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Once upon a time, Sega had plans to release an all-in-one Genesis / Mega Drive and 32X home console called Neptune. Those plans were scrapped when the 32X flopped and it became clear that Sega needed to focus on Saturn, but not before the company had shown off a prototype. That same design is...

Taki Udon's much-hyped MiSTer FPGA rival has been getting plenty of attention over the past few weeks, mainly because it aims to shake up the market with its $99 price tag – a significant reduction on what a standard MiSTer setup costs. Taki Udon recently held a poll to decide what the name of...

Update [Thu 13th Jun, 2024 13:20 BST]: Following the minor backlash against the 'Mr. Pi' name, Taki Udon created a poll on Twitter (sorry, Elon) asking people which name they would prefer. It's worth noting that any option other than 'Mr. Pi' would incur a month's delay on production...

Taki Udon's $99 MiSTer FPGA clone has certainly generated a lot of interest since it was first announced. The world of MiSTer is an expensive one to enter, due to the high cost of the hardware – so the impending arrival of a cheaper alternative has rightly excited a lot of retro gamers. Taki...

Atari's Gauntlet arcade hardware has been ported to the Analogue Pocket as a new OpenFPGA core. The core has been ported from the MiSTer FPGA by obsidian-dot-dev. It covers Gauntlet, Gauntlet II and Vindicators Part II. Designed by Ed Logg and originally released in 1985, Gauntlet was a...

It's fair to say that the announcement of the ModRetro Chromatic took the retro gaming world by surprise. Created by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and boasting FPGA architecture to ensure 100% compatibility and accuracy, the Chromatic is set to shake up the Game Boy world in 2024 – and Luckey...

Palmer Luckey is known for his pursuits into the world of virtual reality, having founded Oculus and designed the Rift VR headset. Prior to the $2 billion dollar buyout of Oculus, however, Luckey had a hobby of modding Game Boy handhelds and taking home consoles and turning them into portable...

The Analogue Pocket appears to have some more competition via the Chromatic handheld, which runs Game Boy and Game Boy Color carts via FPGA emulation. Equipped with the "world's only 160x144 pixels sunlight readable backlit display" which is protected by "super scratch-resistant sapphire front...

If you've been following the MiSTer FPGA scene for the past few years, you'll be aware that it's a remarkable piece of hardware which offers truly accurate retro gaming emulation – but you'll probably also know that it's really expensive. The MiSTer is based around Terasic's DE10-Nano board...

FPGA developer Jotego has just released an update which brings Sega's Alien Storm and Capcom's Bionic Commando to the Analogue Pocket and MiSTer platforms. The cores, which are currently only available to Jotego's Patreon supporters, are JTS18 and JTBIOCOM. The former is Jotego's...

Taki Udon, who is involved with the production of several new pieces of FPGA-based retro gaming hardware, has revealed that the upcoming FPGA handheld will use an AMOLED screen – giving it a considerable advantage over the Analogue Pocket, which uses an (admittedly excellent) LTPS LCD panel...

The world of FPGA retro gaming has been dominated by MiSTer FPGA over the past few years, but in more recent times, news of the more powerful MARS FPGA platform has caught people's attention. It looks like MARS might have competition, though, as we've just had a bunch of new intel on a system...

The team behind the MARS FPGA project has just revealed new information about the promising retro gaming platform. The biggest bombshell is that the console will allow you to use your original carts thanks to interchangeable modules, very much like the Polymega – with the obvious difference...