RWMcgrath

"It does appear that my worst fears are true, and that I am being specifically targeted by Nintendo,"

This blog post goes over all of the work I’ve done to add HD resolution support to the Original Xbox version of Halo 2. From patching the game to modifying the hardware of the Xbox console to writing custom tools for performance benchmarking, my goal with this project was to push the limits of both and see how far I could go. I’ve tried to keep this blog post as short as I could and only include the most technically interesting parts but even then it ended up quite long.

The leading Nintendo Switch emulator is a smoking crater. Others are wary — but hopeful — for the future.

Video game remakes like ‘Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’ are the definitive single-player trend of the past decade. But they also represent a distinct set of challenges for an art form that doesn’t really “age” like other entertainment does.

Before PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo dominated the market, numerous companies took a shot at making their own video game consoles. Many have rightfully been forgotten.