Generally speaking, writing your own games for retro consoles starts with C code. You’ll need to feed that through a console-specific tool-chain, and there’s certainly going to be some hoops to jump ...

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Here’s the guts from [Dext0rb’s] Super Nintendo cartridge. It’s easy to pick out the dark-colored board which lets him reflash SNES ROMs via USB. We’ve seen this done a number of times, but this is a ...

For some people, playing NES games on the NES Classic just isn't enough. They want the throwback system to play games from the SNES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis and Atari 2600, too. The hack allows NES ...

Modern gaming hardware is extremely powerful. Lightning-fast SSDs and high-end GPUs capable of ray tracing power help power the latest gaming consoles and PCs. However, for all of their hardware might ...

The NES Classic has an interesting history. Following its incredibly successful launch back in 2017, Nintendo discontinued the product but began manufacturing it again only a few months after ...

If you were one of the lucky few to score yourself an NES Classic before the holiday season and have exhausted playing the included 30 games, an NES Classic hack has been released that allows users to ...

Emulators on iOS usually get shut down as soon as Apple’s App Store review team catches wind of their existence – usually thanks to news and blog coverage. (Sorry.) But guess who’s on holiday break ...

If you owned a Nintendo GameCube, there was also the chance that you owned Animal Crossing. The community simulation game was quite popular at the time, offering many different kinds of activities, ...

Wherever you look, people seem to love hacking into games systems and cartridges to create gameplay experiences that just would never be possible through official means. This latest project is no ...