"i made a custom retro style console" youtube video

look inside

raspberry pi

similarly, "i made a custom retro style game cartridge" youtube video

look inside

sd card

@SRAZKVT Yes!! So many "made a new NES mapper chip, look what the NES could have been capable of" carts are just "here's a thing that's 1000x more powerful than the system it's running in" and that's not satisfying to me

@JoshJers like, im sorry, if i click on a video about making a retro style game console, i expect you to make a retro style game console. Not print something in your 3d printer in brown and stick a raspberry pie inside, running games that already existed

where's the fun in that

you just made a fancy case

@SRAZKVT now I'm thinking of "retro console that's a raspberry pi but the compiler adds 1999 nops for every actual instruction"

Still not the same but it'd be funny!

@JoshJers @SRAZKVT I really tried with #Mega68k to be authentic to the limits, and even the affordability of the time. It's really hard not to cheat though, even by accident.

@TomF @SRAZKVT Yeah I really appreciate the overall care that you've put into Mega68k and making it feel legit like it could have been a real system.

at one point when I was more ambitious I had a ridiculous plan that was

Step 1: make a SNES emulator
Step 2: push its timings/capabilities juuuust a bit to make a virtual console (a SSNES effectively)

But honestly I was never actually going to get around to step 1. I made an NES emulator and that on its own took me like 20 years to get right, and the SNES is way less well-documented than the NES is. I still think it would be a cool project but it's never going to bubble up to "this is how I want to spend my free time"