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Fresh off the presses and straight to your eyes today, we have news from Atari Interactive about their Ataribox. This device was depicted at E3, but nobody saw any actual system doing anything remotely impressive. As far as anyone knew, the system was just going to be another retro gaming box, similar to the NES …

The SNES Classic release is only a day away but some people have already gotten theirs early and have started to see if Hakchi2 would work with it. So far they have already dumped the Kernel using Hakchi2 as the SNES Classic hardware is no different than the NES Classic from teardown reports via digitalfoundry. It …

Thanks to Dev HiddenRambler over at GBATemp you may soon be able to use any Amiibo on your 3DS without owning an NFC Module or owning any Amiibo at all. This is being achieved by replacing the 3DS’s NFC firmware module with a self-written module which emulates an Amiibo. This is still heavily Work-In-Progress but …

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If you follow us on Twitter, you’ll notice that for the past week I’ve been messing around with 3D printers and shell cases. Thanks to the design collingall has put up on thingiverse.com you can go ahead and make these SD2Vita cases yourself with a 3D printer. If you are going to make these yourself make sure the nozzle …

If you are a collector or in the gaming scene you might run into developer hardware/consoles once in a while and sometimes even unique hardware, like old testing machines, old unique hotel consoles that are one of the kind, or sometimes you run across developer consoles. On Sunday that’s exactly what happened to me I …

These adapters for your Super Nintendo or even a clone SNES can let you play GBA, NES, and Sega Genesis cartridges they are called Retroport for the NES, RetroGEN for Sega Genesis, and then the Super Retro Advance for GBA to work on the SNES. All these adapters are made by Retro-Bit and they only use part …

With the newest update to hakchi there are no more game limitson the NES mini, well there still is but that because of the internal storage. So far over 800+ roms have been tested with this update. It also supports folders & pages that it will automatically create and sort games alphabetically. It’s been working …

One of our team members brought something to my attention today and I figured I share with everyone, it’s a PS4 game save editor tool! It’s scheduled to be released in March this year and the suggested retail price per 1 user license: 7,800 yen/$70.00 USD(excluding tax) / 3 user license: 14,800 yen/$132.00 USD (tax excluded). For …

A couple of days ago YifanLu released his Vita netcheck bypass plugin we talked about earlier. The idea is that it simply bypasses the PSN login check which some games and apps have (but not necessarily need) to work. It doesn’t activate the vita but hopefully sooner other later someone will figure out how to …

Just like all systems that says you can’t do this or that hackers always find a way to get by any measures placed in by the company and with the Mini NES its just like that. First, we were told it could hold only 30 games then BAM 90 with the first hack and then …

Earlier this week Nintendo release a new FW update to the 3DS and this one actually went after homebrew. It patched a lot of stuff that should have been patched a long time ago like RXTools and other old hacks, you read more about what stopped working here. Just like normal, hackers got to work seeing what they need …

Today I’m going to be dishing out another review but it isn’t a game review, nope this is a look at the Supaboy S. A handheld console of the retro kind. This is a revision of the original Supaboy & it’s a handheld of my favorite Nintendo console ever. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System or as we …

Earlier today, the Nintendo Switch broke street date somewhere. From the leaks we learned a few things. Let's take a look at what the Switch offers day one.

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