At some point, you'll look back at this and ask yourself "Am I really this fucking stupid?" Short answer? Yeah... Hopefully by now you know that Analogue products are much more than your run of the mill emulator. Then again, you're a pirate.. So any excuse to indulge yourself I guess?
Here's my thing about the MiSTeR (is that how you're supposed to spell it?):
Outside of the price to get everything for it (which, thanks to some financial backing from Intel, isn't as much as it should be to buy), how much can the device cover, and what's the ceiling with the hardware for it? AFAIK, the RAM expansion for goes up to 128MB, which is impressive that it tries to do so much with so little, but they only recently have started emulating the Neo-Geo (and I have to ask, is it the AES or the MVS? Is Neo-Geo CD support planned for the future? How about arcade emulation in general?)
Not to mention, but it seems like the MiSTeR is really good for gaming, and that's about it. Needless to say, it's neat that it's got a focus towards a topic this forum's concerned with, but compared to something like a RPi4 or any of ODroid's SBC offerings, what makes the MiSTeR really that much better outside of providing better support for CRTs, less input lag (something I noticed that can be pretty yikes-worthy on both the XU4 and the RPi4, even with a wired controller like the Fighting Commanders from HORI), and something more "authentic?"
And last, but most certainly not least, how does any FPGA stack up against the best emulator on a PC, with no concern for someone's hardware, regardless if the emulator has a core in RetroArch or is better being used standalone from a performance/accuracy perspective, and could software emulation eventually outpace even the best efforts at accuracy by an FPGA?
I remember, around the time the Super Analogue NT came around, and you had that one facepalm inducer known as Mike Matei and Ryan (y'know, James Rolfe could go solo and no one would bat an eye) saying that emulation has to do with electrons, and a certain author of a certain SNES emulator said that, while the Super Analogue NT is a good option for those looking for the "legit" experience, it can't quite achieve the same accuracy as what can be replicated in software, hence my inquiries injury into these kinds of devices and how "accurate" they can be if given the maximum effort?