Introduction
By
MrOwnership.
Intro
Welcome to RANews, your #1 source for everything RetroAchievements.
Quick Overview
What to expect from this issue.
Editorial
meleu shares his thoughts on the path to contributing to RetroAchievements and why you should always put your real life above all else.
Current Events
List of running events in the RetroAchievements scene that are still open to join.
DevNews
Stay up to date with what’s going on in Achievement Creation scene.
The PSP Rollout and Launch
televandalist describes process, setup, and launch day sets for the long awaited PSP, making it the most successful system launch ever.
PSP Development Tips
Interested in creating a set for a PSP game? Our developers have been hard at work preparing for the PSP launch and have some words of wisdom to aid your PSP set development.
Play This Set
Community members talking about their favorite sets and why you should play them. Cool stuff!
Wish This Set
Wish This Set is intended to convince other members to request a game that doesn’t have an achievement set yet. Flashfire42 continues this installment with 10 new games that are in need of a set.
[For those who don’t know if a game doesn’t have achievements, you can Request a set for it by clicking in the Request Set link in the game’s page.]
RAGuide
BREAKING NEWS RetroAchievements has an outbreak of both the Golgotha and Tyrant viruses. With Leon and Elza on the front lines against the infected, Dr. Soulsderfuchs has been working on a prototype vaccine for protection against not mastering “Biohazard 2 | Resident Evil 1.5 (PlayStation)”
RAdvantage
pinguupinguu brings us 5 new tips from the community members to help you with your achievement hunting.
Retro Throwback
ikki5 brings us another installment of Retro Throwback, this time he is going to share his experience with Banjo-Kazooie for the Nintendo 64.
HotCheevs Monthly
List of achievement sets released in the last month.
Revisions and Rescores
Which sets got a revision or a rescore.
Art Updates
Which sets got their game icons and/or badges changed.
Top Players
Some statistics about the top 300 players of RetroAchievements and how they progressed over the last month.
RAnniversaries
Highlighting the members who have been with us and for how long.
Top Masteries
Who are the champions of each console? This section takes a look at which users have the most mastery badges for various categories.
Most Wanted Games
List of games with no achievement sets that community is excited to see. Hopefully it can encourage some achievement creators to pick a game and create a set for it.
Fun
In this issue SporyTike brings a new Spot the Difference challenge submitted by ZZKer from “Zombies Ate My Neighbors (SNES)”.
RASpotlight
This month meleu interviewed me, MrOwnership. We discuss how I got involved with RetroAchievements, Wii Hacking, RetroPie, homebrew, movies, my achievement creation process, and more.
How to Contribute with RANews
If you have an idea for an article to be published in the RANews, please go to the RANews profile page and send us a message.
Keep in mind that the article must be written in Markdown format. If you don’t know it, you can learn it in 10 minutes following this online tutorial here: https://commonmark.org/help/tutorial/ (it’s pretty similar to what you may be already using on discord).
Acknowledgements
The RANews project wouldn’t be possible without the contributions of many passionate community members. Special thanks to the members who made this issue possible.
adamjohnny5
Bendyhuman
BigWeedSmokerMan
blendedsea
CanadianLooni
Chauckles
CobaltZeroni
DoctorV
Flashfire42
guineu
HolyShinx
Hotscrock
ikki5
KingS1zzle
lordpsycho
meleu
mopain85
Nydaxn
Pebete
pinguupinguu
QATeam
Ryudo
SapphireSuicune
SlashTangent
Snow
Soulsderfuchs
SporyTike
StingX2
TeddyWestside
televandalist
ViperZang
wilhitewarrior
Xymjak
YahwehTzVaoth
Zpeligo
ZZKer