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Firebird‘s Return To Genesis has been unofficialy remade by Igor and Troudki for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. The original game has been released for Amiga OCS and Atari ST.

For years the scientists tolled to produce products and medicines that are now taken for granted. Then one by one the planets were overrun by MECHANAUTS and the scientists forced into slavery. Now the Mechanauts themselves are at war. Their armies are away, the occupied planets barely defended. NOW IT IS YOUR CHANCE! Rescue all of the scientists from the planets. Some of the scientists may bring their latest project with them to aid you in your mission. GO! NOW IS TIME to RETURN TO GENESIS!

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

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We talk to legendary pixel artist Henk Nieborg (Lionheart, Flink) and the team from Bitmap Bureau about making new Sega Mega Drive games in 2018!

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/henk-nieborg-and-bitmap-bureau-the-retro-hour-ep110

Super Tilt Bro. is a demake of the Super Smash Bros. series compatible with the good old Nintendo Entertainment System from the 1980s by Sylvain. You and a friend take control of a clone of Sinbad, the badass mascot of Ogre3D. Two fellows, one platform: you will have to fight to throw the other out.

NESmaker allows users to create cartridge based, hardware playable NES games in an intuitive, faux object oriented environment without ever having to write a single line of code.

Puzzle3DS​ is a simple memory game for the 3DS by trainboy2019. All you have to do is memorize the pattern shown on the bottom, then when the indicator in the top left is green, repeat the pattern.

Thanks to Nintendomax for the news.

FBI is an open source file and title manager by Steveice10 for the Nintendo 3DS. Discussion via GBAtemp.

Release notes:

* Clean up various bits of core code.
* Fix font size on CHN/KOR/TWN devices.
* HTTP operations now support gzip/deflate compression, which should reduce bandwidth usage when supported by the server.
* Load file metadata after populating full list. Directories containing a lot of CIAs should populate faster now, although detailed information will not be immediately available for all files until loading has finished.
– File operations for which file metadata is unnecessary should also load faster.
* Modify built-in updater to pull from TitleDB, as GitHub no longer supports TLS versions supported by the 3DS.
* Rewrite TitleDB support.
– Titles can be installed as a 3DSX and/or a CIA, depending on availability.
— Descriptions and categories are displayed in the main TitleDB list, and detailed information is displayed for CIA and 3DSX versions after selecting a title.
– Entries will be blue when a newer version is available. Note that all installed titles will be marked as outdated until installed with version 2.5.0 or later through TitleDB, as the last installed version must be added to the cache.
* All outdated titles can be updated at once by pressing Y in the TitleDB list.
– Basic sorting and filtering options have been added.

A lot of internal changes were made leading up to this release. Make sure to report any glitches and crashes that may have been missed.

Also, the built-in updater should no longer work on versions older than 2.5.0, as GitHub has disabled TLSv1.1 support.

Gradual Games offer their first NES game Nomolos: Storming the CATsle for free as well! If you love this game too, please consider buying a physical cartridge starting from 35US$!

Gradual Games are generous and offer their NES Game The Legends of Owlia for free! If you love the game, please consider buying a physical cartridge starting from 35US$! You can also purchase the game via Steam.

2 Way Scroll Engine is exactly what it does. Douglas Fraker is trying out new stuff for a possible great new game.

Ryan Carson has some progress news on Flap Happy.

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Putting together some bits for the 256 egypt levels on Flap Happy tonight. Glyphs, snakes and cacti, check! #nesdev #gamedev #nes #asm