A team of coders and translators has finished an English fan translation of Summon Night Swordcraft Story: Stone of Beginnings, the 2005 Game Boy Advance RPG from Atlus and Banpresto. The game was the only entry in the Summon Night Swordcraft Story sub-series never officially localised for the West, and the project took more than ten years to complete. via timeextension.com
An English translation patch for Monster Slider, a Saturn home-exclusive action puzzle game, has been released. It was created specifically to coincide with the October SHIRO! Community Challenge. via segasaturnshiro.com
Zero Wing has received an official Neo Geo release decades after it was originally passed over for the platform. The port preserves Toaplan's parallax scrolling effects and includes the game's different regional versions. via console-classics.com
Games That Weren't reports that researcher Nicol Walder has found 11 previously missing Commodore 64 titles by comparing disk collection contents against known archives. Recovered games include Orbyte Software's French, Italian and Spanish, Rats & Cats, an incomplete Escape from Alcatraz, and Inferential Anne 1 and 3, none of which were previously catalogued in GameBase64 or similar archives. via gamesthatwerent.com
Video footage has surfaced of a Super Nintendo port of Railroad Tycoon that was never officially released, showing gameplay including menus, track building and trains running. The footage gives the first look at the 16-bit adaptation of the business simulation game in over three decades. via console-classics.com
Modder maximqad has decompiled Valve's cancelled Sega Dreamcast port of Half-Life, reverse-engineering the game to release its source code for the homebrew community. The project also adds online multiplayer, something the leaked build never previously supported. via timeextension.com
SegaBits has published an interview with Tom Payne, one of the American artists at Sega Technical Institute who worked on Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The interview covers his path onto the project, previously unheard details about the cut Genocide City Zone, and recollections of colleagues at the studio. via segabits.com
A Japan-exclusive bus simulator game for the Sega Dreamcast is receiving an English fan translation, according to Retro Dodo. The game has never previously been playable in English. via retrododo.com
Toaplan's shoot 'em up Zero Wing is being officially ported to SNK's Neo Geo hardware, a version that was never previously released. The project came to light after a since-deleted photo of Plaion's Tokyo Game Show stand revealed a box for the Neo Geo edition alongside the Neo Geo AES+ demo. via timeextension.com
JagOS is a homebrew operating system for the Atari Jaguar that provides a graphical desktop, applications and networking capability, drawing inspiration from the unreleased Atari Painter home computer concept. via console-classics.com
Speedrunner "apel" has discovered a new glitch in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty that lets players skip through the Tanker section's explosive corridor without fighting Olga Gurlurkovich or obtaining the USP pistol. via timeextension.com
John Hardie discovered original FlexiCAD vector drawings for Atari's unreleased combined Jaguar and Jaguar CD console on an old floppy disk obtained from Atari. The redesigned unit was meant to merge the standard Jaguar and Jaguar CD hardware into a single console rather than the separate CD add-on. via gamesthatwerent.com
