No, Square Enix never made Final Fantasy VII for the Famicom. A Chinese company took the story of the game and hacked Final Fantasy II to create a Final Fantasy VII demake.

While Final Fantasy IV was developed for Super Nintendo, a bootleg Famicom/NES version exists. This 16-bit to 8-bit downport splits Final Fantasy IV into three cartridges – Dark Chapter, Light Chapter, and Final Chapter.

After Final Fantasy became a breakthrough success in America, Squaresoft started localizing Final Fantasy II. No, not Final Fantasy IV for the Super Nintendo – the Famicom game Final Fantasy II.

Remember back in the late 80s and early 90s where Saturday mornings were spent eating a bowl of Count Chocula cereal and watching video game cartoons on TV?

Hyperkin’s new retro console can play NES, SNES and Genesis cartridges, and supports original controllers, too.

vSv Entertainment Team (aka Clavera) appears to have created a mercurial Super Mario Bros. editor. His/her Super Mario Bros. Fusion project uses themes to change the enemies and tiles to make Super Mario Bros. remixes.

Yes, we know about Sunman. In addition to the suspiciously similar “original” character, there may be more evidence Sunsoft was developing an unreleased Superman game for the NES.

A few prototypes are floating around and one of those can be yours.

Game not included since it never came out.

Legend has it Sunsoft was developing a Superman game. The Lost Levels has an article about Sunman, another unreleased NES game that looks like a Superman game. Now a build of the Superman game is out, also graciously provided by the Lost Levels team.

8-bit recreations are always neat to see and while some sites are buzzing about Guitar Hero recreated for the NES we’re going to take a look at a “Famicom” (note the quotes) version of Pac-Man Championship Edition.   Give it a quick glance and the video looks like bread and butter Pac-Man. However, this clip [...]

Fitting somewhere in between a Game Boy Micro and a PSP is the Dingoo, a portable system only available in China. Similar to Sony’s handheld the Dingoo has an XMB interface where users can select entertainment functions like listening to music, reading eBooks or watching movies. You can even hook the Dingoo up to a [...]

Hearing the news about the Castlevania movie being in a standstill sparked my memory about another Castlevania movie. The film I’m thinking of is based on Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse and it’s animated. Originally, it was supposed to be a direct DVD release, but a few months ago the production blog claimed the project was [...]

CinnamonPirate, the site that unearthed a pirated version of Final Fantasy VII for the Famicom, has an excellent article describing a pirated version of Chrono Trigger for the Famicom (via GameSetWatch!). The thought of 8-bit Chrono Trigger sounds like a technical feat, but CinnamonPirate describes the game as a miserable failure. It’s not the scaled [...]