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Link can already run through Kokiri Forest on a PC in the new Ocarina of Time. In one early test, the forest appears, the grass casts shadows, and the path looks inviting enough. Turn toward a different part of the woods and the scene washes out almost to white. Inside the Great Deku Tree, the same tester records a much cleaner view. That's what the first week of Switch 2 emulation looks… Read more

I was trying to upload a homebrew game to ROMhacking.net. As best I remember, I submitted it as a ROM hack by mistake. My account was banned, and more than a decade of comments, reviews, and other contributions I'd made disappeared from view. I spoke with two or three admins and pleaded to come back. Picture me, a 43-year-old man, begging to get back into a ROM hacking website. Anyone who knows… Read more

Prolapse, the proposed PS5 exploit for firmware 14.00 and 14.10, faces fresh doubts about whether it can become a usable jailbreak. A new r/PS5_Jailbreak thread shares a pessimistic message attributed to Sonic-Iso, while zecoxao's public code remains labeled non working. The update weakens expectations of an imminent release. It does not confirm that Prolapse is canceled or that a future jailbreak for these firmware versions is impossible. What the update says The… Read more

You know the moment. A game is sitting at its title screen, nobody has touched the controller for a while, and somehow the music has become the main event. The next level can wait. This bit deserves another loop. We have given that habit a much bigger home. Retro Replay's Video Game Music Library is live, with 95,901 tracks across 60 systems at the time of this announcement. Pick a system, find… Read more

In Ultima VII, a red face fills the screen and offers to become your new friend. The Guardian has an excellent voice, terrible intentions, and rather more confidence than anyone should want in a traveling companion. Then you step into Britannia, start asking questions, and discover that the people already living there have plenty of problems of their own. It is a wonderful world to get distracted in. You arrive with a… Read more

Update, October 30, 2026: Prolapse faces fresh doubts, and the public code remains labeled non working. Read our follow-up with the shared developer messages and what remains unknown. These reports do not confirm that the project is canceled. The automatic-update settings below remain optional steps for owners choosing to wait, with no guarantee of a future jailbreak. The PS5 asks to update, and for once you leave the button alone. If you’ve… Read more

Courteney Cox and David Arquette arrived at Los Angeles Center Studios on October 16, 2008, for the Fallout 3 launch party. The arrival photographs are still in WireImage's archive. Bethesda was celebrating its trip into the Capital Wasteland with a guest list that looked considerably more glamorous than the people you'd meet outside Megaton. There was another connection, too, at least according to Bethesda's own reported trivia: Cox had briefly worked there… Read more

Gezine spends a few seconds on the PS5’s version screen, then opens ★Debug Settings. That’s the video. No game, no lengthy explanation, just a trip through two menus that most owners would scroll past without a thought. But the number on the first screen is 14.10, and that makes the second screen a much more interesting place to end up. This is current PS5 software, the version on Sony’s official system-software page.… Read more

Christmas dinner may need to make room for a few grudge matches this year. Super Mario Kart Deluxe is targeting December 25, 2026, bringing a huge fan-made expansion to the SNES racer that started it all. For anyone who spent afternoons trading shells, missing shortcuts, and demanding one more race, this is a very tempting reason to pick up the controller again. The date appears in the new teaser shared by ScouBsmk… Read more

A $4.5 million judgment can sound like a precise measure of damage. In Nintendo’s case against James C. Williams, known online as Archbox, it was something different: the maximum statutory award the court granted for each of 30 selected games after Williams did not defend the lawsuit. Retro Replay covered Nintendo’s original lawsuit against Williams before the court entered this default judgment. On September 23, 2026, U.S. District Judge Lauren King of… Read more

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is one of the NES’s most daring adventures, and seeing Hyrule return with sharper art, a wider view, and a second Link is a rush. This is what makes modern game technology so exciting: dedicated fans can bring a familiar classic to today’s PCs and add possibilities the original hardware could never offer. The HD art is still a work in progress, but this early release… Read more

Edia is bringing the CD-ROM² versions of Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes I and II to modern systems worldwide in 2027. The Trails series did not spring into existence as a fully formed encyclopedia of nations, political factions and recurring heroes. Its roots stretch backward through The Legend of Heroes, and those roots stretch into Nihon Falcom’s even older Dragon Slayer family. In 2027, players outside Japan will receive an unusually… Read more

At Retro Replay, our passion is digging into the pixels, cartridges, and code of classic gaming. We explore the histories of virtual worlds. But every so often, a true story from that same era emerges from the real world that is so profound it demands our attention. The story of Damien Echols is one such case. It's a significant departure from our usual retro-tech fare, but his history is a powerful and… Read more

If you thought emulation drama ended with Yuzu’s takedown, think again. A brand-new project called Oboromi is shaking up the emulator scene with one bold claim: it’s a proof-of-concept Nintendo Switch 2 emulator built entirely in Rust. Yes, Switch 2 — not the current one. Developed by 0xNikilite, this open-source powerhouse focuses on clarity, correctness, and traceability over raw performance, meaning it’s not here to run games just yet… but it’s already… Read more

Nintendo’s Most Recent Alleged Hack Explained: What Happened, What Is Known, And What To Watch Next Flashpoint overview. A hacking crew calling itself Crimson Collective has claimed it breached Nintendo and walked away with a trove of internal material. Reports say the cache could include production assets, developer files, backups, and other folders, with early chatter centering on a headline number of about 570 gigabytes of data. Nintendo has not confirmed an… Read more

Flashback to the golden age of 16-bit gaming, where pixel art, catchy soundtracks, and side-scrolling adventures defined childhoods everywhere. Nintendo has just dropped three more SNES classics onto the Nintendo Switch Online service, giving fans another reason to dive back into the nostalgia of the Super Nintendo era. Watch Nintendo’s official announcement trailer here on YouTube. This new update for October brings a mix of action, puzzles, and competitive fighting into the… Read more

Nintendo tracked down an alleged Switch pirate by following a trail of posts and repair orders, and now it’s asking a court to award $4.5 million in damages. According to court filings, Nintendo of America accuses James “Archbox” Williams of running multiple piracy storefronts, moderating forums that promoted pirated games, and offering paid access to stolen libraries. Investigators tied the Archbox name to email addresses linked to Nintendo repair orders shipped to… Read more

On September 2, 2025, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company were officially granted U.S. Patent No. 12,403,397 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. What brilliant piece of groundbreaking technology does this cover? A method of summoning a character to fight on behalf of the player. In other words, Nintendo has now patented pressing a button and calling in backup. If you play games, this mechanic should sound familiar. It is Pokémon’s bread… Read more

Nintendo’s Latest Legal Victory Against Modding Nintendo has once again proven that it will aggressively defend its intellectual property from anyone who attempts to undermine it. A federal judge in Washington recently ordered Ryan Michael Daley to pay the company $2 million in damages after he was found guilty of selling modded Nintendo Switch consoles, flash cartridges, and modchips through his site Modded Hardware. The ruling also permanently bans him from engaging… Read more

A Platform Built on Freedom For more than a decade, Google’s Android operating system has been the backbone of the handheld emulation scene. Devices like the Retroid Pocket, AYN Odin, and countless other retro handhelds have leaned on Android because of its flexibility. What made the operating system so attractive to both developers and users was not just its adaptability but also its openness. Android allowed sideloading, which meant that users could… Read more

Years of work ended not with a release but with silence because of harassment, licensing wars, and community entitlement. Update 1: The First and Last Update of This Post! So apparently I got Rick Rollbacked, emulation-style. A buddy tells me, “Hey, DuckStation has a secret rollback netplay build, go ask for it in the dev’s Discord.” Like a gullible idiot, I did. What I walked into was less “beta download” and more… Read more

When Wings of Death hit the Atari ST back in 1990, it quickly carved out a reputation as one of the system’s most intense and stylish vertical shooters. Developed by Eclipse Software and published by Thalion, the game threw players into the boots of Sagyr, a sorcerer cursed to transform into a series of winged creatures in order to battle his way through wave after wave of enemies. Across six lengthy and… Read more

The Amiga turns 40 this year, and while the original home computer line remains a celebrated success with nearly five million units sold worldwide, its spin-off projects were far less fortunate. Both the CDTV and the CD32 failed to capture mainstream audiences, with the CD32 in particular remembered as Commodore’s final attempt to compete with the likes of Sega’s Mega Drive/Genesis and Nintendo’s SNES. Launched in 1993 as one of the earliest… Read more

Ken Kutaragi, PlayStation's creator, revealed to fan Julian Domanski that he personally owns a rare Nintendo PlayStation prototype. Domanski, who reports for Tokyo Retro Gamer, shared this discovery on his X account along with photos of the coveted console. The last known prototype reportedly sold at auction for approximately $300,000. https://twitter.com/kantan_japan/status/1895870030283440398   After decades of rumors and speculation, this remarkable revelation from the PlayStation pioneer himself adds a fascinating new chapter to… Read more

Copyright Strikes Hit Popular Retro Gaming Channel In a controversial move, Nintendo has begun targeting YouTube channels that demonstrate its games being emulated on third-party hardware. The latest victim of this crackdown is the popular channel Retro Game Corps, which recently received a copyright strike for a video showcasing Wii U games running on emulation devices. Retro Game Corps, a channel with over 500,000 subscribers, specializes in reviewing modern handheld devices capable of emulating classic games. These reviews often include footage of Nintendo titles running on… Read more