Enlarge / Raspberry Pi cases like the Argon One won’t look out of place underneath your TV or next to your gaming PC. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Years ago, in the heyday of the NES Classic Edition, we put together a guide to building a retro emulation box with a Raspberry Pi board, the RetroPie operating […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Historically, when major game companies have talked about emulation, they’ve pigeonholed the technology primarily as a way for players to steal their IP through piracy. Now, though, Xbox chief Phil Spencer is urging the industry to embrace legal emulation as a way to preserve the legacy and wider […]
Enlarge / We’re so close to having an emulator that can perfectly recreate every single function of real SNES hardware and software. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Update, June 28, 2021: Ars was saddened to learn that the author of this piece, who also used the handle Near in online interactions, reportedly took their own life over […]
Developer Robert Peip shows off some split-screen Game Boy Advance multiplayer gaming through his new FPGA core. Here at Ars, we’re big fans of situations where emulation creates a classic gaming experience that’s actually better than what you could get with original hardware in some way or another. In the past, that has meant upsampling […]
Enlarge (credit: Plex) The streaming-hub app Plex has long endeared itself to a certain kind of media consumer—one who’d prefer to rip and stream their own purchased content from a home computer instead of relying on subscriptions. But while Plex has experimented with new features and media options over the past decade-plus, this week sees […]
Expand / Why play with new games on those expensive consoles if you’re able to emulate older ones? Following a console is launched, it typically requires hackers weeks or even years now to discover a hole at the console’s safety that enables them set up homebrew applications like emulators. So it could come as a […]
The Surface Phone X using optional Lean Pen and computer keyboard. [charge: Microsoft ] Windows notebooks and convertibles operating ARM are not precisely the majority of the marketplace, now, but you will find a few of them –such as Microsoft’s own upgraded Surface Pro X, that was only announced today. Among the reasons why maybe […]