Miki Higashino, the composer behind classic Konami arcade soundtracks like Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Gradius and Salamander, as well as the PlayStation RPGs Suikoden and Suikoden II, has announced she is no longer retired. She is now available to take on new video game music projects. via timeextension.com
A homebrew port of Capcom's 1987 arcade action-platformer Black Tiger has been released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. The fan project includes all eight levels from the arcade original along with an added Boss Rush mode, adapted for 16-bit hardware. via console-classics.com
MJB Software has released a ZX Spectrum Next port of Filemon en Busca de Mortadelo, an action game originally created by Alfonso Fernández for the ZX Spectrum in 1987. Based on the Mortadelo y Filemón comic characters, the game is available as a name-your-own-price download with English, Spanish and Portuguese text. via itch.io
Panic has told owners of its Playdate handheld to update their device's firmware before October 15. After that date, the Secure Certificate used by older firmware versions expires, which will prevent those units from connecting to Playdate's servers. via timeextension.com
Taki Udon of RetroRemake, the team behind the SuperStation One FPGA PlayStation console, has teased a new product codenamed "SSNT/SuperFPGA" that appears to be an FPGA-based Super Nintendo/SNES console. A posted image of an NTSC SNES reset button and a comment that all regions are covered suggests multi-region support. via timeextension.com
Developer TjLaZer has released a free, name-your-own-price Amiga port of Bruce Lee, a fan game originally created for the Sega Master System by Kagesan in 2015. It is distributed as both a bootable floppy image and a standalone AmigaDOS executable, and was made with AI-assisted code. via itch.io
Accessory maker Abxylute has launched a Kickstarter for two new products, the M5 and M6, which attach to a smartphone to convert it into a handheld gaming device. The campaign follows the company's recent releases including the J8 Joycons, N6 Controller Dock, and the S9V collaboration with Viture. via retrohandhelds.gg
The developer working on the human-led Beetle Adventure Racing decompilation has further criticized an AI-assisted recompilation project, saying it reused community reverse-engineering work and introduced serious gameplay flaws in the process. via console-classics.com
Developer charger0277 has released an unofficial fan port of Namco's 1983 arcade platformer Mappy for the Commodore 64. The free, name-your-own-price game requires a 1 MB RAM Expansion Unit and is available as both a disk image and cartridge image, working on PAL and NTSC machines. via itch.io
Developer roman126 has released Ribbit Rush, a free arcade game for the ZX Spectrum Next inspired by Frogger. It features full-screen presentation and 9-channel TurboSound music. via itch.io
Gaboo Arts Entertainment has released an Amiga port of its Commodore 64 game Nybble & Nibble. Players control Nybble, a tiny half-byte character, through 60 rooms across six zones of rhythmic platforming challenges while searching for a missing other half. via indieretronews.com
Developer SirSoftPretzel has released The Last Hot Pocket, a free browser-based HTML5 action game styled after Commodore 64 pixel art. The comedic top-down game has two moderators shoving and stealing from each other over a single Hot Pocket amid a company-wide email. via itch.io
