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The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

SNES9x for 3DS is a high-compatibility SNES emulator for your old 3DS / 2DS. It runs many games at full speed (60 fps). It supports games that use CX4 chip (Megaman X2/X3), and the SDD-1 chip (Star Ocean, Super Street Fighter 2 Alpha). It can also play games that use the SuperFX chip (Yoshi's Island, etc) but they run with plenty of frame skips. It has generally much high compatibility than existing SNES emulators on the old 3DS because it uses Snes9x 1.43 as a base, and is a good alternative if your existing emulators cannot play all the games.

Sheep It Up! is a new game published by Catskull Games and developed by Dr. Ludos. It's an arcade game where a sheep has to climb up by hanging himself to flying velcro straps. The concept is simple, but the game rapidly gets quite challenging: how high can you climb without falling down?

The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

Priiloader is a modified version of the officially discontinued Preloader. Preloader is a small application which places itself before the System Menu. Its main feature is to directly boot the Homebrew Channel or a file you can install from a FAT device. Preloader is also able to apply memory patches the system menu to remove limitations or other things. Warning! This homebrew makes permanent changes to your Wii's flash memory (NAND) and should be used with caution.

EasyRPG Player is an open source implementation of the RPG Maker 2000/2003 engine. Get a RPG Maker 2000/2003 game and place the Player (boot.dol) in the root directory of the game (that's where RPG_RT.exe is). The program has no file browser, each game really needs its own boot.dol!

Craftus Reloaded is a Minecraft clone for 3DS.

The Sword of Ianna is a video game by the Spanish group Retroworks. Diskover is currently trying to redo the game for the Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom and shows really great steps forward.

The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

Created to celebrate the 30th birthday of the PC Engine, Nantettatte Engine is a simple high score based shooting game by Aetherbyte. Coding & music by Andrew Darovich. Pixel art by Paul Weller. Illustration by Kamui@SugarFree.