Retro News Roundup

Retro News Round-Up – October 2014

This month’s Retro News Round-Up includes Donkey Kong getting a good thrashing, Mario as a pinball, and a faithful recreation of Doom using just lego bricks.

 

This episode’s links:

Watch all of Robbie Lakeman’s new high score success at Donkey Kong:
http://www.twitch.tv/lakeman421/c/5075050

Diggin’ In The Carts series:
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/diggin-in-the-carts

The Players Score documentary Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/582594976/the-players-score-a-video-game-music-documentary

Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Castlevania book:
http://tinyurl.com/nzdhqxp

Commodore 64: A Visual Commpendium:
http://www.funstock.co.uk/commodore-64-a-visual-commpendium-c64-book?tracking=522b4f1f9a4bb

The Huffington Post’s compilation of arcade machines visible in movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XRQxbrLS8o

Goldeneye add-on for the Motorola smart watch:
http://phandroid.com/2014/09/08/goldeneye-watchface-moto-360/

Doom Lego diorama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbSa6vLH6xk

Press release for the announcement of the HD remake of D/Generation:
http://west-coast.biz/blog.php#The Games Industry Gold Mine.

Krikzz’s EverDrive-64 v3:
http://shop.retrogate.com/EverDrive-64-v3-ED64V3.htm

New software for the GDEmu:
http://gdemu.wordpress.com/firmware/

Vadu Amka’s 30th anniversary edition of the Mega Drive:
http://www.vaduamka.com/archives/2014/09/01/30512730.html

Vadu Amka’s Donkey Kong themed Game Boy Advance SP:
http://www.vaduamka.com/archives/2014/09/16/30596941.html

The SIO2BT for the Atari XE:
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/228860-sio2bt/

Razion on the Neo Geo AES and MVS:
http://www.ngdevdirect.com/index.php?cPath=21&osCsid=0871d4504029ffeb8330a0866a89b086

Fan powered project bringing several Amiga titles to the Amiga CD-32:
http://unofficial-cd32-ports.blogspot.co.nz/

A tidied up version of the Mega Drive’s Sonic 3:
http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic%203%20Complete%20(hack)#Downloads

Kickstarter for a new NES title – adventure game Mystic Searches:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1316851183/the-new-8-bit-heroes-new-nes-game-and-creation-doc

More on the upcoming Pokemon Mini game Pokemon Psychic Seeds:
http://www.pokemon-mini.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2406#2406

Fan translations for the Super Famicom’s Kyū-aku Megami Tensei: Megami Tensei I – II:
http://aerie.wingdreams.net/?p=283

Fan translation for the Japanese version of the NES’s Bionic Commando:
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2031/

Fan translation for the Sega Dreamcast’s What’s Shenmue?:
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2267/