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Thanks, it's generated with Hugo using the https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod theme. However, I made some modifications to the theme for the first time recently, and le…

Good question, I didn't talk about this in the writeup. It's because I think that this design is the most efficient use of space, if you want to ensure that Game Boy cartridges don…

Thanks! Yeah, support for physical cartridges makes it a complete non-issue. Mappers are a huge problem with the NES, but a much smaller problem with the Game Boy. There are only a…

Yeah, that's another advantage. Theoretically you can get down to I think with a dedicated emulation handheld (non-FPGA), you could probably pull some tricks to bring down the late…

Great question! In the absolute worst case (drawing an object at the very top of the screen, and the LCD output for the next frame started right before the current one finished), b…

Thanks for the feedback! Do you mean have it be an entirely different color (e.g. blue), or dim the other inactive headers to make the active one stand out more?

I agree, and wrote a rant about this as part of the post: https://eli.lipsitz.net/posts/introducing-gamebub/#a-brief-r... IMO: the only real advantage is that it allows you to meet…

Populated PCB in quantity 100 would probably be 60-70 USD, yeah. Maybe a bit less, it really depends on how much you can buy the FPGAs for. I really did want to switch to the RP235…

Thanks! Slint has been great to work with :)

I imagine there's a huge difference, legally, with black-box reverse engineering and then creating a very similar design on an FPGA (what I did here), and actually fully decapping …

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 …

Yep, that’s definitely a concern with hardware projects. I guess mass produced hardware doesn’t run into the problem as much because there’s funding for upfront bulk component purc…

Hey HN, Over the past ~1.5 years, I built an open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld that can play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges. To my knowledge, the…

Can’t find an official announcement or datasheet yet, but according to this post: * 2x Cortex-M33F * improved DMA * more and improved PIO * external PSRAM support * variants with i…

I'm not saying that FPGAs aren't interesting, or don't have the possibility of allowing one to produce highly accurate emulators. I think that FPGA emulators are really cool -- I'v…

Yeah, I guess it's mostly just wordsmithing. But I don't think it's pedantry: by making the claim that their hardware isn't emulation, it implies that it's somehow better than soft…

The issue I have is that they’re implying it’s inherently better than software emulation, perhaps because it more accurately reproduces the behavior. But an FPGA emulator isn’t nec…

But it isn’t a 1-to-1 simulation of the real hardware. Unless they have the original designs for the chips used in the N64, they’re still implementing something with likely very di…

Whether it’s a program running on a CPU that interprets software written for the original device, or a configuration of look-up-tables in an FPGA that can interpret software writte…

Sure, it’s not a software emulator, but it’s still an emulator. And Analogue’s use of “No Emulation” is dishonest: it implies that it’s somehow inherently better than a software em…

Analogue makes some really cool, well-engineered products. But saying there’s “No Emulation” because it uses an FPGA is blatantly false. If it’s imitating original hardware, withou…

I spent a few months building a Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator that runs on an FPGA. It can play physical cartridges (in addition to ROM (files), and link with other Game Boy…

Altera, not Xilinx (owned by AMD)