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Wow you're unnecessarily aggressive and oppositional. Who hurt you today?
FPGAs can absolutely be used to provide cycle accurate hardware replacements. The fact that they guarantee realtime execution of instructions also makes it easier to achieve cycle-accurate execution than can be achieved with emulation.
I'm not claiming FPGAs are a magic bullet, but when it comes to offering a retro gaming experience they offer a number of advantages for accuracy that is incredibly difficult to achieve with emulation, and with input latency far closer to the original experience than an emulator can offer.
Edit: Oh, and since you crapped on my parable, educate yourself with a Google search for "ntvdm"
And the sky is bright blue. Who said otherwise?
Good thing my comment never claimed software emulation is easier then. Do if you are trying to "correct" somebody, I can do the same: FPGAs are still emulation.
Then your comment isn't relevant, because the only thing my comment ever said is to be careful with the marketing and comments claiming FPGAs are instantly accurate and perfect hardware clones.
Thanks ChatGPT
FPGAs are emulation. Also, given an arbitrarily powerful CPU, there's always a way to perfectly recreate the same result in software. It just obviously isn't practical for complex systems.
A) I didn't use AI for any of that B) you're behaving like a pedantic dick and I'm done with you.
You're done with the useless discussion you started yourself? Oh no! What shall I do?