SNES Central

Hey, I am Evan, and I run SNES Central. I will be posting mainly about retro gaming stuff, with an obvious focus on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System!

The Making Of: Addams Family Values, Ocean Software's Attempt to Mix Hollywood & the Legend of Zelda

I am playing Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster, and I have to say the remade music is really rocking in this game.

What, these old things? Already got 'em 🥱

I just passed by Nintendo's headquarters.

New roadmap, free to read: - Super Metroid SA-1: got it working on a real SNES end-to-end - Top Gear 2 SA-1 (new!): Up to 60 FPS, beta this month - SimCity SA-1: last beta, then release - Super Probotector SA-1: out in days + a personal announcement 🙂 www.patreon.com/vitorvilela/...

If you want to feel the passage of time, I fired up Untitled Goose Game, and my last save was from March 2020. I must have tried to relieve the stress of the growing pandemic one last time at that point. Even worse, that is basically the time duration of the life of the SNES in North America.

Here is Top Gear 2, running the way it always should have. Same race, original vs SA-1, taking turns. Watch what happens every time it swaps. The SA-1 chip is frying here!! But it holds 60 FPS, tunnels and mountains included.

I remain pretty bummed out by the state of decompilations, ports, FPGA cores etc these days. The rise of GenAI has really flooded the whole scene with garbage and kinda poisoned the whole concept. Good piece from @pandamonium.bsky.social on it www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/24/c...

I've added basic metasprite drawing to my snesdev game jam game.

Nice article in English about Human Creative School, with a callout about the games made by students/former students (I am quite sure the line is blended between being a full time Human employee for those zealous students who ended up being hired by them and turning their projects into releases...)

I just dumped this Satellaview 8M pack that I recently purchased. Unfortunately it was just a barebones RPG Tsukuru 2 save. That is the 8M pack lottery!

Starting today, we're piloting Japanese magazines in our digital archive! We've spent the last few months upgrading our library infrastructure to support Japanese-language material, starting with the magazine Neo Geo Freak. Read the full blog post for more info: gamehistory.org/5k-magazines/

I've finished uploading all of 1990-1992 of The Super Famicom magazine in 600DPI. Check them out and enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/magazines/ or archive.org/search?query...

I finally made it to the Showa themed izakaya on my island, and they had a big pile of Super Famicom games. I told the waitress that I own at least half of these!

I have written up an article about Dream - Land of Giants, the lost Rare developed title for the SNES. A prototype was leaked earlier this month, though it shows that it was pretty early in development. snescentral.com/article.php?...

Here's the first footage of the cancelled SNES/SFC port of Railroad Tycoon to ever be posted online, captured from my promotional tape made by the would-be Japanese publisher. For a long time, the only evidence of the game's existence was two blurry Nintendo Power screenshots!

Send this to a 30 or 40 year old to watch them stare into the middle distance about how fleeting life is

It seems that I don't have a Dream/Project Dream page on SNES Central. This is something I will have to fix this week.

We have a trailer up for #Satellaview Super Mario Bros. 2 English MSU1 Version, which explains everything you need to know in 1 minute www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX2I...

Releasing now! Satellaview Super Mario Bros. 2 (BS Super Mario USA) MSU1 ROM containing all 4 episodes with full english dub on project.satellaview.org! #Satellaview #SNES Have fun!

It is hard to get excited about new Nintendo games when it seems that a lot of what they put out is just remakes of stuff released in the 90s. It is clear that Nintendo thinks that the only market for big games are people who grew up in the 90s. Maybe they are right?

I'm amazed no one has done this before, but I'm currently compiling a list of all the Game Boy and GB Color games that use the link cable, infrared port, or Super Game Boy for multiplayer or trading. I finished the GB list and will be posted on GameFAQs in a few days. There are a total of...

I have a business trip to Kyoto at the end of this month. I have a weekend off, and so I ponder doing a pilgrimage to the old Nintendo headquarters. But who am I kidding, it is far more likely it will be a pilgrimage to the many sake breweries there, lol.

I did some SNES Central database work, really getting close to finishing the ROM images component. Once that is done, the next thing on my list to add are screenshots. Each screenshot needs to be attached to a ROM image.

First release of the Dragon Quest VI English patch revision is up: Info Site: cleartonic.net/dq6/ Download: github.com/cleartonic/d...

Courtesy of @vervalkon.bsky.social, Konae-chan no Dokidoki Pengin Kazoku has been translated to english, and it is now available on project.satellaview.org #Satellaview

SimCity SA-1 now has gesture controls. You all know me about my SA-1 work, but it's not just about accelerating games. It's about improving games to make they even more AMAZING than what they already are. Place a lot of roads, parks, wires & more with your mouse!

In Mega Man 7, a well-timed Noise Crush can destroy Spring Man before the fight begins. The animation of the Mega Man 7 Robot Masters' health meters filling up shows their ACTUAL health at that moment, so a Robot Master getting hit when the meter first appears with zero means instant death for them.

SNESdev daily log 1: Stopped procrastinating and started working on my 2026 snesdev game jam game.

Typhoon Dolphin knocked out the power at my place today. Since it was too dangerous to go out, I made progress on the SNES Central database. It now has the ability to add ROM images.

I have just posted an article on a prototype of Whizz. There are quite a few differences from the final version of the game. This prototype is courtesy of drx at @hiddenpalace.org, and is the last of the prototypes that he sent to me for release earlier this year. snescentral.com/review.php?i...

I have just posted an article on a prototype of Whizz. There are quite a few differences from the final version of the game. This prototype is courtesy of drx at @hiddenpalace.org, and is the last of the prototypes that he sent to me for release earlier this year. snescentral.com/review.php?i...

The Making Of: A Nightmare On Elm Street - The Much-Maligned NES Game That Changed How Rare Worked Forever.

Here's a pre-visualisation video for SNES Maximum Carnage, created by animator Alan Moult ( Software Creations ). He made this video for the game programmers to demostrate how the animations were supposed to work in the game. Thank you to Alan for keeping hold of the video and allowing me to share.

Jon Batiste has a discussion with Nobuo Uematsu about composing music for games and the making of the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack. Very fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIyc...

Making room and need stuff gone so gonna be listing stuff, Will drop this $10 a day until it sells. This is $250 shipped in US today. All are complete with manual. DM me if interested!

Unreleased SFC game called...Mr. Cockatrice?? Full chicken themed puzzle game we missed out on. Would have been late 1995 or early 1996. Developer: Visit (Shinri Game series, bunch of Uranai games, SFC Appleseed, etc)

I’m so sorry for everyone at id Software affected by these layoffs. I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on. It’s a strange and painful thing to step away from a place that holds so much of your work, friendships and history. 1/5

I just posted an article on the unreleased SNES game, Tom vs Jerry: The Chase is On! The graphics for this are amazing, but ultimately the publisher, Hi Tech Entertainment, went out of business before it came out. I found some box art! snescentral.com/article.php?...

I'm doing prepwork for the 2026 snesdev game jam. I want to make a small game in C. To hedge my bets I'm going to be using 4 different C compilers. To help motivate me, I'm restarting my SNESdev daily log.

Development of SNES Wii Virtual Console | Yakumono's Blog luigiblood.neocities.org/blog/2026-06... This is about a brief history of development of SNES Wii Virtual Console and what it takes, and the people who made it.

one of my favorite things to learn about Yoshi's Island was that some of the most impressive effects in the game weren't even done with the Super FX, they were just HDMA trickery. like Salvo the Slime is made of numerous stacked lines pulled from a triangular background image

Get used to the new names (and the rebalanced drum set from the final version) www.youtube.com/watch?v=halx...