VGEsoterica
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Funny timing considering the news that Nintendo is going after Yuzu. Sigh...Nintendo will never stop
but as of Sunday the MiSTer FPGA N64 core can now emulate NES games with Neon64...which is a fun party trick but MiSTer already has an NES core so what's the point?
Its all down to how FPGA cores get made. N64 having a MIPS CPU with a certain amount of instruction sets means that each one of those instruction sets has to be set up perfectly in FPGA for the core to function 1:1 with a real N64 console. Getting Neon64 fully running in the N64 core means that the CPU instruction set is correctly written and operating within the FPGA chip as the emulator was written in MIPS for real N64 hardware.
Plus its always fun to see just how complex and wild these kinds of projects can get. An FPGA recreation of a N64 running a software emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System...multiple layers of the onion peeled back to give everyone a more modern N64 in FPGA
But Gaf...who's playing N64 in FPGA yet? Can't be just me
but as of Sunday the MiSTer FPGA N64 core can now emulate NES games with Neon64...which is a fun party trick but MiSTer already has an NES core so what's the point?
Its all down to how FPGA cores get made. N64 having a MIPS CPU with a certain amount of instruction sets means that each one of those instruction sets has to be set up perfectly in FPGA for the core to function 1:1 with a real N64 console. Getting Neon64 fully running in the N64 core means that the CPU instruction set is correctly written and operating within the FPGA chip as the emulator was written in MIPS for real N64 hardware.
Plus its always fun to see just how complex and wild these kinds of projects can get. An FPGA recreation of a N64 running a software emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System...multiple layers of the onion peeled back to give everyone a more modern N64 in FPGA
But Gaf...who's playing N64 in FPGA yet? Can't be just me
