Clear River Games has announced a physical collector's edition called the Gaia Edition for the 1995 SNES RPG Terranigma, available for pre-order ahead of the game's January 2027 rerelease on PC and consoles. The Gaia Edition includes a physical copy, soundtrack CD, art book, cloth map, mechanical music box, and steelbook casing for £168, with standard and steelbook editions also available at lower prices.
Torneko's Mystery Dungeon: Classic HD, an SNES roguelike originally Japan-exclusive, is now available in English. The landmark title pioneered the Mystery Dungeon genre, spawning the Shiren franchise and inspiring Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. This HD remaster adds modern features including streamer mode with chat voting.
A developer describes using transcompilation to run games on retro hardware: first transpiling Lua to C for an SNES game that achieved 60fps, then transpiling Swift through WASM to C for Dreamcast and Wii versions of their Jinks game engine. Transcompilation proved valuable for prototyping across platforms despite unconventional compilation chains.