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@Bod2019 to be fair someone being filmed while having an elaborate make up application doesn’t seem that out of the ordinary if it’s someone you know.

It’s not like those TV programmes where the presenter has an awkward introduction with someone who clearly met them minutes ago when the tv film crew turned up to set up inside the house/whatever

That money spent grifting over trademarks and logos with lawyers was probably better spent coming up with different ones and putting that money into the actual game.

@avcrypt They learnt it from politicians

@firenze The lack of Japanese region selection on the Toaplan games is particularly noticeable. The Japanese versions of some of these games (Like Fire Shark) use a respawn system rather than the checkpoint system the overseas versions use which rather changes how you play the game.

Another pointless attempt to copy a device that's already available cheaply and does the job perfectly.

Just hack an original machine guys.

No, but only because I’m lucky enough to have a real one

@BionicDodo NISA bought two Trails series translations from the group that fan translated them.

Where s my non-reverse Thunderbird bass or a Firebird at? Gibson? CRKD? Hello?

Ah yes, the "well yes I was a dick but its not my fault even though it clearly is" excuse.

Also if you are selling something and you have paid an external person to work on the project, check their work!

@RetroGames If you download a rom of a game sold commercially it is usually either illegal to have, or legal to have if you physically own the item depending on your local law. And sometimes it depends on whether you actually made the file yourself from your own copy or not.

Unless you purchased that rom from the rights holders, which is possible with modern games made for old consoles in which case then obviously you own it.

If the game was never sold commercially and is freeware, then clearly you can do what you want.

Let's be honest, rom downloading services don't focus on these pesky details and laws and just treat everything the same regardless. Making a device that pings these services and downloads rom files you shouldn't bypasses the plausible deniability that comes from having people provide their own roms and is straight up enabling piracy.

You can bet Nintendo's ears would prick up at that, as is their right as the owners of any of their works violated in this manner. Whether people like it or not doesn't change anything, but of course that doesn't stop some people acting like Nintendo are the ones in the wrong and that all their IP is for everyone else to abuse. Most companies however don't really have the time or interest to deal with this sort of thing but that doesn't mean they won't join a multi company action

So really it depends, but mostly it's not a great idea to offer such a feature. The difference between allowing people to run roms and providing them with the roms is like night and day legally.

@slider1983 Model 2 so I would imagine the board is not cheap.

@KingMike At one point there was talk of it being ported to 3DS, but clearly that never got anywhere.

People really shouldn't give these charlatans any money.

I think the problem with this argument is that Emulators themselves vary wildly in quality and accuracy and are full of hacky workarounds.

Yes cycle accurate emulators exist but you aren’t putting one of those on a pcb and they still won’t be perfect.

They are right that just because something is on an FPGA doesn’t make it perfect, but pretending to be the hardware is more accurate than guessing the results of what think the hardware is doing.

Anyway I’m confused as to why they are ranting about the definition of FPGA’s while building a me-too device FPGA device for an already flooded market of GB clones

I use a real MT-32 with my X68000 etc but this is a shame to see as I know this is fairly popular and not everyone can justify real hardware (or find it in some cases) . Vogons does as much harm as it does good, like so many communities. Some people really need to get some perspective. There isn't much you can do about 3d prints, that's just the nature of the beast, but all the other stuff is completely uncalled for.

I must admit, midi and scsi make buying one to put next to my real one quite tempting, especially if its full size .

@845H I made some edits that I think sum it up better.

@845H Honestly most of them are boring grey/beige cases really. NEC ones certainly go for the same sort of look as western computers of the day for the most part. It was mostly only Sharp* and Fujitsu that made an effort with their industrial design to get past that. Well, aside from MSX but that's more because certain companies tried to use the visuals as a distinguisher as much as the extra features.

*and even then some of the X1 models are as boring as much as some of them are visually impressive.

Ultimately I think the "office" computers had boring looks even in Japan whereas the computers aimed at "fun" were better looking.

@RupeeClock I believe the patents on things like motherboard design and such have all expired. Legal clones tend to appear after 25 years and as long as they don’t put Sonys branding trademarks on it then it’s fine. Using their code would be a big no-no but this is just a pcb.

The musical instrument industry clones stuff all the time.

Anyway there are multiple different board designs and I assume this will be an original one. No point recreating an existing board when one of the purposes is to document it.

That said I’m not sure I see the point in doing so. It’s not like capacitor leakage on to the pcb is a common issue and you still need original components.