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Nintendo's Game & Watch hacked and turned into retro emulation beast — Solder job unlocks device from its Zelda-only cage thanks to a custom SD card slot

Macho Nacho Productions has modded an original Zelda-edition Game & Watch to run Retro-Go, a custom firmware that unlocks the hardware's full potential. This hacked Game & Watch can now emulate various consoles, includes support for save states, and even has a microSD card slot. But getting here wasn't easy.

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NAMM 2026 live! The biggest guitar news as it happened

All the hottest news and biggest surprises from the world’s premier guitar gear trade show

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Games Workshop says its senior managers aren't excited about AI, prohibits its use and laments that it's 'included on our phones or laptops whether we like it or not'

The CEO of all things Warhammer says "we do not allow AI generated content or AI to be used in our design processes".

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“I heard Clarence White, and there were parts that I couldn’t physically do. Then I heard that there was this mechanism within the guitar...”: With Led Zeppelin over, Jimmy Page returned to the Telecaster, and embraced a particular, beloved mod

After a few years slightly adrift, the guitar god found his way back into arenas with the Firm in 1985, and leaned on some new tools along the way

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“I wasn’t credited with any songwriting. That was a pity. But I didn’t make a fuss. I figured Peter was still pretty fragile”: Snowy White on his uncredited role on Peter Green’s comeback LP and how David Gilmour introduced him to the Whammy pedal

The ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist toured the world with Roger Waters, played with Gary Moore, but now he’s retired from the stage, he admits he was never entirely comfortable with pop status

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“Buddy Guy isn’t just our last living line to the real origins of the blues – he’s a hell of an actor, too”: 25 reasons why 2025 was a great year for guitar

Historic shows, a once-in-a-lifetime reunion, generational guitar talents, tonal revolutions, watershed gear drops… we won’t spoil it at all here, but a lot has happened

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“I heard someone playing deep, fiery guitar in the room next door. I thought, ‘Boy, I wish that guy was in the band!’ I looked over the balcony… It was Ace”: The otherworldly life and times of Kiss guitar icon Ace Frehley

The Spaceman leaves a legacy of millions of fans rocked, countless players inspired, and a rock guitar scene that will never be the same again

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“The SEs were going to go away. We were having trouble with sales”: Paul Reed Smith on the near-fateful end of the PRS SE Series – and what saved it from extinction

Smith reflects on the time the plug was almost pulled on the affordable branch of PRS guitars

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“I never heard from John. He sold the guitar once he got out of rehab. And that was that – I never saw it again”: The incredible story of the Les Paul that Dave Navarro bought for his Guns N’ Roses audition – and ended up giving to John Frusciante

We ask Navarro about the Gibson that featured on the cover of GW's March ’96 issue, and it opens up a whole lot of memories for the former Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist

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“The perfect marriage of Aerosmith and the Cult. An Aerocult, if you will”: November 2025 Guitar World Editors’ Picks

The new guitar music that GW editors have been obsessed with this month: fresh names, old hands and trailblazing players

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“I was like, ‘Joni, that’s gonna be terrible, we need an amp.’ She was like, ‘Would you just try it?’” Robben Ford on Joni Mitchell’s fuzz pedal experiments that shaped one of her most adventurous tracks

Ford says the experience defines what “the ultimate creative artist” is like to work with – and it changed the way he played

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Yungblud, Dream Theater, Wet Leg, Turnstile among guitar’s heavy hitters at the 2026 Grammy nominations

There are no guitar-led artists in the AOTY shortlist but there's no shortage of guitar talent here, including Joe Bonamassa, Billy Strings, Buddy Guy, Larkin Poe, and Deftones

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“I discovered that you need to be anxious – it keeps you motivated. I try to feed off the anxiety and play guitar”: The life and times of Brent Hinds, the visionary guitarist with a maverick style who made Mastodon a big beast of metal

Guitar World pays tribute to the late Brent Hinds, one of metal's wildest and most inventive players, who died on 20 August

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“My emotional celebration of life”: Mateus Asato left Bruno Mars and Jessie J to begin his solo career – and now his debut single is finally here

Cryin’ is the first taste of Asato’s eagerly anticipated debut album

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“At the push of a button, the legendary roar thunders through the amp”: Fender wrangles Godzilla for a monster guitar collaboration – featuring two company firsts

As well as an otherworldly $36,000 Custom Shop Stratocaster with a Godzilla roar button, two Made in Japan models are also packing some flashy new tech

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“It was my first cover. I knew Slash would use a great vintage Les Paul, so Ihad to up my game”: Gilby Clarke on the story behind his modded ’69 Fender Telecaster, immortalized on the cover of Guitar World

It was the Nov 1992 issue. Guns N' Roses were officially and unofficially the biggest – and still most dangerous – band in the world, and its guitarists, Slash and Gilby Clarke was on the cover. Slash had done this before. Clarke? It was all new...

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“My grandma asked me why I was spending so much time pretending when I could just get a real guitar”: Inhaler guitarist Josh Jenkinson on how Miley Cyrus and Harry Styles’ producer expanded their sound – and why he just bought his first electric last year

Inhaler’s Josh Jenkinson is living proof that this generation’s guitar heroes actually got hooked on guitar courtesy of Guitar Hero – but he's not playing when it comes to tone and songwriting

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“I’m an oddball when it comes to the metal scene”: Co-leader of Mastodon for a quarter century, Brent Hinds was a one-of-a-kind guitarist who took metal guitar into uncharted territory – because he never considered himself a metal guitarist

Hinds was killed in a motorcycle accident on Wednesday, August 20

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“I look over at Zakk and he can’t work the fretboard. I’m screaming at him, ‘It’s from liftin’ them weights!’ I didn’t realize he’d taken all the antibiotics in the bottle”: How Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde became metal’s most beloved partnership

In this GW interview from 2018, the two metal greats sat down on the eve of Ozzy’s farewell tour to reflect on their three-decade partnership, from Wylde’s audition to their wildest stage story

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“The first pickup had a bad buzz, so I sent the guitar to a shop. When I went to get it, it was gone. And by that I mean the store was gone”: Neil Young's Old Black Les Paul is one of rock's most iconic guitars, and its backstory is appropriately colorful

Much like Young's discography and creative arc, the story of how Old Black became the rugged, howling sonic beast that it is is a twisty one of fits, starts, and strange left turns

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Joe Giordano, surgeon who helped save President Reagan's life after assassination attempt, has died

Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan’s life after an assassination attempt in 1981, has died

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Black Sabbath! The final interview with Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward – all yours in the new Guitar World

Plus interviews with Jake E. Lee, Adam Jones, Creed Bratton from The Office, the guys from Goose, former Jethro Tull man Martin Barre, K.K. Downing, Zakk Wylde, Jerry Cantrell, Tom Morello, Lzzy Hale, Billy Duffy, Robben Ford and more

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August 2025 Guitar World lesson videos and more

The one where Joe Bonamassa shows how Eric Johnson connects his mind-blowing lead phrases and Muireann Bradley performs Candyman at GW HQ

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“I had this little house in California, back in 1984. My Marshall stacks and a reel-to-reel were set up in the living room. I remember getting my drummer to have a jam at 3am”: From his live show, to cutting classics, Yngwie Malmsteen lives off-the-cuff

He explains why his guitars are numbered, not named, his warts-and-all approach to studio work – and why his “I won’t conform or follow” attitude has nothing to do with arrogance

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“I didn’t think anybody would believe I got it from George Harrison. I figured they’d call me a liar”: Vintage guitar guru Norman Harris names the 5 most memorable guitars that have come through Norman's Rare Guitars

As owner/operator of Norman's Rare Guitars, Harris has seen some guitars in his time. This five, featuring a John Fogerty Ricky and a Gretsch owned by a Beatle, are the ones that stick in his mind

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