Update: As planned, the Superstation one went on sale during the weekend. Although the cheapest version is exhausted, the superstation is still available for pre-the-date at a discount rate of $ 180, with $ 225 as a price presumably after liberation. Together with the anticipated order, Taki Udon launched additional renders of the console along with the Superdock accessory. Here is a gallery of all the new images, and our original publication under that.
You can recognize Taki Udon from your retro games youtube channel, but last year a company began to make game hardware, including a much happier variant of the 10 -board behind the popular Mister FPGA project open source FPGA: you can read everything about My beloved Lord here, and has not slowed since then.
After a series of teasing, UDON retro imprint has removed the wrapping of its playstation clone with FPGA propensity, called Superstation One. The console based in the Lord begins in just $ 149.99 for early orders, in what is announces as an “edition of the founder”, with a later price that has a “hard limit” of $ 225 (also visible in this image of the store page). If you want that superspecial price, advance orders open at the following moments, in the retro store:
Superstation is a personalized Lord device, located in a plastic housing that certainly evokes the vibrations of the original playstation (or, perhaps, the PSONE would be more precise). While the device will execute any of the innumerable nuclei of the Lord, it is the PSX_Mister nucleus of the project that occupies the center of the stage here. Together with the original ports of PlayStation Controller and Memory Card at the front of the device, and a group of other entrances and exits according to any project of Lord, and the superstation one makes a convincing alternative to the often confusing assembly of the lord of the centers and SDRAM and SDRAM and SDRAM SNAC adapters. With the incorporated analog output, USB, NFC, Wifi, Bluetooth and Snac Support, the UDON console has excess the Lord to a really impressive degree. There is even an ignition button! (Lord users know. )
Then there is the question of how you get games in the thing. Retroke Remake has caused a separate accessory called Superdock, which houses a “CD/DVD unit, four USB A ports and a SSD bay of 2280 m.2”, and which seems to fit perfectly below one of the superstation. Although prices have not yet been announced, anticipated order deposits will be available for $ 5 together with a purchase of Superstation One.
If you prefer to omit the real disco load, or you would prefer to do what I did and embed small NFC stickers in its cases, the superstation one is equipped with an NFC reader so that you can use Zaparoo (Née Tapto) to load games, giving, giving, giving, giving, giving, Giving you tactile Console experience. Normally, the way you get the ROM that you will “hit” the device is a process that is better not to be expressed, but you spoke with excellent people in the extension of time about the superdock capabilities here.
Fortunately, Saving Games is divided from the media, and our SNAC ports give us the direct ability to load and save games without using cartridge -based solutions. That only leaves you with how to handle the CD itself. In a stock nucleus with a value system, it is possible to store its games in an internal SSD through a simple process. Every time you use that CD in the future, the stock system will call the stored backup and load the game without needing to do anything.
This is a great solution for those of us with large collections of PS1 albums, where they could tear their own rom and load them in the insertion of the album, or (presumably) NFC TAP if you prefer. While there is still a great open question about how these changes apply upstream to the Mister project, it is certainly convincing from the point of view of the user's experience.
If all this reminds you of the excellent cloned consoles of Analogue, well … yes, this is a direct competitor of what Analogue has been doing. While Analogue's products are beautiful and simple compared to the complexities of a lord construction, they lack flexibility and tinker factor that the Lord has. They also lack, for the frustration of many of their clients and fans of their name, analog production for the support of CRT, that superstation will support. Analogue has not yet reached a PlayStation core; Its first CD -based system was excellent, but Niche, Analogue Duo and Up Next is the 3D analogue, a 4K Nintendo 64 clone that should be sending this quarter. As much as you enjoyed all Analogue projects, it is exciting to see more competition in this space.