edwin128
Student
Yes. A great alternative to the Analogue's monopoly on these kind of devices!It is taking off pretty quickly, it now has more cores supported than the MiST project
Some random info of note:
- There is a cycle accurate 68000 core in FXCast (atari ST core)
- the 68k is now open source (as of a few days ago) and is nearly done porting to the genesis core (which runs the titan overdrive 2 demo pretty well already)
- The PC Engine/TG16 core is pretty much perfect
- There is a new scaler in development that has the option to turn off the framebuffer (0 lag mode - its on github so can be tested/played with today)
- You can load custom scalers at runtime in the newest dev builds (basically you have a framemeister built in)
- There is a low lag controller board being made (usb has about 16ms of lag on average so about 1 frame of lag if you use usb controllers on anything)
- furtek recently got one to see about porting his neogeo work to it
- a lot of cores work with just the de10 nano and don't even need the add on boards (genesis, TG16 all the arcade cores etc)
- what looks like complete SNES FPGA core just came out of nowhere a few days ago - the MiSTer devs have already said they will be porting it over
In terms of FPGA size, it has approx double the logic elements than the FPGA inside the super nt (so about twice the size).
Other thing to take note of is the DE10 nano can be purchsed from terasic on the official website and shipping is fast (it only took 2 days to receive mine to australia). Intel subsidize the sale of them so while you can buy them at $110-130USD the actual cost of the de10 nano is more around $300USD+. It's a part of an intel education initiative. I don't know how long thats going to last with the rate at which this thing is gaining attention. The intended purpose of the board is for education not for running retro gaming lol.
If anyone ever releases a CPS1/2 or neogeo core they will become overnight retro community celebrities lol