You've heard of the Raspberry Pi, but the MiSTer is the real best-in-class retro gaming device. Here's how to build one. By Steven T. Wright on November 11, 2022 at 12:00PM PST.

How to modernize your retro game collection in a few convoluted steps. All you need are NFC stickers, a reader, a MiSTer, and a lot of patience to add a physical touch to ROMs.

Towards the latter end is emulating the hardware with an FPGA which the open-source MiSTer project attempts to do. This build, though, adds ATX capabilities for the retrocomputing platform .

FPGA vs software emulation for retro gaming: ... That’s especially true for the MiSTer, so don’t take that step unless you’re truly ready to commit to hardware emulation.

Retro Remake also says that being based on the MiSTer platform makes the console "open source from day 1." Analogue has its own competing open source library of FPGA cores, called OpenFPGA .