I'm drowning in tears (of laughter)

now i can stop giggling after reading your comment

You’re “giggling”?

that already happens on the football Field. Win game, pour gatorade on coach.

"I for one am ready for a nanotech beverage built to adjust to my hydration needs on the fly. No, I'm not a cyberpunk fan, why do you ask?"

yeah... input lag is my main reason to buy FPGA system. other than that.. I actually prefer software based emulators because it has so many added functions- cheats, fast forward, etc.

@@overdriver99Wouldn’t it be the most compelling argument to buy an FPGA based console?

​​@@edmundroth6337 Yeahhhhh... GPU sync and Runahead kinda invalidate the input lag argument. FPGA strikes me as being more helpful for systems that are actually really hard to emulate, as a cheaper alternative. Or for playing physical carts, I guess. Problem is that emulators gets better over time and hardware gets better and cheaper, so at a certain point, I question what niche it will even fill, if those hard to emulate systems become easier and cheaper to emulate over time. Maybe as a replacement for older hardware hooked up to CRT tvs? I'd take an FPGA PS2.

Wait till you try retroarch + run ahead. You can have better than native hardware latency.

​@@overdriver99 Yes, it cheaper too!

As I said in a separate comment: "God, I love the CPU section of the video. Thanks for actually explaining this shit to me whereas nobody has been able to do so till now."

@@jstro-hobbytech mucho texto

@@jstro-hobbytech it's like this dude is stretching his vid by all possible means, except for "flashbacks from his past when he was a kid"😆

@@XQZ9789 like my overly wordy comment. Sorry man.

@@jstro-hobbytech believe me, i found it more appealing to read whole your comment, rather than watching this vid 😄

@@jstro-hobbytech what the actual fuck are you talking about?

Ignorance + Assumption = a great example of why it is possible to dig up decades old tech, add some catchy marketing, and pretend it is new. Electric cars are a great example of this, where people think it is new tech when in reality electric cars were available in the 1800s and failed for the same reasons then that they are failing now.

@@alphaforce6998 Electric motors are marginally better today than in the XXth century (because they were pretty much perfect devices already, far better in terms of efficiency than any combustion engine is and will ever be), but batteries are miles better today than even a few decades ago. Saying the tech is the same than in the XIXth or XXth century is false or at least not entirely true.

@@benjib2691 The battery tech may have improved, but it's still far from being even practical as compared to fuel...plus, there is no benefit to making heavy vehicles electric when there is an abundance of fuel. The entire eco-doom used to justify the inferior tech is based entirely on lies.

@@alphaforce6998 They are...failing? I thought they are doing decently for themselves currently.

​@@lpfan4491Apart from Teslas, sales of electric cars have been poor with most of the big automakers having lost money trying to convert their production lines to selling them. This is true even with all of the subsidies & corporate welfare that the government doles out for electric cars. The American public never wanted electric cars, they wanted Teslas. Heck these days even Tesla has seen some of their sales figures falling short of projections.

I did a frame by frame count of Saturn emulation on my computer running it in Saturnus. It was on par with actual hardware for input latency and at most maybe a frame behind on rare occasion but that might be user error when I was counting. With run ahead it is a frame quicker. Run ahead for a frame on my 1 year old system running a Saturn game brings it to its knees and can I tell the difference. Honestly nope. Well I can tell if I got almost anything else open because my whole computer starts getting a bit choppy.

For me it's fine as long as it's running the games at adequate performance and don't cause any graphical corruption or sound issues. For example: I wouldn't care about the shadows in Air Strike Patrol, but I would notice the doubled "Good Luck" text. As long as software emulation is "accurate enough" it's fine by me. But I'm also the kind of person who runs software emulation for MIDI audio and switches soundfonts on a regular basis.

It's the edge-cases that get you on emus. Most games will Just Work but there are always a few that used undocumented or co-incidental behaviors of the system that really show where fpga can shine.

@@nobodynoone2500 In efficiency it will always go to a hardware solution. In flexibility and additional features software usually has an easier time implementing them. Both solutions can do mostly the same things the other can to differing degrees. But not being documented hurts both options equally. If not implemented it will not appear by magic.

not going to rip someone who took his own life due to not being able to turn off the internet.

Only the online persona is gone, the actual man is still alive an healthy. Japan like most countries publishes all foreigners' deaths and there were none from that year.

Absolutely delusional replies here. Near deserved way better. May they rest in peace.

One more thing i forgot to tell was, i love those animations of teh working of the insides you show, it makes things a lot easier to follow, also i hope to see some more videos about FPGA stuff, it really peaks my interest as somebody that watched the upcoming from pong to the newest games today, yes i am alreday 54 but i hope to see even more chanegs

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​@@desmondcayce I wrote that myself. Is that a compliment? I spent many years reverse-engineering consoles and writing emulators so I have a little bit of experience to draw on. I agree and despise people using AI to generate web pages, product reviews, social media posts, without labeling it as such.

@@desmondcayce blue dot effect lol u so used to seeing ai that u think everything is ai this comment was so obviously not ai

That's the argument I tend to use to defend software emulation. Most consoles up to the PS1 are in very good hands nowadays, it's really rare that a game would have game breaking issues. I think the reason why those two games he tested show such blatant errors is because the default emulator used in the miyoo mini is very outdated and optimised for weak arm chips,(Supafaust) but there's an option to use Snes9x too, which would probably solve those issues.

@@davidoli I use one of those Anerbernic devices and I am not sure how they compare hardware wise (aside from both being ARM) But it is similiar in that it easily does the older stuff np, but even though it is not perfect, Dreamcast and Saturn stuff works pretty good with solid framerates (I think I have a single frameskip option on one to fix audio breakup). I was honestly shocked because I never thought a device like it would be able to have those systems perform as well as they do. So while not perfect, at least portable software emulated devices can have those games playable. Who knows when/if we will ever see a portable FPGA device that can play something like Dreamcast. Also, I have all the above features I mention on my portable software emulated device as well. So using something like the Analogue Pocket would feel like a step backward in comparison (Aside from build quality)

The real big difference is that we're not just able, but we ARE having this discussion, rather than blindly go "so, erm, FPGA is like, better, so it's not emulation...?" In my experience gamers are jsut on a different level. The lower level. They take film industry terms like "genre" and "remaster" and absolutely mangle them into this consumerist mold, like "remaster is when it LOOKS BETTER". When in fact, a "remaster" WOULD BE something like emulation. The optimal "video game remaster" that people want out of remaster over a remake, would be the same as George Lucas "remastering" out the "dated" practical effects. But everyone just AGREES that mangling the original game with this contemporary plastic sheen of "modern standards" is GREAT. Like those AWFUL 30% resin "wood" dining tables that cost thousands of bucks. Or remastering LotR to look like HD Hobbit and every telenovela after 2007. Original TVs were a low tier consumer-grade device. There is no such thing as chasing the "authentic" experience the same way as films though, because TV release ALREADY was a heavily truncated and variable expereince, even on video games. You did NOT have some optimal conditions to "expereince the art" you're now trying to preserve, because it would be like Mona Lisa in a dimly lit room. "Most people who wouldn't care" are nostalgic for their POST CARDS of Mona Lisa from childhood. And that's always the exerience with art. Fantasy abut escapism completely ruins the interplay where YOU create the experience monstly for yourself, sme great PIECE of art is no more than a hint of th author's vision carrying on to you as a recipient. But it gets pretty bad when the DISCUSSION is "we should remaster Mona Lisa into a portable HD post card" the way it is with video game consumerism. There will be no return to Woodstock. That's not how genuine art WORKS, and Mozart didn't RECORD any of is pieces. They're recreations like art always would be. PIECES of art are always contemporary but what is ART as a whole is their addition to the historical canon. Somthin people CAN'T consume when they're so worried about spoilers. Then it stops beign a discussion with the artist and becomes a lecture, a little commecial escape room where the "art" is providing some puzzle of a metaphor you're too coy to address directly, like reading Animal Farm as a children's book. What art is that?

@@sboinkthelegday3892 Very well said. In general I can enjoy many aspects of how something is presented, but I tend to lean toward "authentic" when possible. So I have my real hardware and CRT to scratch that itch (as close as I reasonably can, it will never be exactly how it was when I was younger). But the newer way the content is presented and consumed, (pixel perfect/modern screens/emulated), I try and appriciate it as its own thing instead of a replacement.

Software Emulation and Hardware Emulation can be just as accurate as the other. It only depends on the time and dedication spent by the programers. Software emulation is more flexible and feature rich, but accuracy require more computing power so that's why emulation on cheap devices can be glitchy or laggy as they're using shortcuts/speed hacks in order to compensate the weakness of the host hardware. FPGAs are more efficient and usually don't necessitate as much tinkering from the user to get great results out of the box.

Great point!

That's awesome - I love typescript!

Thank you for the Super, kind comments, and encouragement - very generous! Very cool that you’re a game designer! Can you share any titles you’ve worked on?

I'd argue translation layers aren't really emulation. You could argue programs like Box86 are as they need to translate to a different architecture, but programs like wine, proton, and dxvk are only really changing OS syscalls and apis. They aren't emulating any hardware.

Thank you - as I'm sure you know, building animations is quite time consuming... I appreciate you taking the time to acknowledge them!

Solid points!