I'm unconvinced by the arguments presented in the MVG video. Feels like half-hearted and incomplete reasons, with some hand-waving and trust-me going on. A lot of things are repeated and badly worded, and none of it is quite convincing enough IMHO.

Plugins alone don't explain the poor standard of N64 emulation. They were just a way of dividing the work/complexity and allowing multiple people to tackle it in their own way to see what approach worked best/better. Like shaders in today's emulation scene.

The original N64 hardware and software setup is very complicated—RSP, microcode, RDRAM, floating point behaviour, weird timings—and the effort has yet to be put in to cover it all with sufficient detail. The 3 point texture sampling/filtering has long been solved but MVG words things as if it hasn't been.

Whether N64 emulation can be done well—performantly—on modern systems remains unanswered.

Somebody at My Arcade is really doing well with their partnerships!

Surprising they'd attempt this after the Out Run arcade game engine Cannonball was recently ported to Amiga https://youtu.be/CLaedlbr4wg

Coming after an arcade port seems like a difficult act to follow.

Some years ago I played through Speed Freaks/Punks PS1 on my Wii. It was only the final races that were tricky because frameskip kicked in. Still managed to 100% it.

My kind of news article.

Surprising there's no mention of the hideous decals and garish hardware colours. They're the deal-breaker for me.

I'd also be interested in a review of the included Tetris game. It's it actually a good version? As we've seen over the last 29 years it's so easy to get things wrong when making a version of Tetris.

@AJB83 Vroom at higher frame rate would be great! Have you played the Kawasaki motorcycle version on Mega Drive? https://www.mobygames.com/group/7093/vroom-legacy/

Sounds like the seller dug themselves deeper during the interaction with Etsy.

@GlamorousAlpaca it would give the me game some of the original creator DNA. I see the value in that.

@Spider-Kev no there are only certain combinations that have to be discovered. On this page you can see them combining smiling poop with heart to give it heart eyes. https://www.segatoys.co.jp/emojam/

I can't find the reference but I also ready it has mini games, weather info, and (this is mentioned) add-on emoji sets (they mention Sanrio), with 300 of the 1400 emoji being under user-control.

Why did I think this was coming out of Brazil?

I'll be making something using AntiRuins engine

@RetroGames that's what I said, but in far fewer words

Looks really great, I'll give it a try

Nishi seems to have no idea of the value of focusing on one thing at a time?

@damo "As noted by the developer, this wouldn't be possible without the unique mappers it has developed."

In fact they say the opposite, they could have done it without the mapper, but it wouldn't have been as efficient or neat: https://twitter.com/somethinnerdy/status/1846038217092448765

@RetroGames in the replies to the quoted tweet the developer says this is "fake HDMA" which is one aspect of Mode 7. They also imply the could get it to rotate but they don't need it for their game.

https://twitter.com/somethinnerdy/status/1845882805529858176

Was this stuck in the drafts box or was the wrong month selected for publication?

Nice little interview. Great tunes!

Good interview. Interesting how candid he was about FPGA cores not being 100% accurate to the hardware.

So many of these answers lead to other questions that should have been asked. When he was with Robert Stein and the Hungarians, had they already found Tetris? I mean come on. Open goal.

I had a game like this on my Atari ST. It was called HACKER, released 1985. https://www.mobygames.com/game/2165/hacker/

Not at all, I'm just going by dates and physical similarity. I'm not going to buy any of them, I'm just commenting on what I see.

These new MSX devices are all the idea of Maxim Vlasov, and all generally using off-the-shelf parts. He's known as maxis at msx.org https://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/hardware/msx3-qa?page=1

I have more expectation from any FPGA devices, but these rebadged M5 units are very underwhelming and nothing you couldn't build yourself. Maxim is not responsible for the MSX0 Software emulator

@Bonggon5 please don't involve me in any anti-China nonsense. Thank you. Most electronics are made in China these days. Including Nintendo consoles!

I had one in my basket and then it said $50 + $21 shipping, at which point I decided to look for a similar - though less charming - charging bank on Amazon or AliExpress.

The seem to have taken this design from a guy on Instagram that's been working on it since Delta arrived on iOS. I'm still on an iPhone Xs. So no chance of this for me!

Looks lovely.

Edit: I take that back, the ports on the front contain old school USB, and the additional renders has "Dreamcast controller plug" shaped surrounds upside down. And the device seems about 1.5 times as tall and not as good looking.

Also so many hardware versions at launch, and a dock, leaves me cold.

The very definition of a vanity project. Does Genki have enough fans to make this worthwhile? ***Checks Kickstarter*** £500K ...apparently so!

Super cool concept and execution

Curious how long they'll let the auctions run for

@Daggot thanks. The Kickstarter page wasn't visible last Tuesday

Hopefully a list of games asap

@Sketcz thanks for clearing up the timeline! Now I see.

A really great article, and the many years of effort that led to it are appreciated. Dale sounds like he was one of the best.

Great. I'd seen the maps when they popped up recently on Hacker News.

The only thing I'm not clear about in the text is the jump from 1987 Boston (East coast) to a California (West coast), not sure.

I just noticed that in this article Nasir Gebelli is missing the final letter i. This typo is pretty much everywhere this book is mentioned on the internet, so seems to have been made at the source. 😅

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_Gebelli

I use a similar but opposite audio filter on my RGB30, that tunes RetroArch audio output for the profile of the built-in speakers. Sounds wonderful! Night and day when it's switched off/on.

Very confusing to use the image of an unrelated device. Also I see some people thinking this is the FPGA handheld. There's a lot to unpack in this article and people are seeing the image and headline and going off at tangent.

Is it my eyes or is this...widescreen?

Ah, it has a 4:3 / 16:9 toggle hardware switch. Interesting!

@RetroGames I agree with you about Analogue Pocket, that's what I was trying to convey with "form over function".

I'm looking forward to reviews of the Chromatic once it's in hand. Let's see!

@RetroGames sorry, I can't rationalize any of them. Just garish compared to the understated sophistication of Nintendo devices or even the form over function of Analogue devices.

The decals on this thing really rub me the wrong way. Hideous.

I think the owner has handled this gracefully, and avoiding drama and hate is always good. I wish them the best. Let's push the feeling on.

Sold my CPS2 boards many years ago! Probably around the time this was first posted. I had a Super Gun to run them, bit would have much preferred this or a candy cab!

@RetroGames for sure! It pains me when i meet people who only play new releases, like they are not interested in experiencing the other 99% of gaming history.

@RetroGames they're only hidden if you're not looking for them! These days there are enough resources online and in print for everything from NES right up to DC and even Wii, that every game is known about you just need to jump in and explore. I stumbled across this game as recently as February this year.

I loved this on the SFC. Especially how it looks! Plays a bit oddly as turning has rotational momentum so you have to steer the opposite way to straighten up after a turn, which is very odd and like nothing else but you get used to it after a while. Excited to see what they do with this.

Seems back now for me

That's no way this is FPGA and the frame rate in the video was slow and uneven.