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Palmer Luckey, a military contractor who makes killer drones, military gear, and surveillance equipment for the U.S. government, would like to sell you a Nintendo 64. I finally had the chance to try out the ModRetro M64, and it left me with a terrible emotional cocktail of love and loathing.<\/p>\n

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I had no place to direct these anxieties. Luckey, the CEO of weapons manufacturer Anduril, wasn\u2019t in the room. But the M64 uses off-the-shelf silicon. So who could I shake my fist at? Myself? I was the one playing the thing, after all. I was the one considering writing this piece. You cannot talk about something without promoting it, without promoting the people who make it. There is no \u201cdeath of the author\u201d for console makers and war profiteers alike.<\/p>\n

Before I get into all that, the basics: The ModRetro M64 will launch on July 28 with several exclusive titles. AMD, the maker of the FPGA chip housed inside the console, had the system on display at its Computex showcase, including the controllers (which are sold separately). One of those titles, Extreme-G Turbo Fusion<\/em>, was running in AMD\u2019s booth.<\/p>\n

As a child, I owned the original Extreme-G<\/em> for the N64. I was as terrible at it as I was at all games in 1997, when I was literally 3 years old. You can play it now through the Nintendo Classics collection on a Switch or Switch 2. Extreme-G Turbo Fusion<\/em> is a double pack of the original game and its sequel, Extreme-G 2<\/em>. Using the M64, I ran along one course at night, with rain pattering along the track. The game stuttered every time there was a lightning strike in the distance, as the hardware itself buckled, much as the N64 often did almost 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

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The console will work with old N64 controllers as well as modern recreations like 8BitDo\u2019s wireless mod kits and modern-feeling 8BitDo 64 controllers. ModRetro\u2019s option, with its three prongs, which you still don\u2019t know how to hold correctly, felt reminiscent of the original design, though with a thumbstick that seems less likely to break.<\/p>\n

The M64 uses a field-programmable gate array chip, the AMD Artix UltraScale+ FPGA. This allows the console to emulate the N64\u2019s original chip logic, letting you play your cartridges on your modern TV via regular HDMI. The device supports 4K resolution, though\u00a0its software is much less robust than that of the very similar\u00a0Analogue 3D<\/span>. You can add filters to bring back scanlines or a soft CRT ambient glow. Analogue\u2019s 3DOS lets you choose among the looks of multiple cathode-ray tube varieties, both professional and nonprofessional sets.<\/p>\n

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ModRetro\u2019s new console has a few extra parts that neither the Analogue3D nor the N64 had. A dial wheel on the top lets you select options without a controller. It also features several USB-C ports alongside the HDMI slot. But what truly sets this console apart is its support for homebrew. The console is launching alongside titles like Extreme-G<\/em>,\u00a0the Doom-like shooter\u00a0Xibalba 64<\/em>, and the <\/span>top-down arena shooterXeno Crisis<\/em>.<\/span> It\u2019s that rare support for small dev teams and their passion projects that gives me so much anguish about this device. After all, this indie-friendly console is also fronted by a man who makes and sells killer drones. This year, Luckey\u2019s Anduril has sold Bolt-M \u201ckamikaze\u201d unmanned aircraft, also called \u201cloitering munitions,\u201d that act as AI-enabled hunter-killer explosives to the U.S. military under a $23.9 million contract.<\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t have to look hard to find examples of major tech companies buddying up with the current regime inside the White House. President Donald Trump bought more than $1 million in Dell stock before last week, when the company was awarded a $9.7 billion defense contract. The same company\u00a0that makes the\u00a0XPS 13 I wrote about earlier this week will now be making billions of dollars by purchasing<\/span> Microsoft services for the recently renamed \u201cDepartment of War.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s only one example of a tech industry that\u2019s more than willing to work directly with the U.S. military or the Trump family. You are hard-pressed to buy devices that don\u2019t, in some way, support a massive military industrial tech complex in some small way. But they do exist. For example, at Computex this year, I stopped by the Framework booth to check out a Framework Laptop 13 Pro. It\u2019s the first device from the repairable laptop company that will ship with the open-source operating system Linux right in the box, meaning buyers aren\u2019t giving Microsoft a dime.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, I don\u2019t tell people how to spend their money. My job is to give folks the information they need before they make their next impulse buy.<\/p>\n

A ModRetro M64 starts at $230, but you can get it for the $200 special launch price on July 28. An Analogue3D costs $270, and you can buy one today, though you\u2019ll miss out on the fun colors of its limited-edition sets, since those are sold out. We cannot confirm whether Chromatic cartridges will work on Analogue\u2019s hardware, though Luckey has previously stated that its games can slot into the original 1995 consoles, so maybe there\u2019s still a way to support these homebrews without buying the arms dealer\u2019s N64.<\/p>\n

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Gizmodo is on the ground in Taipei all week, bringing you everything you need to know about the tech unveiled at Computex 2026. You can follow our Computex live blog here and find all our coverage here.<\/em><\/p>\n

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