Homebrew developer TwilightPB has ported the first two Super Monkey Ball games to internet browsers. All work on these ports has taken place over the last 5 days. These new browser ports of Super Monkey Ball 1&2 support keyboard controls and USB controllers. You can play them on any device that has an internet browser – even mobile phones.
At the moment these ports of Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2 only include the main challenge and story stages. Character models are missing at the moment, so the balls are entirely absent of monkeys. TwilightPB has said in the game’s reveal trailer that these may come in a future build. TwilightPB has also said they are working on various bug fixes and missing features, so Monkey Ball Online is likely to improve as development continues.
Johnny Gioeli has made a surprise return to the world of Sonic the Hedgehog theme songs. Gioeli has performed and written the vocals on a new song called Hangin’ in the Balance for the upcoming Sonic storybook fan game Sonic and the Dragon’s Path.
In a recent direct showcase from Team Dragon’s Path, a new pre-rendered teaser trailer was debuted alongside the theme song which you can listen to via the embed below. The music for Hangin’ in the Balance was composed by BobTheGUYYYYY and Dad’s Last Nerve with Gioeli writing and performing the vocals:
Hangin’ in the Thread is also going to be performed live by the band After Shock on January 10th at MAGfest 2026. I’m not entirely sure what time this is supposed to be happening because I can’t find the band listed as performers or mentioned in the event’s schedule at all.
There is currently no set release date for Sonic and the Dragon’s Path and the developer has yet to showcase any in-game footage or offer a playable demo. The recent direct video did promise a gameplay trailer for the game is coming “very soon”.
The 2nd public release of SSNTails and Saxman’s 32X port of Sonic Robo Blast 2 is out now. You can click here to be taken to the official website and download the 0.2 version for use in an emulator or on a flash cart.
This new release adds Techno Hill Zone, a new special stage, floor-over-floor geometry, imrpoved performance and new spindash controls amongst other things. You can also check out the new release trailer below:
Sonic Robo Blast 32X is a homebrew port of Sonic Robo Blast 2 made to run on the 32X. It works on real hardware via use of a flash cart, and it can also run under emulation.
Homebrew developer Condense has finally released their long-in-development Amstrad GX4000 port of the 8 bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog. Now called Sonic GX, this new port enhances the game with a larger colour palette and new special stages.
Sonic Fan Fest is returning in 2026 and will be taking place at The Future Inn: Cardiff Bay on the 20th of June 2026. This will be the first time the long-running Sonic the Hedgehog fan convention has taken place in Wales.
You can secure tickets now via the event’s Kickstarter, as well as additional perks like pin badges, mugs and t-shirts. The Kickstarter will close on October 27th 2025 and all proceeds raised from the Kickstarter will go towards the event costs.
Sonic Fan Fest started life as Weston Super Sonic and was originally located in Weston-super-Mare from 2014. In 2023 it was rebranded as Sonic Fan Fest and moved to Bristol.
The Amiga is infamous for its hilariously terrible port of Out Run developed by US Gold, but that has now changed thanks to the work of Reassembler. A new homebrew port of the game that uses ROM data from an actual arcade dump of Out Run is now available to download and aseemble yourself using Python. It runs on later Amiga 1200 computers as well as the CD32, A4000 and A500 Mini.
Assembling a working ROM and following the readme file supplied with the download turns out to be a little beyond my capabilities, but if any of our readers get this working and would like to report back then please let us know in the comments. This looks like a really impressive piece of work that I’d love to try myself.
The Sonic Amateur Games Expo is returning in September 2025! Event week has now been set for September 19th to the 26th, and submissions are now open for any budding fan game, homebrew or indie developer to showcase their work.
Detailed instructions on how to register have been posted on the Sonic Fan Games HQ forum, so click here to read the guidelines post if you’re interested in showcasing a game at SAGE 2025.
Game submissions must be completed by September 5th 2025 to ensure a place at this year’s SAGE. This also includes any video submissions if you’d like your game to appear in the pre-event trailer that will go live the week before the event.
As always, SEGADriven will be running extensive video coverage of SAGE during event week, so please subscribe to our YouTube channel if you’d like to tune into that.
ArcForged’s Sonic Smackdown fan game has returned with a new title – Ultimate Sonic Smackdown. This new version of the game features 5 playable characters, 3v3 tag team combat and rollback netcode for responsive online multiplayer. You can check out the game’s launch trailer via the embed below:
Ultimate Sonic Smackdown is also being supported by producer Choctopus and their Discord channel the Treetop Village. If you’re looking for people to play in Ultimate Sonic Smackdown then we’d recommend joining the Treetop Village Discord to chat with like-minded Sonic fighting fans and organise some matches.
The SEGA Saturn Puyo Puyo dungeon crawler spin-off Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon has now been translated into English and is available to download from Romhack.ing.
Originally released for the Saturn in 1998 and in Japan only, this roguelike action RPG is now fully playable in English and with a new English title of Exhilarating Puyo Puyo Dungeon. The project was lead by brandnewscooby.
Patching Saturn games requires a BIN/CUE rip of the original Saturn game, the patch file which you can download from Romhack.ing, and patching software like SEGA Saturn Patcher. The patch file needs to be applied to the CUE file to work.
Congratulations to brandnewscooby for gifting the Saturn community access to another previously Japan exclusive Saturn game and making it more accessible to English speaking audiences.
A new homebrew port of The Ultimate Doom that includes episode 4, as well as a complete port of Doom II and select maps from TNT Evilution have been compiled together as Doom CD32X Fusion and programmed by the talented duo of Vic and ChillyWilly from the Doom World forums. The pair were previously responsible for Doom 32X Ressurection.
This new port makes use of the Mega Drive, Mega-CD and 32X to offer the best playing version of Doom available for the system and can run on real hardware as well as the Ares emulator. The Mega-CD also gives the game PCM audio for enhanced music.
Detailed instructions on how to compile a working copy of the game for Mega Drive, Mega-CD and 32X owners can be found on the game’s forum entry at Doom World. You also need to source some files from a real copy of Doom 1&2 in order to compile the necessary ROM file.
The Doom World entry on Doom CD32X Fusion also details every single addition and feature this project has over the previously released Doom 32X Resurrection homebrew project. Doom 32X Resurrection was made to enhance the 32X port of Doom with a large variety of improvements and is also available to download here.
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