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Re:OpenFPGA. The future of video game preservation by vardump on Monday February 12, 2024 @03:39PM (#39350163)
An FPGA can be 100% hardware perfect with practically no extra processing cost. The potential is there, even if it's not initially exploited.

CPU based emulation will require a fairly powerful CPU just to emulate SNES. It's pretty expensive to emulate hardware in 180-190 ns increments.

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Re:OpenFPGA. The future of video game preservation by pclmulqdq on Monday February 12, 2024 @09:27PM (#39353576)
This isn't quite true - you lose some of the weird analog stuff that may have happened. On a well-designed board, though, you can get essentially perfect cycle-accurate reproduction.
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