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Notable PC Ports

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:13:43 -0400

3D Pinball for Windows: Space Cadet

https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

https://github.com/BlackLabelHQ/SymphonyRecomp

SymphonyRecomp builds from the US PS1 disc.
Still open beta but plays start to finish, and the widescreen is real widescreen, with the sprite loading and enemy activity. There’s a built-in randomizer too.
BlackLabelHQ makes a point of saying theirs is written entirely by hand.

Jet Moto / 2 / 3

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:40:47 -0400

BlueSCSI — an open source, open hardware SCSI emulator built on the Raspberry Pi Pico.
Stands in for the hard drive in my Mac Plus. Disk images live on a microSD card; name the file correctly and the machine just boots.
The Pico W version also emulates a DaynaPORT SCSI/Link, which means a 1986 Macintosh gets Wi-Fi over the SCSI bus.
Alongside my nettalk docker container, I was able to print to a modern printer via wifi + localtalk emulation.

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:14:46 -0400

Source: https://github.com/JHDev2006/Super-Mario-Bros.-Remastered-Public
A remake of SMB1 in Godot by JoeMama.
Ships with none of Nintendo’s assets. You hand it your own NES ROM on first boot and it pulls what it needs out of that.
SMB1, The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. Special, and All Night Nippon all in the same package, all with the same treatment.
Widescreen, cleaned-up sprites, tighter physics, resource packs, custom characters, and a level editor.

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:31:42 -0400

Website: https://tw-oysterbar.com/
Raw oysters as good as any I’ve had. Cold, clean, shucked in front of you at the bar.
Open since 1971 and six miles north of the Emerald Isle bridge on Hwy 58. Everybody else is fighting for a table on the island.
They claim the original hushpuppy was invented about six miles from the building. Take that as you will, but theirs are good.
Off the beaten path, and the locals keep it full through the ‘ber months.

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:15:00 -0400

Trail website: https://groundsteaktrail.org/
A ‘food’ trail through Surry County hitting the diners and burger joints that serve ground steak: a loose-meat sandwich that’s a Depression-era cousin to the hamburger.
It exists because cooks in the 1930s needed a pound of beef to feed more people. Story goes it started at the old Canteen Restaurant in Mount Airy and spread out to Pilot Mountain, Dobson, and Elkin from there.
The trail launched in 2023 and has grown since. Most stops are in Mount Airy, with more in Dobson, Pilot Mountain, and Elkin, plus one just over the line in Cana, Virginia.
Dobson throws a Ground Steak Festival in June if you’d rather do the whole trail in one parking lot.
Simple, delicious, cheap.

Personal favorite: Dairy Center

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:50:36 -0400

Project Details: https://www.reddit.com/r/Metroid/comments/1vhmcf8/metroid_prime_origins_new_fan_game_out_now/
The team behind one of my favorite fangames ( Castlevania Revamped ) has made a 2D version of Metroid Prime Origins
Love these passion projects. AM2R is a similar excellent fangame

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:45:39 -0400

Project website: https://justinbohemier.wixsite.com/portfolio/game-design
A procedurally generated roguelike dungeon crawler built from scratch in GameMaker Studio with A Link to the Past assets. Not a ROM hack.
I’ve never completed it, the difficulty ramps up in the later stages.

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:24:32 -0400

Deployed by Jenkins, not by hand.