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Hermes, at least this is how his friends call him, is living in France, the country of love, but also the country known for it's exquisite cuisine. One day Hermes had mood for a nice chicken leg, certainly a real men like Hermes, won't go to the super market and get pre-packed chicken, no... it has to be a real one, slaughtered off by his own hand. This is, where our story starts... Chase the escaped chicken to catch it and prepare a great grilled leg piece you ever wont forget! Yummi! But hell... that chicken for sure is fast!

Catharsis Theory by Cluster, released @ Revision 2017.

Hermes is an extraordinary Jump'n Run game covering bad taste humor. If you feel offended by crude and dirty humor you may run away now. The game also features pixel violence and promotes the consumption of meat. If you are a hardcore vegetarian, you might very much dislike the game or just have a good laugh.

Retroguru comes up with another surprise this weekend. Xump 2 is yet another entry at Revision 2017, currently ongoing.

Bored? Need something to read? Maybe even free? What about the latest REV'n'GE? Issue #73 is out!

Elements by Desire for Atari Lynx. Released at Revision 2017!

Overdrive 2 by Titan, released at Revision 2017.

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!

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.