Ask any SNES veteran about Street Fighter Alpha 2 and you’ll get the same sigh: the port that pulled off the impossible, then made you wait through an awkward silence…

There’s a special kind of drama that only the retro fan-translation scene can produce. On Friday, someone released an AI-translated English patch for Meremanoid — a 1999 Japan-only PlayStation mermaid…

Polls close at 8pm tonight, and I don’t need a crystal ball to tell you how this ends: the separatists are about to get flattened. Every poll says so. And…

Try not to fall over: the original Silent Hill is one step closer to coming home. For years, playing the 1999 original the way Team Silent intended meant tracking down…

The SNES has always been the console that homebrew devs circle cautiously, like a cat around a bathtub. Making games for it has stayed stubbornly hard: even seasoned C programmers…

Some scoreboards just aren’t worth keeping anymore. decomp.dev — the 2024-launched tracker that turned matching decompilation into a spectator sport, complete with progress bars and leaderboards across dozens of classic…

Some ports age like fine wine. Others age like an open can of pop left on the windowsill. For nearly four decades, Ocean Software’s ZX Spectrum conversion of Wizball sat…

Thirty-four years ago this week, a mech strategy game launched on the Sega Mega Drive in Japan — and never left. This Friday, that finally changes. According to Gematsu, publisher…