SNES Ray tracing on the SNES

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Ben Carter over at Shironeko Labs recently announced his work on introducing Ray tracing on the SNES (well, actually, the Super FC) utilising FPGA in the form of a DE10 board.

SuperRT

Video links for this article: Short trailer Walkthrough and technical details Update 31th May 2021: The source code for SuperRT has now been released. I’m pleased to finally have some results to show for a project I’ve been working on in my spare time for the last year or so. The idea...

www.shironekolabs.com

There's a lot of technical voodoo involved, of which I understand very little, but doesn't the MiSTer project use DE10 too? If so, would this be possible to recreate with the MiSTer without the heavy modification to the original machine needed to create this?

 

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RetroRGB now has an article about it if anyone's interested:

SuperRT Brings Ray Tracing to the SNES

Engineer and game developer Ben Carter has demonstrated a proof of concept “SuperRT” expansion chip that brings 3D ray tracing to the Super Nintendo. Ray tracing—a computationally demanding technique used to calculate realistic lighting in 3D graphics engines—has only recently become possible to ren

www.retrorgb.com