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2025 Channel News and Xmas Special! The Video Game Esoterica Holiday Telethon



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It’s MiSTer FPGA NEWS AND UPDATES time! N64 FPGA core news, MiSTer FPGA Sega Saturn core news, MiSTer FPGA arcade game news…and more! MiSTer FPGA review time! FPGA gaming and retro games all in one! with more Taki Udon MiSTer FPGA clone review and builds with MiSTer Pi! MiSTer FPGA alternatives are here! a Terasic DE-10 Nano clone for all (or Terasic DE10 Nano clone if you hate hyphens) Retro gaming videos news galore…with some Sega Saturn gameplay too

But today it’s the Video Game Esoterica Christmas special with channel updates! So Happy Holidays!

Questions? Comments? Just leave them below and I will do my best to answer each and every one of them!

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28 days ago

I love this game! Its a great arcade home port, and i especially enjoy playing it with one 0f my arcade sticks for that genuine feel… I forgot to comment when i watched this during Christmas, so merry Christmas! This channel has recently become a favorite of mine. You touch on a lot of niche, arcade faves of mine and your videos on the 3DO M2s (that i was sorry we didnt get to see launch) made me subscribe. Very eclectic channel…please keep surprising with awesome content!

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28 days ago

To this day im still amazed at the huge move list in the original Die Hard Arcade. So many beat em ups have quite a limited move set but DHA it goes on and on. I always somehow find a new move every time i play. Just the other day i grabbed a dude, threw him up for a suplex and piledrived him. How did i do it? No idea.

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28 days ago

Have you ever thought of doing a mortal kombat retro spec and some of your older consoles that you showed because of you I was able to get the hyper Neo Geo 64

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28 days ago

I must have missed the part of the movie where John McLane fights a Sumo. 😂Did Sega change anything from Dynamite Dekka other than the player character model?

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28 days ago

I discovered you because your channel is so helpful and always up-to-date for the MiSTer and Analogue Pocket.

But I also want to give a shout-out to your production values. It can't be overstated how your content is very polished especially for the output that you maintain. As an audio guy, myself, I appreciate your quality vo recordings and edits that make for good listening.

Thanks for doing what you do!

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28 days ago

Hope you had a good Christmas. Yes, Die Hard in any form is a Christmas must for sure. 😁

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28 days ago

I became a subscriber this year, so this is my first Die Hard Christmas on the channel. Mr. Sujano sent me over because he recommended a video about Nintendo suing someone over something stupid. I've stuck around because I like what you cover.

On a side note, my wife says that you remind her of Catholic church because your cadence reminds her of when people are praying the rosary by memory. Lol

Here's to more Die Hard in the years to come!

As for what I had for dinner: Half a bag of plantain chips. I got off work this morning at 8, managed to stay up until noon, passed out, and woke up around 4 before going back to sleep around 7-7:30pm. I'm the cook of the house, so no one cooked anything besides frozen dinners. Lol

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28 days ago

Merry Christmas Boss 😀 regarding X'mas shooters, I was going to ask if you have you played do-don-pachi resurrection? (The one labelled 1.5) – oh my – what a beauty. 🙂 And Die-Hard wise, lol, so much love here… you see, Die Hard Vendetta was my first commercial release back at Bits Studios (after that cancelled N64 game Riqa I told you about a while back). Fun-fact, with the gamecube's GPU being the first to offer perspective divide per-pixel, I'd actually claim to have been the first to put texture mapped refractive glass / water into a video game with that one. <3 But I'm not sure I'd want to put you through the pain of playing that one again next Christmas 😀 x

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28 days ago

I don't know why you like to talk about die hard games every day. Ha.

But merry Christmas.

I read recently about Blur Busters releasing a new CRT shader that's very useful for emulators on high refresh OLEDs and LCDs.
It's in retroarch now according to someone.
So you can test it on your new LG OLED TV and show us the results.

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28 days ago

I found the channel after getting an analogue pocket. I’m happy to hear you have more Xmas specials to watch

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28 days ago

Merry Christmas! Do you think we'll ever see an ST-V core in MiSTer?

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28 days ago

I haven’t a clue how I found your channel but I sure as fuck know why I stuck around. Quality videos without the fake, try hard, over emotional hype schtick that plagues other channels. Keep it real ❤

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28 days ago

Merry Christmas VGE

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28 days ago

Merry Christmas! I consider myself a big fan of your channel. I appreciate the work you put in to each video!

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28 days ago

See Alejandro just tweaked his junk and poof a new FPGA was born 😅 and with that sadly the joke is retired happy holidays all

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28 days ago

And zero news of the crt beam simulation shader, a true revolution. It is never really "update time" here, as usual.

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28 days ago

I'm here for the love of pure hardcore gaming! please do more top 10 lists ^^

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28 days ago

I pretty recently subbed and have enjoyed the content very much! I've binged alot of the videos 🙂 Very happy to see you are a Cave Shmup enjoyer! I've been playing the new Switch port of Dodonpachi SDOJ alot past few days. Maybe we get a Deathsmiles II special next X-mas haha 🙂 Merry Christmas and thanks for the videos!

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28 days ago

Watching Die Hard With A Vengeance on BBC here in London and this popped up. Might boot up the Saturn after the film finishes.

Merry Christmas VGE!!

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28 days ago

@radjunk happy die hard holidays

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28 days ago

Your wife is a real ride or die. Keep them Saturn videos comin!

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28 days ago

My stomach is playing die hard attempting to digest all that turkey and mash.

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28 days ago

Welcome to the party pal…

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28 days ago

Please do some videos on the Sipeed Tang (Nano 20k, 60k, etc) FPGA as well as NESTang SNESTang, etc cores which were translated by nand2mario to that platform. MiSTer is great, but it is fomoAF, at this point.

it's better to give more coverage to up and coming platforms which are actually supported by the hardware developer (Sipeed) and support open hardware standards!

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28 days ago

i was hooked on your channel this year, since i saw your amazing tutorial on how to connect the mister to a pvm ! love your guides man ! Happy Christmas

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28 days ago

Hey I just discovered your channel a couple weeks ago when the SuperSega saga started to unfold but I like everything you're doing. Keep it up!
My favorite new video game channel to watch 😎

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28 days ago

If you build it, they will come.
And we certainly have. Merry Christmas 🎄 onwards and upwards in the new year

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28 days ago

I might play Christmas nights into dreams today to go with the Sega Saturn theme, looking forward to your new content in the future. Merry Christmas

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28 days ago

Darkstalkers!

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28 days ago

Why is a guy in the public restroom wearing only a speedo? Then he wants to fight you??? The state of mental health in 2024.

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28 days ago

Merry Christmas !!!

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28 days ago

I got an Analogue Pocket last Christmas and since then you and Pixel Cherry Ninja have been my main source on FPGA but you do great tutorials too. I just got Naomi/Naomi 2 running in Flycast the other day. I hope to get a Mister Pi someday soon and then I'll be following your Mister guides.

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28 days ago

great stuff
happy die hard.
happy holidays.

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28 days ago

I'll be eating my mom's home made lasagna tonight for Christmas! Good stuff indeed.

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28 days ago

A Die Hard episode for the die hard fans!

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28 days ago

Happy Holidays to you! 🙂 BTW did you get the latest SuperSEGA stuff? LIke the stuff where he now says he'll be refunding everyone? And that he "sold his Lambo" :P. Oh and a Christmas Miracle for him? SEGA send him a letter that it's all fine and that their lawyers were doing criminal things by going after him? 😛 (he copy pasted it into a post). It's hilarious shit :P.

SEGA going "Oh we are soooo sorry, you were right!" 😛

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28 days ago

Merry 🎄. I subscribed earlier this year. I recently got into fpga and while researching different things, your videos popped up so many times. I sure did come back a lot for the super sega stuff lol those were fun too.

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28 days ago

Merry Christmas, my brother. Oh my God, the quarterback is toast.

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28 days ago

Merry Christmas! I hear it all too often as it is, but I'm looking forward to hearing 45 seconds of Cho Ren Sha 68k in your shmup series 😁

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28 days ago

Merry Christmas !

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28 days ago

The year of fpga. Who would have thought?

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28 days ago

Merry Christmas! Not sure the 1st time I saw your channel maybe 6 months to a year or more ago. I subbed a few months back because I love old school 90's 3D, esoteric 90's arcade only games, cancelled games, emulator & fpga updates. Like a catch all for esoteric old school gaming. I would like to know more about the future of gaming with fpga, AI, emulators. For example can we ever expect enhancements on Duckstation be implemented into an fpga? Why aren't more people in the community using AI to upscale old pre-rendered backgrounds and fmv already? How do you get motion interpolation on emulators? I have that on my retro avs and it is excellent.

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28 days ago

Your channel really is a treasure. Each video is such a joy to watch and it is obvious that you have a deep passion for retro gaming. I am just amazed that you're able to find the time to create all this content. Looking forward to a VGE-filled 2025, especially those retrospective!

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28 days ago

Merry Christmas. I will always consider Diehard a christmas movie/game series. I wonder how many people are watching it today. lol