They just opened again so I’ve combined that with my other Astro City order from Amiami, yay!
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We’re a week from launch now! Sega appears to have given a unit to the most popular retro games virtual YouTuber for demo purposes:
Honestly though, I can’t be bothered to watch through that, so I must ask:
Does anyone have any recommendations for good written articles/photos on the finished units? Stuff similar to what we saw with Game Gear Micro.
Sadly I’ve not seen any. And dang I hate that style of video. On the plus side, I don’t need to watch it because my Astro city should be arriving today! To say I’m looking forward to revenge of Death adder would be like saying … um… I really really want to play it. Sorry for the weak finish.
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Ooh have fun, very excited to read your impressions!
Paid for mine at Amiami… pretty eye watering with covid and taxes but meh… looks like it’ll be worth it!
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.mine is due to arrive in an hour. Expected a video in a few hours.
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Looking forward to it!
Bad news, it’s now 21:22 and still now delivery guy. He had a window of 19:00 to 21:00. Amazon still says it’s delivering today but I doubt it. Looks like it’s the dick on duty this week 
I have 3 standard drivers. A woman who is really polite, a young guy who is cool and always on time and a Tabaco smelling miserable old git who is useless. Looks like it is his shift tonight. Just my luck
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Didn’t order a mini, but I did have the stick on preorder which looks fantastic. Thankfully I pre-ordered, usually the shipping price is more expensive when you do that but in this case it’s now 2000 yen more expensive for international shipping. Guess they didn’t have the right weight!
Hopefully it arrives Monday or Tuesday next week. I’m hoping to use it with Genesis/PCE/Saturn/DC with brook converters, if that doesn’t work natively I’m going to look into replacing the board but yeah hopefully just works out of box.
Should work with those Brook adapters that are compatible with X-input I assume.
Really considering getting a second stick, it looks so damn good.
I feel for ya.
Was playing with it last night before bed and it seems nice. I’m no computer expert, I just like my games, so I have no idea what’s going on under the hood.
Actual body feels pretty nice, good stick and buttons, MD mini controller works with it as well. BUT it must be because its arcade games, my soul was thinking it’d be nice to have the arcade stick… Maybe I will…
Screen on body is nice, and is widescreen, but I don’t think any f the games are. TBH I’d liketo see a technical breakdown f the thing, just to see what is going on.
Games are good, but its been so long since I played most of them that I suck super bad at them. Still its super cool looking, nicely presented packaging (this is important to me) and is great being able to play GA Revenge of DA without having to set up my PC.
Remorse is not something I am experiencing with this purchase!
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The Arcade stick would be fantastic. I did have that on order but after building my own stick with genuine Sanwa parts I cancelled the Astro City stick and went with the pad for a novelty. I’ve spent way too much these past two months.
It’s finally arrived. Let’s unbox it together and test it out on the TV and built in screen.
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Great overview, thanks for this. Seems to be a much better effort than Game Gear Micro which is good!
Shame about the HDMI out, I’m worried it’ll look rubbish on my 1440p monitor.
How’s the built-in stick?
The built in stick is very nice. Can’t complain at all. Proper micro switched stick.
Awesome, that’s me sorted then. Haven’t bought the external controller so I was hoping they’d deliver.
Only niggle seems to be the wide display then, the ratio between screen area and bezel definitely looks smaller than an actual Astro City cabinet.
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Looks like they’re rendering Virtua Fighter in HD - I like that choice. Bummer that the scanlines aren’t working out in your setup. I imagine they’re being scaled incorrectly.
I wonder if they would look better on the small included screen on the unit. If that screen has an unusual resolution, it would probably explain the issue.
That’s a point, the box in the video says the screen resolution is 800 x 480, would that be (approximately) pixel doubling most games without scanlines?
One of the nicest things about the NEOGEO Mini was its 320 x 240 IPS display, you got super sharp native output.
Thank you for this video, you always seem to show the stuff I’d be looking for and wondering myself! Pity about the scanlines but everything else seems good!
Really excited to get mine now but goodness knows how long it’s gonna take. It’s coming via EMS but with covid I haven’t basically had any international mail this year.
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Wanted to write a bit about the Astro City stick. Haven’t had a chance to take any pretty photos so you’ll have to settle for my rambles.
First thing to note is it doesn’t (properly) work with anything I’ve tried other than a PC. On my PC, with steam mapping, it seems to work well enough in most games but some aren’t happy with it for some reason. It’s bizarre that the stick is mapped to X/Y axis and not to a POV hat like most d-pads.
Once it was set up and working it’s a total joy to use. I played a few hours of some old favorites, the feel of everything and the button/stick placement is exactly as I want it, it has a good weight and slopee, and I’m in love with the design. It’s certainly limited in buttons so it’s less flexible than a stick with more but as someone that prefers a six-button layout anyway, that plus a start and the credit button mapped to guide/home is more than plenty.
I had planned to use this stick with brook converters but it doesn’t work out of the box with them. After some consideration, I’d like to use this on Switch as well so I ordered a brook wireless board to put into it. I’m not usually so keen on wireless but it’d be nice to have the option, and this board should help it to work just fine with my existing brook adapters over usb and anything else that syncs to ps4/ps3 bluetooth.
I took a look inside, nothing is soldered into place thankfully. The buttons are connected with terminal connectors, the wires for those have breakaway JST RCY connectors, then those all terminate in some variant of JST connector for the board itself. So it should be a quick / easy mod.
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