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[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was kicking around the idea of building an arcade machine at home and this might just be the one....

Now the real question - can you play old school platformers on it with split second precision that doesnt get interrupted by random shit on the OS? Even Nintendo's SNES Classic was horseshit for games like Megaman. Or maybe I just suck now.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

Software based emulators always have a bit of input latency. If you want the native experience you need an FPGA system.