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@PopetheRev28 independent contractors cannot sue for wrongful termination.

@wiiware there's no planned policies to help people in this position. It'll probably get worse as the incoming FCC chair, Brendan Carr, has historically opposed all regulations around these sorts of relationships. He wrote the entire chapter on the FCC in the Project 2025 book if you're curious to learn more about his positions.

This man played the long con and is finally cashing out.

Masterful stand-up routine they have going on.

My last comment was in July, and with this new footage in October, I can firmly say I still don't buy it yet

The cut at the beginning, the overemphasis on putting in the cart, and hiding the controller while he played is more than enough to want further evidence. Better yet, give it to an independent third party to plug it into a TV and play it.

Additionally, they need to show what's under that heatsink. It's too easy to plop an ARM SoC under it and do this entirely in software. All of the tools exist to fake that portion easily.

@ChaseIQ if this was any other platform than the Saturn, I'd agree. However, the Mister core is getting close to surpassing the best software emulation. Emulating the Saturn in software is genuinely difficult and even the best has very apparent issues.

@Przemyslaw To put it simply: you can't buy most of those parts new. They haven't been produced in decades. Also, many parts in old consoles are proprietary, such as video chips as a super common example.

We can, however, emulate that functionality in FPGAs, but if we do that for one chip, why not the entire system? From there, you can hopefully see how we got to platforms like the Mister. That thought process is what has guided us to this point.

@BulkSlash You can mux in as many enhancement chips as you have wattage for.

Bravo to Taki Udon for making this happen. The FPGA scene has an important place in the archival and preservation of aging media, and improving accessibility to the Mister is a giant win on that front.

Good on you for declining the interview. They shouldn't get the podium until they've coughed up a reason to speak at it.

There's no way this thing would make money at $350 unless the creators have one heck of a supply chain agreement set up.

I'll believe it when I see it. And no, I'm not giving them a dime until then.

Croc with updated controls is exactly what I've been wanting from Croc for a super long time.

@PopetheRev28 it's been a bit, but at some point they were saying they would override or overwrite the firmware of the disc drive to read GD-ROM discs. Very pie-in-the-sky goofiness.

@Steel76 I'm not sure of what claims Nintendo would have here. As long as the user provides their own assets from a purchased copy, Nintendo can't do anything.

For the fourth time: I'll believe it when I see it.

It's too easy, too fast, just too perfect to be real. It might as well be a SNES in an Atari Jaguar shell at this point.

I'm still pretty firmly in the "when I see it" camp. That Dreamcast core is a massive lift and, until I see it, it's still vaporware to me.

This has all the trappings of a project set to over-promise and under-deliver.

Damien starting every Minecraft port article with "Blockbusting News" is a mood into itself.

I'll believe it when I see it

@Azuris to clarify this, Doom 64 couldn't handle room-over-room. It used some super clever macros that triggered based on your position in some maps to change the floor position of select sectors to pull off the illusion, but that is doable in stock Doom.

@aegis_autumn as a professional who works extensively with FPGAs and the like in both design and procurement:

All of Analogue's products are way overpriced part-for-part. You can argue some of that heavy profit margin is the sum of all the parts being really good. I don't particularly agree the part selection is all that special. I fully believe that they charge thrice what they should so they can sell thrice less units, again, for status.

@nocdaes Even if Nintendo has a copy of every game ever published for their platform, which they don't, Nintendo should not be the only archivist of that culturally and historically significant data.

What if Nintendo accidentally deletes it? What if they get hacked and it's deleted? What if the storage it's on fails? What if a rogue internal employee modifies it? What if the site it's stored at is targeted by a physical attack? And so on...

Or what's most possible: all of the collection falls into the public domain (after an embarrassingly long wait) and they decide not to release any of it. They don't have to! Even though they don't own it at that point, there's no law requiring them to give it up.

That's why we need sites like the archive and people like me and others here that meticulously maintain physical and distributed electronic backups. We can't trust Nintendo as the sole source. And as illegal ROM sharing is... It's an insurance plan, just in case everything else fails.

Oh hey, it's this guy, the one that thinks flipping the switch logo upside down makes it "parody" and the RF shield "is Nintendo trying to hide its secret chips." He's great at making consoles look like knockoff Intel NUCs.

Snarkiness aside, I don't hate this one, but there are two glaring issues with his approach: First, he's created an incidental hinge at the screen. Without a cart behind it, even the pressure in your pocket will bend and break the line between PCB and screen. Second, it's too darn thin. That thing looks painful to use for more than, well, a YouTube video's length.

Like most of his projects, it's a good showpiece, but it doesn't stand up to real world use. His fascination is in design, not use, of his mods.

It seems like people are completely missing the point: almost nobody cares that it's USB. That's actually not that bad of an idea and most people are for it.

However, these are the cheapest, least reliable mass produced flash drives on Earth, and that's not an exaggeration. For the price LRG charges, they must have made a seriously amazing profit margin.

If you bought this, image the drive ASAP as if it's the last time it'll ever read, because it might be the last.