Rom hacks help make older games accessible, but sometimes they get so good that they actually outshine the games they're ...

The original Game Boy and NES both had remarkable industrial ... If you have a 3D printer and Raspberry Pi available, you could build a similar NES emulator yourself. But if you don’t have ...

Generally speaking, writing your own games for retro consoles starts ... of code and assets so they fit onto the physical ROM chips on the NES cartridge — are similarly abstracted away.

Everyone knows classics like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Tetris, but the NES library is vast and full of games you may not have played during its heyday. But just because some of ...

To play games that appeared on different consoles ... and use it to develop something else — of FCE Ultra, a previous NES ...

An NES cartridge in its most basic form is a surprisingly simple device, it contains two ROMs hosting all the code and assets of its game, and a Nintendo code chip that provided what was a state ...

There are also plenty of homebrew games available for free. We'll keep an eye on all the new emulators that hit the App Store. So far, we have this NES emulator for iPhone, Emu64 XL, and hopefully ...

Nintendo's 2001 social simulation game included a built-in NES emulator, allowing players to collect and play various NES games through in-game mechanics. By hacking the NES emulator inside Animal ...

For anyone inclined to play classic games via less than entirely above-board ROM image downloads ... Most prominently, ...