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SecondBASIC is Windows based BASIC compiler targeted for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Based off of the BEX library created by Joseph Norman, SecondBASIC brings a familiarity to those who are familiar with BEX while adding some additional commands and built in tools to help aid in the development of your projects.

Ferris does some live coding and aims for Kefrens Bars for the Super Nintendo.

Release notes:

After seeing a neat 256b intro for Super Nintendo, I thought I’d try recreating the effect myself. Unfortunately I’m more than just a little rusty when it comes to SNES these days 😀

Owen shows us another screenshot of his soon to be released project Twitter account for Newo Fox.

Christopher Bonhage made a Flappy Bird for Nintendo 64 about eight months ago. If you like this very well hyped game, get out your Nintendo 64 now. The ROM file has been tested to work on real Nintendo 64 hardware using a EverDrive-64. It should also work with 64drive by retroactive.

The game is open source and released under a BSD license.

Astro Ninja Man is a new Famicom / NES game currently under development.

Retr0 GB is a game engine using C and GBDK to make Gameboy game development a lot easier with a ready to use architecture. Retr0 GB is distributed under zlib license.

RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight, and portable. It supports multiple systems.

3DS specific changes:

– 3DS: Now correctly reports amount of CPU cores.
– 3DS: Frontend rating is now correctly implemented for both New 3DS/2DS and Old 3DS/2DS.
– 3DS: Initial networking support, HTTP requests won’t work yet.
– 3DS: Now reports memory and battery state.

Ryan Carson has some progress news on Flap Happy and Fancy Free.

Mona and the Witch’s Hat is a homebrew game by Thomas Neptune and Sergeeo made for the original Game Boy. You play as Mona, a mischievous cat that gains magical powers when her owner’s witch hat falls on her head. It features four levels, and can be completed in about 20 minutes.

Storyline:

What a peaceful day! As the sun sets and the moon begins to shine its light over the village, a young witch finishes her busy day of potion making by hanging her hat and going to bed. Her cat, Mona, doesn’t want to go to bed though. She’s more interested in the treats the Witch left out! But things don’t go as planned when the Witch’s hat falls on Mona’s head and everything comes to life. Now she has to turn everything back to normal!

Here Comes The Bride by Paul Nicholas is based on the Crazy 88’s scene from Kill Bill, recreated as retro game using PICO-8.