Nintendo is quite unpredictable when it comes to implementing backward compatibility on its latest consoles. While certain consoles have no backward compatibility (Switch), others can play last-gen...

Back in the day, gamers used cheat cartridges to unlock functionality within games that developers typically lock away from end users. These cheat cartridges let you modify game behavior, run games...

Portable gaming has taken off in the last decade, and many industry pundits see it as an alternative to PC/ console for casual gamers. While the technology and scale of portable gaming have advanced...

All retro consoles featured some kind of battery-powered memory to store user progress, while ROM was reserved for game data. Back then, game cartridges used mask-ROM which cannot be altered once...

Sega went out of the console-making business over 2 decades ago, yet so many of their products are remembered fondly by gamers to this day. For a good reason, because Sega was the perfect alternative...

Consoles in the early 3D era came with region locks, and Sega’s Dreamcast is no different. However, the way this feature was implemented differed greatly from earlier consoles such as the NES and...