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9 articles tagged AI across reviews, guides, and comparisons.

Pokémon Arena 2D: You Cannot Play It Yet, and the One You Can Is a Different Game cover image

Pokémon Arena 2D: You Cannot Play It Yet, and the One You Can Is a Different Game

Pokémon Arena 2D is a real time sprite fighter going viral on TikTok, and it is not playable anywhere yet. The pages promising otherwise have no game on them. A similarly named one shipped last week with an Android APK.

Pokémon Battle Advanced: Real Time FireRed in Your Browser, and What Actually Runs It cover image

Pokémon Battle Advanced: Real Time FireRed in Your Browser, and What Actually Runs It

A Godot rebuild of FireRed's opening with real time battles, playable in a browser right now. There is no Linux build and no APK, which decides everything about where you can play it. PortMaster already ships the runtime it would need.

Claude Is Fixing PS4 Games in shadPS4, and the Fixes Are Getting Merged cover image

Claude Is Fixing PS4 Games in shadPS4, and the Fixes Are Getting Merged

shadPS4 wrote AI contribution rules in August. By October, AI-assisted fixes were merging into mainline, including the one that restored the missing world in Uncharted. Meanwhile mGBA and SDL still close AI patches on sight.

Is That Viral Mod Video Real? How to Check in Five Minutes cover image

Is That Viral Mod Video Real? How to Check in Five Minutes

Minecraft in Elden Ring. Skate in Modern Warfare 2. Minecraft in Cyberpunk, Skyrim and GTA 5. Two of those you can download today, one has no download, and two have no source at all. Here is the checklist we use, including the row it got wrong.

ModRetro and OpenAI Put 13 AI-Built Games on the Chromatic. You Can Play Them Free Right Now. cover image

ModRetro and OpenAI Put 13 AI-Built Games on the Chromatic. You Can Play Them Free Right Now.

ModRetro and OpenAI built 13 Game Boy Color games with Codex and put them online as playable ROMs. The games are free, the DevDay handhelds are already on eBay for thousands, and the more interesting story is the cartridge flashing pipeline underneath.

The Recomp Scene Split Three Ways Over AI. Here Is How to Tell Which Port to Trust. cover image

The Recomp Scene Split Three Ways Over AI. Here Is How to Tell Which Port to Trust.

One DK64 port advertises zero AI code. The first Wii recomp discloses that it used AI. A third group is getting quietly delisted from community trackers. The split is now the most useful quality signal you have.

AI Fan Translations Are Splitting the Romhacking Scene cover image

AI Fan Translations Are Splitting the Romhacking Scene

Romhack.ing pulled AI-translated patches after the Langrisser V backlash. A Dreamcast RPG got an AI patch that gutted a human project mid-flight. Here is what is happening, and how to tell what you are downloading.

AI Finished the Melee Decomp. The Emulators on Your Handheld Ban It. cover image

AI Finished the Melee Decomp. The Emulators on Your Handheld Ban It.

mGBA closes AI-generated pull requests on sight. SDL banned them in April. QEMU says it cannot accept the legal risk. Meanwhile the Melee decompilation used AI to cross the finish line, and shadPS4 has started merging AI-assisted fixes under a disclosure policy.

Melee Is 100% Decompiled, and AI Finished the Last Stretch cover image

Melee Is 100% Decompiled, and AI Finished the Last Stretch

Super Smash Bros. Melee hit 100% decompilation after six years, with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra closing out the final stretch. A native ARM64 build is now possible, which is the part that matters for handhelds.