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by ConanRus 493 days ago
Why only GB/GBA? Mister FPGA support lot's of cores which can use the same Screen and controls: NES, SNES, various Sega consoles, C64, MSX etc.

And any cheap Chinese retro-console of the same sort support even more of them. So from a practical standpoint I don't see any advantage of this (no doubt cool) project.
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elipsitz 493 days ago
This main distinguishing feature of this project is that it supports physical cartridges, whereas MiSTer and almost every other emulation handheld doesn’t.

The FPGA cores here are written from scratch by me with hardware support in mind, and it’s quite a bit of work! Plus, SNES cartridges don’t exactly fit in a handheld :)

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timw4mail 491 days ago
Funny you should mention SNES carts...the only way I can use a Super Game Boy portably is with a Supaboy, which looks very silly :D

I realize you don't have the resolution needed for such a thing on your project, but it would be interesting to see a full SGB setup via FPGA.

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skyyler 493 days ago
>SNES cartridges don’t exactly fit in a handheld :)

Surely, you've heard of the Supaboy.

I jest, this project looks great! After looking over the build instructions, it seems like this might be a good reason to finally make an account with JLCPCB.

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ConanRus 493 days ago
this is very impressive. all i say is you might port some of the Mister cores as well, if only for Roms support.

Portable FPGA retro console would be great.

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