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 https://www.retroreversing.com/CreateALibRetroFrontEndInRust #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 https://www.retroreversing.com/nintendo-ds-development-kit/ #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

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 https://www.retroreversing.com/nintendo-wii-development-kit/ . 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: https://www.retroreversing.com/sn-systems-pro-dg-psp-sdk/#prodg-examples-pspexamples 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". https://www.retroreversing.com/famicom-nes-development-kit/ #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

Malimite: iOS Decompiler

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

#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

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

It's good to see that it's becoming easier to develop games from scratch (not just ROM hacking) for older video game systems like the Nintendo Entertainment System. Now if only I had a good idea for an NES game...

The decompilation of Duke Nukem: Zero Hour for the N64 has now reached 97%! https://www.retroreversing.com/source-code/decompiled-retail-console-games#nintendo-64 #Nintendo #N64 #gamedev #reversing

Pretty Huge News! @Savourysnax has open-sourced the Konix Multisystem and Flare One Slipstream emulator and the MiSTer FPGA Konix core amoungst other related tools and info. github.com/Konix-Multis... I hope it might lead to a few more hands helping out.

Check out my homebrew game MegaXmas'89. It's a Sega Genesis Christmas-themed skiing game inspired by SkiFree. Dodge obstacles, collect presents, watch out for snowboarders, do tricks, and avoid the Krampus! Get the ROM for free here: nekojitagames.itch.io/megaxmas89

Ever wondered what hardware was used for #xbox #360 #gamedev ? From PowerMac G5s to custom XeDK find out here:

Anyone know what this EEPROM writer is, or who make its, it was shown In "Nintendo's Revival of the Video Game Industry. December 1988" (YouTube ). Masahiro Ishizuka writes an EEPROM with it and then slots it into a NES cartridge. Looks like its either Pro5-80 or Pros-80, Would love to know more!

Our incomplete analysis of the Zelda Links Awakening source code (part of gigaleak) is here https://www.retroreversing.com/zelda-links-awakening ROM hackers will have much more idea of what each file actually does

Do you know all the different Game Boy File Formats used for game development of DMG and GBC games? Find out here:

Back in July 2020 the source code for the classic SNES game F-Zero was leaked in the Gigaleak. We have documented the files from the leak in our post:

Got to love the iconic z80 microprocessor it powered the Sega Master System, Game Gear and a variant of it powered the Game Boy. #gamedev #retro

🎮 The workshop from Travis Goodspeed training about recovering Gameboy ROMs with the help of maskromtool, a microscope and #radare2 is now indexed with the rest of #r2con2024 videos in RadareTV 👉 radare.org/tv/

wake up babe new Zelda 64 ROM hack just dropped

Trying to document the classic "Game Programming Starter Kit" series based on as much information as we can find online. If you have any more information (or higher quality images) please let us know.

One of the most influential companies for unlicensed peripherals was Datel. They are still the only company we know that have ever been able to produce working unlicensed PS1, PS2, Gamecube Discs that don't require a modchip.

I like playing emulators with CRT filter, so I made a modified version of DOSBOX, with a CRT shader built in. I think too often, emulators can be hard to figure out for beginners, so I bundled a bunch of game demos with it, and made a menu to launch them from mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/dosbox-crt

Compared to other consoles such as the PS2, relatively few Dreamcast games were released with Debug/debugging symbols. The games we do know that have some sort of development information left in them are in this post: https://www.retroreversing.com/sega-dreamcast-game-debug-symbols #gamedev

br0kej/bin2ml - A command line tool for extracting machine learning ready data from software binaries powered by Radare2 (New Release - Reckless Riddler)

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Ever wanted to write your own emulator? We have a post that will hopefully point you in the right direction https://www.retroreversing.com/how-emulators-work Let us know what information we are missing.

Ever wondered what sessions were available in old Game Developer Conferences (CGDC/GDC)? We have a post on all the information we could find on the early conferences (up until 2005): https://www.retroreversing.com/gdc If you have any information that we have missed please let us know! #gamedev

The Pokémon FRLG reverse engineering project has allowed me to make nuzlocking tolerable in like, one hour in actual C. Insane. No wonder ROM hacks these days are so good.

Check our our introductory post on Reverse Engineering a NES / Famicom game with Ghidra using the excellent NES decompiler plugin.