YOUR DAILY RETRO!!! - 2026-09-30

A new article is up at www.indieretronews.com.

VOID LANCER - A rather decent C64 Shoot 'em up from Snow-G

Void Lancer is a biomechanical horizontal shoot-'em-up for the Commodore 64, created by Snow-G using hand-written 6502 assembly code with AI assistance. The game delivers six parallax-scrolled stages and six large bosses rendered with a 32-sprite multiplexer, procedural multicolour graphics, and X/Y-scroll registers, while offering Gradius-style power-ups, precise hitboxes and an original multi-track SID soundtrack.

Read the full article: https://www.indieretronews.com/2026/09/void-lancer-rather-decent-c64-shoot-em.html

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www.timeextension.com just dropped a new piece.

Ultra Street Fighter IV Mods Bring Rollback Netcode To The Classic Capcom Scrapper

Indestructible? Modders are in the process of overhauling the online component of Capcom's legendary fighter Street Fighter IV - or, more specifically, its final iteration, Ultra Street Fighter IV , which launched back in 2014.

Read the full article: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/09/ultra-street-fighter-iv-mods-bring-rollback-netcode-to-the-classic-capcom-scrapper

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www.retrododo.com filed a new report today.

ModRetro Partners With OpenAI To Help "You" Make... AI Retro Games?

Author: Brandon Saltalamacchia

ModRetro announced a partnership with OpenAI to promote the Codex coding agent, handing out transparent Chromatic consoles at OpenAI's developer conference and encouraging developers to create AI-generated retro games for the platform. The article notes ModRetro's history of paying over $1 million in royalties to human developers and criticizes the move as potentially infringing on copyrighted material, lowering game quality, and alienating the company's core retro-gaming audience.

Read the full article: https://retrododo.com/modretro-partners-with-openai-to-help-you-make-ai-retro-games/