Unlike a regular computer a FPGA can load many different "cores" and emulate a console exactly 1:1 without any lag, it's like playing on a real console or arcade cabinet. User can switch between cores any time in seconds. "Cores" are the operating systems (hardware emulations) that can be loaded via onscreen-menu, for example "Sega Genesis Core" or "SegaCD Core" or "SNES Core". (here is a quick YT intro, this guy can explain it a lot better than me: )Ī MiSTer FPGA is basically a postcard-size box with a mini-computer that can emulate many older consoles and arcade games via a reprogrammable hardware chip (the so called FPGA (mainly used in engineering and education, meaning "field-programmable gate array"). Plus, it also allows you to sell off some solid copies of games which might be worth something by now, since you’d have everything on the console itself. So yeah, a couple of these are a bit pricey, but it’s a good investment depending on how much you would be spending on Saturn games otherwise. Plus the people who make it are notoriously toxic and have a bad reputation with customer support. Considering the higher price but without any bonus that puts it above the Fenrir or Satiator, it’s less desirable. MODE: around the same price as the Satiator, but it’s a mod like the Fenrir. No installation, your disc drive remains in place, it just pops right in and out in a split second. Satiator: it’s more expensive ($275ish I think?) but more convenient, in that it’s a little cartridge that just pops right into the slot above the battery compartment. Installation just requires opening up the console, detaching the disc drive and popping in the Fenrir in its place. Fenrir: the most popular, and most affordable at around (CORRECTION EDIT) $117-$170 depending on where you get it. Well, more accurately, you store the rom library on an SD card, put the SD card into the ODE, and it makes it so the console will boot to your library so you can play any and every game for free, all stored within the console for you to sort through. An ODE is an add-on that allows you to store a rom library inside the console itself. Lastly, there’s the ODEs (Optical Drive Emulator). Any game you want, just burn a copy, and pop it in like you would treat a regular game. It’s a cartridge that allows you to play burned discs on the console.
I’m a hardware person myself so I can’t give much advice there. Yup, the Saturn is actually going through a sort of boom right now in terms of piracy.įirstly, there’s simply emulating it on a computer.
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