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The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK. Content: We get the story behind Myst: the game that ushered in the CD and 3D revolution with its co-creator Robyn Miller. https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/the-making-of-myst-and-riven-with-robyn-miller-the-retro-hour-ep60

nop90 does a great service to the Nintendo 3DS community by releasing a greatly improved port of libSDL. This should raise the library of Nintendo 3DS homebrew games really fast! Changes: – Fixed Audio, Threads and Timer (by @Wenting ) – Fixed Joystick – Added 8bpp video mode (from @Wenting) – Minor tuning – Moved lib installation path from portilibs/armv6k … Read more

Meritous is an action-adventure dungeon crawl game. It’s homepage can be found here: http://asceai.net/meritous/. Ported to Nintendo 3DS by nop90. Changes: – Using 400×240 resolution instead of 320×240 stretched (thanks to @asiekierka) – Fixed some bugs

Way before Lara Croft, back in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, Rick Dangerous was the Indiana Jones of computer games, running away from rolling rocks, avoiding traps, from South America to a futuristic missile base via Egypt and the Schwarzendumpf castle. xRick is a clone of Rick Dangerous, known to run on Linux, Windows, BeOs, Amiga, QNX and plenty of … Read more

OpenTyrian is a port of the DOS shoot-em-up Tyrian. Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. The story is set in 20,031 where you play as Trent Hawkins, a skilled fighter-pilot employed to fight Microsol and save the galaxy. This port is done by nop90. Changes: – First reelase in 3dsx and CIA format.

FBI is an open source file and title manager by Steveice10 for the Nintendo 3DS. Discussion via GBAtemp. Changes: * Fall back to region-based language if a title does not have a name for the current system language. * Treat .cetk files as tickets. * Fix self-overwrite check when FBI has a different unique ID. * Fix TWL cartridges being … Read more

Desynched updated Snakes. It’s a snake game for up to eight local players, which makes it something very special to currently existing 3DS homebrew releases. Release notes: This means there are 1 – 3 bot opponents with customizable difficulty settings to play against! You can also use Autopilot if you want to watch the game play itself, or want everyone … Read more

ctrmus is a music player for the Nintendo 3DS. For now it plays PCM WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Opus and MP3 files. Due to limitations in ctrulib, only ASCII characters are displayed correctly. Other characters will appear garbled, but functionality is not affected. Changes: * Fixed an issue whereby the console would flash whilst browsing files. * Files are sorted in … Read more

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 … Read more

Super Office Stress by Sos Sosowski is an action roguelike where you have to climb your way to the top of big corporation. By the way you need to make use of any office equipment you can find by eating throwing and equipping it. Ported to Pandora by ptitSeb. Changes: – no changelog yet