A fan-made ROM hack for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has been updated with a free camera system, a seamless version of Castle Town, and refreshed character textures. The project previously introduced a first-person view option for the Nintendo 64 game. via console-classics.com
Developer tatsoni has released Tokyo Dungeon Calling, a free browser-based roguelike dungeon crawler built with Godot for the Ludum Dare 60 game jam. The game uses ASCII-style visuals inspired by the Commodore 64 and was made with AI-assisted code. via itch.io
Amiga 12000 is a free puzzle game made for Ludum Dare 60 by developer Hyperlink Your Heart, built with Godot. Set three million years in the future, it follows an anachronistic Amiga-branded starship lost in space, and is available for Windows, Linux and HTML5. via itch.io
BRIGHTMOOR is a new Ultima-style fantasy RPG for the Commodore 64, created by J5, the developer behind GloomKeep II, using that engine and written in 6502 assembly with AI assistance. The story centers on King Mordran, who makes a dangerous bargain with an ancient force beneath his kingdom to escape death. via indieretronews.com
Hobo's Following Pokémon is a fan-made mod for Pokémon Black and Black 2 that lets a chosen Pokémon follow the player around Unova, inspired by the system from HeartGold and SoulSilver. It supports all 649 species from Generations 1-5, including shiny overworld sprites, over 10,000 dialogue options, and works on both emulators and physical DS hardware. via pokecommunity.com
Developer nerosky has released Tough Nuts, a name-your-own-price physics slingshot puzzle game for the Amiga 1200 (AGA) inspired by Angry Birds. It features nine worlds of ten levels each, nine heroes with unique abilities, bosses, cartoons and ten music tracks, distributed on floppy disks or for hard disk installation. via itch.io
A developer has released Van Helsing: A Night at Castle Dracula, a name-your-own-price puzzle-platformer for the PAL Commodore 64. Players guide Van Helsing through 36 rooms across six chapters, including a graveyard, chapel, crypts, library, clock tower and keep, racing to cross the castle before dawn. The game was made with AI assistance from Claude for code, graphics and music, with cover art from Leonardo.ai, and was tested on real C64 hardware. via itch.io
Developer Cyborg Unicorn Pty Ltd has released Witch Bias, a name-your-own-price adventure game for the ZX Spectrum with a Halloween witch theme. Players take the role of a new witch competing to become Top Witch over the course of 13 full moons, with the game made using AI-assisted code, graphics, sound and text. via itch.io
Preservationist Allan Pinkerton has uploaded Word Games, his fourth preserved title from educational software maker MECC, for the Commodore 64. He is also pursuing a copy of Friendly Computer, and has uncovered other rare software including Ducks, which is absent from GameBase64, and Glass Computer, which also appeared on the Commodore 128. via gamesthatwerent.com
Developer 7TowersofGames has released Nebula Vultures - Commodore 64 Edition, a third-person on-rails shooter paying homage to Afterburner. The game is priced at $2.00 and is available as a d64 disk image download. via itch.io
AYN has released a new promotional video for its upcoming Odin 3 Portal handheld, revealing most of the device's details just a week after its initial announcement. The handheld shares a similar design to the existing Odin 2 Portal. via retrohandhelds.gg
AYANEO has sent backers and pre-order customers an updated shipping timeline for its handheld lineup. The Pocket Micro 2, originally due this month, is now expected to ship in early November because of delayed build components. via timeextension.com
