{"id":793857,"date":"2026-07-30T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793857\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:46:11","slug":"do-not-buy-the-war-crime-n64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793857\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Buy The War Crime N64"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palmer Lucky is an evil fucking worm and dipshit beneficiary of government contracts<\/a>. He\u2019s the Oculus jackass with a shitty soul patch who runs a military defense company called Anduril. I could continue to talk about the general ways I dislike him on a personal level, but I\u2019ll instead focus on a specific one: He shares many of my hobbies, including an enthusiasm for retro gaming and FPGA hardware. If you see the company ModRetro, know that\u2019s his company. ModRetro recently released an FPGA-based machine in the shape of the N64 called the M64. You do not, under any circumstances, need to buy a war crime N64.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"If I can be super petty for a second: the knob on that thing looks atrocious. You’re mixing matte and glossy! Credit: ModRetro.<\/p>\n

First let\u2019s just talk about the practical: There\u2019s no shortage of ways to play the N64. You can get original hardware and a CRT or an upscaler like the Retrotink<\/a>, a piece of hardware that\u2019s made by people who really care. You can also mod an HDMI port into an old N64 if you aren\u2019t a coward. If you want something FPGA-based that plays cartridges, the Analogue 3D<\/a> works. The Superstation One<\/a> runs FPGA cores just fine. Or to hell with it, just get a MiSTer<\/a> or even just download a god-fearing emulator. Nobody needs Palmer Luckey\u2019s evil little device, particularly when the market has never been more saturated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Analogue 3D Works! Or get any number of MiSTer derivitives like the Superstation One! Or upscale your N64, or mod an HDMI port in there! There’s so many ways to play the N64 these days. Credit: Wikipedia, Retrotink<\/a>, MiSTer Addons<\/a>, RetroRemake.co<\/a>, Analogue<\/a>, <\/p>\n

This is not the first product ModRetro has put out. They also put an evil Game Boy out, and specifically put one out in \u201cattack drone metal<\/a>.\u201d I hate these winking little shits. Not only are they using retro gaming to be fascists, they\u2019re doing it in the corniest way humanly possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aim\u00e9 took to X, The Everything App twice in one day to signal boost that evil dipshit\u2019s pet project. In the spirit of Hater Week, I\u2019d like to officially state that Reggie can go fuck himself as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Fuck off Reggie. Credit: @reggie on x.com<\/p>\n

Argonaut Games also announced they\u2019d be rereleasing Buck Bumble in collaboration with ModRetro<\/a>, and immediately got dragged for it in the replies. Buck Bumble can also fuck off.<\/p>\n

\"\"Credit: Argonautgames on BlueSky<\/p>\n

We cannot let these people feel comfortable in our hobby. Even if it\u2019s just on a personal level, I\u2019m sick of seeing them. The Video Game History Foundation\u2019s Frank Cifaldi said it best last December<\/a>: \u201cI say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn’t. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it’s going to invite its friends.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

If we do not draw a line somewhere, they will continue to bring their hatred to us. There\u2019s no better time than the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palmer Lucky is an evil fucking worm and dipshit beneficiary of government contracts. He\u2019s the Oculus jackass with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-793857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}