Unrelated: Super NT (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, February 08, 2018, 06:42 (2269 days ago) @ cheapLEY

Have a bunch of old SNES games laying around but can't hook your SNES up to a modern TV?

For a mere $200, you can get the new Super NT. I won't pretend to actually understand the real difference between FPGA and software emulation, but FPGA apparently has much better latency, so if you're a freak for SNES, maybe it's worth the cost.

FPGA is a set of programmable logic gates. So you set up those logic gates to become a certain chip. It's basically like having the real actual chip. It's flexible, and with a firmware update you can change the setup. It's how SD2SNES can add support for different addon chips later on.

Emulation translates the game instructions from one hardware platform to another.

200 seems like a lot when you can get a real snes at a used game store or ebay for much less.