• Might as well use a software emulator. (Score:3)

  by Truekaiser ( 724672 ) writes:

  I am hating the recent trend of sticking a raspberry pi into a retro console to 'emulate' part of it and calling it a hack.

  If you're going to do that, might as well emulate it via software on a pc. you can leverage a full modern graphics stack, api's,a nd shaders to enhance the game.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by AmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:

    The benefit is that you get the original analogue video and audio. Even FPGAs can't quite perfectly recreate that stuff. Very close, but not perfect.

    I'm not saying I'm interesting in it myself, and arguably for a game like Doom there isn't any benefit to having that level of authenticity. I can understand the reason for it though.
    • Re:Might as well use a software emulator. (Score:2)

      by algaeman ( 600564 ) writes: on Sunday March 15, 2026 @12:28PM (#66042600)

      It's DOOM. The original sound and audio were on a PC. The whole point with this is that the SNES cartridge sucked- there were audio and video glitches because the hardware wasn't as good as your typical 386. It would be like speeding up the Atari version of PacMan; the game still sucks. It's a nice bit of closure for this guy, but hardly newsworthy.

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