/vr/ - Retro Games

Nothing inspires confidence more than "It's over. We are screwed."

This whole thing was a bad idea.

Reminder that DE10-Nano boards are in stock and readily available.

Yes. Time to cancel preorders. Make sure to use credit card chargeback if they refuse to give your money back.

something that never began can't be "over".

>a simple mspaint pic rendered the next king of FPGA emulation obsolete before even coming out
this is so funny

>>10709417
There's a global shortage of pink buttons. They couldn't get the stock.

>>10709475
maybe Atari is planning on releasing a XEGS mini and bought all the stock

>>10709473
What is this, the next grift ?

>>10709473
Yeah, I am keeping my eye on the Replay2, but just planning it out on a flowchart-like diagram and actually building PCBs to do that are mountains of difference. It's easy to go "I will connect the FPGA and ARM CPU together by a daughterboard and QSPI", actually implementing that in a way that works and can be mass produced in like the difference between saying "I want to go to the moon" and actually designing the rocket.

Wasn't this thing announced months ago though? If for some reason this is the reason MARS called it quits or is going on hiatus for a redesign you would think they would have done that long ago. Although with it having a more advanced FPGA that I hear people claim is "two generations ahead of the MARS" and managing to still be cheaper overall because FPGAs changed a lot from the time MARS was first being planned until now would definitely hurt them. I don't see why anyone would then buy a MARS instead of either build a MiSTer if they want something now or wait for a Replay2 if they are ok with waiting for something more powerful, and from my understanding either option will be cheaper than a MARS (for now at least, who knows if MARS will lower it's price or if the Replay2 ends up costing a lot more than first anticipated considering it's still in the planning stages with no PCBs made yet).

... at least it's not the Amico Intellivision I guess?

>>10709540
The Replay2, apparently an update to some FPGA board I had never heard of called the Replay (Which may or may not have been Chinkware?)

That's a very outdated design from 2017 though, this thing was being worked and reworked on for years... which does worry me that it might end up as a Duke Nukem Forever scenario where it the dev just keeps changing the hardware as newer tech comes out and never finishes it, but it's now using a board that is has Intel's newer Agilex5 FPGA and has a 64 bit dual-core ARM CPU on it. Specs-wise it shits all over MiSTer and MARS while apparently costing less than the MARS.

>>10709561
There's a better chance that the Amico will be worth something in the near future than any of these FPGA devices.

>>10709617
The Amico will be worth about as much on eBay as the Action Gamemaster console currently goes for on there.

>>10709598
Oh, so it's another imaginary product that doesn't exist. Good to know.

nothing personnel kid

>>10709417
>Already behind schedule for release
They said a 2024 release date. I had no idea it's 2025 already!

>>10709561
>If for some reason this is the reason MARS called it quits
They aren't. Relax

>>10710557
Hi Atrac. Don't you have some shit posting to do on Twitter or something? Cause you're sure as shit not busy with putting the finishing touches on your vaporware platform.

>>10710589
kek

>>10710589
Stfu nigger, why would I bother posting on some dead board on a dead website, it literally wouldn't be worth his time. Just tired of seeing your trolls actively try to discredit a team of people and their work and possibly their careers. Get laid, faggot.

>>10711049
>Stfu nigger, why would I bother posting on some dead board on a dead website, it literally wouldn't be worth his time. Just tired of seeing your trolls actively try to discredit a team of people and their work and possibly their careers. Get laid, faggot.

Oh yeah, that's totally not Atrac.

>>10709417
Doesn't something have to have been alive to be dead?

>obvious grift flops before it's even released
lmao. emuweenies can't stop losing

>>10711189
As an emuweenie, don't try to group us in with this bullshit. We're content just using a normal modern console controller with most games, MAYBE getting a usb adapter to let us use classic controllers if we really wanna go all out.

These are just for suckers who don't know how to set up snes9x

>>10711245
>Thinks setting up snes9x is harder than building a MiSTer

Not like either is hard at all, but the absolute state of emuweenies.

Next big FPGA platform will be MiSTeX. More powerful and cheaper than De-10 nano so poorfags can stop seething.

>>10711245
Imagine thinking you're smart for knowing how to setup SNE---
wait hold the fuck up? You use SNES9X? and you're trying to act smart?
holy fucking beyond gigaretard.
Go here and fucking educate yourself >>6775606

>>10712001
>Imagine thinking you're smart for knowing how to setup SNE---

The point of the post was to make fun of dumbfucks who don't know how to use the most basic emus known to man, I use retroarch on an android handheld.

>>10712059
just use your phone, idiot

>>10711049
Considering you just tweeted a "joke" 20 minutes ago about how your vaporware doesn't exist, I'd say yeah you definitely have the dead board from the dead site living rent free in your head, just like your dead platform.
I got pussy this morning by the way. It was real and not a simulation, unlike your dead platform.
By the way, you might want to lay off the racial slurs considering some of your project partners are black.

>>10709417
It's not like anything happened or anybody was scammed. It just came and went.

Post yfw you never fell for the Mars

>>10712820
>Being forced to choose between my gameplay getting interrupted with calls/texts/notifs, or having to shut myself off from the world any time I wanna play something
>Have to use touchscreen controlls if I want it to stay compact
>If I wanna have buttons, forced to pick between a controller with a super awkward controller clip, or one of those telescopic controllers that'll force me to take off my protective case every time, either way spending $50
>Roms take up memory

Nah I'll just take my $150 handheld

>>10709417
Yes it's dead. But don't worry, I'm designing a case for mister that incorporates that removable controller adapter idea.

>>10713090
You mean like the Multisystem?

>>10713091
Isn't that some gay shit where yet another person was trying to profit off the mister project?

Mine will be fully open source. You can order the pieces from jlcpcb and if you're incapable of assembling it they have an assembly service. Or you can take the files and print the case yourself and get the boards from oshpark or wherever.

>>10713058
lol idiot

>>10713101
I don't think much profit was to be had, and the design is open source, although they didn't open source it until later.

Not sure if it's worth it to design a new PCB for the MiSTer right now, with everyone coming up with a "more powerful MiSTer" design lately and a few possible plausible options for a better FPGA starting to crop up, as well as the MiSTerX project which is keeping it's eye out for a better FPGA. There might be an upgraded MiSTer using something other than the DE-10 soon.

the mars is coming, you aren't gonna buy one anyways so why are you following the development closer then people who will buy it?

>>10714386
Because I follow both software and FPGA emulation in general, and I am still undecided on the MARS depending on if it can deliver on it's more impressive promises like Dreamcast and depending what happens with Replay2 or if MiSTerX ever surfaces.