Dr. Marcel Pflug, curator of the unofficial Game Boy Museum, has compressed his 25-year collection database, now covering over 360 catalogued items, onto a physical Game Boy cartridge. The cart itself does not run as a game but stores the full exhibition itinerary. via timeextension.com
A homebrew team has released an English translation patch for Cyber Doll, a 1996 Sega Saturn exclusive RPG developed by Betop and published by I'MAX. The patch marks the first time the dystopian cyberpunk adventure, set in the year 2039, can be played in English. via timeextension.com
Kinuyo Yamashita, composer of the original NES Castlevania, has given a new interview to Dongled marking the game's 40th anniversary. The interview sheds further light on the game's development, an area that has long been under-documented due to sparse crediting and difficulty reaching former Konami staff. via timeextension.com
Sonic Team Creative Director Kazuyuki Hoshino, who joined Sega in 1991 and worked on the Mega CD/Sega CD add-on, has revealed a unique custom BIOS his coworkers made specifically for him. The piece has been preserved as a memento of his early years at the company. via timeextension.com
A close look at the Sega Saturn game Heir of Zendor reveals a file named 99README.TXT on its disc, containing messages left behind from the game's development. via segasaturnshiro.com
A new compilation has been released celebrating the work of Matthew Smith, the British bedroom programmer behind Jet Set Willy and other early ZX Spectrum classics. The compilation also highlights the unusual, abstract box art associated with games of that era, alongside a look at Smith's earlier career on the TRS-80 and VIC-20. via timeextension.com
Games That Weren't has published a history of MELT, an unreleased 3D adventure game based on Iron Maiden that was developed by London's Virtual Studios in the mid-1990s. Tied to the band's Best of the Beast campaign, it featured Eddie as the villain and had the player chasing his scattered energy Pods before a final confrontation, but the studio collapsed in 1997 before it could be finished. via gamesthatwerent.com
Retro hardware enthusiast DiscoStarslayer has successfully reverse-engineered the CXP102064 MechaCon chip inside the original PlayStation 2, which governs the console's optical drive and security functions. The breakthrough follows four years of work and closes what is described as the console's last major hardware secret, 26 years after its release. via techpowerup.com
Footage has surfaced for the first time of a Super Famicom/SNES port of Railroad Tycoon that was never released. The port was originally rumoured in a 1991 issue of Nintendo Power but had not otherwise been documented until now. via timeextension.com
Games That Weren't has written up "City by the Lake", a very early Atari 2600 demonstration made by Western Technologies as a technical showcase. What survives is a short looping animation of a jet flying across a landscape, with a city's reflection shimmering in the water below, and no gameplay. A 2026 academic paper on early development prototypes documented it. via gamesthatwerent.com
A kernel and a patch released at the Finnish event Saku 2026 let Amix, the Amiga port of Unix System V Release 4, run on 68040 and 68060 CPUs. It was previously limited to the 68020 and 68030. via amiga-news.de
