Polymega

Be interesting to see how they handle the bios side of things, you need a bios dump of all of those CD systems to play games in emulators.

I like the idea of it copying all my games to a library. I wonder will it copy CD based games? Fairly pricey though, $250 + cartridge module + sales tax + shipping. Definitely need a European distributor.

It would definitely want to have solid hardware and a good user interface to be worthwhile.

Can't trust any new retro consoles now, they all have copyright fiasco's or some pleb at the helm.

Saying that, best of luck with your new purchase

They've teamed up with Sinden Technologies the guys behind the Sinden Lightgun so at least they'll have a decent Lightgun interface to go with the games.

Inviere wrote: »

That's going to be available separately anyway though yeah?

Yep, i think theyre just collaborating to get it working via usb on the polymega firmware.

Infernum wrote: »

Indeed. Seems the doubt is over for the console. They've bounced back reasonably well to prove the critics (myself included) wrong.

Same, looks like a fantastic modern day solution.

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Definitely a great solution, but very expensive...

Definitely pricey, that's for sure. However, and this isn't any sort of rationalisation to buy one, but if you factor in the price of original consoles, proper interconnects for them (per system), and a good quality external scaler, the costs are pretty high regardless of the method one chooses. That is, unless someone is fine with rf out being piped into a 50" 4k panel through rf

The only thing this thing has against it (asides from its costs), is:

At this time, there is no method for loading ROM files directly on to the machine. We intend to work with publishers and owners of classic games properties to modernize the distribution of these games to users via more modern delivery methods such as streaming and digital downloads. This will also allow us to create an environment where developers can create new games for classic systems and distribute them in a way that doesn’t instantly release their copyrighted works into the wild where they can be easily pirated.

Polymega FAQ

I find the above a bit silly tbh. The console is clearly dumping carts to rom files every time it plays them, so it has the capacity to load files from memory anyway. Piracy isn't their fight, hell, half the companies that made these games have long since gone or changed hands. I feel of the machine is hacked (which it inevitably will if it becomes remotely popular), and the loading of roms is made available, it'd be a much sweeter deal.

Secondly, how does this fare for cd's? The Polymega is hardly implementing all the various copy protection schemes is it? Similarly, I don't think the cd has to be dumped every time it's used (afaik it's dumped to an iso in memory), so why not the same for carts?

*cough* paid distribution store front *cough*