Release client of Tanglewood still ahead!

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Friday update: Release Candidate is so close I could scream! A few issues held it up this week, but it’s back down to a very small handful of bugs again before we make the call.

For context: we were ready to mark a build as RC1 just yesterday, but a bizarre palette messup and crash was found on a popular clone machine, which unravelled a whole host of problems with our assembler and the manner in which it applies code optimisations. All fixed now.

As a bonus, the game is now more optimised, because the optimisations we thought were being applied for the past two years actually weren’t!

Massive kudos to the Closed beta team, who are still here helping out, getting us through this! I’d love to give you a new target date but we all know how that worked out last time! I’ll just keep everyone posted as things happen.

Matt <3

Jordi Montornes of 1985alternativo and few other guys had fun doing a Master Sytem game at Fnac’n Pixels. Kat Kills seems to be a work in progress for now, so let’s see how it will turn out!
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Retro Nerve Games released some video footage of their Genesis / Mega Drive game Kung-Fu Ufo! Quality ahead!

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#screenshotsaturday is here!!! Our first proper WIP gameplay video. Enjoy!!! Please RT if you like. #sega #segagenesis #megadrive #pixelart #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #retrogaming #homebrew #16bit

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

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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/

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/mindscape-to-electronic-arts-with-mark-tdk-knight-the-retro-hour-ep124

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

Thanks to Nintendomax for the news.

CHIP8-NX vis a port of SDL2 Chip8 Emulator by marice, to the Nintendo Switch. CHIP-NX is a CHIP8 interpreter.

Thanks to Nintendomax for the news.

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.

Thanks to Nintendomax for the news.

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.

Thanks to Nintendomax for the news.