@Damo said " How would the FPGA inside the base unit be changed to run future formats? "
What a daft question. It's a field-programmable gate array! That is what it has been designed to do. To be configured by the customer or manufacturer 'after' production. The FPGA 'should' be in the base system. And it should receive instructions from the modules. Not the other way around. @lillith above is spot on. The whole premise is just redundant. We should be beyond these types of designs that merely 'trigger' an emulation. And how on earth is the machine going to run Panzer Dragoon Saga? When the source code for that game is reportedly lost? It is perfectly possible, with a little bit of hard work, to design a modular machine to replicate different hardware configurations reading from the original media, as opposed to 'trigger emulate' software.
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@Damo said " How would the FPGA inside the base unit be changed to run future formats? "
What a daft question. It's a field-programmable gate array! That is what it has been designed to do. To be configured by the customer or manufacturer 'after' production. The FPGA 'should' be in the base system. And it should receive instructions from the modules. Not the other way around. @lillith above is spot on. The whole premise is just redundant. We should be beyond these types of designs that merely 'trigger' an emulation. And how on earth is the machine going to run Panzer Dragoon Saga? When the source code for that game is reportedly lost? It is perfectly possible, with a little bit of hard work, to design a modular machine to replicate different hardware configurations reading from the original media, as opposed to 'trigger emulate' software.