I got bored so I made a Lua script for Mesen 2.0 for original Clu Clu Land to play using only Left & Right on the D-pad based on the direction of the player because I felt I suck at the game
I still suck just as much with it whoops lol
github.com/LuigiBlood/E...
This is an excellent video and yet another reminder of the genius of Datel employees! I would love more information to come out about the inner workings at Datel.
The recreation of the ice climbers pak is beautiful too:
youtu.be/0cpjhIS6ClI?...
Banjo Kazooie: Nostalgia 64 is out. The biggest mod for the game by far, years in the works. A full game set across the N64's library.
Tons of effort went into it. It's not quite as transformative as some Mario 64 hacks (which have the whole thing decompiled) but it's an impressive piece of work!
Sabrina the Animated Series: Zapped! (GBC) features some messages hidden in the EU ROM file:
"Wow Salem, so this is what the inside of a hex editor looks like..."
"Hello there!"
"Hey look! Someone ripped our game!!!"
#obscuregames #videogames #sabrinatheteenagewitch #nintendo #gba
Fans made a native Star Fox 64 PC port with some modern flourishes
A group of talented fans have made a , which they are calling Starship. Even better? It’s technically legal. Harbour Masters, the team behind the project, used a tool that converts the original game ROM into PC executable code, so…
Ever wondered how to create a frontend for libretro emulators? Try our #rust tutorial www.retroreversing.com/CreateALibRetroFrontEndI... #programming #emudev #retro #gamedev #homebrew
A HUGE number of #Sony #PS2 games were released with debug symbols - https://www.retroreversing.com/ps2-unstripped/ if you know of any we missed let us know #programming #gamedev #retro
Back in 2020 #Nintendo wasn't the only company to have source code for some of their retro games leaked. #Capcom was hit with by RagnarLeaks if you are curious what was in it - https://www.retroreversing.com/capcomleaks #programming #gamedev #leak #megaman #ROM
There was a surprising number of file formats using during the development of #Nintendo #Wii games, if you know of any more that are not covered let us know - https://www.retroreversing.com/wii-file-formats #gamedev #programming #ROM #ISO #retrodev
Ever wondered what hardware was used to create #Nintendo DS games? We have a post on what we know so far www.retroreversing.com/nintendo-ds-development-... #gamedev #programming #ROM #hardware #retro #NDS
A very incomplete post on what was included in the Nintendo "Ninja Leak", named due to it leaking how Nintendo approaches 3DS Hackers. Still so much cool stuff to document - https://www.retroreversing.com/ninjaleak #nintendo #programming #leak #switch #3ds #gamedev
Custom sprite injection over WIFI using RCE on a legit copy of Pokémon pearl :)
There is still much mystery around Official Game Gear Development Hardware but here is what we know so far: https://www.retroreversing.com/sega-game-gear-devkit #devkit #gamegear #sega #programming #gamedev #retro
Cover for the book "Building a Debugger" from No Starch Press. A robot sits at a drafting table drawing a complex machine. In the top-right corner of the table, there is a post-it note with a bug drawn on it and crossed out
The cover for my book on how debuggers work is here!
Preorders are still 25% off: nostarch.com/building-a-d...
Ever wondered what hardware was used to create #Nintendo #Wii games? Checkout www.retroreversing.com/nintendo-wii-development... . If you have any additional information let us know! #gamedev #programming #hardware
IOP Relocatable eXecutable (IRX) are the library files that you can dynamically link your application code to and will run on the I/O Processor (IOP) in the PS2. https://www.retroreversing.com/irx-ps2 #gamedev #programming #reversing
Everything we currently know about the Sn Systems ProDG software development kit for the PSP is here: www.retroreversing.com/sn-systems-pro-dg-psp-sd... This is a different SDK to the official Sony one. #SDK #gamedev #programming
Links to all the retro console development kit hardware pages that we have documented, are we missing any cool hardware? https://www.retroreversing.com/hardware/devkits/ #hardware #devkit #gamedev #ROM #programming
Added details on the EPROM writer "PROS-80" by IWASAKI to the NES development hardware page, still very little known about this machine, but it ran CP/M and was "portable"/"luggable".
www.retroreversing.com/famicom-nes-development-... #NES #EPROM #ROM #gamedev #hardware #programming
A collection of real footage from inside the early games industry (if you know of any more let us know) - https://www.retroreversing.com/industry #gamedev #retro
Weekly plug of my #romhacking and #homebrew starter pack! Follow some cool homebrew devs and romhackers on here!
go.bsky.app/83crkqH
The Pokemon mini was a rather obscure handheld console from #Nintendo that managed to actually reach the west. Although there were not many official games for the system, there is a great hacking community around the console. #gamedev #programming
The Official Game Boy Advance SDK came with many useful functions and even demos to build GBA games in C, everything we know about it is documented here:
Everything we currently know about the official Super Nintendo (SNES) Software Development Kits (SDKs) - https://www.retroreversing.com/super-famicom-snes-sdk/ #gamedev #retro
Help text for Ghidra's VSCode integration
The new menu for VSCode integration in Ghidra.
Screenshot of the VSCode Ghidra launch configuration.
#VSCode support for writing #Ghidra plugins! And it includes debugging from VSCode!
I am SO EXCITED! Thank you Ghidra team! 💜💜💜
github.com/NationalSecu...
#ReverseEngineering #GhidraExtensions
A rather incomplete look at the leaked ATI Low Level Wii SDK used during early Wii programming #gamedev
During the #Nintendo #Leaks of 2021 we were given a look inside the failed Chinese version of the gamecube which may have been called the iQue Box. it was to be a successor to the N64-based iQue Player
Wait an FPGA for dreamcast and saturn?! I didn't realise that was already possible! Shame they refuse to change the name
The Sega Saturn has multiple ways to persist game data across play throughs. This includes built in memory on the Saturn console itself and official and 3rd party cartridges that acted as memory cards. https://www.retroreversing.com/sega-saturn-save-data/ #sega #saturn #gamedev