PicoDrive for 3DS is a port of notaz’s PicoDrive emulator by bubble2k16 to the old 3DS / 2DS. Although PicoDrive is already highly optimized for ARM processors, if ported as is, it still doesn’t run full speed for all Mega Drive games on the old 3DS / 2DS, as it’s evident in the RetroArch’s version. So this port heavily relies on the 3DS’s 2nd core to emulate the FM synthesized music for the YM2612 FM chip to achieve 60 FPS. But the 2nd core on the old 3DS is unfortunately not fast enough to generate the FM synthesized music at a full 44100Hz, so sounds are generated at 30000Hz on an Old 3DS. It sounds ok for many games, except for those that use high-pitched notes or sound samples. The screen rendering is done completely using the original PicoDrive’s ARM processor-optimized renderer.

You can play Master System, Mega Drive games and Sega CD games, and 32X games. CD games run a little slower (you should enable 1-2 frameskips) on an old 3DS, but it runs very well on a new 3DS. 32X games can only played at a reasonable speed on a New 3DS using the .CIA version of the emulator. Some dynarec instructions for 32X games will crash the emulator (Virtual Fighter, Virtual Racing Deluxe have this issue).

Retro Asylum catches up with Dean Swain, Paul Davies & Chris O’Regan as they answer another round of #askRA questions plus Dean & Paul play four Commodore 64 games picked at random in the debut of our new “Lucky Dip” feature.

NESertBus by Redslash12. It features the familiar Desert Bus driver seat view but with classic sidescrolling gameplay. Includes Desert Bus staples such as the bus stop, the bug splat, and the unending grind along a straight road with a slight drift to the right.

Join Ajna as she battles through forgotten temples in search of her tapir, Roti! Indivisible is an actual NES ROM demaking the Indivisible Prototype by Lab Zero Games. This is a fan game. It is not sponsored by 505 Games or Lab Zero Games.

Frank the Fruit Fly is yet another Game Boy Game by Chris Read. Grab the free ROM from his page.

Frank’s family reunion is happening, and Frank can’t wait to go. But Frank has a problem. Right now he’s in the great Pacific Northwest, yet the family reunion is in Baltimore! Help Frank make a cross-continental trek across the U.S. Discover what it’s like to be a fruit fly before you squish them. And most important of all: Have fun doing so.

Invite Brigade is an invitation intro for Nordlich 2018 by Oxyron. Recently released at Demobit 2018.

Dungeon II: Solstice is an Atari 2600 game by s0c7. Your goal is to penetrate the Temple of the Crow, retrieve the sacred mistletoe and return it to the Grove of Megaliths. This is a turn-based game. Each move requires you to return the joystick to the home (unmoved) position before you can make a new move.

Release notes:

Release candidate 7 in the first post. One minor bug fix and a minor color tweak to the PAL60 version.

Chris Read‘s new Game Boy game is called oranges.

Bob is stuck in the orange packaging plant where the packing machine has gone out of control and is spitting out oranges all over the place! Why? Some idiot poured radioactive goop all over it and so the oranges turned radioactive! So, locked into the room, Bob needs to dodge the oranges the Orange-O-Matic spits out or else he’s toast, which would go good with oranges for a nutritious breakfast. Most items are useful. They help Bob survive. Some can be annoying, though. Here’s the items that are in the game so far.

The ROM along with the source code is on Chris’ page.

Moonlight allows you to stream your collection of Steam games from your PC to another device. Moonlight (formerly known as Limelight) is an open source implementation of NVIDIA’s GameStream protocol. This PND now use Moonlight embedded, a native client. Ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.

Changes:

* Switched to upstream Moonlight-embeded
* Using latest sources
* Revamped gtkdialog to add a more options
* Nubs are now configuration in the dialog
* Streaming Texture is now optional

Pale Moon is an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Android and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser!

Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own source with carefully selected features and optimizations to maximize the browser’s speed*, stability and user experience, while maintaining compatibility with thousands of Firefox extensions many have come to love and rely on.

Changes:

* Update to 27.7.1 sources