GB, GBC and for most the GBA's life the systems were vertical so I can see their reasoning.
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But how would you lord your superior reference quality product over the rubes playing their video games on lowly software emulators? I can't possibly catch em all unless I am sure the person sitting next to me on my flight knows I'm no chump.
I feel like the shoulder buttons are in the best possible spot they can be in. It'll feel like an SP but just always flipped open.
*Edit: Also, RIP the modded GBA I bought a little while ago. Not sure I'll ever play it again.
*Edit: Also, RIP the modded GBA I bought a little while ago. Not sure I'll ever play it again.
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Getting authentic GBA games is
And now it's the same for MD/SNES and N64
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I wonder what the battery life will be like?. The GBA SP had like 10-20 hours depending on the brightness or something right?; that thing used to last fucking forever.
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"presumably longer than a Lynx's six AAs." Jeremy Parish, in the year of our lord Luigi, 2019, October of the new moon.
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I had to get six shots today. Six! Medical science has no cure for its own irritability.
Maybe longer than the Turbo Express or Game Gear? Dare we dream? ;)
Yup.
-Look at the label, are there two small numbers engraved on it? Is it glossy? If not, likely fake. The label not being well positioned is a good, but not perfect, indication too. (for GBA I mean)
-Shopping on Ebay, is the price too good? Is it shipped from China? If yes, likely fake.
-Ultimately, buying a 1$ screwdriver is the best way to spot a fake as well. Once you compare a repro board to an authentic one, you can make the distinction easily. But the two options above are good steps to do when shopping as well to avoid some unwanted frustrations.
In my ten years of collecting I ended up buying a fake once, I promptly returned it and got a refund. Ebay will take your side, especially if it's not written anywhere in the item description that it's a repro. Surely it won't be as easy today as back then, but heh, I see this as some little extra challenges.
This looks great, but I'd prefer a clamshell design like the GBA SP if possible. I think I want one. I love that it's >600 ppi.
Sure but it's not as simple as CISC vs RISC either. The ARM7TMDI used in the GBA might have a simpler instruction decode unit but it also has a chunkier excution unit than the 68000. If you actually look at the transistor counts, the 68000 has 68K transistors (hence the name) whilst the ARM7TMDI has slightly more at 74K. As for how that translates to logic element usage on an FPGA, I'm not sure, but I imagine it'd be fairly close overall.
Anyway the CPU is hardly the only chip that needs to be implemented in the FPGA. The GBA has a far more complex video processor but saves a bit on complexity by not having a dedicated sound processor. So overall it'd be hard to say which core actually uses more logic elements. I'm guessing they'd be pretty close overall.
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I was looking up modded SP prices with the AGS 101 screens and they're typically like $150 so this definitely seems like a better deal if you don't mind not having actual Nintendo hardware.
Don't get me wrong, my post wasn't to say either machine is necessarily easier to simulate than the other. The point was that technology is not a linear ramp, that something that comes later isn't necessarily "more difficult" or "harder" to simulate. There are trade offs on every CPU.
But speaking about other chips on the machine, the GBA lacks a dedicated sound chip and a sound processor to run driver code on. With regards to the Megadrive, you need to also simulate the YM2612 and the Z80 on top of the m68000, the Texas Instruments VDP, etc.
Overall point -- technology is not conducive to DBZ style power level ratings. Tech is a series of trade offs.
True. I can definitely agree with the moral of your argument.
That's a big deal.
Oh cool. I'm in the early stages of designing my own custom NES core, for fun, to run on the DE10-nano/Mister. It'll be pretty awesome to be able to run it on this device too (if I ever complete it) without too much modification.
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Some might destroy the battery, hard to say, but yeah, pretty much everything should be possible except maybe those massive memory neo geo games.
I don't think it can - the NTmini yes but not the SuperNT.
The additional cores on the NTmini after the jailbreak were a big part why I'm so sad that I didn't buy one.
That both FPGAs are accessible to devs is nice - I wonder what the community can do with this assuming they get enough devices out to the public.
Even if it did, it would be via emulation. There's still a big difference between that and this glorious fpga machine.
Their consoles usually work with pretty much everything so it probably will work.
Their products are great and I've never had a defect so I don't know how their service really is but when I had a question they were very quick to reply and were very friendly.
The MiSTer being so popular might have changed how they support their products. That second fpga chip is promising
Basically if it's anything like other FPGA implementations like their other consoles and MiSTer
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Can't really see Pico8 happening, it isn't a design based on actual silicon. This has been discussed before in the FPGA community FWIW though I don't have a link saved.
Wow, they had me at GBA, but possible Mister cores and having access to experiment with developing some myself make this seem like a steal. Hope the dock is $100 or less and that it allows native res output for each core, though doing neither of those would likely not deter me.
Again not necessarily. The Cyclone V variant used by Analogue has 45k LEs, the Cyclone V in the DE-10 nano has 110k LEs
Space can (and will) be a limiting factor. Sorg mentionned it when someone asked for cores to be ported to the DE-0 Nano which has about 80k LEs
I dont think they do. Mine certainly doesnt. I have to use a Super Game Boy (which is a pain in arse, as its tighter than a ducks arse).
Why worry about it? Unless you want genuine carts for collection purposes. I have several "fakes" but they work as well as the real thing. I live with it instead of fighting sellers. Better things to do with the time.
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