100 subscribers

Everyone subscribed to Read Only Memo on Saturday, January 4th 2025 will be entered to win.

The Before Crisis crisis: How hackers are rebuilding the lost Final Fantasy VII mobile game piece by tiny piece

Plus RPCS3 turning a Raspberry Pi 5 into a PSP-esque PS3, a new feature for the Sega Saturn MiSTer core, and some fan translations due in 2025.

Turns out a lot of stuff happened 20 & 30 years ago: the accidental anniversary issue

Celebrating milestones for the Sega Saturn, Nintendo DS and... Detective Conan?

The budget MiSTER Pi is back, and this time Taki Udon has a whole team behind him

Plus, we're bringing the emulation scene to Bluesky.

The MiSTer's N64 core goes Turbo while Princess Crown on the Saturn takes its sweet, sweet time

The "finished" N64 MiSTer core has life in it yet — and so does a fan translation more than a decade in the making.

So who's getting an Analogue 3D?

Plus a roundup of NES games on the SNES, the latest on Bloodborne PC and SNES save states on the MiSTer.

And then there were none, as a Nintendo 'threat' drives Ryujinx offline

Farewell to the second Switch emulator, and with it an untold loss of talent from the emulation community.

Party time in Yharnam: How Bloodborne emulation has gotten so much better in just the last 2 months

Booting Bloodborne "doesn't require any hacks anymore," a ShadPS4 developer tells Read Only Memo, though there's still a whole lot of work to done.

"It's thinking:" a dive into Dreamcast emulation, 25 years after 9/9/99

This week, let's just follow our rainbow.

PLASMAAA!!! The Mystical Ninja returns in Goemon 64: Recompiled

Plus, a fan translation of a Game Boy Color Pokémon-alike, 16 years in the making.

The summer grab bag issue

Defcon level: Game Boy. Medabots mastered. Majora HD'd. Wario meets Apple.