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Guy Perfect is working on Planet Virtual Boy, which is a Virtual Boy emulator for the Nintendo 3DS. There is no release yet, but you can donate some money already so he can pay his bills. Read more about Planet Virtual Boy (WIP) (Virtual Boy emulator for Nintendo 3DS)

NXEngine has been ported to Nintendo Switch by carstene1ns and is a reimplementation of the original Cave Story / Doukutsu Monogatari game engine, using its data files. The game itself is a pretty famous side-scrolling platformer from 2004. This release has nothing to do with Cave Story+ (published by Nicalis and being an actual, official Switch game). Read more about NXEngine v2018.05.20 (Nintendo Switch misc)

Pilot8 is a simple shooter game for PICO-8 by btco. Read more about Pilot8 v2018.05.22 (PICO-8 Game)

Bootee is a brandnew Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom game by The Mojon Twins! If you don’t, you should know, you will bounce... and bounce and bounce and bounce. Basically, you will control Cheril in a big leather boot hopping around a dark castle. Bouncing non-stop! Read more about Bootee v2018.05.15 (NES Game)

Do you have what it takes to find the Five Crimson Emblem Seals to defeat the Black Slayer? The Holy Diver cartridge has been resurrected, nearly 30 years after its original release in Japan. Published by Retro-Bit®, the Holy Diver Collector’s Edition is loaded with exclusive collectibles and available for a limited time only. Costs are $59.99. Read more about Holy Diver (Pre-Order) (Commercial) (NES Game)

Michael Chiaramonte shows us more NES Programming. Read more about Video: NES Programming #32 – The colors! The colors! (NES misc)

Orange Island is a new NES game in development. The authors already play around getting a nice physical prepared. Read more about Orange Island v2018.05.15 (WIP) (NES Game)

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. Soon with Sega 32x support! Read more about SecondBASIC v2018.05.06 (WIP) (Sega 32x misc)

Spout is a small, abstract shooting game from Japanese developer kuni. EXL's port of Spout for Android uses rendering the video context of the game to textures, which are displayed using OpenGL ES. There are added touch control and some game engine improvements. Read more about Spout v1.2 (Android Game Port)

EXL ported AstroSmash from Java ME (J2ME) MIDlet to Android using SurfaceView Canvas drawing. He added touch controls and game engine improvements. A JAVA decompiler has been used to understand the game logic and guarantee original game behavior. Read more about AstroSmash v1.2 (Android Game Port)