Single‑board computers revive consoles

Developers are embedding modern single‑board computers (like Raspberry Pi variants) inside legacy cartridges or hardware to emulate discontinued chips and enable improved official or fan releases of old games. This technique bypasses scarce legacy components and lets authors patch, extend, or preserve cultural software that would otherwise be locked away by obsolescence. — Signals a growing, low‑cost path for cultural preservation and hardware repair that poses questions about intellectual property, device end‑of‑life policy, and who gets to keep digital history usable.