Yeah but they seem to be suggesting no one has done fpga emulation before.

(I'm biased, I love my mister!)

After DE-10 Nanos what up in price (likely due to MiSTer), there was rumblings that it was too tied to the hardware to be portable.

I missed out when things were cheap and always assumed buying a board at the higher prices would be the trigger which caused the project to move to the next generation of hardware.

Yeah I paid the higher price unfortunately. The best thing about it is I don't spend all my time fiddling with settings like I do with software emulators.

Which is just rich, as Analogue takes advantage of preorders to limit hardware on a per-order basis, meaning they are always out of stock. Don't have this issue with the MiSTer.