On July 27th, 2025 with 28 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader drinkypoo writes: GloriousEggroll has released GE-Proton 10.10, a heavily breathed-upon version of Valve's version of Wine used with...
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On October 25th, 2024 with 15 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Earlier this year, we reported on the video game archivists asking for a legal DMCA exemption to share...
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On October 13th, 2024 with 5 comments
Though native Linux game servers have been scarce over the last two decades, "I've seen people using the Box64 emulator to play x86_64 games on ARM devices,"...
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On October 1st, 2024 with 38 comments
Nintendo has convinced Ryujinx's lead developer to shut down the project. According to The Verge, the Switch emulator's download page is empty and its GitHub...
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On July 14th, 2024 with 21 comments
At the end of June, Apple's App Store rejected the Windows/retro PC emulator "UTM SE". But in a reversal Apple approved the app Saturday, reports the...
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On July 4th, 2024 with 7 comments
Epilogue, the company behind the GB Operator emulator, which lets users play Game Boy cartridges on a PC, announced that it's working on an update to turn the...
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On June 25th, 2024 with 170 comments
UPDATE (7/14/2024): Apple has now
reversed their decision for UTM SE, and allowed it into their App Store. Slashdot's original story appears below...
An...
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On June 4th, 2024 with 28 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A popular GitHub repo and over 120 forks containing Switch emulation tutorials have been targeted by...
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On May 18th, 2024 with 56 comments
After Adobe threatened legal action, the Delta Emulator said it'll abandon its current logo for a different, yet-to-be-revealed mark. The issue centers around...
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On April 5th, 2024 with 34 comments
In an update on Friday, Apple announced that game emulators can come to the App Store globally and offer downloadable games. "Apple says those games must...
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On March 14th, 2024 with 33 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: When Nintendo sued the developers of Yuzu out of existence on March 4th, it wasn't just an attack on the...
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On March 4th, 2024 with 62 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Liliputing: Yuzu is a free and open source emulator that makes it possible to run Nintendo Switch games on Windows,...
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On February 28th, 2024 with 107 comments
Nintendo has filed a 41-page lawsuit against the makers of Yuzu, an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator, accusing them of "facilitating piracy at a colossal...
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On August 25th, 2023 with 57 comments
Denuvo has become the first security partner to be added to the Nintendo Developer Portal. According to Video Games Chronicle, Switch developers can use...
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On July 21st, 2023 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A few months ago, the developers behind the Wii/GameCube emulator Dolphin said they were indefinitely...
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On January 23rd, 2023 with 16 comments
The new standalone Dolphin emulator will let you play almost any GameCube or Wii game on your Xbox console. Windows Central reports: Dolphin Emulator for UWP...
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On September 4th, 2022 with 28 comments
It's the 29-year-old "compatibility layer" that lets Windows software run on Unix-like systems (including games). And Neowin reports that Wine's latest...
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On August 15th, 2022 with 45 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Native DX9 hardware support is officially gone from Intel's Xe integrated graphics solutions on 12th Gen...
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On July 11th, 2022 with 23 comments
Alex Battaglia from the YouTube channel "Digital Foundry" was able to use the "RetroArch" software emulator to run Windows 98 on the Xbox Series X, along with...
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On May 26th, 2022 with 49 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Atari pulled the plug on the release of Marble Madness II almost exactly 31 years ago after the follow up to their hit game failed...
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On April 19th, 2022 with 9 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In most cases, the release of yet another classic console emulator for the Switch wouldn't be all that...
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On November 17th, 2021 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Microsoft's vice president of gaming, Phil Spencer, wants the gaming industry to work toward a common goal of...
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On November 16th, 2021 with 46 comments
Microsoft has confirmed that x64 emulation will no longer be offered in future Windows 10 Insider Preview builds (or release builds). Paul Thurrott reports: ...
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On October 21st, 2021 with 39 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Kotaku, written by Luke Plunkett: RPCS3, an emulator I've been writing about since 2016, but which first began in...
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On June 28th, 2021 with 245 comments
Hmmmmmm shares a report from PC Gamer: Near, also known by their username Byuu, the creator of several groundbreaking videogame emulators and a recent...
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On February 7th, 2021 with 31 comments
Long ago there were plans for a remastered Xbox 360 version of the Nintendo 64 game "Goldeneye 007" — but they never materialized, and that game became a...
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On February 2nd, 2021 with 2 comments
A mysterious hacking group has compromised the server infrastructure of a popular Android emulator and has delivered malware to a handful of victims across...
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On December 11th, 2020 with 30 comments
Microsoft has made available two different Windows 10 test builds today, one of which includes the promised x64 app emulation for Arm, among other features....
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On August 30th, 2020 with 25 comments
Oakland's nonprofit "Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment" housed 40,000 historic pieces of videogame memorabilia — including 11,000 playable games....
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On May 7th, 2020 with 61 comments
Slashdot reader thereitis shares a report from Ars Technica that "delves into the reversing community's efforts to produce usable C source code from N64 game...
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My idea of roughing it turning the air conditioner too low.
