what the fuck is the point of this when you can just get an old n64 or snes? Does it upscale and make the games compatible and run well on modern flat screens or something? Even if that's the case you can buy something that can do that for much less as well.
Cameron Roberts
I respect what they're going for, but $500 is way too much, even for the quality.
Adrian Johnson
Or just get a fucking Raspberry Pi for $50 and hack it for the controller support if you are that anal about your emulations.
Gabriel Reed
but that would emulation! an inauthentic experience!
Jonathan Davis
upscales to 1080p/60fps without an emulation layer, so it runs natively of the board with whatever cores were programmed so you'd be simulating playing a retro game with a modern fpga board.
it also does reference quality as if you were playing on a crt pvm or whatever
I believe the big draw is that it's a new motherboard built from the ground up to resemble an NES as closely as possible. It also offers excellent upscale and outputs HDMI. Is that worth it for NES games? I wouldn't say so, but this stuff keeps on selling so someone wants it. Personally, I'd rather have an FPGA built console. The quality isn't poor enough for there to be a considerable difference, and the price is way fucking cheaper, but if you're an absolute purist who wants the best of the best with HDMI, then this is the one.
Adam Gray
>if you want the best of the best No. Best of the best would be original hardware with modded output. Expensive and time consuming to setup. Second best would be a high end pc and cycle accurate emulator, expensive and complicated to setup. Nt and other fpga based emhardware emulation like mister are just expensive gimmick. Nt/analogue in particular makes itself attractive by being easy to set up and use, and have a sleek appearance. It also comes preloaded with a list of talking points to justify your overpriced purchase. These kinds of "statement" products always attract these kinds of kool-aid sippers. Same way there are people who think macs can't get viruses there are people on /vr/ and analogue forums that think they are emulating individual transistors with these devices. Every analogue product has had emulstion errors identical to the best open source cycle accurate emulators currently available. There's really no mystery here and you would have to be a colossal retard to pay 500 bucks for this emulstion box.
Eli Johnson
Doesn't the Analogue NT's mobo have the original transistors of the NES just on a brand new Intel FPGA board? I wouldn't call that a gimmick, considering that you're getting 0 latency on a complete hardware revision of an original NES/Famicom so if you call having to write the compatibility registers for the original transistors to work with a brand new motherboard "emulation" then lol it's an emulation box.
why bother talking specs when no one else can comprehend you and can shitpost
Brayden Sanders
FPGAs are the best thing to happen to retro gaming. It's a shame we'll likely never see one for a more complex console like a GameCube. >inb4 emulator cope
Jose Miller
No one knows what you're talking about.
Blake Ramirez
If I ever become so retarded to the point of wasting 500 dollars in some shit that my smartphone from 2016 can do much better, I hope someone in my family has the decency to put my ass in a psychiatric hospital.
Mason Fisher
see, dipshits
Justin Collins
>thinking analogue products are a gimmick >not even trying to understand why fpga is better than original hardware/emulation hurrr durrrrrrrrr retroarch is good enough for me! :)
Carson Ramirez
So wait, zoomers are paying $500 for a modern version of those NES-on-a-chip pieces of shit that were popular in the turd world and 99 cent stores? .. why?
Evan Bennett
Well, you see, the emulation is much more ACCURATE now! Isn't that fantastic?
Daniel Turner
ok retard.
Nicholas Gonzalez
What's FPGA?
Aaron Phillips
no you fucking knuckle dragging chromosome all-you-can-eat-buffet simpleton, zoomers are playing fall guy and could care less about beep boop boomer nostalgia
Samuel Anderson
Fag Pozzes Gay Asshole
Julian Fisher
Fat Paychecks from Grifting Autists
Oliver Torres
noice
Owen Smith
Boomers have the real consoles in the attic and aren't the market for these.
Benjamin Johnson
>he didn't buy two. one to keep and 2nd to cover cost of both kek