Spectrava is a new ZX Spectrum emulator for Windows made by Jollyware, offered on a name-your-own-price basis. It emulates both 48K and 128K Spectrum models, including the 128K's AY sound chip, loading stripes and border effects, and runs as a single executable with no installer required, letting users drag a game file onto the window to play. via itch.io
A mod project for classic iPods is in development, adding modern features such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB-C charging, expandable storage, additional media format support, and Spotify streaming. Interested iPod owners can sign up to receive updates as the project progresses. via techspot.com
Atari and Digital Eclipse have launched Toy Story: Retro Roundup! and Toy Story 3 Complete Edition for modern consoles and PC. The releases bring classic Disney and Pixar-licensed Toy Story games back to current platforms to mark the franchise's 30th anniversary. via retrolike.net
Pokemon Fire Red 386 is a fan-made ROM hack of Fire Red designed to let players encounter and obtain every Generation 3 Pokemon in a single-player playthrough, completing the Pokedex without needing to trade or connect to events. The project keeps the original game's difficulty, lore and mechanics intact, deliberately avoiding modern changes or Pokemon from later generations. via pokecommunity.com
Developer Tansel has released Embervale: Sword of the Dawn, a free browser-based action-adventure game built in HTML5. Players swing a sword, find keys and slay bosses across 30 levels, with retro pixel art and chiptune music. via itch.io
Developer Konstantinos Patronas has released ECHO, a Commodore 64-style action game for Windows and macOS priced at 4.99 euros. Players navigate a dark cave with no vision, using sonar calls to reveal walls while also alerting sound-hunting creatures like crawlers, bats and lurkers to their location. The game was made with AI-assisted code, graphics, sound and text. via itch.io
Developer Konstantinos Patronas has released MAGNET, a Commodore 64-style puzzle platformer for Windows and macOS priced at 4.99 euros. Players control a scrap-sorting robot that can charge its chest coil red or blue, using matching and opposing polarities to pull, push and navigate through 70 rooms. via itch.io
Developer chadlung has released Dungeon Raider, a free adventure game for the Commodore 64. The game uses AI-assisted code, graphics and sound. via itch.io
Pokemon Brisk Emerald is a fan-made ROM hack of Pokemon Emerald that aims to let players encounter every Pokemon. Its creator has released what is described as the hack's final update, adding more legendary, mythical and Ultra Beast encounters, hand-crafted trainer battles, improved Champion Archives sprites, new items in the Lilycove Department Store, and overworld Poke Ball catching. via pokecommunity.com
A hardware project has fitted a Game Boy with an e-paper display, a screen type normally associated with slow refresh rates used in e-readers. Despite this limitation, the build reportedly achieves 30 frames per second while running Super Mario Land and other classic Game Boy titles. via console-classics.com
KoolFiller has released a hacked "Special Edition" version of Sega Saturn shmup maker Dezaemon 2, published via SegaXtreme. The hack adds English menus and compiles all 267 games made with the tool onto a single disc. via segasaturnshiro.com
A free fan-made mod has been released that remasters the graphics of the original Final Fantasy 7, giving the classic PS1 RPG an updated look ahead of the upcoming sequel-style title Revelation. via gamingbible.com
