Metroid - Rogue Dawn - Unofficial NES prequel to the original Metroid game released!

Another great release today and this is for all you NES gamers across the globe, as Grimlock, Optomon, snarfblam and team have released ' Metroid : Rogue Dawn ' version 1.10; the unofficial prequel to the first Metroid game released way back in 1986. This rather eye opening prequel shows the events that unfolded before Samus's famous Zero Mission on planet Zebes, it puts you in control of Dawn

Railroad Baron Famicom Boardgame on the NES is now in English

As it's nearly Christmas most of you lucky ones have probably got a lot of people coming over for a family get together, or mates round for a quick booze up. So you'll probably need something fun to play that isn't just your usual online Call of Duty frenzy via your Xbox one. So here we have Tetsudou Ou: Famicom Boardgame, aka Railroad Baron for the NES, which is a 4 player game that has been

Ace Combat 3 - A grand English translation released for a Playstation 1 game

Thanks to a heads up by our good friend VizionGamer via our twitter feed, we have learnt of the release of the English translation for Ace Combat 3 on the Playstation 1 by Team NEMO. You probably haven't heard of this game before, that's because the better version was released in Japan in 1999 as Ace Combat 3 : Electrosphere; an arcade air combat game by Namco. The problem was with the game

Out Live - A Dungeon Crawling Turbografx-16 English translation

Yet again here we are mentioning another Dungeon Crawler style game, but this time we wont be featuring a band of adventurers looking for loot in some far off cavern, but a Sci-Fi crawler fully English translated on the Turbografx-16 by Nebulous Translations. Now you've probably never heard of this one, but this is 'Out Live' by Sunsoft; a first person mech/robot controlling experience through

BS The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets - An Obscure Zelda game gets a BIG translation and more!

What an incredible end to the week especially for Zelda fans across the globe, as BS Zelda no Densetsu, also known as 'BS The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets', has received a full English dub restoration. If you've never heard of the game, which until today included me, it was a score attack version of 'A Link to the Past', featuring high quality CD music and voices, but had to be

Vixen 357 - Turn based war on the SMD gets a full English translation

It's a new English translation for a Monday and this time it's the Japanese turn based war game on the Sega Mega Drive ' Vixen 357 ' . First released way back in the 90's and published by NCS, Vixen 357 is a seriously cool tactical turn based strategy game featuring powerful mechs and other such dangerous weaponry. If you've ever played games like Battle Isle, with units being moved on a grid

Family Trainer 8 Totsugeki! Fuuun Takeshi Jou - Takeshi’s Castle NES English translation

Some more cool news straight out of RomHacking is the NES English translation of Family Trainer 8 Totsugeki! Fuuun Takeshi Jou into Family Trainer 8 Showdown Takeshi's Castle. Now if you remember the game show that used to air on Sky TV, it involved a number of contestants trying to accomplish many different hilarious challenges to reach the end. Basically falling in mud off moving platforms

Pac-Man Xtreme - Classy ROMhack of Ms Pac-Man officially released

More great news this week as after eleven years of hard work, KaBooM has released an incredible ROMhack of the namco version of Ms Pac-Man for the NES! Originally released in the 1980's as an Arcade game and then ported over to other systems, became one of the most successful American produced games selling over 115,000 cabinets. That same game is now available as a top quality enhanced

Sailor Moon Super S Floating Panic gets a full English SNES translation

It wouldn't be a week without a romhacking mention and sure enough here is ' Sailor Moon Super S: Floating Panic ' also known as Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Super S: Fuwa Fuwa Panic, that was recently translated into full English for the SNES by Dynamic-Designs. This colourful game is a Sailor Moon themed competitive puzzle style game originally released in Japan way back in December 1995 and

Shadow Brain - NES Sci-fi Dungeon Crawler gets a full English translation

If puzzle games such as the recent Dr Mario NES hack, mentioned previously, is just not your thing, then how about a full English translation of the NES sci-fi dungeon crawler ' Shadow Brain ', which was only just released by Aishsha and Stardust Crusaders. As noted by Romhacking, Shadow Brain looks very much like Megami Tensei, and the game when originally released actually came with a VHS