/vr/ - Retro Games

>yfw bugtesting that thing

>>478143
Well, we do have access to the schematics: http://www.freeinfosociety.com/electronics/schempage.php?cat=2

What I don't understand is why people don't build them.

>>478162
I'm no electrical engineer, but I feel like wiring/soldering/whatever all of that would be a pain that takes months

>>478190
It's not hard to make a PCB, and soldering isn't that hard as well.

>>478162
>>478078
People ARE doing this right now. Haven't you seen those SNES clones on the shelves of your local electronics store? They sell them at Kroger around here (Oregon).

Do you have any clue how much infrastructure is needed for chip fabrication? A _lot_ of huge, heavy, expensive machinery.

>>478078
It's perfectly possible. Question is whether or not it's feasible. Someone's already made a replica of Pong, almost one-to-one sans replacing some parts that are no longer in production with ones that do the same job. But that was a pure discrete logic circuit.

Almost every console used custom chips, which you'd have to decap and study to replicate accurately, and which would be obscenely complicated for all but the most basic consoles.

There's a few ASIC implementations, NOAC etc, recently someone posted about remaking a Fairchild Channel F on an FPGA. None of them are really accurate though.

>>478221
They're not direct copies, they have issues with some games.

Considering you can find working 2nd hand copies of most consoles for under 50 bucks, the incentive just isn't there.

Sure, you can find them for much less, and pristine/unopened ones for much, much more, but until the surplus of readily available models dries up, there's just no incentive to do this aside from the novelty.

Also, instead of using the misnomer
>retro console
you should be using
>deprecated hardware

otherwise, you're talking about an emulation box

>>478276
>there's just no incentive to do this aside from the novelty
In addition to this, I think there's two other factors:
1) Accessibility of electronics assembly process, there needs to be something easier than hundreds of hours of finding components and assembling them. Outside of more widespread fabrication technology or greater commercial saturation of electronics hardware (ie: instead of Radio Shack, you have a Wal-Mart sized supply store in a town), I don't know how this would happen.
2) General population is more informed of electronics, imagine that there 10x as many people in this thread asking the same questions, representing a more common baseline curiousity of electronic hardware. This isn't something that will happen in current society, you would need high school physics curriculum be taught over 2 years in junior high school, then advanced classes in high school.

Basically, society has to have a higher appreciation of technology and higher availability of technology to further increase demand for personal reproduction of deprecated electronic hardware.

>>478221
Those clones aren't even close to what OP wants, they rely on emulation and have problems with graphics and sound

I have thought the same thing.

Maybe not now, but in 50-100 years we are going to need new consoles.

I'd imagine that it would be prohibitively expensive.

There would be a lot of chips involved that are no longer being manufactured and getting those things custom made is by no means cheap.

When you'd be able to buy the real thing in excellent condition for cheaper, there's just not any point