Taki Udon's $100 FPGA GBA SP Could Undercut the Analogue Pocket
Retro Remake founder Taki Udon just showed his FPGA GBA SP prototype running Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, and buried in the same post is the number…
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Nintendo Won't Kill Switch 2 Carts — But Game Key Cards Loom
Nintendo has spent the past two years watching the rest of the industry set fire to its disc drives and has decided to keep selling cartridges. Asked…
F-Zero GX's Lost Gold Parts Are Finally Unlockable on Switch 2
Somewhere in a drawer in Japan, there's a memory card that belonged to someone who won an F-Zero GX tournament in 2003, and on it sit five custom…
Nintendo eShop Downtime Will Block Prepaid Cards on Oct 19
Nintendo's maintenance schedule for the week of October 4 contains exactly one entry, and it is narrower than the headline suggests. On October 19…
FF7 Revelation's Key Disc Is a Warning Shot for Handhelds
If the disc inside your Final Fantasy 7 Revelation box only holds the opening chapter, it isn't really a physical edition — it's a download code with…
Pokémon Bank Dies in 2027 — Your 3DS Shiny Hunts Are Running Out
Pokémon Bank has been the quiet plumbing behind two decades of Pokémon data since 2013 — a cloud locker that let you drag a Charmander off a…
Balloon Bomber Hits Switch 2 With VRR — and a $2 Premium
Balloon Bomber's core mechanic is a trap, and that's the whole point. Your anti-aircraft gun can only down a balloon bomb by hitting the bomb itself…
The 10 NES Games Switch Online Won't Add — and What to Play Instead
Ten games. Not one of them obscure, and not one of them absent from Nintendo Switch Online because it's bad. Polygon's list of essential NES titles…
Gacha Games Keep Shutting Down. Handheld Players Win Anyway
Every live-service JRPG is a rental with the eviction notice already signed. Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space — Wright Flyer Studios'…
FPGB MINI Manual Reveals a 5x Game Boy Screen and Slow Charger
FunnyPlaying didn't cut a trailer, didn't post a price, and didn't pick a launch date. It published a user manual — and in the retro handheld scene,…
Terranigma's 30-Year Wait Ends With a Handheld-Friendly Remaster
Thirty-one years after Quintet's Terranigma shipped in Japan and Europe — and never once in North America — the game is finally getting an official…
GAMEMT MTX: An $80 Handheld With a Real GBA Cart Slot
The pitch is almost too simple: a $79.99 Linux handheld that reads your original Game Boy Advance cartridges. The GAMEMT MTX has been drifting…