February is here which must mean that January has slid by once again. While this time of year isn’t usually so hot for those Twitter-melting AAA games, we all sometimes need less action-packed schedules. Ubisoft proved they still have some ability to make a compelling video game, and potential game of the year: Turnip Boy Robs a Bank, proves that just about any idea can make it! Opinions on games aside, it’s time for the usual agenda. As we’ve perhaps highlighted before, macOS as a platform is a little bit of a nightmare as far as 3D graphics go. Everything for Ryujinx needs to go through Mol ..read more

Happy New Year! We hope everyone is having a great start to 2024 and that you’re all rejuvenated for another year of listening to these (mostly) regular rambles. We’ve got a fair bit to go through, including the usual sprinkling of graphical fixes, a nice meaty section that users of battery-powered devices will want to read and, of course, our usual yearly wrap up on a few different topics, including compatibility and performance across 2023. We’ll start out with a certified retro title in Monster Hunter Rise (MHR). Released in the antiquated year of 2021, the game has received several updat ..read more

Had your fill of candy, sweets, or whatever your localized version of ‘edible items that are actually quite bad for you but they taste great’? We hope so, because the end of a month signals not only the start of the next, but also another progress report from yours truly. In what was quite possibly the most spooky game launch of all time, Super Mario Wonder graced both our Switches and our PCs on exactly the same date… Curious how that keeps happening. Either way let’s fill our October goody bags with just a few more sweet treats! The first item on the agenda starts with an adequately themati ..read more

Gather once more at the three-quarter mark, for beyond this point, your days become dark. September was an unusually quiet month for our friends publishing games with the only games of note being a rather underwhelming Baten Kaitos remaster, alongside a questionable Mortal Kombat 1. At least the latter managed to bring some comedy to its otherwise haunting visuals. Beyond those we’ve got stuff to chat about from all over the project from LDN, Mac improvements and a boatload of service work. Hop on down. Our first stop is at the port of Delfino, where shines lag is the name of the game. The ti ..read more

Miss us? Summer only lasts so long and some of us need our holidays. 2023 continued to deliver swathes of new Switch titles with Pikmin 4 and a remast-... what? It’s a port? Well if you say so… Ahem, a re-release of Rockstar’s western classic: Red Dead Redemption. A game which has been killing emulators since before some of our readers could read. Luckily we’re, as the kids say, built different. We’ve got a good one cooked up so let’s get to it. We’ll start with some good old OpenGL games: Wreckfest and 20XX; the latter not to be confused with 30XX or a niche Super Smash Bros. Melee meme of t ..read more

Wooooooahhh we’re halfway thereeee… ? No matter how the year has gone so far, the midpoint always feels weird. Wasn’t it like January a couple weeks ago? Compared to May, while no genre-defining blockbusters graced us with their presence, Pikmin fans had a demo to sink their teeth into, a new entry: Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE from the development team of Danganronpa, and a few other titles that we’re sure folk who are more cultured in video games than us are aware of. Both titles mentioned above also had day 1 compatibility, which bodes nicely for the full release of Pikmin 4 in par ..read more

May we offer you a progress report this fine month? Tears were shed, monarchies were restored, and we’ve seen a fully functional, multi-stage detachable dropship, complete with cruise missile systems and meat grill in a Zelda game. Truly, nature is healing. If you hadn’t already guessed, this month has been almost entirely monopolized by that pesky blonde princess, but fear not, we did find time between play sessions to work on an avalanche of changes, fixes and improvements. We’ll save a little something special for the end, but for now, let’s get to it. We begin this month, not on a certain ..read more

Hello folks, it’s your favorite time of the month once again. No need to say anything, we know it’s true! Plenty happened in April which you’ll soon discover below, but before that let’s take a look through the current patreon goals. Or that's what we usually say, except we're changing it up a little from this month. Patreon has informed us that they're sunsetting their "goals" feature from May 16th. While we could keep track of these separately, part of why we chose this route in the first place was the ease of which our supporters could track the progress toward each goal in real time. We a ..read more

We’re cruising our way into the second quarter of 2023 and finally got news on that new Zelda game everyone is so angsty about; did the presentation meet everyone’s expectations? All of us are incredibly excited to see what Nintendo has in store for this oddly familiar-looking adventure, and of course, to see what challenges it’ll bring Ryujinx. We hope you all had a great month, and that you appreciate this slightly shorter progress report than usual! But first, let’s take a look at our remaining patreon goals. We’d like to reiterate once again that any features listed below will eventually ..read more

Bye-bye February, you won’t be missed. Does anyone actually like it? Short, cold and dark. Maybe if you live in an upside down part of the world you disagree, but you’d still be wrong! February marked a couple of exciting events in the lives of Nintendo fans: a Direct, a Pokémon Presents, and a stealth drop of a certified classic; thus proving that if you need to delay a game, simply release a remaster of the old one to plug the gap. Luckily Metroid didn’t offer too much resistance to emulation but we’ll talk about that later. First on the agenda is glancing through our patreon goals, one of ..read more