I’m a bit worried about their choice of name
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
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Sega mega game mastercast drive would have been way better
Yeah if this takes off it’s got a really problematic acronym
More an issue to have another existing company as part of your product's name. Slam dunk legal case for Sega right there.
They're missing out by not calling it GameCast.
This basically sounds too good to be true. Making an FPGA core for 1 console is already a challenge, but making a new console that uses multiple cores and plays hundreds of games perfectly? Not gonna be easy.
Especially since they also want to add many more hardware features. The disc drive in particular stands out. I really wonder how they are planning to make all of this work. It's like they want to recreate the hardware accurately but also add features.
Will the FPGA core be less accurate because of this? Or will it emulate the real hardware perfectly with these extra features added by another chip? Probably the latter, but I'm really looking forward how this is gonna work out nonetheless.
Definitely an interesting project.
Count me among the skeptical, I will check the team social media profiles.
I just did my personal research, this is shady, my personal take is that this is likely a scam.
Short answer, absolutely not.
The Virtex Ultrascale+ FPGA boards are $10,000 AND UP.
If you look up why Mister will not move up to more powerful FPGA chips, this is why.
Would it be cool? Yes. Definitely.
They might be able to do what Taki did and source the components they’re looking for directly from the manufacturer rather than using existing boards.
I do think this is a big stretch, but things in this market are starting to change.
Is it a scam?
Also yes, definitely.
I doubt this, but the Mars FPGA project supposedly will have a Dreamcast core and it’s being supported by respectable people in the community. The mister cores for everything else could be ported, though without the support of the original developers that might be a bit sketch.
I still doubt it, but I don’t think it’s impossible