How the Peer Pressure softmod broke the Xbox 360 after 20 years
Modern Vintage Gamer breaks down Grimdoomer's new persistent softmod, which uses mechanical hard drive latency to bypass the console's hypervisor.
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La-Mulana has a free Sega Genesis port
Developer hombreimaginario released a free Mega Drive conversion of the classic MSX-style platformer on itch.io.
The Amiga's Sword of Sodan is now a free Neo Geo game
Developer bendk97 has released an unofficial homebrew port of the 1988 Amiga hack-and-slash classic for SNK's arcade hardware.
Derry Drain brings Pennywise to the Sega Master System
Developer cenobite83 has released a free new homebrew action-platformer for the Sega Master System starring Stephen King's iconic clown.
You can now build Sega Master System games without writing code
Developer haroldo-ok just released a free, browser-based engine that uses visual blocks to compile real Sega Master System ROMs.
Sega's Altered Beast has a new free port for the Neo Geo
Developer Teo Tormo released a native homebrew conversion of the 1988 arcade classic for Neo Geo AES, MVS, and CD hardware.
Prospero Win 0.1.0 runs Windows games natively on a PS5
The first public release of Prospero Win turns a jailbroken PlayStation 5 into a native Windows PC gaming machine using Wine and DXVK.