A Raspberry Pi is not an FPGA, so it can’t do the hardware emulation that MiSTer can do. The article covers the benefits of an FPGA, so you can just apply those as the reasons one would get this instead of a Raspberry Pi.

I realized many years ago that I enjoy buying and owning games as much, or possibly even more, than playing them. Realizing that and embracing it has been pretty healthy in my experience. I budget about $50/month for buying games and treat that as almost a separate hobby from playing games.

Like others in this thread I’ve never been able to get into MH. Explanations like yours are why I’ve kept thinking I might enjoy it if I could just figure it out, but the biggest blocker for me is that (please correct me if I’m wrong) the monsters never have a health bar. How can I know if what I’m doing is effective?…

Income is actually at record highs right now because of the fiscal stimulus packages and people are spending far more times indoors. It may be short-sighted on the part of individuals to use that extra income to purchase a console but launching now is probably going to work out better for the console makers than they…

Anyone else think Tony Hawk kind of looks like Obama in that illustration?

Years ago I saw his infomercial for “Natural Cures” and loved it. I knew it was total BS but his arguments were somehow persuasive in that “I’ve never thought about it that way” way. I talked to a lot of my friends about the strangely compelling informercial and for my birthday that year one of my friends got me the…