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curation

SNES Mods and Romhacks Collection 2025

23 Jan 202527 Jul 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…
debate

Showcase for RetroArch Shaders 2024

19 Oct 202412 Apr 2025
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…
curation

NES Mods and Romhacks Collection

18 Feb 202324 Oct 2024
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…
curation

A-Z Uncommon Arcade Games

28 Oct 2022
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…
review

My First Impression and Setup of Steam Deck

12 Oct 202212 Mar 2024
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…
tutorial

RPG Maker Games in RetroArch

3 Aug 202213 Aug 2022
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,…
curation

SNES Mods and Romhacks Collection

31 May 20209 Nov 2023
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…
tutorial

How to discover games in Steam

11 Feb 202010 Jul 2022
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…

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SNES Mods and Romhacks Collection 2025
CRT Shader Showcase for RetroArch
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Showcase for RetroArch Shaders 2024
SNES Fan Translations Collection
RetroArch Shader Comparison for SNES at 1440p
Genesis Mods and Romhacks Collection
State of my RetroArch Cores setup

External Websites

  • Video Games Chronicle
  • Dark Side of Gaming
  • Linux Gaming Central
  • Steam Deck HQ
  • Boiling Steam
  • Indie Retro News
  • Read Only Memory
  • Retro Game Corps
  • RetroStage
  • Retro Tech and Gaming Blog
  • Indie Retro News
  • itch.io
  • Lutris
  • GOG
  • Steam
  • SteamDB
  • ProtonDB
  • ShareDeck
  • AreWeAntiCheatYet
  • DoesItPlay?
  • GamesGraph
  • PlayTracker
  • HowLongToBeat
  • PCGamingWiki
  • Open Source Game Clones
  • GBAtemp
  • RetroGameTalk
  • RetroArch
  • RetroPie
  • How To Retro
  • Retro Achievements
  • GameBanana
  • ROMhacking.net
  • Romhack.ing
  • SMW Central
  • Rom Patcher JS
  • ROM Tools
  • Emulation General Wiki
  • Fandom Games
  • /v/’s Recommended Games Wiki
  • Blockfort
  • OpenCritic
  • The Good Old Days
  • The Good Old Days (German)
  • Moby Games
  • Giant Bomb
  • GameFAQs
  • StrategyWiki
  • GameHacking
  • Video Game History Foundation Library
  • The Cutting Room Floor
  • The Hidden Palace
  • Games Database
  • Gaming History
  • ArcadeItalia.NET
  • MAMEWorld
  • MARP
  • Video Game Music Archive
  • OverClocked ReMix
  • 30fps.net

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