@AtlanteanMan You are very right, regular emulation is perfectly fine for most people and I have nothing against it, personally. Do I wish I could drop the money to get this? You bet. It has a very high entry point, so I cannot currently, but with research and cost of production, so it goes. Maybe down the line. I'm an enthusiast, but I don't have the means to be all-in, as it were, so I would never fault someone for going the route of the mini console, especially with M2 doing the emulation, that's the closest you'll get outside of FPGA or original hardware, those guys are the best in the business.
@NinChocolate Exactly. FPGA in general is not cheap at all to produce. I personally know someone who has been working on this for over a year and TerraOnion has been working on it for almost three years. Telling them to get bent for charging what is a completely reasonable price considering what this does is beyond rude, as someone above did. This is one of the most impressive pieces of retro-enthusiast tech I've seen. Sure, you can use an emulator, but FPGA is a much much more accurate way of replaying these old games and this is for people who want this accuracy. This is for those same people who pay $300 or so to get an HDMI mod in their N64 over those (horrible) pound/hyperkin cables. Or buy a framemeister to run their SCART cables through despite being in the US where SCART was never a standard. If you have sticker shock and don't understand why someone would pay this, you aren't their market.
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Re: Hardware: The Taito Egret II Mini Is A Doorway Into True Gaming History
I've thought this for years now but I appreciate that NL has taken on being not just Nintendo but also the retro gaming scene. Keep up the great work!
Re: This FPGA-Powered Mega Drive / Genesis Flash Cart Can Play CD Games
@AtlanteanMan You are very right, regular emulation is perfectly fine for most people and I have nothing against it, personally. Do I wish I could drop the money to get this? You bet. It has a very high entry point, so I cannot currently, but with research and cost of production, so it goes. Maybe down the line. I'm an enthusiast, but I don't have the means to be all-in, as it were, so I would never fault someone for going the route of the mini console, especially with M2 doing the emulation, that's the closest you'll get outside of FPGA or original hardware, those guys are the best in the business.
Re: This FPGA-Powered Mega Drive / Genesis Flash Cart Can Play CD Games
@NinChocolate Exactly. FPGA in general is not cheap at all to produce. I personally know someone who has been working on this for over a year and TerraOnion has been working on it for almost three years. Telling them to get bent for charging what is a completely reasonable price considering what this does is beyond rude, as someone above did. This is one of the most impressive pieces of retro-enthusiast tech I've seen. Sure, you can use an emulator, but FPGA is a much much more accurate way of replaying these old games and this is for people who want this accuracy. This is for those same people who pay $300 or so to get an HDMI mod in their N64 over those (horrible) pound/hyperkin cables. Or buy a framemeister to run their SCART cables through despite being in the US where SCART was never a standard. If you have sticker shock and don't understand why someone would pay this, you aren't their market.
Re: Feature: One Company Is Retrofitting Classic Systems With HDMI Output Without Costing The Earth
@Anti-Matter Metal Jesus on YouTube was not super impressed with the PS2 cable.