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Vagrant Story decompiled: A lone fan is dutifully working towards the remaster Matsuno's masterpiece deserves, one line of code at a time Plus: An interview with the creator of legendary emulator ZSNES and a healthy dose of patch notes.
02.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just in time for Halloween: Aeon Genesis returns with Screaming Mad George's pinball nightmare Veteran hacker Gideon Zhi talks ParanoiaScape. Plus: We check back in with Playdate emulator CrankBoy.
19.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME finally cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64 How MAME devs finally got sound working for the 3D arcade system. Plus: PC Engine LaserActive support gets fast-tracked.
05.10.2025 20:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and the Nintendo DS's anime game treasure trove Plus: a 486 in your wallet, a PS1 roguelike and an MSX RPG classic.
14.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"This is the first:" The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive In April 2009, a Sega fan decided to look into emulating the Mega LD, a quirky and little-known hybrid of Genesis and LaserDisc. This week he finished the job.
31.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How the makers of CrankBoy finally cracked 60 fps Game Boy emulation on the Playdate Plus: A fantastic anime series' DS tie-in gets an English translation.
17.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ROM returns: Striking gold in El Dorado Also this issue: a plus-sized portion of patch notes and an utterly unkown PS2 horror game, back online.
03.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stop reading this and go play a brilliant emulated tour of the Mac's UI Like Digital Eclipse's docugames, Marcin Wichary's "Frame of preference" is pioneering how to use emulation to tell a story.
14.07.2025 03:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In the shadow of the Switch 2's launch, Switch 1 emulation lives on Plus: How's that GameCube emulation on the new console, anyway?
29.06.2025 17:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One rotten fan can spoil a community, but only if we let them Thoughts on the BS emulator developers deal with every day, and what we can do about it.
15.06.2025 10:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Interview: 15 years after the servers shut down, FromSoft's singular mech game Chromehounds is back online The PvP mech battler is finally playable online in Xbox 360 emulator Xenia, and I talked to the modder making it happen.
26.05.2025 04:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dinosaur Planet Recompiled is the perfect game to kick off a new era of N64 archaeology You can now play an unreleased N64 game on your PC at 4K and that rules. Plus: a new Sega Saturn emulator and a Puyo Puyo roguelike!?
11.05.2025 10:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside the long-awaited fan translation of Sega Saturn masterpiece Sakura Wars 2 Sakura Wars translation crew: Interviewed. Plus this issue, Princess Crown for the Saturn, 120 fps GameCube games(!?) and more.
27.04.2025 18:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The big Gundam game emulation special Walking Gundam encyclopedia Tom Aznable takes us on a tour of 4 underrated Gundam greats from the '90s and 2000s.
13.04.2025 10:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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N64 Recompilation is about to have a big 2025 Get ready for N64 Recompiled to make its grand re-debut with mod support and more game ports on the way. Plus: a once-lost Mega Man Legends spin-off, saved and translated.
30.03.2025 10:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So Nintendo's really gonna just keep on DMCAing Switch emulator forks, huh? Plus: PS3 emulation on Android makes impressive progress and two cult classics get English translations.
16.03.2025 10:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Democratizing retro(arch) shaders for emulators and beyond Meet ShaderGlass, the new king of convenient post-processing. Plus, a new benchmark for static recompilation and some very nice hot air balloons.
02.03.2025 11:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What 'RT' and 'HDR' have to do with fixing obscure graphical issues in 20-year-old PS2 games A deep dive into some very specific PCSX2 improvements, plus news on the MiSTer's Sega Saturn core and a dash of Kamen Rider.
16.02.2025 11:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SegaNet for 2025: Dreamcast emulator Flycast introduces a new way to play online Also this issue: Truly playable Bloodborne in ShadPS4 (and clearing up the confusion on that 60 fps patch DMCA).
02.02.2025 20:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
19.01.2025 11:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
30.12.2024 00:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
15.12.2024 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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?
01.12.2024 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
17.11.2024 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
03.11.2024 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
20.10.2024 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
06.10.2024 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
22.09.2024 17:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"It's thinking:" a dive into Dreamcast emulation, 25 years after 9/9/99 This week, let's just follow our rainbow.
08.09.2024 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
25.08.2024 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0