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Message: [QUOTE="Graw, post: 104304, member: 90249"] But it's not. Functionally it's the same. To use the nes as an example CPU 8-bit, 1.66 Mhz Memory 2 Kb RAM - Video RAM 2 Kb I could emulate several instances of the nes system and any modern computer would barely even notice the resource usage. Like these systems are significantly less resource intensive than a modern computer by a massive almost unintelligible factor. Like thousands of times less resource intensive. Modern emulators for most of the popular 8 and 16 bit systems have reached a point of being mostly cycle accurate. If this were 20 years ago I'd agree with what you say but things have come a long way over that time period. Yes because that is one of the actual intended purposes of FPGA chips, prototyping and design. This is a valid point and I can't argue with that and honestly, I would think an FPGA based dedicated device would be significantly better than most of the cheap, shitty dedicated emulation devices out there. I think those things are part of the problem. People play retro games on those things and think emulation sucks but it's those shitty underpowered devices that suck. Hard agree right there. I wasn't intending to come in and shit on everyone's love of FPGA devices, i'm just fairly skeptical that they offer a significant difference. It just reminds me of the people who think they can tell a difference in audio between FLAC files and WAV files and stuff like that. I mean sure, if it makes you happier to store massive files, go for it but I think there comes a point of diminishing returns as far as cost vs perceived quality. But if people enjoy it why not? [/QUOTE]

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