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The games console market is fascinating: there's incentive to *not* provide upgraded models. You want the guarantee that a game for $X just works on any $X purchased. E.g. the Switch OLED has a bigger screen, and a better CPU than the original, but it's downclocked to match the original Switch's CPU.

I really like interpreters that allow you to inspect values, such as the JS console in a browser or Common Lisp with sly. Otherwise you end up repeatedly pretty printing values. It's unnecessary.

Incredibly impressive: reverse-engineering and modifying SNES games so they run on the faster CPU in the cartridge, not the console CPU: https://www.retrorgb.com/vitor-vilelas-race-drivin-sa-1-hack-released.html