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

Content:

We reminisce on the golden age of First Person Shooters with David L Craddock, the author of new book Rocket Jump.

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/the-history-of-fps-games-the-retro-hour-ep111

nop90 updated Retroguru’s Fruit’Y for the Nintendo Switch to v0.2 Alpha. It plays a lot better and is a recommended update. Sound issues are left to improve.

Changes:

– Fixed keys issue
– Aded touch screen support

In this second episode of NES Programming Michael Chiaramonte moves code out of the VBLANK interrupt into the main execution loop.

nop90 is known for many Nintendo 3DS homebrew game ports and for porting libSDL to the Nintendo 3DS. He updated his libSDL to the Nintendo Switch!

Release notes:

– Added 8bpp 16bpp and 24bpp video mode
– Added touch screen handling (mapped to mouse events)
– Added automatic download an install of SDL_image SDL_gfx SDL_TTF and SDL_Mixer

Mikael Tillander published another screenshot of his upcoming yet unnamed Genesis game.

Quote:

All this talk about the game being reminiscent of shadow of the beast made me go Roger Dean on it’s arse! I think I’ll roll with it, actually. 🙂 Would be a nice tribute? #sega #megadrive #genesis #pixelart #gamedev

vgmoose ported his game Space Game NX to the Nintendo Switch. It’s a simple shooter game. The gameplay video is from the WII U version, but plays same.

Thanks to Nintendomax for the news.

The Assembly Line is a NES homebrew podcast started by Sole Goose Productions and Kevin. They cover a variety of theoretical topics, feature a central game under review, have guest interviews with folks, and also showcase some music.

Quote:

Episode 6: Alter Ego by Shiru!

https://soundcloud.com/user-463768680/e06-alter-ego

This is a port of the Useless Homebrew written by Rydian for the DS. It tries to mimic a “useless machine” that has a switch. Press “A” to switch the machine on and see what happens. The screenshot is from the pegaswitch version.

Thanks to Nintendomax for the news.

Hamsters NX is a breeding of Hamsters game in text mode in French language for the Nintendo Switch by Cid2mizard.

cpasjuste updated his port of pFBA (portable Final Burn Alpha) for the Nintendo Switch. FB Alpha is an Arcade and Console emulator.

Changes:

THERE IS MAJOR CHANGES IN THE CONFIGURATION, YOU NEED TO DELETE THE CONFIG FILES

* add hardware scaling and rotation, big improvement in frame-rate.
* fix scaling and rotation in any mode (horizontal, vertical, flipped)
* add save state support
* fix some random crashes
* fix input change/mapping in configuration menu
* add input names in configuration menu (textures to come)
* add joystick support (basic, handled as buttons for now)
* add rotation information in rom info box
* add crappy audio support (disabled for now)
* add fba version in loading screen
* disabled unused filtering option for now (only linear filtering is available)