Making a new game console (yes really)

[SpamYouToDeath]

So im a little confused. Isnt this kinda like exactly what a evercade is?

Sure, I guess. But isn't an Xbox kinda like exactly what a Playstation is? I've made some different tradeoffs in my design which I think are good for game developers. I'm excited to see comparisons. It certainly wouldn't be hard to make a multi-platform game with versions for both machines. (I consider my approach to have an advantage here - my system just uses SD cards, so there's no special tooling to make the game carts.)

Is this running a software renderer ? I dont know shit about arm Im mean im assuming they've got some sort of built in gpu but is that in the actual cpu or is that just on the mobo chip set?

It's all software-rendered, using the ARM9 core. There's no GPU in this system - I find them annoying to deal with.

 

[ysselcneogeo]

Sure, I guess. But isn't an Xbox kinda like exactly what a Playstation is? I've made some different tradeoffs in my design which I think are good for game developers. I'm excited to see comparisons. It certainly wouldn't be hard to make a multi-platform game with versions for both machines. (I consider my approach to have an advantage here - my system just uses SD cards, so there's no special tooling to make the game carts.)


It's all software-rendered, using the ARM9 core. There's no GPU in this system - I find them annoying to deal with.

I mean you're using an arm9 right. So the evercade uses a 1.2ghz cortex a7. Seems like thats almost double the speed. What price point would you say you're aiming at then?

I love seeing things using software rendering. But shouldnt the aim be to run the best software rendered games ever. Think unreal 2004 was the last game to offer software rendering.

 

[pixeljunkie]

Sure, I guess. But isn't an Xbox kinda like exactly what a Playstation is? I've made some different tradeoffs in my design which I think are good for game developers. I'm excited to see comparisons. It certainly wouldn't be hard to make a multi-platform game with versions for both machines. (I consider my approach to have an advantage here - my system just uses SD cards, so there's no special tooling to make the game carts.)


It's all software-rendered, using the ARM9 core. There's no GPU in this system - I find them annoying to deal with.

I am digging this project and looking forward to see what you have planned. I would throw so many retro fps games on this thing.