Definitive?
Thatās a bit hyperbolic for sure.
I think grammar is the issue. āBestā would have been fine. Definitive implies āfinalā and āmost authoritative.ā
Iām probably late to this but what the hell: http://www.lovehulten.com/pyua.html
Theyāve licensed the NT mini pcb? This thing looks like the console equivalent of the Homer Simpson car.
āThe Definitive way to play real carts on a HDTV without dealing with the converting rgb to hdmi using an external scalerā doesnāt quite roll off the tongue.
Iāve been tossing and turning all night wondering if I should get the Mega Sg but now that Iāve read they donāt ship outside US makes the decision much easier. Also I just remembered that the shipping for the Super NT to my country was $50. I could get a good condition JP Megadrive for that amount of money. No FPGA gaming for me for now.
That has to be a problem with their checkout system, no way they have suddenly stopped selling internationally.
Looks like Analogueās blast processing was so intense for the internet, even Youtube crashed and burned
edit: lol just noticed my new tag. Iām really feeling it!
This is where I am with all this. Iāve played Master System games on the Genesis, can route most of my systems to the OSSCā¦ and I have a McWill Game Gear (also plays MS games). So I dunno. May think it over and wait a while.
At some point surely someone will make a proper FPGA multi-console right?
The issue now is having three separate nearly identical pieces of hardware, just with different controller/cart ports and different software.
Hey I guess these things are just like the PS4/Bone PConsole continuum.
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I have to admit, much of what was appealing about the Polymega was an all in one machine. I think it doesnāt make the best business sense to have a do all machine. Once everyone bought it, that would be it. Personally, I donāt mind having separate machines when its HDMI or RGB because everything gets routed to 1 channel on my TV/monitorās input. I really thought the thign that could have made this SG would have been a cd rom drive. I would have paid $250. Hell, i would buy their SG CD. I think the draw of the analogue machines is not having to worry about hardware failure due to age.
Hereās the thing. This new Analogue console will have adapters for Game Gear etc.
It could really be engineered to also have adapters for Famicom/SuFami tooā¦
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Played my buddyās Super NT last night, very impressed! We upgraded to firmware 4.5 which was a bit of a headache having to find a compatible SD card, and formatting program. But we managed it in the end. They should totally put an SD card in the box.
They do ship to Canada but it was $50usd. On the plus side my super NT arrived in a day so it almost made the cost worth it.
I think at some point someone has to make a proper FPGA multi console. I think if it happens, it will be the 8 and 16-bit era as thatās probably the easiest to do. Given that weāve already got things like Retron with support for many types of carts and controllers at an affordable price but with crappy quality, some Chinese/Taiwanese company must be looking at the possibility of doing what Analogue does as an all-in-one for around $200.
Analogue really should find a way to staff up though. The demand is there. Pay some people to help you make this thing more mainstream before Nintendo/Sega decide to do it themselves. Iām sure theyāve thought about making some kind of inexpensive hardware that plays original carts by now. Imagine if Segaās new classic console did that?!
Thereās no way video game publishers like Nintendo and Sega are going to make FPGA consoles. Emulation is so much cheaper, easier and already implemented. The āhardcore audienceā for FGPA (for lack of a better word) is too small for corporations of that size to take notice.
Just compare sales of the Super NT to the SNES Classic. SNES classic uses nearly off-the shelf parts that are identical to the NES classic.
Something like the MiSTer is getting there with regards to āmulti consoleā but the issue is large capacity FPGA boards cost a lot. Space is limited on the chip, so you would need to switch cores (reflash the FPGA) for each different system which can take some time. Flashing Super Nt takes 2-3 of minutes. That just wouldnāt be acceptable if you were switching between playing SNES and MD games.
Which is why Iām totally fine with things like retroarch, virtual console, M2 remasters. If the emulation is done by people who care about the details.
That still leaves hardware enclosure, controllers and media connectors.
RetroArch have partnered with Bliss-Box, for an all-in-one USB adapter for original controllers. I can actually see the RetroArch guys putting out their own hardware at some point.
This could be genuinely cool.
By partner I really mean that BlissBox made the thing. I backed their failed Kickstarter years ago. RetroArch have just chosen to work together and promote/endorse/recommend it.
While I agree with you that is kinda a bad comparison. One is also sold and advertised directly by Nintendo and available in stores while the other is an enthusiast system available only from the makers online store.
But yeah, Iām also totally okay with this kind of thing being left to the enthusiast market/not āofficialā products anyway so Iām not disappointed that Nintendo or Sega proper arnāt the ones doing this, as long as it is being done and in a good way. Who knows though, maybe in 10 years there will be offical FPGA consoles. I mean 10 years ago I wouldnāt have thought that Nintendo would put out an official emulation box with their games on it either.