“I still want to make this thing”.
While Nintendo did a good job of convincing people that the arcade version of Rare’s original Killer Instinct was running on the exact same hardware that would power the N64, the reality is that the arcade fighter was actually powered by custom hardware created in collaboration between Rare and Midway which uses a 64-bit MIPS CPU.
While Killer Instinct is playable in MAME, programmer Rich Whitehouse recently revealed that he has been working on something far more accurate and impressive: a custom emulator designed to run Killer Instinct and its coin-op sequel as faithfully as possible, but with some cool bonus features.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“I still want to make this thing”.
While Nintendo did a good job of convincing people that the arcade version of Rare’s original Killer Instinct was running on the exact same hardware that would power the N64, the reality is that the arcade fighter was actually powered by custom hardware created in collaboration between Rare and Midway which uses a 64-bit MIPS CPU.
While Killer Instinct is playable in MAME, programmer Rich Whitehouse recently revealed that he has been working on something far more accurate and impressive: a custom emulator designed to run Killer Instinct and its coin-op sequel as faithfully as possible, but with some cool bonus features.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
