Tag Archives: Nintendo

Hardware Review: 3D Printed Retro Parts from Retro Frog

I have been wanting to cover something like this for a long time. 3D printed parts from a small, individually owned company. Not just any 3D printed parts, mind you, but quality ones. Ones created and printed for the sole use in retro consoles and handhelds. Today, that is finally …

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Game Review: Shadow Man Remastered for Switch

What’s the difference between a remake, a remaster, an HD remaster, or a reimagining? Well, I don’t know, but I have one of those in our review today! Shadow Man came out way back when and I feel that only true 90’s PC gamers really know what it’s all about. …

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Review of Trophy & Retrotainment/Mega Cat Studios Announcement

Lots of you are likely already aware of homebrew games. More recently, you’ll also find homebrew games made to be physical as well as digital. Mega Cat Studios and Retrotainment Games have done this in the past. Today, we have big announcements from these guys and a review of Trophy. …

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Game Review: Slow Mole for NES/Famicom

New homebrew games happen often enough, but also, not often enough! Today’s entry into the hombrew world is already on update 1.2 (as of the time of this writing). However, I got to not only play the game, but I also have a physical copy that has version 1.1 written …

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Holiday Gifts for TWiLight Users

2022 has been officially rang in and the scene has brought it’s own share of surprises. From the PS4 with plenty to do on a 9.0.0 jailbreak (like seriously, you can do them right now) to a new release from RocketRobz. If you own a Nintendo handheld that has two …

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Hardware Review: SNES/N64 Platinum Collection Controllers from Retro-Bit

Do we have some actual competitors to the 8BitDo SN30 and SN30 Pro controllers? Do we have a true contender for the best wireless N64 controller to date? Maybe we have some actual USB retro controllers worth a damn versus some controllers cranked out of a foreign factory for pennies. …

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Hardware Review: NES/FC/GBA Shells & Cartridge Cases from Krikzz

Never before have I been so inundated with items to review! This box was chock full of fun! Check the unboxing video below for that, of course. But yeah, this review covers a lot but won’t take long at all. They all have the same build quality and the colors …

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Game Review: Dusk on Switch

Today’s review is about Dusk ($19.99, David Szymanski, New Blood Games) for the Nintendo Switch. The first game in which, and I’m not embarrassed to say this, that I freaking forgot that I was writing a review about because I was so busy playing the game! “Game beaten? Time to …

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Software Release: Checkpoint 3.8.0 for 3DS/Switch

For the first time in what seems like a long time (2 years), we’ve got another Checkpoint release. We’ll discuss what Checkpoint is, why you should use it, what’s new, and how to install it. Let’s do the damn thing! What is Checkpoint: A fast and simple homebrew save manager …

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Hardware Review: Joycon Customizations by SK Customs

First off I want to say that I am proud that I got to work with SK customs on this. I haven’t had too much control over products I review on here (beggers can’t be choosers). All too often we cover big-name companies and their products. And as consumers know, …

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Mega Man IV NES on SNES With MSU-1 Audio

Starting about 6 months ago, from the time of this article, @infidelity_nes made us all a treat. Today, we wanted to put the spotlight on that treat. We’ll talk about it, how to get it up and running (coming soon), and about how they got it made! So chill and …

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Hardware Review: FXPAK Pro

So recently, I reviewed the Super Everdrive from Krikzz. What a treat that thing was. It’s affordable and has relatively high compatibility with the SNES library. Today, we have the FXPAK Pro for review. We’ll be putting out another article soon enough that directly compares the two. But right now, …

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