Modders give the Visual Memory Unit a second life as a portable that plays classic games on Atari, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, and more. Sega's Dreamcast died young, but its groundbreaking ...

The heyday of light gun games is long gone, and even though people have tried to recreate it with things like Wiimote grips or PlayStation Move attachments — MAG II made an admirable effort — it’s ...

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). Fifteen years ago, there was something of a competition between two SNES emulators: ZSNES and SNES9x. ZSNES was a bit faster, and SNES9x a bit more ...

As a general rule, any new media device will, within 24 hours of its release date, be hacked. Sometimes people will just want to figure out how to make the original “Doom” run on anything with a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ray tracing is usually used to make games look more realistic by simulating the way light bounces off of surfaces ...

This might be a little outdated, what with the uncrackable XBox 360 out there, but it reminds us of the time we tried to hack our PS2 using the old “knife in the DVD slot” trick and broke it. This ...