The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.
Content:
We chat to BAFTA award winner Mark “TDK” Knight about his time at Mindscape, Bullfrog and Electronic Arts, and some old-skool demoscene chat. Mark Knight website: www.flitkillsmoths.co.uk/
Squashly Boop is a game by Jayenkai. Squash all the enemies, and hop for success, as you try not to die in this ultimate test. You can download the game for Windows, Linux, MacOS X and Nintendo 3DS!
cpasjuste updated his port of pFBA (portable Final Burn Alpha) for the Nintendo Switch. FB Alpha is an Arcade and Console emulator.
Changes:
* update to FBA 0.2.97.43
* update/fix save states and nvram support (you NEED to delete old folders : “config” and “saves” to prevent crashes)
* remove m68k cyclone asm core support
* switch: disable single joycon support for now
* fix console roms, no prefix needed anymore, roms need to be in their respective directories
Newo Asteroids by Owen is a game made in the style of classic Asteroids. In 2064 on a Wednesday, aliens disturb the asteroid belt sending asteroids hurdling towards the earth. It is your job to destroy every last asteroid in the solar system and bring peace to the galaxy.
Changes:
* Random colours by default
* Fixed leaderboard
* Added debug menu
* Down sampled all the sound effects
* graphics updates, bug fixes, stability
Fireplace-NX is a lovely pixelated retro fireplace simulator ported to Nintendo Switch from Hans Wennborg‘s oldschool fire effect tutorial. This project should be helpful to anyone trying to learn SDL2 on Nintendo Switch using C++. Ported to Nintendo Switch by marice.
Old school fire effect sdl-port for Nintendo Switch
LaiNES is a cycle accurate NES emulator initially written by Andrea Orru and ported to Nintendo Switch by Kevoot. You can find a discussion at GBAtemp.
CannonBall-NX is an enhanced Out Run Engine. Although not an emulator it uses graphics and music via the Arcade ROM of Outrun Revision B. The commercial ROM is not included.
If you are eager to player good old NES / Famicom games on your homebrew enabled Nintendo Switch why not trying out NES ClasSwitch by waywardson07. The emulator is evolving slowly but surely, keep an eye out.