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Videogame emulation news and exclusive interviews, from the aesthetics of razor sharp scanlines to the wild technical challenges of making yesterday's games run on tomorrow's hardware

The follow-up: Taki Udon on the SuperStation Dock, and more Quest 64 Recomp

"Failure can't be an option:" Taki Udon breaks down the last year of 12 hour days, 6 days a week he poured into the SuperStation, his dream MiSTer FPGA console

Quest 64 Recompiled: The "classic" RPG like you've never seen it before

I'm giving away a Japanese boxed copy of Animal Crossing (Dōbutsu no Mori+) to celebrate 3,000 subscribers

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

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

Vagrant Story decompiled: A lone fan is dutifully working towards the remaster Matsuno's masterpiece deserves, one line of code at a time

Vagrant Story decompiled: A lone fan is dutifully working towards the remaster Matsuno's masterpiece deserves, one line of code at a time

Just in time for Halloween: Aeon Genesis returns with Screaming Mad George's pinball nightmare

Just in time for Halloween: Aeon Genesis returns with Screaming Mad George's pinball nightmare

After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME finally cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64

After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME finally cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and the Nintendo DS's anime game treasure trove

"This is the first:" The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive

How the makers of Crankboy finally cracked 60 fps Game Boy emulation on the Playdate

ROM returns: Striking gold in El Dorado

Stop reading this and go play a brilliant emulated tour of the Mac's UI

In the shadow of the Switch 2's launch, Switch 1 emulation lives on

One rotten fan can spoil a community, but only if we let them

Interview: 15 years after the servers shut down, FromSoft's singular mech game Chromehounds is back online

Dinosaur Planet Recompiled is the perfect game to kick off a new era of N64 archaeology

Inside the long-awaited fan translation of Sega Saturn masterpiece Sakura Wars 2

The big Gundam game emulation special

N64 Recompilation is about to have a big 2025

N64 Recompilation is about to have a big 2025

So Nintendo's really gonna just keep on DMCAing Switch emulator forks, huh?

Democratizing retro(arch) shaders for emulators and beyond

What 'RT' and 'HDR' have to do with fixing obscure graphical issues in 20-year-old PS2 games

SegaNet for 2025: Dreamcast emulator Flycast introduces a new way to play online

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

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

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

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

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

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

So who's getting an Analogue 3D?

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

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

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

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

The summer grab bag issue

Inside the fan translation of PS1 JRPG Ancient Roman: "Excavation site or crime scene, whichever you fancy"

ShadPS4 ignites a Bloodborne brouhaha while PCSX2 powers up to 2.0

Sony's new PS2 classics on PS5 are the latest in a long line of official emulation getting it wrong

Welcome back, Sparkster

Why you should emulate Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast, this year's definitive summerjam

N64 Recompiled interview: Diving into the game-changing twist on emulation

Interview: First details on the $99 MiSTer FPGA clone board aiming to stop "people getting screwed" on overpriced hardware

iOS emulation kicks the heck off: What's here now and what's next

N64 MiSTer dev moves on from making cores to create a new retro game for a console he's mastered: "I know how to use all of their power to my advantage"

Going for it! with Acediez: Behind the new fan translation of the PS1's Goemon Oedo Daikaiten

WTF happened to Yuzu, and what comes next?

Evercade Gloved, PS Portal hacked, and 18 screenshots from 18 Fist of the North Star games for the hell of it

Inside the 10 years it took to translate – and fully understand – one-of-a-kind RPG Linda Cube Again

How upscaled HD texture mods are made

Substack to Ghost migration guide: How I imported my newsletter and set up Mailgun and Cloudflare

How a romhacker discovered 3 Saturn Bomberman prototypes hidden in demo discs for 28 years

The 2023 send-off: Substack's Nazi problem and a quick guide to the Analogue Pocket's new display modes