Taki Udon, the developer of the FPGA PS1 open source console, the SuperStation One, has shared a first look at a set of prototype renders for its upcoming memory card line on social media.

As many have noted, the cards share a fairly similar design to the 8BitMods' MemCard Pro line, complete with a screen to display memory card data and other options.

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Analogue's FPGA N64 console is still on target for release in Q4 of this year, the company has reiterated.

The Analogue 3D was originally supposed to launch in 2024, and has been delayed multiple times. However, the firm – which also makes the Analogue Pocket, Analogue Duo, Super NT, and Mega Sg – insists that this time, the release window is locked in.

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SuperStation One creator Taki Udon has given us the best look yet at the system's 'Console Mode' UI.

This is the culmination of eight months of work, and is a user-friendly frontend which will also be compatible with existing MiSTer FPGA systems (that will include Taki Udon's own MiSTer Pi).

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The revived Commodore has just confirmed that it has now taken over 10,000 pre-orders for the C64 Ultimate, a new variant of the classic 8-bit home computer.

This follows the news that the company managed to raise over $2 million following the opening of the pre-order campaign.

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After years of emulation woes, the Nintendo 64 has found a new lease of life in the world of FPGA retro gaming, and has not one but two hardware clones on the horizon: the Analogue 3D and ModRetro M64.

According to a new report by The Memory Core, a newsletter devoted to emulation and retro gaming, it has been revealed that these two rivals are taking different approaches when it comes to conquering the community's demand for an accurate FPGA-based N64.

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Once upon a time, it was claimed with some degree of confidence that the MiSTer FPGA platform would never host cores for consoles like the PS1, N64 and Sega Saturn, yet in 2025, we have excellent and accurate options for all three.

Of that trio, the Saturn core has always been seen as a crowning achievement, largely down to the fact that Sega's 32-bit system's dual-CPU architecture is notoriously tricky to emulate, even on powerful PCs.

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Taki Udon's FPGA PS1 SuperStation One has been making headlines for a while now, thanks to its sleek looks, wide range of supported games and reasonable price – and now we can see what it will look like in the flesh.

Taki Udon has shown off a prototype of the console in its "Midnight Blue" colour scheme. He notes that the glossy surface isn't final, but says what we're all thinking – "It looks beautiful."

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Eli Lipsitz's FPGA-based Game Boy clone, Game Bub, has hit crowdfunding and is already well on its way to achieving its target.

Powered by the Artix XC7A100T FPGA, the Game Bub runs physical Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges, and supports original accessories, like link cables and the Game Boy Camera.

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Analogue's FPGA-based N64 – the Analogue 3D – is one of the year's most highly anticipated retro hardware releases, but it has been subject to more than one delay, which is making the wait even harder.

While the system isn't expected to launch until Q4 of this year, the company has finally released footage of it in action, running 1080 Snowboarding (thanks, Pixel Cherry Ninja).

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We've already had one hardware maker react to the suspension of the De Minimis exemption for shipments to the US in the form of Evercade maker Blaze, and that certainly isn't going to be an isolated incident – as a fresh announcement from the 'new' Commodore attests.

The industry veteran, which was recently revived by YouTuber Christian Simpson, has confirmed that its forthcoming C64 Ultimate home computer may be impacted by the policy change.

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ModRetro, the retro hardware maker founded by Palmer Luckey, has already released one FPGA-based Nintendo clone on the market in the form of the Chromatic, and it's currently working on the M64, a system that replicates the performance of the N64 using FPGA technology.

Luckey has shared footage of a prototype in action, and FPGA expert MisterAddons / Porkshop Express has spotted that it appears to be running FPGAzumSpass's excellent N64 core.

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Analogue has just announced on social media that shipping for its FPGA-based N64 clone, the Analogue 3D, has been delayed to July 2025.

The Analogue console became available for pre-order in October of last year and was originally supposed to ship sometime in Q1 2025, but as we're now in the middle of March, it's become pretty clear that the developer was starting to run out of time to fulfil its original promise.

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Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX Spectrum is one of the most talked-about and influential home computers the world has ever seen, despite its commercial reach being mostly limited to the United Kingdom. With around five million units sold during its lifetime – and playing host to thousands of games – the ZX Spectrum launched the careers of countless bedroom coders and created a generation of devoted gamers.

We've seen multiple attempts to capitalise on the deep-rooted nostalgia that exists for this venerable home micro – including the ill-fated ZX Vega+ and the somewhat more successful Spectrum micro-console – but arguably the most promising revival of this legendary system is the ZX Spectrum Next, an FPGA-powered replica that began life in Brazil over a decade ago before coming to market via Kickstarter in 2017.

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We haven't covered Taki Udon's promising SuperStation One FPGA console for a while, but there have been some exciting developments in recent days which are worth shouting about.

For starters, Taki Udon has added support for Sega CD games running directly from disc via the SuperStation's optional SuperDock, which includes an optical drive.

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Based on FPGA technology and designed to run both past and next-generation Spectrum software, the ZX Spectrum Next may be a niche proposition, but it has found plenty of fans in Sinclair fandom—the only problem is that it's incredibly hard to get hold of one as they're not mass-produced.

Instead, the team behind the system have held crowdfunding campaigns to raise the cash required to make more units, and we're approaching the third and perhaps final of those campaigns.

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Taki Udon – the team leader behind products like the Super 5, SuperStation, and MiSter Pi – has just teased another potential product, this time with a NES theme.

"All you need are 8-bits," he says in a post on social media. "Our hardware intern has been working on a cool project that is almost done."

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The team behind the GF1 Neptune, a FPGA recreation of the Genesis / Mega Drive and 32X combo that never was, has announced that the machine will launch this December.

Sega announced the Neptune back in the mid-'90s, just as it was preparing to release the 32X and Saturn.

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As we so often like to inform you, all of your vintage gaming hardware is slowly but surely shuffling towards the grave.

As the old saying goes, everything put together falls apart, and systems like the SNES are now operating way beyond their intended lifespan. Sooner or later, things are going to fail (or, in the case of Nintendo's 16-bit system, speed up), and the CPU is one such component.

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Taki Udon's SuperStation One is an FPGA interpretation of Sony's classic PS1 console built on the MiSTer FPGA platform, which means it will also run FPGA cores for a wide range of other systems, too.

The upcoming system will also allow you to use your original PS1 accessories—such as controllers and memory cards—and will run original PS1 discs via an optional dock.

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Since its inception in 2017, the MiSTer FPGA project has grown to become one of retro gaming's most popular platforms. Harnessing Field-Programmable Gate Array technology, the system is capable of emulating a host of consoles, handhelds, computers, and arcade machines at a hardware level, offering incredible accuracy and low latency.

While the MiSTer project has repeatedly defied expectations over the years—many assumed it would never be able to run PS1, Saturn or N64, but it can—there's a limit to its powers, and with that in mind, we've seen prospective rivals mooted, such as the Replay2, the much-delayed MARS FPGA and the vaporware SuperSega.

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Yesterday, Analogue gave us the rather sad news that its FPGA-based N64 clone, the Analogue 3D, has been delayed.

It wasn't all bad news, however, as this was accompanied by some more welcome news—PocketOS has been updated to version v2.5, and this brings with it the ability to connect every Nintendo Switch Online wireless controller to the device via its dock. The service offers NES, Famicom, SNES, N64 and Genesis / Mega Drive pads.

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Taki Udon's promising SuperStation One FPGA PS1 console is getting a lot of people excited, and with good reason—not only is it capable of running your original PS1 games and accessories, but it will also play games for other systems thanks to the fact that it's built on the MiSTer FPGA platform.

We've already seen what the system and its dock will look like, but now Taki Udon is showing off the SuperStation One's bespoke user interface, which will support user themes and box artwork. There's even an option for captured screenshots to be used as wallpaper.

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Tecmo's 1989 belt scroller Tecmo Knight / Wild Fang has come to MiSTer FPGA and Analogue Pocket, thanks to Jotego's Patreon.

"This belt-scrolling action game was created by the same team as Ninja Gaiden," says the FPGA developer. "An interesting aspect of the game is that the protagonist fights on a ‘servant’. There are three types of servants: a giant, a tiger and a flying dragon. Players can change freely back and forth from the giant to the tiger, but the dragon requires a special item."

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If you thought the SuperSega saga had finally come to a close, then you're wrong.

Alejandro Martin is back, having seemingly admitted defeat in the face of legal action from Sega over the use of its name. A new revised "Supercónsola" is being proposed that will apparently ditch the expensive AMD Ultrascale+ FPGA chipset in favour of the cheaper alternative found in the MiSTer FPGA project.

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Software engineer Eli Lipsitz has just revealed their next project: an open-source FPGA-based handheld which plays Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges, as well as ROMs loaded via an SD card.

The 'Game Bub' also supports the Game Boy link cable, has a built-in rumble, real-time clock and and the ability to expand it with other features in the future. It also has an optional dock which offers HDMI-out.

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