Super Mario 64 Ported to Run on the Microsoft Zune

A homebrew effort has ported Super Mario 64 so that it runs on the Microsoft Zune, the portable media player that was discontinued after failing to compete with Apple's iPod. via hackaday.com

A homebrew effort has ported Super Mario 64 so that it runs on the Microsoft Zune, the portable media player that was discontinued after failing to compete with Apple's iPod. via hackaday.com

A community of enthusiasts for the obscure Japanese PC point-and-click adventure Cookie's Bustle: Mysterious Bombo World held a secret gathering to mark 25 years since its release. The game, developed by Rodik and released at the start of the millennium, follows a five-year-old girl named Cookie Blair who believes she is a bear as she journeys to the Pacific island of Bombo World. via timeextension.com
Stewart Russell has uploaded the first six issues of Just Amiga Monthly (JAM), a magazine that was produced entirely on the Amiga, to archive.org for preservation. via amiga-news.de
Raster Wizards have released Hyper Runner, a sci-fi racing game for AGA Amigas, priced at just under 9 euros. Players choose from five vehicles and 12 drivers affecting speed, acceleration, handling and durability, and progress through five stages with branching route choices and a rechargeable speed booster. via amiga-news.de
Jari-Matti Rally, a car racing/reaction game for Amiga by developer lifeschool22, has been updated to version 1.03d. The update overhauls several parts of the game, which was first reported as an early prototype in January 2024 and is now said to feel finished. via amiga-news.de

Hamster Corporation has revealed that Taito's 1987 horizontal shoot 'em up Exzisus will join the Arcade Archives series on November 5, releasing for PlayStation, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch. The game casts players as a mech pilot able to transform between a humanoid and ship form. via timeextension.com
Developer Thomas Lübker has released version 0.7.8 of Amigo, his AI-assisted WinUAE port for iPad, adding iCloud synchronisation. The feature transfers setups, save files and optionally floppy discs between devices. via amiga-news.de
Cameron Armstrong's AmigaGPT, which lets Amiga users access language models like ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini and Claude, has been updated to version 3.4.0. The release adds a new speech output tab that can generate reusable speech phrases as WAV files, with the interface now split into separate Chat, Image and Text-to-Speech tabs. via amiga-news.de
Tobias Karlsson has released version 1.3.0 of CCON, his console handler with output history for AmigaOS 3.x. The update runs quickly on unaccelerated Amigas, supports keyboard shortcuts familiar to KingCON users, and uses compiled C code for the most commonly used output paths to speed up text display. via amiga-news.de

A YouTube video from the Electric Adventures channel covers rare games for the Spectravideo SV-318/328 that were published by Mr Micro. via YouTube

THE 800XL, the modern recreation of Atari's 1983 home computer developed by Retro Games Ltd with Plaion, has been priced at $219. The machine includes a full mechanical keyboard, cartridge slot and built-in Atari BASIC for programming. via console-classics.com

A fan developer known as bendk97 has released an unofficial, work-in-progress port of Discovery Software's 1989 Amiga action game Sword of Sodan for the Neo Geo. Built with ngdevkit, it is distributed free as a name-your-own-price download in MAME, darksoft and NeoSD formats, and has not yet been tested on real MVS/AES hardware. via itch.io