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Market InsightsWhy FPGA Consoles Are Quietly Reshaping Retro GamingAsk anyone who's tried to play a boxed copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga on original Saturn hardware lately: the tax on "authentic" retro gaming keeps climbing. Working consoles die, capacitors leak, and CRTs are heavy enough to throw your back out. Which is exactly why the FPGA movement has gone from niche hobbyist obsession to the most interesting thing happening in the scene right now. What changed, and why collectors are paying attention For years, the choice was binary: original hardware or so
Market InsightsWhy FPGA Consoles Are Quietly Eating the Retro MarketAsk anyone who tried to buy an original Super Nintendo last year and they'll tell you the same thing: a decent boxed console isn't the casual pickup it was five years ago. Loose consoles still turn up cheap, but clean examples with the right cables and a working RGB-capable board have crept steadily upward. And here's the thing collectors are only now admitting out loud – a growing chunk of players have stopped chasing the original hardware altogether. The reason is sitting on a lot of shelves
Condition & GradingHow to Grade a PS1 Disc Before You Buy or SellHold the disc under a lamp and tilt it. If the underside glows that deep, smoky black, you're holding the real thing – Sony pressed original PlayStation discs with black-tinted polycarbonate on the read side, and nearly thirty years on it's still the fastest authentication check in retro collecting. If it's silver, put it down. Everything else about grading a PS1 copy comes down to two honest questions: will it still play, and is it actually complete? Sellers blur both all the time. Here's how