Rockbox and Doom have been successfully ported to run on iPod nano 3rd generation devices. The port is currently under review, with some flash models not yet supported.
Canadian enthusiast DiscoStarslayer successfully reverse-engineered and dumped the PlayStation 2's CXP102064 MechaCon security chip after four years of effort using chemical decapping and microscopy. The breakthrough enables improved emulation, homebrew development, and hardware preservation for PS2 consoles and arcade machines that used the same chip.
MartyPC is a cycle-accurate emulator of early IBM PCs and compatibles for Windows, Linux, and macOS, designed to aid retro PC development with extensive debugging tools. The emulator achieves 99.9997% cycle-accuracy on the 8088 CPU through validation against real hardware and supports multiple systems including the IBM PC, XT, PCjr, and Tandy 1000.
A developer has recreated the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics card on an FPGA as part of the z486 project, implementing a SystemVerilog version of the SST-1 chip that enables DOS games like Tomb Raider to run with original 3D graphics on a Xilinx KV260 board at 100 MHz.