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  The WipEout Game You Had to Buy a Movie to Play I stumbled across this while looking through old PSP physical releases and ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole. In 2005, Sony released a version of the movie Stealth on UMD that also had a playable, exclusive version of WipEout Pure on the same disc, complete with a Stealth-themed track and a craft based on the film’s fighter jet. I ended up writing a little piece about what was on the UMD, why Sony was experimenting with movie/game hy...

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  The Anbernic RG DS Plus Is The Best DS Handheld Yet I’ve just published my time with the Anbernic RG DS Plus, the bulk of this is the usual review things, but of some note was that I got to chat directly with Anbernic about the device and their take on it: why they revisited the original RG DS, the new NNDDSS emulator and some of the design decisions behind the Plus. The RG DS Plus itself is Anbernic’s second iteration of making a NDS-focused retro handheld. I love this one so much. I al...

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  The Anbernic RG DS Plus Is The Best DS Handheld Yet

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  Leaf Developers Geekstrada and Helaas: The Full Interview This is my full interview with Geekstrada and Helaas, the two developers behind Leaf, the custom firmware for the MINILOONG Pocket 1 (which you might have seen Russ cover a couple of weeks back with a video, if you’re into the retro handheld scene). We chat about how they came together, why Leaf exists, the thinking behind its development, the Colorway Studio you might have used when buying Retroid’s Nova, and the community growing aro...

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  I *know* it is just a headline, and it is a good one. But I still want to slip in here to say that RetroDECK was actually released for Steam Deck a few weeks before EmuDeck.

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  Maybe it is finally time for open-source(ish) dating to make an impact! (It won't. I tried it a couple years back and it is a ghost town!)