[HN Gopher] Sega Saturn Mini Could Become a Reality, Thanks to R...
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       Sega Saturn Mini Could Become a Reality, Thanks to Retron FPGA
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2023-10-03 03:34 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
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       | asfarley wrote:
       | I'm very happy to see FPGA emulation being picked up by a company
       | who sells in larger volume. The boutique prices for NES FPGA
       | emulation don't really make sense to me.
        
       | garciansmith wrote:
       | Nice idea though retro versions of consoles that don't support
       | the original's entire game library are so limiting. It'd be nice
       | to at least allow for original physical media to be played,
       | Analogue FPGA style. Not that collecting Saturn games is in any
       | way affordable though.
       | 
       | Thankfully there's a Saturn core in the works for MiSTer (open-
       | source FPGA project with support for tons of different consoles,
       | computers, and arcade games). Still in the alpha stages, but it
       | has improved a lot over the past year, many games are now
       | playable. All the more impressive to me since the dev is a
       | Ukrainian stuck behind Russian lines.
       | 
       | https://github.com/srg320/Saturn_MiSTer
       | https://www.patreon.com/srg320
        
         | pipes wrote:
         | I recently went down the mister route. It's an amazing piece of
         | kit but it cost me a fortune to put together. One thing I've
         | realised after doing this is that it's not always going to be
         | 100 percent accurate, for example I believe there is a second
         | megadrive core in the works, because the existing one isn't
         | that accurate. I don't fully understand the issue though. I
         | think some cores like neo Geo are exceptionally accurate. Also
         | worth noting is the n64 core in development, the rate of
         | progress on it is ridiculously fast.
        
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