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Description: "This is the story of Lady Lyndis, a Sacaen swordswoman and the last remaining heir of the Lorca tribe. Growing up to the age of 18 learning the way of the sword, yet as political tensions in her homeland increase, she sets on a journey to find a better calling in her life, arriving...

Description: Lately I've received numerous requests as to how to fight Crocomire after patching him into the game. Ordinarily I'd say add it in yourself using Zero Fission but ZF is currently being reprogrammed making it impossible to do so unless you have an older version of the editor. So I...

Well, here's something you don't see every day! The arena shooter Xeno Crisis, which launched on the Switch eShop in 2019 (and has already been released on multiple retro platforms), is getting a "physical and digital" release for the Game Boy Advance in Q4 2024. Pre-orders are already live on...

Description: Megaman & Bass (GBA) New Controls v1.0 changes: Bass can now dash by pressing either of the shoulder buttons. Double tap RIGHT still works, however double tap LEFT is gone. Megaman can now slide by pressing either of the shoulder buttons. Crouch and jump button no longer slides...

Back in 2007, Rockstar Leeds released a port of Rockstar Toronto's The Warriors for the PlayStation Portable. But something you might not know is that it actually wasn't the first handheld platform Rockstar considered porting the game to. Recently, while interviewing a former Rockstar Games...

Speedrunners have recently found a ridiculous new glitch route for Castlevania: Harmony Of Dissonance's Juste Any% category and it's already led to a new World Record. The new route first came to our attention over the weekend thanks to a tweet from the speedrunner Jupiterclimb on Twitter, who...

It's always amazing to us how after decades of thinking we know everything about a game, someone can come along and completely blow our minds with an incredible fact that we've never heard about before. To give an example, this happened to us recently when we stumbled across a fascinating tweet...

Last month, we covered a story here on Nintendo Life about a coder named Joshua Barretto who decided to do a custom rewrite of Super Mario 64 for Nintendo's 32-bit handheld, the Game Boy Advance. If you weren't already impressed with this technical feat, this palm-sized project has now shared a...

WayForward shared some surprise news at its Anime Expo panel this year, revealing the Game Boy Advance sci-fi adventure title Sigma Star Saga will be making a return on "modern platforms" in 2025. This 2005/06 "fan-favorite shmup/RPG" will also be made available as a Game Boy Advance "repro...

A prototype of an unreleased Game Boy Advance game called Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Puffy Ami Yumi and the Manga Madman has recently been found and preserved by the preservation group Codebound. Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, in case you're unaware, was a Cartoon Network show that ran for three seasons...

Description: GRAVITY - Sylux's Crusade is Roebloz's third serious Metroid Zero Mission ROM hack and fifth overall, this time acting as a prequel to Metroid Prime 4, starring Sylux going through a Space Pirate research station fallen under the control of one of the many weapons onboard, an...

Description: This hack is an overhaul of the entire soundtrack to Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance. The original music in Harmony of Dissonance is often considered to be lacking in quality compared to other Castlevania games. The game deserved a better soundtrack, and this patch aims to...

As we're all painfully aware, retro gaming is an expensive hobby. Not only does the value of hardware appreciate as the years roll by and components start to fail, making working systems a rare commodity, but some of the most iconic and collectable games are now selling for several times more...

A one hundred percent finished (Except the Mario Bros. Addon) save file. It contains the following: The Main game: -E-Reader Switch Effects: Turnips, Half-Power/Flight Meter, Luigi's Floaty Jump, the Rescue Platform (Never Released Formally but Activated by Code), One Up Moons, Fireballs turn...

Description: This patch does the following: Amulet item lasts x8 times the amount of original steps Enemies yield x4 the amount of money Known bugs: Guardian Beast assisted foes: EXP = (Money x 4) Screenshots:

Description: This hack aims at recreating the race start sound from the beta version of the game as closely as possible, as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3NiPAQBec&t=830s ROM / ISO Information: Database match: F-Zero - Maximum Velocity (USA, Europe) Database: No-Intro...

Description: Many Game Boy Advance games have overly bright and washed out colors, as a compensation for the lack of a backlit screen on the GBA hardware. Wario Land 4 is one such game. This patch is an attempt to give the game a more vivid and darker color palette, to be easier on the eyes and...

Remember when you first caught a glimpse of Super Mario 64 running on the Nintendo DS and how utterly mindblowing it was at the time? It's easy to forget just how far handheld gaming has come in the years since, but seeing one of the greatest platformers of all time come to life on such a humble...

Description: This patch fixes the enemy/item names that were incorrectly translated, and some general errors in item/monster/soul descriptions. Some enemy names were also changed to match Symphony of the Night. Screenshots:

Game Description: If, while playing this game, it all looks familiar to you, it's because it was released stateside as Fire ProWrestling 2. Except, whoever released it over here took out the story mode. Why? So now you've got exactly the same game as the first one, with a few new moves and even...