It exists, it's called a Gaming PC with Emulators. It costs about £500-700 minus the Keyboard, Monitor and Mouse.
What would you pay for that device ?
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Errr, I trust your judgment, ichichfly (especially as a developer), but a FPGA would mean only one thing: emulation cores for ALL the devices you speak of. While you can load them at boot, requiring as a maximum space only the amount for the bigger one of the lot, it's still a problem.
As you may know, people are STILL trying to implement FAR easier cpus in VHDL/Verilog (68020, for example) than the ones you speak of, and they've been worked on for years.
There's around a fairly stable reimplementation of the Amiga 500, of the Commodore 64 and few other (old) home computers.
Then we get to the main problem: FPGA space. Smaller FPGAs cost decent amounts, bigger ones (required for more modern projects) cost LOTS of bucks. Advanced units also go for $4000-5000, and I'm sure there are some that cost even more.
Creating a PS2 core for FPGA would probably require 3-4 of the most expensive FPGAs around - so a device like that would cost around $20000.
Well, also don't forget that you'd need someone to WRITE that much code. Which would probably take ages, since they're really complicated architectures.
Talking of feasible FPGA projects: http://www.fpgaarcade.com/
It can "emulate" an host of platforms, which roughly shows that economical FPGAs should reach SNES at best, when it comes to capacity.
I know but I just thought what if...
add: It was an FPGA with an inbuilt CPU advertised with a speed of 800 MHz (arm instruction)
Well, that could help as it could off-load some of the FPGA of the less powerful chips... but I'm not sure.
It'd be a lot more feasible to invest time in the new octa-core Exynos which are coming out. Highly optimized ARM emulators (assembly anyone) could be possible for PS2 and GC on that.
And they'd cost HEAPS less!
I... wouldn't be able to afford it, the same I wasn't able to afford the consoles it would be emulating.
Yes holding a monitor,mouse,keyboard and a gaming pc with emulators with 2 hands while still playing them is possible.
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Human cloning is illegal Bro. Don't make this into an argument over ethical issues.
It is, it's called a laptop with a GPU.
(Really, I can play all of those emulators well on my laptop.)
Last time I checked, animal cloning is legal. So, the question still stands, would you clone yourself a thousand times?
What you're telling me is that you can walk around holding a laptop in one hand while playing PSX games.
Please post a video.
Please.
Two hands, you don't play a 3DS with one hand, do you?
Also, controllers do wonders, hold the laptop with your elbows, play with your hands. Finally, you walk around playing on a handheld? Do you want to bump into something?
It would be hard to hold a laptop with both hands and then continue to play.
Holding a laptop with your elbows I guarantee you drop it eventually.
Again please post a video.
Walking around playing a handheld isn't hard.
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