May 2026 — Distant Arcade

A super brief history of the BAFTA Games Awards

What does David Bowie and Championship Manager: Season 00/01 have in common? It’s one of these BAFTAs!

May 18, 2026

Famidawg has built Chocolate, a small USB dongle that connects your Wii U GamePad to your computer wirelessly.

This Cool Link was published 3 days ago. (#)

Emulation / Gaming / Nintendo / PC / Retro Gaming

Wanna run Windows CE on the N64? Now you can I guess!

Now you’re Microsofting with power!

May 17, 2026

tschicki on GitHub designed a PlayStation 2 portable from scratch by reverse engineering a PS2 mainboard (not made by Sony). You can check the repo even though he recommended not to build one yourself!

This Cool Link was published 7 days ago. (#)

Emulation / Handhelds / Mobile / PC

This Reddit post shows how you can turn the Anbernic RG 476H into a "2D Steam Pocket" with GameNative

Full Steam ahead!

May 8, 2026

Gaming / Genesis/Mega Drive / Retro Gaming / SEGA

Hackaday on Sega Meganet

MOOOOODEEEEEEEM!

May 5, 2026

Title Scream is a site that collects title screen graphics from 8 and 16-bit games. I miss the care that designers put into the UI of games back in the day.

This Cool Link was published 2 weeks ago. (#)

Arcade / Nintendo

LegendOP on the Cruis'n series

Now you’re cruis’n with pow’r!

May 4, 2026

Game Boy / Nintendo / Retro Gaming

Game Boy Save Manager lets you back up and restore GB save files using a Link Cable

Now you’re backing it up with power!

May 1, 2026