Yesterday, 5:45 AM
(This post was last modified: Yesterday, 5:47 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
From what I can tell, it really is the "real thing". The chips are true ASIC designs and not just an FPGA core. The memory card is using FRAM instead of SRAM so no need for battery backup (and FAR more storage than the originals). The games, well, I hadn't heard if they're using FLASH or ROM chips for that, but functionally they will play identically. Either way, the hardware's legit so even if someone preferred to just play on original release carts, that's still an option. Of course, the prices are still obscene. It'd be better to collect the arcade carts. Same code, but different connector. There's some rather expensive adapters out there, which is why I was originally going to get an MVS board and "consolize" it until I heard about this thing.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)