Comments on Profile Post by RobS

  1. YMO
    YMO
    Yep, not good for a guy like me who don't really game that much. But the real question is what cores will be on it once the unit is released next year.
    Aug 2, 2020
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  2. RobS
    RobS
    Cores? What do you mean?
    Aug 2, 2020
  3. Melvillian
    Melvillian
    It has an additional FPGA on it for developers. Was about to post asking if anyone on SBAF was going to preorder tomorrow.
    Aug 2, 2020
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  4. RobS
    RobS
    Cool. These Analogue machines have a lot of sweet features. It's too bad I would have to re-buy a lot of the old carts. Used game prices are getting crazy.
    Aug 2, 2020
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  5. YMO
    YMO
    People really buy the Analouge stuff for the "jailbreaks" on top of using real cartridges.
    Aug 2, 2020
  6. RobS
    RobS
    So you can run ROMs on them? But wouldn't that still be doing it thru some kind of emulator? Isn't the whole point of the Analogue stuff not to play games via emulation?
    Aug 2, 2020
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  8. RobS
    RobS
    @YMO thank you, watching now.
    Aug 2, 2020
  9. SoupRKnowva
    SoupRKnowva
    I was planning on preordering in the morning. Too many fond memories of the gameboy and gameboy advanced. The possibilities for the second fpga are also exciting
    Aug 2, 2020
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  10. Melvillian
    Melvillian
    No emulation, probably has very fast ram on there that acts as the cart. That’s what the MiSTer uses
    Aug 2, 2020
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  11. YMO
    YMO
    I'm too lazy to do a MiSTer setup (mostly due to I don't game much), but if I was still heavy into my gaming from the late 80s/90s then a MiSTer is a MUST.
    Aug 2, 2020
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  12. SoupRKnowva
    SoupRKnowva
    I kind of wish they would say more about the second fpga. Like why they chose to use a second one instead of just let third party cores run on the main one. Is it a smaller fpga? What sorts of cores will fit? Maybe if I signed up to show interest in developing a core they’d give me more details
    Aug 2, 2020
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  13. Melvillian
    Melvillian
    They probably don’t want the primary FPGA messed with because they want to guarantee a certain functionality for people who buy it. I’m sure an “unofficial” jailbreak will let people do whatever they want at some point
    Aug 2, 2020
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  14. Gazny
    Gazny
    I just missed the preorder, hope some of you managed to pick one up.
    Aug 3, 2020
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  15. Melvillian
    Melvillian
    Yeah I got one. I’m sure they will be available again. I doubt they spent all this money on developing the thing to not try and sell as many units as they can.
    Aug 3, 2020
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  16. Gazny
    Gazny
    Yeah if it sold out it just means make more especially since they ship 2021.
    Aug 3, 2020
  17. zerodeefex
    zerodeefex
    In a f'ing meeting and had it in my cart/lost it because I was presenting.
    Aug 3, 2020
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  18. SoupRKnowva
    SoupRKnowva
    I also didn’t get one, but I signed up for notifications when they come back in stock :/
    Aug 3, 2020
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