Retro News Roundup

Retro News Round Up – May 2015

This month’s episode includes one of the strangest iPhone accessories ever, Snatcher on the Virtual Boy, and the UK General Election (kind of).

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This episode’s links:

The Bitmap Brothers: Universe Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darrenwall/the-bitmap-brothers-universe

The Atari 2600 Encyclopedia Volume One:
http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/424-the-atari-2600-encyclopaedia-volume-one/

Buy the Joey-Squinson:
http://bennvenn.myshopify.com/products/reader-writer-gen2

The TCPoke project:
http://pepijndevos.nl/TCPoke/

Flash cartridge has been created for the Amstrad CPC64 Plus, GX4000, and 6128 Plus:
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cpc-hardware/cpc-plus-cartridge-replacement-one-more/

Video of the HDMI adapter add-on for the Dreamcast in action:
https://www.youtube.com/user/electronash/videos

Little Dragon 2 for the ZX Spectrum:
http://worldofspectrum.boards.net/thread/75/little-dragon2-great-loading-music

A load of Atari ST ports for the Atari Jaguar:
http://dbug.kicks-ass.net/ST2JAG/ST2JAG.php?atarist&utm=rc

Snatcher on the Virtual Boy:
http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6060

ROM of Sound Factory for the SNES:
https://twitter.com/LuigiBlood/status/585463726595297280

ROM of Sonic Xtreme on the Saturn:
http://forums.sonicretro.org/?showtopic=34038

ROM of Game Boy Advance shooter Dune: Orni-thopter Assault:
http://u64leaks.tumblr.com/post/114279571512/dune-ornithopter-assault-gba-leak

Fan translation for Wizardry 2 – Llylgamyn no Isan on the NES:
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2327/

Fan translation for Yo! Noid on the NES:
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2331/

Fan translation for Survival Kids 2: Dasshutsu! Futago Shima on the Game Boy Colour:
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2330/

Fan translation for Dragon Force 2 on the Saturn:
http://www.verve-fanworks.com/dragonforceii.html