Current News

26/04/08 - Small update today, still plenty in a queue. 3 of Andy Coles flash games have been added to the archive AND the Online page. Look for Fire, Judge (small update) and Flagman. Enjoy.

 

Older News

23/03/08 - 5 new games added today thanks to an email from "Blue Protoman". 2 are windows games that he wrote himself based on Ball and Fire. The other 3 are various games he's found round the web. They are Bombsweeper by Matt PW, LCD Game by Rafael Vuijk and LED Sports by Kurt W Dekker. More to come soon.

 

13/02/08 - Just a quick update today to add a new game that really should have been added long ago. I only just found out about it though so i should be forgiven? Drew Turpin (Digital Invaders, MG-880 game) has mentioned an older project which is also based on the old Casio calculator but has a mix of Taito's space invaders and some tweaks thrown in too. Its called Space Invaders Digital and is pretty cool.

 

09/02/08 - First update in 2008, yay. Straight to it then as i'm already late posting these :)

Theres 2 new ones from Madrigal, they are...
Hot Line (VTech, Tooth-Sporty Time & Fun) S4/1.00 (Standard 4, final)
Engine Room (VTech, Explorer Time & Fun) Simulator, version S4/1.00 FINAL

Then theres a load that have been updated, namely...
Banana (VTech, Time & Fun) S4/1.04 (Standard 4, update to new standard)
Sleep Walker (VTech, Time & Fun) S4/1.01 (Standard 4, graphics improvement + hiscore save fix)
Pirate (VTech, Time & Fun) S4/1.01 (Standard 4, hiscore save fix)
Monkey (VTech, Time & Fun) S4/1.01 (Standard 4, hiscore save fix)
Defendo (VTech, Explorer Time & Fun) S4/1.01 (Standard 4, hiscore save fix)
Tennis Menace (VTech, Tooth-Sporty Time & Fun) S4/1.01 (Standard 4, more accuracy)

Seems all news is now coming from Madrigal. Please remember, if i'm missing your game, or you've updated one i already list, or even if you are just working on something new... LET ME KNOW :) My email address is on the Front Page of the site.

 

31/12/07 - So heres the final update for 2007. Lets hope 2008 brings as many new sims as 2007 did !!

The first game here is all new from Madrigal once again...

Tennis Menace (VTech, Tooth-Sporty Time & Fun) S4/1.00 (Standard 4, final)

And these next 4 are small updates, mostly hiscore save fixes...

Parachute (Nintendo, Wide Screen) S4/1.02 (Standard 4, graphics improvement + hiscore save fix)
Roller Coaster (VTech, Explorer Time & Fun) S4/1.01 (Standard 4, hiscore save fix)
Pancake (VTech, Explorer Time & Fun) S4/1.01 (Standard 4, hiscore save fix)
Condor (VTech, Explorer Time & Fun) S4/1.01 (Standard 4, hiscore save fix)

 

24/12/07 - Heres Madrigals next 2 simulators for you, like a shiney new christmas present :)

Defendo (VTech, Explorer Time & Fun) S4/1.00 (Standard 4, final)
Monkey (VTech, Time & Fun) S4/1.00 (Standard 4, final)

Defendo is Madrigals 45th simulator release and his sims now account for almost 20% of my entire archive. I'm not complaining of course as Madrigals have always been top quality and amongst the best available. Keep em coming Madrigal !!

 

14/12/07 - More apologies to Madrigal. He always keeps me informed and i seem to be dragging my heels more and more lately. Anyway, heres ALL the latest stuff...

First i should mention his standard 4... actually no, here it is in Madrigals own words...

"What really changes this time is the "standard" (which I call "standard 4") that is: very realistic 8-bit colour sprites for the LCD screen; clean graphics and animated buttons for the actual handheld; manual embedded in the main executable; compiled with Delphi 6; and more optimizations to all game routines. The resulting applications require some more RAM than previous games, but quality is much better."

His latest sims, or updates to sims, are often now including full MAME cabinet support too.

Now, the news catch up (including a couple i missed way back from September, oops)

sept 17th 2007 - Donkey Angler (Gakken, LCD Card Game) S3/1.04 (Standard 3, manual added)
sept 17th 2007 - Hippo Teeth (VTech, Tooth-Sporty Time & Fun) S3/1.01 (Standard 3, minor graphics additions)
nov 12th 2007 - Parachute (Nintendo, Wide Screen) S4/1.01 (Standard 4, MAME cabinets compatible)
nov 12th 2007 - Mickey Mouse (Nintendo, Panorama Screen) S4/1.01 (Standard 4, MAME cabinets compatible)
nov 12th 2007 - Heathcliff (VTech/Polistil, Mini Time & Fun) S3/1.02 (Standard 3, manual added)

The following releases are all brand new !!

nov 12th 2007 - Sleep Walker (VTech, Time & Fun) S4/1.00 (Standard 4, final)
nov 19th 2007 - Roller Coaster (VTech, Explorer Time & Fun) S4/1.00 (Standard 4, final)
nov 26th 2007 - Pancake (VTech, Time & Fun) S4/1.00 (Standard 4, final)
dec 3rd 2007 - Condor (VTech, Time & Fun) S4/1.00 (Standard 4, final)
dec 10th 2007 - Pirate (VTech, Time & Fun) S4/1.00 (Standard 4, final)

Quite a list and theres more to come from Madrigal very soon !!

 

03/11/07 - My apologies first to Madrigal for being so slow with this news update. He's sent 2 bits of news, 1 of those almost 3 weeks ago !! Sorry :(

Ok, so it seems Madrigal has decided that he is gonna go full swing into his sims again and that can only be a good thing for all fans of these beauties. Madrigals have always had the most polish and exactness of any out there. First he told me about Mickey Mouse, using a new standard, with integrated manual, better graphics and more optimisations. S4/1.00 is ready to rock.

Next, just 2 weeks later, he told me about Parachute S4/1.00. Again, this uses his own new standard, but for the first time ever with one of his sims, it includes the source code. I really hope that coders can be inspired by the source and may start learning from it, or adapting it to create more of the missing sims. Be nice to see a full Nintendo set at least :)

Drew Turpin emailed me too, to tell me that his Casio Invaders simulator has been greatly improved. Now with cleaner sound, correct number of invaders and missiles, correct scoring, better mg-880 image (he owns one now with a manual, which helped greatly with these updates) and animated buttons. v1.1 is ready to go. Thanks for the mail Drew.

 

03/09/07 - Madrigal has done it !! Finally, the pestering and emails from many fans has payed off and Galaxy II aka Astro Wars is complete and ready to leech from either his site or in this archive. Hurrah :) I'm sure this is great news for many simulator fans as this was one of the best known and loved handheld games of the 80's. Great job MADrigal !!

On top of this news the previous 8 sims mentioned in the last news item have all also had a small update of a newer FAQ and documentation. The games remain unchanged this time round so you only need these if you are a 100% sim collector.

And still theres more. 3 new updates from MADrigal are now ready to go. Grab Man (Texet), Tom & Jerry Popper
(Gakken) and Donkey Angler (Gakken) have all seen some minor fixes.

Finally, MADrigal has told me of his current immediate plans. He's got a couple more fixed sims to release very very soon and he's already underway with 2 all new simulators. One of those being "Parachute" which i think is very well known. He doesn't yet know when they'll be ready though but he's certainly got the sim coding buzz again.

 

07/08/07 - Madrigal has nudged me today to tell me that 8 of his sims have seen some fixes and additions. The issues fixed are mostly with displaying BMP images on newer video cards, some sound upgrades and a couple of splash screen updates. Use the "Advanced Search" page and look up "Madrigal" in the author list. The updated games are Tron, Motor Cross, Monkey Jump, Heathcliff & Sonja, Donkey Kong Circus, Mario's Bombs Away, Snoopy (the panorama version) and Snoopy (the tabletop version). Nice to see you still at it Madrigal :)

Madrigal also let me know theres some news at Julien Foyards site (thanks). I better go check...

Seems Julien has updated all 6 of his sims. Not sure whats new but they are here now to grab. Airport Panic, Amazone, Breakout, Escape From The Devils Doom, Mr Franken and Terror House can all be found by using the "Advanced Search" page again and searching for "julien".

 

10/06/07 - WOW, cruising now eh !! Today i have 6 more new files and 3 updates. Julien Foyard has updated his Amazone, Escape From The Devils Doom and Terror House simulators and started working on a new one. He'll have the entire solar powered set soon !! The new one from Julien is Breakout. I've also added an addon skin for the recently added Merlin game, a GP2X fake game called River Crossing, another GP2X fake called Game&Watch Volleyball and finally 2 versions of Oil Panic for the NintendoDS of which one is a GBA version. I'm not quite sure how that works but i think its a version that works in a GBA emulator for the DS. Maybe someone could let me know ?

 

09/06/07 - Better late than never i say. After weeks of putting it off and not "pulling my finger out" i have finally updated the site with 21 new zips. I have all 12 entries from Kojotes PDRoms 3.666 Competition which are all by different authors of course. To find them, use the Advanced Search page and choose Fake as the manufacturer. only 1 will be missing but you can find that one at the bottom of page D. 1 is for the SNES so i've added SNES to the platforms list too. Theres also 2 from his older PDRoms 2.5 Competition which wasn't actually an LCD based compo but did get these 2 LCD style games entered. Beer Belly Bill and Fred Firefighter. Theres 5 new Palm games of which 3 are based on CompIV, an ancient LED based "mastermind" style game and 2 on Merlin a 1978 game from Parker Brothers. I've also added a version of Merlin for the GP2X and a great version of Donkey Kong from Danjo at ACoders. A cracking bunch of games and theres still more pending on my harddrive. Sim count is now 261 too! I wonder if i hit 300 before xmas ?

 

21/02/07 - Julien Foyard emailed me to let me know he's started a 5th simulator. Upon checking his site i noticed there were actually 3 of his sims i wasn't listing and the 2 that i was were outdated. So, heres the skinny. Airport Panic and Mr Franken have both seen updates from v0.020 to v0.026. The 3 new games added are Escape From The Devils Doom, Amazone and Terror House. All are Bandai dual screen solar powered games. Easiest way to find his games are to use the Advanced Search page and type "Foyard" into the author box. Thanks for the email Julien.

 

14/01/07 - With thanks to Dr.Nosferatu, i can now list a fully working version of his sim. Bombsweeper is now in the archive to download and included on the Online page. Probably the best version i hold here too so go give it a try. And Todd Anderson got back to me too with some helpful advice regarding his Donkey Kong Jr sim. Now i've got that one working too, its of course added for you to leech or play Online. Many thanks to both of you.

 

03/01/07 - So i tried and tried and still could not get that Bombsweeper java version working so as a last attempt i gave up and emailed the author, Dr.Nosferatu (aka Sun Volland - No wonder he uses java with that name). Well, he replied and is going to fix some bugs and make the package workable online. Hurrah :) For now i've added a readme to the archive version and marked the online version as "Out Of Order". So i hope to have a new version for the archive and the online pages very soon. Now, i best get emailing a couple of other authors now, see if i can kickstart them into helping me out :)

 

01/01/07 - Its 2007, yay !! Thought i'd have a count up around here and i was quite suprised. Theres a whopping 235 files in the archive now with 35 of them being playable online right here !! WOW. This archive has doubled in size over the last 10 months and heres hoping it keeps growing. I'll keep hunting new ones out but it would be great if YOU could email me if you are working on one. Don't hold your breath, but i have 4 more games to add when i can be bothered and all are playable online. I have a couple of others too but i can't get em to work so far... I'll keep trying :)

 

31/12/06 - And here it is, the last news update of 2006. Lets hope 2007 is a healthier year for Handheld Remakes news. I managed to get many more updates done this time and i've almost caught up with everything now, so here it is. Pigs On Head is a new Flash based fake simulator which you can play online or download from the archive. Its a tough one ! Theres a new version of Egg (aka Nu Pagadi) also on the online page and in the archive and i found a Flash based Speak N Spell sim too. Pretty neat it is, if you can understand the voice !! Theres 3 games that aren't playable online that have gone into the archive here. Namely, Egg (a ZX Spectrum version), Nu Pagadi and Nu Pagadi 3D. Yes, the Nu Pagadi games are also Egg clones. Anyone would think it was easter. Finally there are 2 java based versions of Bombsweeper added. Of course, that means they are playable Online and in the archive for download. Thats it, just leaves me to say "Have a great new year".

 

30/12/06 - Hurrah for news. The advanced search page has had a new platform added. GP2X. Why ? Cos theres 2 new GP2X based games for you to leech of course. Mario Bros by Zarlok and Fire by Jabberwocky. I haven't played either of them personally but the piccys do look lovely. Theres a new Nintendo DS sim too from Tipiak which is also a Mario Bros remake. Damn theres a lot of Mario Bros sims now !! What else have we got... Well, a sim was updated by Julien Foyard. Mr Franken went from v0.005 to v0.020 and he also released a new one !! Bandai's Airport Panic can also now be found in the archive. Thanks for keeping me informed Julien and sorry to be so slow to add these. Speak & Spell was also updated by Shrine Field and it seems the manual has grown too (so i re-upped that as well). And lastly, but by no means leastly, a new version of Digital Invader has surfaced today by Drew Turpin. Very nice it is too so be sure to try it out... And i have yet more to add !! So expect another little updatey tomorrow all you Tosec creators :)

 

29/09/06 - Nope, i'm not dead just yet, and i've risen from the ashes to bring you some actual news !! First up is Juliens ongoing remake of Bandais Airport Panic simulator. Not much to see yet and i think its written as an ongoing coding tutorial, but its a project you can keep an eye on now you know about it. Thanks to Julien for sending me the news. Also thanks to Ayden Wolf for this other news about a nice shiney new remake of Mario Bros for the Nintendo DS. It uses both of the DS's screens of course and looks really neat :) You can find the Mario Bros one in the Archive here too of course. Finally for this years (sigh) newsblast is word of an AllInOne package of Redcrabs games. Its not in the archive here as all the games included are already here as single downloads, but hey, you now know where to get the AllInOne if you want it.

 

12/07/06 - Been a while since i updated this page but thats only due to a lack of new news or additions to the archive. I'd love to bring you news daily but the sim world just isn't that fast. Anyway, this update is to inform you that Redcrab has updated all 4 of his neat little games. He has made 4 sims in his own style based on Fire, Marios Cement Factory, Kitchen and Sleep Walker. Grab em now !!

 

19/04/06 - Redcrab has released another of his FreeBasic games, this time making a very nice version of Marios Cement Factory entitled "Too Much Cement". Definately one to try !!

 

14/04/06 - Terrahawks has now hit v1.0 and has been released into the wild. Not only that but there is a MAC port of it too. (i've added MAC to the platforms list.) Search for Bandai or "terra" and you'll find the new versions.

 

08/04/06 - Just a small update to my collection pics. Scroll to the bottom of the Frontpage to see the thumbs. Then click them for bigger piccies. Nothing much new lately in the way of sims but maybe soon.

 

18/03/06 - Been a while since the last update but heres a whole heap of new games for you. Firstly, MADrigal has released a proper beta of his Galaxy II simulator so i have officially re-added it again. Level 4 is still missing but whats there so far works great. Secondly, Retro Remakes have had 2 mini competitions that have had a Game&Watch theme. One back in 2004 and one only a week or so ago. The entries from both of those compos have been added to the archive and one of them was even written by me ! Finally theres Redcrabs new sim. He's written a nice little clone of Sleep Walker, an old VTech game. So thats 15 new files for you... Before i sign off once again, the easiest way to find the majority of the RR compo games is to use the advanced search and look for Fakes under the Manufacturer pulldown.

 

24/02/06 - I've added a rather large set of game&watch parody images now which i recently leeched from SomethingAwful.com. Check out my new Parody pages to view them. Many are animated gifs and some pages can be quite large so expect some loading delays. Also added is a very nice Winamp skin and a Game and Watch inspired mp3 at the bottom of the Online Games page. Enjoy.

 

23/02/06 - 2 More added today. Kitchen from Masudaya Toys titled "Hurry Chef" by Redcrab and yet another version of Fire (also by Redcrab) which does have a kinda new twist to it. I've also added NES to the advanced search platform pulldown and Masudaya to the Manufacturer pulldown. The online stuff is still on its way... soon...

 

20/02/06 - 4 more sims added today. 2 Bombsweeper remakes, 1 new Donkey Kong Jr remake and 1 of a new game to the list, "Mr Franken". A new platform is supported now too with the addition of a NES rom. 1 is for Nokia phones and theres 2 more for Windows. And theres still yet more to come, including some online games!

 

16/02/06 - 1 sim removed by authors request (make an official release please, people want this!!) and 1 more added. Its a GBA version of Galaxy Invader 1000 which looks pretty neat. Theres more to come when i get round to it too.

 

10/02/06 - Ok, i've fixed a couple of database errors, added 1 more flash game and 1 more Nokia game. Also, the author of a fairly new sim contacted me today to ask me to include his game. Its a remake of "Digital Invader" from Casio called "Digi Invaders" which you can now find in the archive. Thanks to Tony (the author) for letting me know :)

08/02/06 - I just can't stop finding them !! I feel like i've exhausted the internet but i bet theres loads more out there. 18 new games have been added of which 9 are playable on the online page. 3 of the games added to the archive are for Nokia or Siemens mobile phones and 1 game is for Excel. Yes, thats the spreadsheet program in MS Office !! I even have 4 more pending games that i'm struggling to get working. I might dump one and just link to the other 3, time will tell... So, the archive now has 198 different games. Thats 89 more than when this site was last online. Theres now 29 games playable from here whereas before i used to link to about 4 !! A pretty big leap i think you'll agree and i'm well chuffed.

06/02/06 - 5 more flash games are now playable from the online page and they've been added to the archive as downloads too.

06/02/06 - Email link now done and guestbook added if you feel inclined. ACL section completed too, shhhh. Also added a "home" link to the bottom of most pages. Now i'm off for a damn ciggy !!

05/02/06 - All of the game images have now been added along with all the game binaries. You can start downloading now !! The email link is the final thing to sort out and should be done tomorrow morning. The database has been updated with some "playable online" info and when that info is shown its turned into a link to the online games page. Again, this is thanks to Andy of Ovine. There are 15 games playable from the online page, check them out... Be sure to offer some feedback, good or bad, in the Handheld Remakes forum section at the Retro Remakes site. I particularly want to hear if there are any site errors or if you've found a sim i don't have listed here...

04/02/06 - Massive thanks to all those that have helped me bring my handheld archive back to life. From the free hosting courtesy of Retro Remakes to the html and php help gathered from a few people. Thanks to Flynn for resurrecting a long lost java app and helping me make them all work here, and to Andy H of Ovine for the superb mysql query and display code and ongoing help with the css sheet. And anyone else not mentioned. Enjoy the site.