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Check Out The Raspberry Pi Powered “GameBoy Zero”
Who remembers when the original Game Boy was released? Released by Nintendo back in 1996, the Game Boy was the first handheld gaming device for a lot of people and in recent years, people have looked to emulate the system. While being able to play with your smartphone like it…
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Run a Game Boy Emulator in Your Terminal
For many, the days of the terminal are long over, much like the original Game Boy. Now one developer has brought the two together, allowing those with nothing but a terminal to hand to pass the time with some Game Boy classics. The entire emulator runs on PHP, requiring PHP…
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Dolphin Emulator Now Has DirectX 12 Support
DirectX 12 is a low-level API which has the potential to allow for console-like optimization across a wide range of PC hardware. While it’s still early days, there’s a great deal of excitement surrounding games with plans to use Microsoft’s revolutionary API. For example, Quantum Break is a DirectX 12…
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Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations Running on RPCS3 DX12 Powered Emulator!
Emulation of the PlayStation 3 is quickly becoming a reality, it seems not a week goes by until we hear that yet another commercially available game is up and running on the latest emulator, and that’s great news for gamers, especially those who have high-end gaming PC’s that are capable…
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Xenia Shows Promise for the Xbox Emulator Market
Xenia is an Xbox 360 device emulator. It has been in development since January 10th 2013 with 2956 commits of code to the popular open source code sharing website – Github. The developers have been very busy for the past two years creating this beast of an emulator, however, it…
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PlayStation 2 Emulation Finally Arriving on PlayStation 4
Sony has officially confirmed that it is “utilising” PlayStation 2 emulation for the PlayStation 4, following the discovery that a number of re-released Star Wars games for PS4 were PS2 originals. Super Star Wars, Star Wars: Racer Revenge, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, and Star Wars: Bounty Hunter were included as part of the…
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Wii U Emulator Launched for PC – Almost Works
Emulation of other devices is no easy task, especially when it comes to more recently released console hardware as it takes quite a lot of processing power and a lot of skill, as well as trial and error from the developers of the software to get it right, even then…
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Beautiful Handheld Wooden Emulator Re imagines a Classic
The Raspberry Pi series has opened up a new frontier in the evolution of tech which has enabled a whole new generation of developers the option to efficiently and cost effectively power their creations. This device however, is quite simply a fabulous reimagining of the Game Boy Advance SP handheld console which…
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Browser-Based Game Boy Advance Emulator Shut Down by Nintendo
Nintendo, in its on-going mission to ruin our fun, has forced a popular Java-based Game Boy Advance emulator offline. The emulator, which allowed users to play GBA games in-browser, has been taken off GitHub after Nintendo issued a takedown notice, citing copyright infringements for every game offered through the emulator,…
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Xbox 360 Emulation Just Made a Huge Advancement!
Emulation of Xbox games was near impossible, although many attempts have come close to something that almost works, nothing has really been playable. The Xbox 360 has suffered a similar fate, with its odd hardware setup proving complex to emulate over the years; until now. Xbox 360 Emulator “Xenia” has…
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Nintendo Patents Game Boy Emulator for Phones
In what could be seen as potentially a big change of opinion for Nintendo, the company has filed a patent for a Game Boy emulator for “a personal digital assistant” and “a cell phone”. Nintendo has previously been strictly against the idea of releasing its games on other platforms and more…
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GBA4iOS Deemed As The Best Game Boy Advanced Emulator for Apple’s Smartphones
It’s hard to find an original Game Boy nowadays or even buy games for it from a handful of 3DS eShops that still survived up until today. Game Boy fans have to resort to emulators in order to play their favourite old titles. Smartphones appear to have become the best…
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Is Emulation the Best Feature of the Nvidia Shield?
Introduction Emulation is a popular pass time for many PC gamers, and in recent year there has been a big increase in GPU horsepower in the mobile market, allowing us to enjoy many classic games on the go, not just on our desktops. The Nvidia Shield is one of the…
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Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 2013
Cloanto released today Amiga Forever 2013 and C64 Forever 2013, the latest versions of the award-winning Commodore-Amiga preservation, emulation and support suites for Windows. The 2013 editions for Windows had a focus on making the software easier to use, while providing new and more powerful features for advanced users and…
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