Taki Udon, founder of RetroRemake, has posted a new clip of the FPGA SP handheld focused on its user interface options, including screen scaling. The device is a clamshell handheld styled after the Game Boy Advance SP that uses FPGA hardware to play original GBA cartridges. via timeextension.com
Modder "Bo Made It" is developing InkBoy, open-source software intended to let Game Boy games run on E-paper/E-Ink displays. The software exploits the waveform-based nature of E-reader screens, rapidly charging and discharging black and white pixels to mimic the Game Boy's original LCD animation. via timeextension.com
Cyborg Unicorn Pty Ltd has released Attack of the Cyborg Unicorns 2, a name-your-own-price bullet hell arcade shooter for the ZX Spectrum Next. The game has players facing waves of mechanical unicorns amid flying bullets and spiral attack patterns, continuing the studio's cyborg unicorn invasion series. via itch.io
Developer Cyborg Unicorn Pty Ltd has released Burger Shop, a name-your-own-price arcade cooking and restaurant-management game for the ZX Spectrum Next. Players run four shops, preparing burgers and other orders during a busy lunch rush to maximise profit. The game uses AI-assisted code, graphics, sounds and text. via itch.io
Cyborg Unicorn Pty Ltd has released Defender - ZX Spectrum Next Edition, a name-your-own-price arcade shooter rebuilt in NTC BASIC. Players fly across a scrolling alien landscape, destroy invading forces and rescue humans from landers across increasingly difficult waves, with AI-assisted code, graphics, sounds and text. via itch.io
Gamesthatwerent.com has documented Pro Tennis, an unfinished tennis game that was in development at Clockwize for the Amstrad CPC, preserved thanks to Dean Hickingbottom. The surviving prototype only features a scrolling court with two movable players, with no actual ball-hitting mechanic implemented, though pressing fire and moving the joystick can shift the pitch. via gamesthatwerent.com
Developer Cyborg Unicorn Pty Ltd has released Checkout, a name-your-own-price arcade game for the ZX Spectrum Next. Players manage up to four tills where shoppers queue with baskets of goods, and success depends on remembering prices to tally totals correctly. The game was made with AI-assisted code, graphics, sounds and text. via itch.io
Developer Cyborg Unicorn Pty Ltd has released Chomp Bot, a name-your-own-price maze-chase arcade game for the ZX Spectrum Next. Players guide CHOMPBOT through three original mazes, eating bolts while evading four pursuing bugs, and the game was made with AI-assisted code, graphics, sounds and text. via itch.io
Cyborg Unicorn Pty Ltd has released Crazy Robot, a name-your-own-price ZX Spectrum Next arcade shooter. Players fight through twenty rooms of a robot factory filled with electric walls, bullet storms and giant bosses, in a style the developer compares to Robotron meets Berzerk. The game was made with AI-assisted code, graphics, sound and text. via itch.io
Cyborg Unicorn Pty Ltd has released Cyborg Unicorn Defender, a name-your-own-price arcade shooter for the ZX Spectrum Next inspired by the classic Defender formula. Players pilot the Cyborg Unicorn to rescue foals and fight off drones in Rainbow Valley. The game uses AI-assisted code, graphics, sounds and text. via itch.io
Cyborg Unicorn Pty Ltd has released Danmaku, a name-your-own-price vertical scrolling bullet hell shooter for the ZX Spectrum Next. The game features five stages with five bosses, inspired by the arcade series DoDonPachi, and was tested running at 50 FPS on an emulated 28 MHz Spectrum Next. via itch.io
PokeCave Almerald is a complete fan-made ROM hack of Pokemon Emerald that started as a joke and replaces all Pokemon species with creatures from the web collectibles game Dragon Cave. It keeps the game largely vanilla Emerald with a few quality-of-life additions. via pokecommunity.com
