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Apparently you can attach a external CD/DVD reader to any FPGA device and it should be able to read physical games and play them on your mister. Apparently some people have made their FPGA's look like a console similar to these which honestly look better designed than the SuperStation One.

https://pukepals.com/2025/06/05/mister-fpga-console/

https://www.reddit.com/r/MiSTerFPGA/comments/zfwwdt/mister_fpga_final_form_for_now/

Granted I don't think either of these play discs and I think they are just cases but how hard would it be to make a mister similar to these? If not, is it worth buying one of those basic misters that look like a small box that is the same size of a soda can and just attach a disc reader to it? If I do that is there an option for a console like menu similar to what the SuperStation One has where it shows the box art of the game and some screenshots of what the game is? Some frontends for emulators like ES-DE do this so I am curious if this is available?

I would assume saves on the original controller paks for the n64 controllers work just fine, but I want to use my pro controller. On the experimental tab in the M64 menu the built in controller pak is under coming soon so I am assuming that feature is not yet implemented with the console yet? That is kind of wild to release a console and not have the option to have save games work on the controller paks when you release it. I am not certain if the controller pak saves is either on the pro controller or the console itself? Granted I think a lot of N64 games didn't really use the controller pak to save games but there are still a few games I own that I can't fully play through unless I either just use my original N64 controller with its controller pak or just play through the entire game in one setting and not save.

I am getting the feeling the M64 will probably not be able to play a few N64 games or some games will have some minor issues/accuracies when it launches. How accurate was the Analogue 3D when that came out? Was it able to play the entire N64 library? I think I heard it had issues with the DK 64 vine test where in the demo of that game DK plays through the first level and at a certain point he jumps and tries to grab onto a floating vine which I heard failed originally on the A3D. Was the A3D able to play all regions at launch or can it do it now, I mean like games from Japan and PAL regions? Currently I do not see a list of either Japan or PAL in M64's compatibility list so I am really hoping they start adding that so I can play some imports from Japan.

For me it was Elden Ring which I found it incredibly bizarre at the time. What was the first game you played that did this?

It's well known that Dooms music borrowed some things from music from popular metal bands at the time. Music from other older games did this also where they kind of sound similar to some popular music. Bobby Prince who was the composer for Doom 1 and 2 was also a lawyer and he knew how much he was allowed to take from a song and put it into the games legally.

For example Doom 1's E1M1 song borrowed from Metallicas song No Remorse, is there a WAD to replace all of the songs in the game with the music that Bobby Prince took inspiration from?

I just bought and paid for this item on the RetroRemake website on May 30th for both the console and its CD dock. Curious how long it will take for them to ship the console to me, it was part of the batch 4 and from what I understand from its shipping dashboard I think they are waiting for SuperDocks to be finished before shipping more?

I have heard online that the console apparently can get pretty hot, can it get hot enough to damage the console? Is it safe for me to use the same charger that came with my Steam deck, or can it overpower and fry the system? I hear mixed things from people saying that it's way too much power for the system and others say its fine it will only take the required amount of power from the charger is giving it.

I have heard apparently its still missing features that were promised such as I think a console interface and also its SuperDock obviously. Is the console interface like the ES-DE Frontend for emulation? Will it have box arts for ROMS, little descriptions for games, ability to favorite games so I don't have to keep scrolling to find them, and even some small gameplay videos showing off what the game is like similar to what ES-DE does? Some frontends for emulators allow you to scrape boxart for games to give some visual representation of what you are playing, from what I know currently the SuperStation One uses the Mister FPGAs simple interface. I see posts of people getting their SuperDocks on this subreddit but apparently it does not work currently? Is there other features missing from this console? I heard the creator of it tends to promise too many features for his projects or he gets involved with too many?

My first Harvest Moon game was the one on N64 and growing up I always thought Natsume were the creators of the series, but that wasn't true they were its publisher and translator, Marvelous was the series true creator. Marvelous suddenly chose to I think publish the series themselves and then rebranded the series as Story of Seasons outside of Japan. As we all know or should know the series in Japan is called Bokujō Monogatari which doesn't translate into English as Harvest Moon, but Natsume owns the Harvest Moon name and has been making farming sim games with the Harvest Moon name for branding confusion.

I haven't followed this series that closely but from what I remembered the early Harvest Moon games made by Natsume only were panned as very bad, did their games get better? Are any of them good?

Wouldn't this be possible? Since the machine can play physical CD games with the addon and be hardware accurate to the CD games original hardware could Retro Remake make an addon for the console to play carts too? It can play SNES, Genesis, N64 and other cart based games from the 80's and 90's via emulation and be hardware accurate. It can be sorta similar to what the Analogue pocket does which it primarily plays GB, GBC, and GBA but it has adapters to play other handheld cart games. You could buy a cartridge dock for the SuperStation and then purchase whatever adapters for whatever console you want separate. The only issue I see with this is that on all sides of the SuperStation from what I see online has ports for either video, usb, controllers and slots for the ps1 memory card so I dunno where the carts would go unless they make the carts go in sideways under the system which would look really weird.

I just thought it would be really cool if there was a FPGA console that basically was a all in one system that played basically nearly every console around the PS1 and below with either physical media or via roms on a SD card so that a flash cart isn't required.

Pretty good video overall, they were pretty vague about this console in general with what it can do. Also I didn't notice Casey Neistat holding the controller wrong for Mario Kart lol.