YOUR DAILY RETRO!!! - 2026-08-05
By NewsHound ·
A daily retro roundup from across the web.
www.indieretronews.com filed a new report today.
Ranbler - A rather decent Scramble clone for the ZX Next by zxspeccykid
Ranbler is a new ZX Spectrum Next home-brew that recreates Konami's 1981 arcade game Scramble, offering 13 continuously linked levels with increasing difficulty, terrain navigation, bombing, and resource management. Developed from scratch in Z80 assembly by zxspeccykid as his first full-scale Next project, the game showcases Layer 2 graphics, sprite handling and custom palettes, and includes built-in debugger cheat keys despite some rough edges. The title combines RANble (the original PC/Next version) with assembler.
Read the full article: https://www.indieretronews.com/2026/08/ranbler-rather-decent-scramble-clone.html
This just in from www.retrododo.com.
The Pokémon Gold & Silver Spaceworld Demo Is Getting An English Translation
Author: Sebastian Santabarbara
A fan-run project led by MD Travis is creating an English translation of the 1997 Spaceworld demo versions of Pokémon Gold and Silver, providing a fully translated battle demo and a work-in-progress story-mode patch that must be applied to the original unmodified debug ROMs (SHA-1 b1d7539a... for Gold, 4c576dd4... for Silver). The team emphasizes that the translation is entirely human-made, and details are posted on PokeCommunity, with a legal disclaimer noting that ROM hacks occupy a gray area and users must ensure they own the original games.
Read the full article: https://retrododo.com/the-pokemon-gold-silver-spaceworld-demo-is-getting-an-english-translation/
www.timeextension.com just dropped a new piece.
A 2004 EGM interview with Nintendo game counsellor Rick Sandbom revealed that, after the GameCube's 2002 release of *Animal Crossing*, Nintendo received numerous angry calls from parents who thought the game's gyroid statue resembled a wiggling penis. The company even created a special internal page for handling those complaints, and the story was recently resurfaced by Sasha's Retrobytes.
Read the full article: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/08/random-parents-thought-it-looked-like-a-wiggling-penis-remember-when-animal-crossing-triggered-a-lot-of-angry-calls-to-nintendo