so the first thing you're probably
thinking is this isn't a question in
reality it is a question it's just
currently disguised as a statement it's
a really important question and this is
not quite what I like to do on this
channel I script all the time everything
is very structured and this is a little
bit more shoot-from-the-hip I'm gonna
have some jump cuts and I apologize for
that but it's something that I wanted to
talk about to you and there's no way I
can do it in one take
so I apologize in advance for that but
let's begin we don't care about sound
anymore
consumers don't really if you think
about music right decades ago we had
hi-fi people buying multiple components
to build a system to listen to their
analog mediums for music and it was also
a bit of a status thing you could go to
somebody else's house and say whoa check
out this person's system man
and that's basically gone why because
convenience we want things to be more
convenient now when something like the
iPod came around you now had the ability
to store it digitally and later even put
it on your cell phone and acquire it on
your cell phone
basically we sacrificed quality of sound
for convenience right now when it comes
to preserving games people usually are
talking about the software they're
almost always talking about the data
finding games out there that we haven't
backed up in some way or another
but nobody really talks about the
hardware I'm talking about preserving in
the long term a lot of you may may not
be aware of this but super Nintendos the
early revisions of super Nintendos are
failing right now the CPUs are dying and
that's not something that you can just
buy a capacitor or a resistor or just
anything off the shelf and say okay I
fixed it here you go
you need another Super Nintendo CPU in
order to repair it so either you either
have to go to a parts console and tear
the CPU out of it and use those parts
for something else or if you have
another console with a functioning CPU
chances are you're going to want to
service that console if it needs any at
all
and take the one with the dead CPU and
it becomes a parts console you're not
gonna use it anymore it's time is over
now I don't think we're gonna suddenly
have a rash of non-functioning super
Nintendos it's just we're starting to
see signs of things that are several
decades old starting to degrade and I
don't know that we have to worry about
it in our lifetime to be honest but I do
feel that within our lifetime it's up to
us to decide just how much we want to
preserve the original hardware and the
way that that's being done right now is
FPGA consoles and emulation through
software once you reach a certain point
on certain aspects of an emulator you
fragment into two camps one says this is
good enough this is good enough to get
the game across and the other camps
saying okay but it needs to be as close
to doing every single thing the original
hardware does and operating in the same
way it needs to be a replica either in
software or in modern hardware - what
came out a few decades ago when it comes
to audio if you were to go out and buy
one of these devices or download the
software and start playing a game it's
it's a binary thing it's either oh no I
can't hear my sound and then you you can
hear it you say okay sound works and you
move on and a lot of people that's fine
as long as you can hear sound you're
good but for other people you want it to
be much more accurate you're interested
in accuracy and these days a lot of
people are interested in accuracy of the
video RGB upscaling
modern televisions HDMI output etc and
nobody really cares about the sound and
I really wish that they did because I
think there's more work to be done out
there to make it more accurate and I
know for a fact several people are
working to make it more accurate but as
a consumer as a gamer how important is
it to you
there's the question how important is it
to you to have accurate sound is good
enough good enough or do you want the
future to have something as close to the
original hardware as possible if you
think about business I mean somebody had
to develop the FPGA consoles and sell
them there has to be a market for it and
if you're a business and most of your
consumers aren't gonna care about sound
then why should you bother to make it
super accurate if you acquire the
knowledge of how to program sound
hardware and you manage to pull it off
and it's 75 to 80% close enough if you
release it and nobody complains then why
would you want to spend the money and
resources to make it a hundred percent
accurate it's one thing to ask the
question how important sound is to you
it's another thing to ask you to give me
an honest answer not the right answer an
honest answer do you care or do you not
care does it need to be as accurate as
possible are you willing to say hey I've
noticed some things and tell the right
people or do you just say you know what
whatever I'm playing my game it works I
don't care because generations removed
from now when it comes to experiencing
the stuff that we did or our children
are currently experiencing the decision
is ours right now so do we care about
sound or not because we are starting to
see failure of old consoles it's very
little but we're also starting to see
preservation start to kick up and now's
the time
let me know your thoughts thanks for
watching
you