This Kid Icarus stuff is rather tough. No wonder I have got no love towards platformers. However, the “I’m Finished!” message had me in chuckles the first time it appeared after the character plunged to his death. I still think it’s due to a programming issue (deliberately or otherwise) that doesn’t allow the player to [...]

The last ROM Report was written like months ago, on how to run Sega MegaDrive games on the Nintendo DS. Pretty retro stuff huh. Well, in this edition of The ROM Report, we’ll take a look at something that I can relate better, running an all time favourite PC game of mine, Quake II on [...]

Thanks to the EZ 3-in-1 Expansion Pack running in my Nintendo DS’ Slot-2, I finally get the chance to play GBA games that are previously sold-out on Play-Asia. Running a game in NOR mode is like having the actual cartridge itself and I can pop the Expansion Pack into my Gameboy Micro and start playing. [...]

As the title mentions, there is a problem when it comes to running Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games on the Nintendo DS: the emulators have not found a way to produce sound! It’s a rather quiet experience playing Sonic the Hedgehog but even though the lack of sound is a shame, the game runs really fast [...]

The ROM Report is a series of articles that I started writting back when Nine Over Ten 9/10 was on Blogspot. The gist of the articles is mainly on retro games from consoles such as the NES, SNES, Megadrive, etc and how to run them on the Nintendo DS courtesy of emulation from a rich [...]

Issue 48 of the excellent (but expensive, at least over here in Malaysia) Retro Gamer magazine did a spread on the Spectrum 128. It got me curious because you can hardly find one over here, and mentioning Spectrum will more likely conjure up colours of the rainbow than the thought of a computer. Despite the [...]

The idea for the 10th Edition of The ROM Report came to me when I was talking to a couple of my colleagues about 80s cartoon series. I remember being glued to the tube and being fed a diet of Thundercats, Transformers, Centurions, and Spiral Zone. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was also a favourite series [...]

NES gamers would probably remember Taito’s classic The Legend of Kage which was released in 1987 for the North American NES. The game was a 2D platformer and even though I’ve played it as a kid, I remembered distinctively that the hero was a ninja that could jump really high, and one of the enemy [...]

This article could have been titled “How to Add Cheat Codes to Your R4DS?” as what am I about to describe to you is essentially that, but hey, I figured the title is eye-catching, so do bear with it . Produced by Taito to go along with its release of Arkanoid DS, the Paddle Controller [...]

A big shout out to Pizza Pasta (The New New Era) for a very helpful tip on getting Earthbound Zero to run on the nesDS. I’m quoting his comment verbatim: You might know this by now but Earthbound Zero is totally playable in NESDS, you just have to mess with it a little on your [...]