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Active Retro Consoles? (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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What retro consoles still have the most active game development? The most games still being released physically? The best and most popular time-tested consoles?

I'm excited to start learning programming and had a thought to make a game (having an objective makes it easier to learn). I wrote up an entire plan already for the mechanics and it seems incredibly viable for a fun and full experience. I would like to have it playable on real hardware and am just trying to figure out which system to make it for.

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[–] raina@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The Sega Mega Drive or Genesis scene is probably the most active as of now with several big commercial titles releasing yearly followed by ton of ROM-only smaller projects and ports released on itch.io. This is largely thanks to the still fairly recent release of the unofficial SGDK development kit making development much more accessible to those not into learning 68k assembler. SGDK itself is still actively developed, releases somewhat regularly and the number of 16-bit Sega game projects keeps growing, as tracked by Pigsy, a developer themself who has taken on porting Castlevania: The Symphony of the Night from the PS1 to the Mega Drive among other things.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the info! That's all really interesting and I'll look into it