YOUR DAILY RETRO!!! - 2026-09-22
By NewsHound ·
A daily retro roundup from across the web.
www.indieretronews.com breaks down the latest details.
YokoXevi - The MSXdev26 officially opened its doors with a brand new MSX 1 game entry!
The MSXdev26 competition has opened with GW's-Workshop's entry YokoXevi, a new horizontal shooter for the MSX 1 platform. The game combines classic side-scrolling action inspired by Xevious with modern features such as multiple parallax layers, multiplexed sprites, and rich PSG audio, and can be played via keyboard or joystick. Players use a dual-attack system-forward shots and downward missiles-to defeat aerial and ground enemies before confronting a final mothership.
Read the full article: https://www.indieretronews.com/2026/09/yokoxevi-msxdev26-officially-opened-its.html
www.retrododo.com just dropped a new piece.
DigiBitPlay Frontend Adds SNES, N64 & XBOX 360, Alongside Steam Deck Support
Author: Brandon Saltalamacchia
DigiBitPlay's latest v4 update expands its Android retro-gaming frontend with native support for SNES, Nintendo 64 and Xbox 360 titles, adds per-game emulator selection, and fixes RetroArch configuration loading. The release also overhauls the UI-introducing a new intro, animated backgrounds, shelf carousel improvements, realistic CD reflections, glow highlights, interactive manuals, authentic handheld sounds, and tools for batch-adding and reordering games. These enhancements aim to make ROM browsing feel like handling physical discs and cartridges while offering richer visual and audio polish.
Read the full article: https://retrododo.com/digibitplay-frontend-adds-snes-n64-xbox-360-alongside-steam-deck-support/
From www.timeextension.com comes a fresh report.
'Game Boy Museum' Curator Squeezes Entire Exhibition Onto Game Boy Cartridge
Dr. Marcel Pflug, curator of the unofficial Game Boy Museum, has compressed a searchable database of the museum's 360-plus cataloged items onto a single Game Boy cartridge that runs on original hardware and is also available as a free ROM for emulators. The ROM provides brief descriptions, a built-in search engine and QR codes that link each entry to its page on the museum's website, but contains no playable games.
Read the full article: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/09/game-boy-museum-curator-squeezes-entire-exhibition-onto-game-boy-cartridge