play! progress report (01/06/2026)

As mentioned on the previous report, I'm now able to make my own idle skip patches and the results are already coming along nicely. Most of the games I've improved and checked are now running much better and some of the patches are already merged, which means anyone downloading the latest builds will have access to the games mentioned in this report with much better performance. So let's poke at our monthly results and talk about details later:

New verified playable games [05/2025]:

• SD Gundam Force - Showdown!

• Mutsu-boshi Kirari - Hoshifuru Miyako

• Simpsons Road Rage

• KimiSuta - Kimi to Study

• Puzzle Maniacs

• Aoi Sora no Neosphere - Nanoca Flanka Hatsumei Koubouki 2

• Dinosaur Adventure

• 120 Yen no Haru - 120 Yen Stories

SD Gundam Force - Showdown!: already previously in-game, but too slow to test it 100%. By making a new idle skip patch this was fixed (we got a nice 2x framerate improvement) and I was able to finish the game with everything working as it should.

Mutsu-boshi Kirari - Hoshifuru Miyako: first time testing it and as usual it was stupidly slow. With my patch merged, the performance improved in 700%+ (yeap, it's that big of gain). Fully verified, and fully playable.

Simpsons Road Rage: in-game for a looong time, but it wasn't playable due to performance issues. New patch merged and bang, 100% performance improvement + fully playable.

KimiSuta - Kimi to Study: not much to say here, just wasn't tested long enough in the past, verified as fully playable.

Puzzle Maniacs: previously untested, brand new to the compatibility tracker and already fully playable.

Aoi Sora no Neosphere - Nanoca Flanka Hatsumei Koubouki 2: also previously untested, another good surprised added to the list.

Dinosaur Adventure: yet another good surprise (ok, less of a surprise since a lot of those Phoenix Games titles are simple "palette swaps" using the same engine and play pretty much exactly the same, just with different images/videos/songs).

120 Yen no Haru - 120 Yen Stories: this one was stuck at the intro videos for some time, now it's fully playable with no performance issues.

INCOMING: moar patches!

Even if it was already playable, I've also added a new patch for the game Ultraman Nexus, that doubled the performance. This is something I want to do with most games that are playable but could be running faster due to EE usage being wasted on idling stuff.

My focus right now is to both hunt the games that I'm able to improve and reach 50% playable games in our compatibility tracker. Good news? We're already at 49.15%, so that won't take that much time (probably another 2 or 3 months). This was previously my goal for the year, but since things changed and I'm now able to improve some games myself, it should be much faster (until I'm left with no games to improve, but that should take a loooong time as I've verified that at least 200+ games are still in need for a patch...).

That's all the work I've made so far, I'm happy with the results and I hope you all can enjoy the games running with better performance. Stay tuned for even more improvements next month and thx for all the support <3

Useful Links

play! site: https://purei.org/

play! NAMCO System 246/256 compatibility list: List

play! repository: https://github.com/jpd002/Play-

play! patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jpd002