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Sega’s Dreamcast died a commercial death in 2001, but its emulation scene has never been busier. In the last seven months alone, three separate projects have shipped meaningful updates: Flycast hit version 2.6 in January 2026, redream pushed a fresh Android build (1.2.12) on August 9, 2026, and a scrappy Zig-language newcomer called Deecy kept…

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Mobile shooters like PUBG Mobile, Call of Duty: Mobile, and Free Fire were built for touchscreens, but competitive players have spent years moving those games onto keyboard and mouse. Tencent’s GameLoop is the emulator most of those tutorials point to, largely because it’s built and maintained by the same company that owns PUBG Mobile and…

You install it from SideQuest rather than the Horizon Store. The project’s own site is blunt about why: official storefronts restrict the low-level Android APIs the app needs, so the app lives outside them. The current build, Computers Are Totally Screwed 27, shipped on July 1. A developer credited as Luboš V. handles the XR…

Dolphin has been around for a while, but there’s a new contender for GameCube emulation.