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October 17, 2026 5:26 PM
October 17, 2026
Taki Udon's transparent-blue FPGBA SP prototype screen running Diddy Kong Racing (N64) as a power demonstration.

Taki Udon’s FPGBA SP Promises Real-Cartridge GBA Gaming on FPGA for Around $100

Remember when the Game Boy Advance SP made us all believe the future was a flip-phone for our thumbs? Taki Udon remembers — and he’s building the 2026 version. The…

Mercurius Pretty: End of the Century Japanese Dreamcast cover art

Dreamcast’s Obscure Alchemy Sim Mercurius Pretty Finally Speaks English — Via AI

Buckle up, because this week’s translation story comes with a twist. All week, the fan-translation beat has been a love letter to human craft: Beetle Adventure Racing’s hand-built decompilation, Smash…

Lost Odyssey title screen reading 'Press START' in the fan-made native PC port

Lost Odyssey Escaped the Xbox 360 — Fans Just Rebuilt It as a Native PC Game

Imagine waiting nineteen years for one of the best JRPGs ever made to come to PC. Then imagine some random genius named freefrank just… doing it himself. Lost Odyssey —…

Box art for Schrödinger no Neko, Takara's 1997 Japan-only PlayStation dungeon crawler

Takara’s Forgotten PS1 Dungeon Crawler Schrödinger no Neko Is Getting an English Patch — and It’s “Absolutely Human-Made”

The fan-translation scene has a new reason to blow the dust out of the old PlayStation — and this time, the humans are doing the talking. Loudly. Chapu Translations —…

Teaser graphic for Taki Udon's rumored FPGA Super Nintendo console, codenamed SSNT/SuperFPGA

Taki Udon Is Teasing an FPGA Super Nintendo — Codename SSNT

Taki Udon is done teasing PlayStations, apparently. On October 7, the RetroRemake co-founder — the guy behind the FPGA PlayStation that is the SuperStation One — posted a photo of…

A preproduction iQue Player prototype console with a Beta 5399 label, one of four units dumped by the iQueBrew team

A Lost Majora’s Mask Build Is Hiding Inside Nintendo’s Strangest Console

Here’s a sentence I never expected to type: the most exciting Majora’s Mask discovery in years comes from a console that didn’t even have a cartridge slot. The iQue Player…

Yoshi battles Samus in Smash 64 Recompiled, with a 'High Framerate' graphic overlaid

Smash 64 Recompiled Is the Human-Made Answer to the AI PC Port Wave

Another PC port of a Nintendo 64 game is on the way — but this one arrives with a mission statement. Meet Smash 64 Recompiled, a static recompilation of 1999’s…

Moto X gameplay: motocross riders racing down a snowy hill on Super Nintendo

Moto X: The Finished 1994 SNES Racer Finally Arrives This Friday, 32 Years Late

Thirty-two years is a long time to wait for a race to start. Moto X, a motocross racer built for the Super Nintendo back in 1994, was finished, polished, and…

Key art for Koei's Air Management '96 showing an airplane

Air Management ’96 Is Finally Playable in English — and It’s 100% Human-Made

Here’s a sentence I never expected to type: a thirty-year-old airline-management sim about spreadsheets just became the most wholesome thing in retro...

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