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Posted by exodus on October 18, 2019 at 15:17:38 EST in reply to Then why don’t you explain it to me? (n/t) from SignOfZeta.

ha ha I was all set to explain it to you but then this "explain it to me" comment made me think you could just google it. Well, I'll do it anyway. FPGA supports the recreation of hardware on a modern chip. Essentially it's a chip that can almost completely accurately mimic the processes of existing older hardware by scanning everything in those chips layer by layer (literally, you should look it up, I've seen the scans). This means when you slot in a game gear game it will have the same exact slow down, the same exact sound glitches, and behave exactly as you would expect a game gear to behave, except on modern hardware that won't fail as easily, with a backlight that works, and with the ability to slot into a dock to play on your tv properly up-resed. It's not software emulation of the hardware, it's hardware mimicry down to the absolute metal of it. I don't love the form factor myself, but they're targeting the most popular Nintendo consoles primarily so it makes sense. Anyway there are not things like this every month, this is only the third FPGA-based console out basically ever I believe, and all of them were by this company (analogue), who are not nobodies, and are in fact the pioneers in the field and make really solid consumer hardware - $200 is much cheaper than I thought it'd be even, it's only that cheap because the price of chips has recently declined. most of your kneejerk reaction up there is aimed at things that are not actually relevant in this case!
 
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