I just want to put this out into the universe. If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.

This is a very impressive PS1 game by @eliasdaler.bsky.social running on SuperStation.

We ended up improving this further. Today, we finished validating SS1 v1.2 after two weeks of testing. I am confident in saying we have the best analog gaming platform. 5 analog video outputs + 4 analog audio outputs + HDMI, and all of them work simultaneously.

I decided to go with launch NTSC packaging for the Founders Edition.

The white PCB makes the color pop.

SuperStation looks beautiful.

It’s been a few months and I have a new update on SS1 disk reading. We ended up improving disk reading to be on par with loading from an SD in almost all CD-cores. All CD cores except PS1 = indistinguishable from SD. PS1 = edge cases where a game can be <1% slower.

8-bit, but plenty of case colors.

We prototyped some ~$10 PS1/PS2 memory cards for SuperStation. They work very well.

I’ve never been more proud of a product I worked on. The team put so much effort into making SS1 the best FPGA platform possible.

Color matching result. Sony has some fire clear blue shell colors.

You can just build stuff. Here’s to 5 years of willing SuperStation One into existence.

Assembling SuperStation One v1.1 boards for verification.

We spent the last 8 months creating a user-friendly frontend for MiSTer FPGA. Here's a look at Console Mode running on SuperStation one. Video: youtu.be/a7ER1rDxXTA

It seems like it wouldn't be expensive given how small this is, but I spent a small fortune making this user-replaceable SS1 controller connector. Here's the mass production version:

Here's the first retail version of SUPER5 Touch + HDMI in the world. I'll be building this for a tutorial and then giving it away.

I prototyped four PCB colors with the clear blue SS1 shell. I decided to go with white because it looks the best.

RR is closed today due to a super typhoon. The office is safe, but losing two days is unfortunate right before a big national holiday.

Clear Blue / Classic Gray

I don't have a banana for scale, but the mold is huge.

EDM

The SS1 mold factory is a ride or die.

The Shenzhen branch of Retro Remake turned 1 today. Employee #1 joined on November 5th. Today, there are 15 people that work at the company not including me. It's a big change.

I finally populated the last section of Console Mode. Here’s the arcade directory with screenshot support. It makes picking games much easier if you aren’t familiar with the titles.

Midnight Blue SuperStation one. Ignore the surface finish, SS1 isn't high gloss. It looks beautiful.

Update: We made further revisions to this hardware. Its been sitting at the stage of creating a mass production version for a few weeks because I moved the product engineer to the SS1 team. The S7 OLED redesign finished yesterday, so I moved that engineer to S5 HDMI Dock.

MiSTER Pi batch 5 preorders have been added to the store.

MiSTER Pi Packs are back in stock as a non-preorder. We also added a 4-Player N64 SNAC Adapter & MiSTER Pi RTC to the store. Preorders for the third shipping batch window of SuperStation are also live.🎮

I’ve been messing around with N64 carts on SuperStation. Speed would need to drastically improve to make this practical.

My little engineer is doing some testing this weekend on SuperStation one.

First boot, LFG!

My body is ready.

Here’s a cool exploded view with less than half the items in a SUPER5 OLED / SUPER5 HDMI kit. There are around 50 parts in a Mega HDMI Kit, and I finally have almost all of them.

One further change: We added a toggle switch to the side of the SNAC port to disable the PSX controller ports and route the signals to the dedicated SNAC port on the dock. The port is compatible with our N64 and SNES SNAC adapters. There is a Bypass On/Off label not pictured.

It's fixed!

The most valuable thing I learned from this was to remove barriers that increase the time it takes to iterate on failed designs. Our current design would have saved us at least 8 months of just waiting. Here’s a BTS talking about how we cut the iteration time down to 3-4 days.

The latest revision of the SuperDock removes the duplicate S-Video port that is now part of SS1, adds a Type-C UART port, and adds a big IO expansion port in the back for future hardware.

Results were roughly split in half. I didn't want to skew the results, but I was considering this to improve the clear shell. The current shell uses double injection fuse a logo insert to the shell. Pic 1 = current Pic 2 = slimmed insert Pic 3 = slimmed logo insert in 2 parts

So much gold. A new SS1 PCB arrived this morning.

Exploring the idea of having the SS1 logo come as a high gloss part of the front shell with a set of decals in the box that you can use to customize. Stock high gloss, PS1 colors, monochrome white or gray, and holographic.

Rounding out the week with adding support for playing physical audio CDs on SS1. It works in any core with audio CD support in the BIOS.

Added preliminary support for loading PC Engine CD games from disk without dumping on SuperStation. This system is fast, but it needs more work. I’ll circle back after PSX is perfected.

Added preliminary support for loading Sega Saturn games from disk without dumping on SuperStation. It needs some additional work to make it more seamless. PC-Engine CD is next.

I had some downtime after work today, so I added preliminary support for loading Sega CD games from disk without dumping on SuperStation. It works very well! I’ll try Sega Saturn when I get a chance.

The logo needs to be fixed, but I’m happy to finally have a good version of SuperStation.

Doing some testing of SS1 reading PS1 data directly from a disk without dumping the data first. It’s much better than I expected. That being said, copying games to the SD or SSD is still the optimal strategy for performance. It’s a one-time process and better for random access.

Hmmmm

This in-flight controller has better input buttons than a bunch of retro handhelds I’ve reviewed. The issue is that it doesn’t have any software to use them. It would be trivial to sideload, but it’s highly unlikely I’d be able to finish before getting caught by the stewardess.

Heads up, we should have all existing HDMI preorders shipped in the next ~2 weeks. After that, we will open ordering for SUPER5 Touch and SUPER5 Touch HDMI as a non-preorder with remaining stock from the current batch.

Update: A damaged SD card slot would essentially make this a paperweight, so we made the slot modular like other important connectors that can fail from use. Remove two screws and disconnect the FPC to replace the board. This replacement part will ship with SS1.