Why there a zillion Famiclones still made, and demakes

[Anonymous No.6547686]

famiclones are apparently still a thing, so are demakes. there's a market and industry for them, apparently...

and yet are there any bootleg homebrew 3D consoles? like a knockoff ps1, n64, dreamcast? why stop at famiclone? why not even super famiclone?

it's been how many years, and no bootleg 3D console for dirt poor people?

[Anonymous No.6547689]

Because the methods of making these are so thoroughly documented in comparison to anything else,, you probably could've learned how to make one just by googling the answer to your own question.

[Anonymous No.6547691]

Because emulation exists and runs on cheap ARM or MIPS chips

[Anonymous No.6547693]

>>6547689
but just imagine if the chingchong manufacturers of gaming platforms figured out how to make a knockoff ps1. what a game-changer that would be. in the grander scheme of things.

[Anonymous No.6547719]

I wonder if we'll get chink N64 clones since the HDL was leaked.

[Anonymous No.6547721]

>>6547693
A $30 Chinese Android TV box can already emulate PS1 just fine. Go on youtube and search for EmuELEC. There's no reason for them to make a knockoff PS1. They already did without trying.

[Anonymous No.6547760]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z65Nv1sv7I8
>this is what $9 will get you in China

[Anonymous No.6547776]

Modern famiclones are not realy clones, they're NOAC (NES on a chip), it's basically emulation of the real hardware.
Actual early 90s famiclones like pic related aren't that common anymore and there's collectors for them too.

[Anonymous No.6547786]

>>6547686
>Why are there zillions of poorfag zoomers till made
Catholicism
>Why do redditots shitpost on /vr/
If you're going to embarrass yourself better do it anonymously

[Anonymous No.6547797]

>>6547760
Or just get an hdmi adapter for your phone
Or use a desktop pc

[Anonymous No.6547801]

>>6547776
this, the hardware was condensed down a chip that probably costs pennies to make, not many consoles could be made this cheaply
and why would you bother with the R&D needed to make a new chip when NoaC's still sell?
the chinese aren't known to be innovative, they'll keep selling the same thing forever if people keep buying them

[Anonymous No.6547804]

>>6547797
>just use some janky shit with a touch screen, blocking the charging port while the battery runs down from emulating
>just haul your desktop PC over to your TV every time you want to play a game
Dumbass.

[Anonymous No.6547807]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_hardware_clone#Post-patent_Famiclones

[Anonymous No.6547832]

>>6547804
Just get an adapter, dumbass
And connect whatever bluetooth controller you want to use

[Anonymous No.6547838]

>>6547832
Fuck this iToddler nonsense.

[Anonymous No.6547839]

>>6547804
>just haul your desktop PC over to your TV every time you want to play a game
You can get a second PC that will emulate any console released before 2000 for 20 bucks

[Anonymous No.6547840]

>>6547839
Great, then I can use a shitload more electricity on the same task for absolutely no fucking reason. Your brain is so smooth it must look like peanut butter after it's been spread on bread.

[Anonymous No.6547845]

>>6547840
>shitty underpowered, outdated android chinkshit
vs
>the most versatile device on this planet, a PC

[Anonymous No.6547846]

>>6547840
>he buys smooth peanut butter
all credibility you may have had is now gone

[Anonymous No.6547852]

>>6547721
this too, cheap android hardware and software emulators ruined any chance of any future hardware clones

[Anonymous No.6547856]

>>6547845
I emulate on chinkshit. Seethe all you want about it. I also own raspberry pis, original consoles with flash carts, and cheap outdated machines that run Linux that I've acquired over the years. Got a problem with that? Good. I'll acquire about 5 or 6 more for the price of one discarded Optiplex. Powering them all at once will take less electricity too.

[Anonymous No.6547947]

>>6547845
sorry, but yea, some little arm box with linux has replaced the whole "get a core2 box for $50" idea
they're smaller, quieter, cheaper, and more power efficient, probably slower as well, but still good enough for a lot of simple uses
of course i'd still recommend a core2 box for an actual poorfag desktop though, since they are more powerful, and much more expansion options

[Anonymous No.6547960]

>>6547947
I'm just saying that the core2 boxes have had and will have much more longevity than an ARM box that will be abandoned in a year. The only real exception is the raspi but they are still underpowered, just not as badly as the older versions

[Anonymous No.6547964]

>>6547960
i get where you're coming from, but at the same time, we're not talking about replacing a desktop, where the needs will change over time
i still use a raspberry pi 1b as a media center, because the requirements haven't changed, it can play 1080p video as well as it did when i got it

[Anonymous No.6547969]

>>6547964
How do you navigate the menus on the pi1? Kodi barely worked on mine

[Anonymous No.6547984]

>>6547960
Stuff like emuelec and coreelec has been developed for years already. Also that core 2 duo is going to heat up when it plays vp9 video from YouTube and the fans are going to kick in.

[Anonymous No.6549849]

There are emulation systems and handhelds bundled with a shit ton of roms like Arcade and even PSX, Soulja Boy even released som.

[Anonymous No.6549869]

>>6547969
If you want to do that go back to confluence and turn off as much of the fancy ui stuff as you can. I did that on my pi 2 so I could use it strictly as an internet radio. I have it plugged into a cheap boom box with a better quality USB sound card to work around the pi's awful audio. I control it with the kore app on android. The $30 Chinese boxes handle it so much better. What makes the Pi special is all the projects you can do with it and the community around it. There are better single board computers. There are better devices to act as media centers with support for hardware decoding more formats. They also have community maintained projects for them. It's better to find some other job for a crappy old Pi to do and replace it with something else that does a much better job of playing media.

[Anonymous No.6550232]

>>6547686
Read a history book or two, you fucking millennial, and you'll understand. Jesus Christ. FUCK YOU.

[Anonymous No.6551043]

>>6547797
Hi. I'm emulating on my PC like you wanted me to. BlastEm has a dogshit UI. An insect landed my keyboard and I tried to get him and ended up triggering this and I don't know how to get out of it. Great experience. This is how games were meant to be enjoyed.

[Anonymous No.6551053]

>>6551043
Oh no wait I got out of it and I was in a spot where I would die since I lost control of the game. Excellent! There's no reason why I would rather have a dedicated device without a keyboard and all these wacky buttons that trigger weird shit for autistic data miners to jack off to.

[Anonymous No.6553630]

Tfw I grew up with bad emulators instead of original hard

[Anonymous No.6553656]

this entire thread is pathetic, just buy the original hardware and a good crt, so fucking poorfags.

[Anonymous No.6553775]

>>6547776
>it's basically emulation
that isn't emulation, faggot. the chips recreated the nes hardware (and not entirely well). do you call fpga stuff emulators as well?

[Anonymous No.6553795]

>>6553775
>do you call fpga stuff emulators as well?
quite often various components are just being emulated, rather than being a 1:1 logic gate clone

[Anonymous No.6553927]

>>6553795
>quite often various components are just being emulated, rather than being emulated

[Anonymous No.6553947]

>>6553927
while a clone is technically a form of emulation, it goes a step further than the requirements of emulation, so you wouldn't normally call it emulation, not because it isn't emulation, but because it's more than just emulation, it's more specific