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Congrats to Kevtris and Analogue for releasing a new device! I am glad the company is maintaining a lineup of products and it's not one of those countless one-off happenings that are never revisited. Live long and prosper! Disclaimer: I haven't even bought an Sg yet (waiting to have time to dedicate to it) but as a fan of FPGAs it makes me glad to see more solid products being released.

It looks like they are making an emulator? But hey if it's free and open source, the more the merrier.

I suppose announing some kind of real specs beats showing a video capture card inside a case, but that's not saying much.

Part of the problem of an eventual Atari 2600 FPGA is that it would cost at least $200 like the others, and that's a bit steep for an older gen 8 bit system. A NES with cart adapters may be more viable.

I enjoyed DMC (the remake) and never played the originals. How does 5 compare?

Did anybody ever figured out a list of Easter Eggs on the RF? What I know is: - A picture of the Cyber Gadget company mascot in front of some kind of expo - A simple Famicom game made by the company - An mp3 of the user interface I think they are linked to number of games dumped, bit not sure what else. Never saw anything else.

Eternal Darkness is amazing. It may have aged a bit but it had an atmosphere that I haven't seen in anything that came after. IIRC the GC version of Animal Crossing has NES games built in. I played just because of that and was really dissappointed when they removed them in the sequel. Pikmin is a weird but fun game.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I'd take anything free then give it away to somebody else if I don't use it. I have a few retro gamer friends who could give such machines a good home, whatever it is.

"Perhaps you should show a system that works" = a small idea? The problem with people who think they have a reality distortion field a la Steve Jobs is that their field usually works on them only... Meanwhile Analogue, MiSTer, and others are in the stratosphere compared to these guys. Let's see some hard gear man.

I think it would depend on the state of it and wether I already have one, or two...

It could be wired to Neogeo standard or sinilar, that supports up to 6 buttons. Actually the gamepad doesn't seem to have shoulder buttons... It's not compatible with Famicom, but a much simpler wiring where each pin is one button. Famicom and SNES use a serial interface instead with less pins. The Famicom connector can allow 2 players if I remember correctly.

I forgot the name but I tried a 4 player tennis game on NES during a retro meet up and it turned out to be fun, if only because we found unexpected depth to the moves one could pull off (like diving for the ball IIRC). But in my experience those good fun sport games are rare, many go for "realism" which may have appealed at the time but end up being a bit tedious. I tried to get recently into Riding Hero for NeoGeo because it has a bit of story mode, but I feel I'd rather play Outrun...

I like it and sometimes check it, but to be honest I have trouble keeping up with the discussions from where I left off. Any tips for us old guys? I do prefer forums for that reason

No longer... check out the updater script, once in the SD card you can run it from OSD and it will update all binaries if you're connected to your network.

I have no idea what their margin is, but hardware MiST clones now exist at only a slightly smaller price (e.g. MiSTica) so I suppose they are sold quite close to cost. MiSTer uses a broadly available FPGA training board targeted at education, and as such has much higher production volumes. It is cheaper if you don't count for the case. The thing is that the Cyclone III of the MiST can be manually soldered on a simple two-layer PCB, so the MiST is (relatively) easier to clone from scratch if needed. In contrast, the Cyclone V used by MiSTer is much more expensive per unit and needs special equipment for soldering BGA, and a multi layer PCB (ideally) to route all connections around. So there is not much incentive to make a homebrew MiSTer, when getting a board from Terasic is so easy. Also one should bear in mind that when the MiST came out these training FPGA boards costed much more (300 to 500 USD).

Not really, the MiST hardware is still sold new and there are developers working on cores. Some enhancements are ported over from MiSTer and a few new Arcade cores (e.g. Ghost N Goblins and 1942) appeared first on MiST recently. MiSTer is kind of a successor though. What prompted MiSTer development was the lack of HDMI amd the bigger FPGA available for cheap via the DE10 board. It's true that it's subsidized hardware, but there are other boards that can receive the MiSTer framework (with some minor porting work, somebody ported some cores to the DE0 SoC board). I was an early MiST adoptwr (from 2015) and I have to say it's amazing to see how much has progressed.

Great news, the SNES core now supports SA-1 on top of Super FX. It now has most accelerator chips, with the exception of thr Stellaview (BS-X), MSU-1, and the rarer ones that only support one or two games (e.g. the Shougi games that use a complex ARM CPU for AI).

The open source FPGA world is not monolithic. MiST (not er) is a good alternative for anybody who feels strongly about having an independent project - i.e. which does not depend on a company product. It only has analog video output and a smaller FPGA, sure, but it is still being updated and has quite a lot of cores as well. For a cheaper (but less powerful) alternative you can google for the ZxUno, it's a tiny FPGA board designed to fit an RPi case. It needs more tinkering than MiST and MisTer to update though, and it does not have any 16 bit cores (last I checked).

I prefer that console design that looked like a modern Famicom Disk Sytem in cube format, forgot the link to it...

That's why these open source projects will have longevity over commercial solutions. It's not theoretical; MiST/MiSTer themselves are "descendants" of other projects like Minimig.

FPGAs (and their smaller cousins CPLDs) have been used in a bunch of products, they are not used to implement whole machines usually. The XRGB-Mini has an FPGA powering it, as well as Everdrives. Even the Retro Freak had a tiny FPGA to help dump carts. To clarify the FPGA is not necessarily a board (its just a component) but the board is what makes one useful for a given purpose. You'd want video out and inputs to reimplement computers and consoles, for example. That said, my comment was thinking about a broader reimplementation so as to add HDMI out and analogue controls in a whole system. It could easily be a MiSTer core.

IIRC, Super Mario World came bundled with the French Super Nintendo. I remember seeing some branded PC (e.g. Gateway, Dell) shipping with games and software but I can't remember which ones. I do have an Origin collection of ten games which I think was originally packed with a system or at least a sound card. I have the manual somewhere... Much more recently, my Wii shipped with Wii Sports and my Wii U with NintendoLand plus Super Mario 3D World.

FPGAs are better at recreating chips and electronics circuits accurately, and there are several FPGA boards out there it could run on. An accurate open source implementation is also a good way to document the chip for future generations.

Maybe they have a backup plan to ship a NES-on-a-chip...

Mattel Soccer, with the brown case. I played it for many years and I still have it on a promiment spot on my shelf, but unfortunately it does not turn on any more. https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/Soccer.htm I was greatly dissappointed that the lineup of modern remakes for these did not include Soccer.