One Month of the SuperStation One

I’ve settled into being some kind of “emulation guy” over the years — a quick glance at the backlog of posts on this very website will prove that point for me — but I’ve never considered myself a “hardware emulation guy.” The world of FPGA development, preordering or missing out on preordering Analogue consoles, and MiSTer devices has always seemed to me like a too-expensive hobby to get into with advantages that are harder to find than the extremely low-effort and significantly more accessible software emulation route. While I can appreciate that hardware emulation is technically more “precise” in a lot of ways, the upfront cost of achieving that accuracy pales in comparison to the generally free experience of playing games on basically every device I already own. An aside on hardware vs software emulation: Software emulators are programs which use code to replicate the experience of playing old games on new devices. These are the apps you download on your phone or your computer like…