An unofficial Mega Drive / Genesis port of the RPG Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (otherwise known as Mystic Quest Legend in Europe and Final Fantasy USA: Mystic Quest in Japan) is currently in the works, from a couple of fan developers named NicoMegadrive and Laurent Crouzet.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, as many of you will no doubt already know, was a Final Fantasy spin-off that Square developed for the SNES back in the early '90s, and was designed to introduce more North American players to the RPG genre. However, despite some fairly enthusiastic reviews from places like Electronic Gaming Monthly and Electronic Games, it ultimately went on to fail in its mission, earning a reputation in more recent years as one of the series's weaker entries, due to its simplicity compared to other games in the series.

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A new native fan port of Konami's 1988 NES action platformer Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is currently in development for the Super Nintendo, as spotted by VideoGameEsoterica.

The port of the game is being created by the ROM hacker and NES-to-SNES developer Rumbleminze, who previously released a similar port for the original Castlevania back in July of this year.

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After two years of work, a group of EarthBound ROM hackers has released something truly special for fans of the Toby Fox-developed indie game Deltarune: a recreation of the game's first chapter inside the SNES RPG.

Bound to the Dark World had been developed in secrecy over the last couple of years, but was finally unveiled on social media two days before Halloween, on October 29th, by one of its lead creators, Chromadeline.

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The SNES is getting a new action RPG called Eternal Hunters – The Branford Legacy, and legendary French composer Raphaël Gesqua is on board to contribute to the soundtrack.

Gesqua, whose previous games include Flashback, Mr.Nutz, Shaq-Fu, Fade to Black and Moto Racer, has already written a trio of songs for the game, it has been reported.

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If you were around in the late '90s and you owned a PC then chances are you encountered ZSNES, one of the first retro emulators to really break into the mainstream.

Coded by zsKnight, the emulator was astounding for 1997 – not only did it offer excellent performance, it even had netplay. Remember, this was back when most households still had dial-up connections, and the average PC was less powerful than a smartwatch is today.

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A new SNES-inspired RPG is set to land on Steam next month, on November 18th, and looks to bring a whole new meaning to the phrase "trash game" (thanks Next Indie for the spot!)

Kingdoms Of The Dump is the debut game from Roach Games, a studio formed by a pair of janitors, and was funded on Kickstarter back in 2019.

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Back in June, when Digital Eclipse announced it was working on a new collection bringing together a bunch of Mortal Kombat games from across the series's history, many fans' imaginations went wild with all the possibilities of titles that could potentially be added to the collection in the future.

One title, in particular, that proved to be high up on the community wishlist for the game was hopes of a proper commercial release of Mortal Kombat Nitro — a cancelled follow-up to the SNES port of Mortal Kombat that aimed to be a less sanitized alternative with additional improvements, characters (Goro, Shang, Reptile, and Kung Lao), and other bonus features. The developer Digital Eclipse, however, seems to be staying quiet about the possibility of this.

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Coder Infidelity has produced some amazing NES-to-SNES native ports in the past, and his next venture will bring one of the console's best-selling titles to the 16-bit system.

Released at the height of TMNT fever in 1989, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an action platformer which has become notorious for its intense difficulty level. It eventually sold four million units and spawned two sequels on Nintendo's 8-bit system.

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Sony's PS1 turned 30 at the end of last year, and this year marks the 30th anniversary of the console's launch in the West.

Former President of SIE Worldwide Studios for Sony Interactive Entertainment, Shuhei Yoshida, has been speaking to GamesIndustry.biz about the arrival of Sony's legendary 32-bit hardware.

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Earlier this year, Limited Run Games, Retro-Bit and Randell Linden announced that a new rumble-ready controller is to be released for the SNES to coincide with Linden's updated 16-bit port of DOOM.

Linden has kindly shared information with the community on how to factor force feedback into other SNES games, and we've already seen Star Fox: Shindou Edition, Super Metroid Rumbled and Super Mario World Rumble take advantage of it – all thanks to KandoWontu.

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In some rather unexpected news, Street Fighter 6 will get a special collaboration next month celebrating Chunsoft's landmark Japanese sound novel Kamaitachi no Yoru (otherwise known as Banshee's Last Cry).

Released in 1994, the Super Famicom sound novel (whose name literally translates to Night of the Sickle Weasels) was the second sound novel from developer/publisher Chunsoft, following 1992's Otogirisō.

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A new ROM hack for the SNES classic Super Mario World has just been released, giving players the chance to experience the 16-bit title with rumble support.

Super Mario World Rumbled is the most recent project from KandoWontu (who is probably best known for his work on Starfox Exploration Showcase and Famidash and his development of various FastROM hacks), and is the latest in a growing list of hacks aiming to introduce rumble support into a popular SNES title (following similar projects like Star Fox: Shindou Edition and Super Metroid Rumbled).

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Whenever the Super Star Wars Trilogy is mentioned today, it's usually not that long before the game's difficulty is brought up in conversation.

Developed in the early '90s by LucasArts and Sculptured Software for the Super Nintendo, the trilogy of games, which includes Super Star Wars, Super Empire Strikes Back, and Super Return of the Jedi, has earned a reputation over the years for being notoriously difficult. This is in part due to the overwhelming amount of enemies found within these games, which constantly swarm the player at every possible turn, and respawn almost as quickly as they are dispatched.

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I don't know about you, but as I grow older, my reaction time appears to be getting worse, and I fear that one day, I'll suck at video games (well, more than I do already, anyway).

However, it has long been argued that interactive entertainment is an excellent way to keep the brain healthy in old age, and 100-year-old Japanese grandma Ushi Ando is certainly proof of that.

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If you're a diehard Legend of Zelda fan, you've probably across the legend of Chris Houlihan in the past.

This is the now famous story about how a young boy ended up winning a Final Fantasy competition in an issue of Nintendo Power and was later immortalised in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, in the form of a special "fail safe" room, which players could access through a variety of methods.

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Piko Interactive has announced that it has secured the rights to two cancelled games from defunct developer Equilibrium.

The two games are Defectors! (NES) and Warrior of Rome III (SNES).

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Dr. Ludos, creator of the Game Gear title Dangerous Demolition, has created what he's calling the first "Super Game Boy exclusive" video game.

Entitled DMG vs. Super Game Boy, this homebrew offering "unlocks a hidden feature of the Super Game Boy, that no game ever used before: the ability to display and control Super NES sprites over the GB screen contents," according to its developer.

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The name ZSNES will be instantly familiar with anyone who was emulating video games back in the late '90s and early 2000s.

One of the earliest SNES emulators, ZSNES launched all the way back in 1997 and was created by a team consisting of zsKnight, _Demo_, pagefault, and Nach. While it has since been surpassed in performance and accuracy by emulators such as Snes9x and higan, its place in history is assured – and one of its developers is hard at work on a new project, named Retro Endurance 8bit.

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Those of you who have been reading this site for a while may have realised that I'm a huge, huge Castlevania fan. Konami's vampire-hunting series is, without a doubt, my favourite of all time, and I consider several Castlevania titles to be among my favourite games of all time.

However, despite this intense level of affection, my love affair with Castlevania didn't start at the beginning. The first game in the franchise I played was Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge on the Game Boy, and while I loved it (it's probably my favourite Game Boy title), it wasn't the entry which turned me into a committed 'vania fan – that distinction belongs to the sublime Super Castlevania IV (plain old Akumajō Dracula in Japan).

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Following its original release on the Apple II computer back in 1989, Broderbund and Jordan Mechner's cinematic platforming classic Prince of Persia went on to receive countless ports to other machines. However, very few of these are as well regarded as its 1992 Super Famicom/SNES port from the developer Arsys Software.

Going far beyond just being a simple retread of the Apple II adventure, it ended up expanding the title in a bunch of exciting ways, introducing new bosses (including the six-armed titan Ashura and the female warrior Amazon) and new levels, as well as increasing the time limit from one hour to 120 minutes to make up for all these added features. As a result, I've always been curious to know more about its development, and what went into bringing the title to the Nintendo platform.

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Infidelity, the solo developer who has become well known in the retro community over the last few years for his fanmade ports of classic NES games to the SNES, has just released "a re-port" of Mike Tyson's Punch Out!! for the SNES, containing a bunch of incredible features.

The developer released his original SNES port of Mike Tyson's Punch Out!! back in March 2024 but has since decided to revisit the game, with this new version "being done entirely from the ground up", according to the developer. It includes MSU-1 enhancements, rumble support, and a custom save engine, as well as various other features to provide arguably the definitive way to play Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!

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Ratalaika Games has revealed on social media that it will be releasing a new English-localized version of the Super Famicom action platformer Psycho Dream across PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox & Steam.

The Telenet Japan subsidiary Riot originally released Psycho Dream in Japan in 1992, with the game featuring a soundtrack from the future Wild Arms composer Michiko Naruke, as well as a story from Kenichi Nishi (a developer who later went on to become a lead on projects like Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, L.O.L: Lack Of Love, and Chibi Robo, among others).

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Edia has revealed that it will be releasing a new collection for Nintendo Switch later this year in Japan, bringing together three Telenet Japan RPGs from the past (thanks Gematsu).

The Telenet RPG Collection will include the Super Famicom titles Dark Kingdom, Hiouden: Mamono-tachi tono Chikai, and The Journey Home: Quest for the Throne, and is scheduled to launch on November 27th.

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Neofid Studios — the developer of titles like Demons of Asteborg and Astebros — is working on a new game for the SNES, Neo Geo, and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.

As of this moment, very little information has been revealed about the brand new title, with all we know about it so far being that the game will be called CopperStorm and that is is described as "a new Steampunk shoot 'em up" inspired by games like Thunderforce IV & Metal Slug.

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The upcoming SNES platformer Till & Hat has debuted a brand new look, following feedback from last year's demo.

Originally revealed back in July of last year, the SNES game about a young boy and his magical hat is the work of the homebrew developer Woodfrog, who is also the creator of the Mega Man fangame The Sequel Wars. It was initially expected to launch sometime in 2025, but seemingly went quiet following the release of its demo in December of last year, causing some to wonder what had happened to the project.

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