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by pryelluw 703 days ago
This is just fantastic. I wonder how small older consoles can be these days while still maintaining full hardware compatibility.
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The PS2 Ultra Slim is a fun one: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/ps2-ultra-slim...

And it still has the original controller/memory card ports!

If we're counting emulation they can get even smaller than that, practicality be damned.

https://www.funkey-project.com

I already own a miyoo with the emus though I meant something that replicates the original hardware and can run the actual game cartridges/ISOs
A NES SoC would fit easily within the area of a microSD card containing all ROMs ever published for it, and the embedded controller in the latter would still have a few orders of magnitude more transistors and be faster than it.
You would likely get into “full compatibility” lawyering very quickly. Many of the consoles have weirdo hardware components in some module or another that is still poorly understood.
with FPGA's you can have 100 consoles in one. https://misteraddons.com/
Though I might say that’s cheating, it is a welcome solution
very, could make an adapter dongle for anything requiring pins