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It's honestly good advice, but I much prefer original hardware when possible. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/retrogaming

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[–] RightHandOfIkaros 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

By its very nature, an FPGA is not original hardware.

An FPGA is hardware that is designed to be very similar to original hardware, but it does not actually use original hardware components, and because of this it can actually have bugs or inaccuracies that were never present in original hardware.

[–] aidan 3 points 1 month ago

An FPGA is hardware that is designed to be very similar to original hardware,

Well to be even more precise, its designed to be able to replicate most hardware of anything. Not designed for a specific device