My little blog about videogames, foremost Steam and emulation stuff. As a primarily Linux user, some of the vibes goes in that direction too. Do not hesitate to wander around and feel at home. I hope you enjoy my little articles I write from time to time and want to thank you for visiting this site. ‒ Tuncay
EasyRPG Games
You either love or hate them; RPG Maker games. To me the oldschool Rm2k is history like a videogame console. Nowadays I play those on the Free and Open Source EasyRPG Player. This post has some game suggestions and sources compatible with EasyRPG. I recently went back to RPG Maker games and wanted to explore…
SNES Mods and Romhacks Collection 2025
Once more I dived into the web of Romhacking.net to find interesting Mods for the SNES. All kinds of user created mods, bug fixes, additional content, story rewrites, graphics updates and more. Have fun exploring. Intro It’s been a long time since my last Super Nintendo Mod collection. I can’t believe its 4 years ago.…
Nintendo Family BASIC Type-in Programs Collection
I just stumbled upon a website named Gaming Alexandria. Their main goal is to preserve videogames related stuff like artwork scans, posters, articles, interviews and even game dumps. My main focus is on playable game Roms, specifically on the Type-in Programs from magazines for the Family BASIC. The Famicom (the Japanese NES) had a programming…
Showcase for RetroArch Shaders 2024
Retro games and consoles are pretty accurately emulated nowadays. Output from emulators is crisp and sharp. However those pixels look different on CRT monitors. Shaders in RetroArch is a way to recreate that look for the authentic old-school experience. Content is broken up into several sub pages with numbered links at the bottom of the…
Genesis Mods and Romhacks Collection
Modding isn’t specific to PC Gaming only. There are entire communities and specialists dedicated to the development of Romhacks for old console games. Today we are looking at the Genesis / Mega Drive system. A Romhack is basically an update file that can be applied to specific console game ROMs, to produce a new playable…
NES Mods and Romhacks Collection
Ah yes the NES, home and birth place for some of the greatest videogame franchises of all time. What would it be like to receive updates and new content on these old systems? I have visited ton of project pages on ROMhacking.net and collected more than 100 patches for archival reasons. About half of them…
A-Z Uncommon Arcade Games
The 80s and 90s had ton of great Arcade boards. Most of the recommended and popular games can be emulated and played today. But the less known ones are often overlooked. I’ll try to bring some attention to those. My goal is to find less famous but interesting games for you to play. For that…
My First Impression and Setup of Steam Deck
The Steam Deck is like a dream come true; a capable gaming PC in handheld format for an affordable price, support for Steam and a highly optimized Linux distribution at it’s backend. This article talks about my experience in the first week of usage and includes a few tips and setup tutorials. It feels almost…
Discovering Sonkun’s crt-guest-advanced-ntsc Slot Mask presets
RetroArch gifted us a feature we emulation enthusiasts love to use: The general support for Shaders to change the look of emulated games. I want to spotlight a non standard package that you can download and use right now. Update: Since the blog post was written, number of huge changes are done on this Shader…
Steam Games you can Play for Free
Who don’t like playing games without paying money? And I am not talking about Free To Play model or demos only, but whole gratis games without a price attached too. Steam offers a lot and this post is an attempt in collecting those to bring them to your attention. It’s been a while since my…
RPG Maker Games in RetroArch
I am familiar with RPG Maker since roughly 20 years. A friend told me about it in early 2000s and gave me a copy of the installer. At that time, it was only available in Japan and we used an unofficial translation by “Don Miguel” (a true legend). Which led to rise of huge communities…
State of my RetroArch Cores setup
RetroArch supports so many systems on so many platforms, with a wide variety of options and features. It is amazing! Here is a little showcase of what I am using. Let’s talk a little bit about my RetroArch setup of cores and selection of Shader and control schemes. Each of the presets are explained and…
CRT Shader Showcase for RetroArch
In the early days of Emulation, simulating CRT characteristics was achieved by filters that manipulated the produced game image before showing on the screen. However, the result was not very accurate and often quite taxing on the CPU. With the advent of Shaders, this problem was solved. Skip to Side by Side section Skip to…
RetroArch Shader Comparison for SNES at 1440p
I recently started playing around with the shader in RetroArch on PC and I’m blown away. In this post I want to show off a few comparison shots using SNES emulation. Emulating console games will normally result in sharp and clean images, as they are output from the system directly. This is pretty pixel accurate…
SMW Mods and Romhacks Collection
A long time ago in a webspace far away, … a program called Lunar Magic appeared. Long before Super Mario Maker, this tool let fans create their own vision of Super Mario World. Generations has passed and still to this day new projects are created. But editing ROM files and making games isn’t an easy…
SNES Fan Translations Collection
The days of 16 bit wonder was a different time. I grew up in Europe with imports from US. Everything was fine, until I found out about Japan exclusives, sealed away by language barrier. The emulation scene started in the 90s to bring those titles over to us by translating them with hard work; at…
SNES Mods and Romhacks Collection
The Super NES library have many great titles we all love and know… and we played them to death. What if these old gems could receive updates or DLCs like modern games do? Enter the SNES modding scene, also called Romhacks. Some fans found ways to modify such console games, comparable to the Skyrim Mods…
Open Source and alike Games
The open source gaming scene features a lot of amazing projects, but it is like a mess in a jungle. This article aims to provide a curated list of interesting games, so you have actually more time playing them. Some developers let you access the source code, which means you can inspect, modify and possibly…
More Free Games on Steam
A while back, I made a list of free games on Steam, highlighting my favorites and listing additional discoveries. This article is a follow up to it with more findings. Just because the price of a game is free, does not make its quality acceptable. Every second you play demands your precious time and therefore,…
Open Source DRM-Free Games
How much more free can a game get, than free in price? Off course “DRM-free and open source” is the correct answer. Look what I have found for you. Just like Firefox and other open source projects, there are game developers who let you access their code. Mostly these games are hobby projects and free…
Why split Neo Geo system from Arcade in Retropie?
Main purpose of this article is to explain why I have a separate Neo Geo emulator setup and how it differs from arcade machines. Also the history gets covered briefly, so you understand how this unique system originated and why this question arises. This tutorial is written in context to the advanced RetroPie user with…
What to do after Chrono Trigger?
I am glad you ask. Let me put you in a specific situation: You just finished the game and want more of it. Or, you finished it years ago and want more of it now! This article tries to satisfy your hunger. Official Games I think we can all agree that this game is just…
How to discover games in Steam
The sheer amount of games released in Steam grow daily by an insane rate. Do you know that there are plenty of specialized tools and ways to discover new and old games? It does not matter if you are unfamiliar or an ancient seasoned user since the beginning of time and space, there is a…
Free to Play Games on Steam
Steam have a huge catalog of free to play games to offer and a surprisingly good amount are worth your time. Here are some of my picks. A while back, I created a forum post in Reddit with the exact same reason. Many users in the community contributed to it with additional recommendations (thank you…
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