Well if I started it, was more a joke about what cynical asshole I am than anything else.
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Analogue announces the Mega Sg (shipping early, March 25th)
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Well if I started it, was more a joke about what cynical asshole I am than anything else.
Why are we not talking about Rocket Knight Adventures constantly? Bunch of morons we are. People are always going on about how they want more approachable action games and rocket knight is just out there smiling his cheerful ass off.
<3 I even kinda like the one on 360/ps3. I am a horrible person.
All good (and wasn't directed at you). I'm also hot under the collar because I love Analogue's products but also am pretty frustrated at how they're mixing up models and how customers get screwed over shipping.
Imma take a night off Era and focus on my Mega SG. So far so good! Hope everyone else is able to enjoy theirs (if they've arrived) despite shipping mishaps. :)
Rocket Knight is easily a top ten Genesis game. I love it so much.Why are we not talking about Rocket Knight Adventures constantly? Bunch of morons we are. People are always going on about how they want more approachable action games and rocket knight is just out there smiling his cheerful ass off.
Never played the sequels. Too scared to try them.
I didn't spend a lot of time looking at them but pretty sure they are identical to snt.
Analogue e-mailed me that they can't exchange my unit for what I actually ordered because they are sold out. Options are to keep the wrong one or wait. What a shit show for customer service.
I'm actually coming back to conspiracy theory. If I purchased mine just after they went live months ago, and I didn't receive what I ordered.. then where is it? How are they sold out of JPN units if they shipped EU units to some people that purchased them?
I'm actually coming back to conspiracy theory. If I purchased mine just after they went live months ago, and I didn't receive what I ordered.. then where is it? How are they sold out of JPN units if they shipped EU units to some people that purchased them?
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You mean like with the Super Nt where new people ignore it and keep posting in this thread instead?
Yes. I thought Sonic 1 and 2 looked fine at 5x, 1080p60 with scanlines but Ultracore had the uneven lines. Not tested anything else as yet.
Scanlines are wonky at 4.5X on 1080p. They look fine at 4X and 5X but 4X is a l'il small and 5X is too much overscan for games where the HUD graphics etc go right to the top and bottom like Ultracore.
Ugh. I put my preorder in the day sales went live. Analogue has had $225 of my money since October, and I have yet to receive a shipping confirmation. I sent them a support ticket, thinking I was probably just being impatient, and they replied with the following:
Hi Matt,
Preorders for this next batch will be shipping in 2-3 weeks. At the moment we are doing a quick restock shipment and warehouse move.
Cheers!
Analogue Support
www.analogue.co
Completely unacceptable.
Hi Matt,
Preorders for this next batch will be shipping in 2-3 weeks. At the moment we are doing a quick restock shipment and warehouse move.
Cheers!
Analogue Support
www.analogue.co
Completely unacceptable.
Hopefully they just misunderstood your email and thought you were someone that ordered recently.
Hopefully, but I was pretty clear that I placed my order the day sales went live. Their twitter actually reached out to me so hopefully I won't actually have to wait.
So there is hope that whatever Kevtris possibly will do to the Mega SG scanlines will eventually translate to the Super NT.
Are you talking about the triple bypass by db electronics?, if so that's designed for model 2 Mega Drives (or VA7 model 1s).
My understanding of the current state of affairs with the model 1 is that an RGB bypass can cure the jailbars but it can also significantly exacerbate the ram noise.
Bob from retrorgb has been teasing a development for some time and cautioned against doing anything other than disabling component video to clean up RGB output.
The short answer is that they do not look good.
Also mine is on the truck!!! And I have decided that if they haven't shipped me my JP version, I'm not gonna get bent out of shape about it but will send a sternly worded email to express my mild dissatisfaction regarding the situation.
Oh, is it this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/snes/comments/8a9ft3/super_nt_scanlines_fixed_at_1080p/
They covered that in the MLIG video, said it looked fine in 720p though. You'd think it'd be easy to implement given all the other features that have been crammed in there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/snes/comments/8a9ft3/super_nt_scanlines_fixed_at_1080p/
They covered that in the MLIG video, said it looked fine in 720p though. You'd think it'd be easy to implement given all the other features that have been crammed in there.
Can someone explain what FPGA means in this sense? I watched the MJR vid, and my take away was they basically recreated the internal hardware on the Mega Drive , rather than emulation, so its as if its playing on original hardware but with some extra good stuff like 1080p output/scaling etc.
That frustrated me to no end. lol. I do think part of it was because the Super Nt shipping OT was made for someone else (I forget what the ResetERA term for that is offhand) and the Super Nt OT was in Hangouts which definitely doesn't get as much traffic. I almost wonder if a general Analogue OT would make more sense? Something that encompasses the consolized MVS, Analogue Nt, Nt Mini, Super Nt and Mega Sg. The only thing keeping me from doing it myself is my lack of art, photoshop and organizational skills. lol
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That is exactly that.
A FPGA is a chip containing arrays of logic gates and other components like RAM for example.
Then your program is a description of a chip or a circuit which translate into programming fuses that will direct the signals to the right components in order to replicate a real chip or circuit.
If that's the goal ( because you could also use a FPGA to do prototype of a future hardware) the difficulty then is to match the timing of the communications between the main parts of the chip/circuit with the one you are trying to replicate.
It's not emulation.
It really is. It's emulating how the real hardware would work.
Thanks for the explanations :) So would this be considered "perfect" or just much closer to perfect emulation of the original?
Just to spice things up received the USA model instead of the Japanese I ordered, what a mess. I wouldn't have minded the European one either, would probably have just put up with it!
Well it is one of the best games of all time, so people are afraid that talking about it might have others stop playing games that aren't Rocket Knight Adventures altogether!Why are we not talking about Rocket Knight Adventures constantly? Bunch of morons we are. People are always going on about how they want more approachable action games and rocket knight is just out there smiling his cheerful ass off.
I think "simulation" is more applicable in this case but I could be wrong.
I'm starting to feel relieved I actually got my Jap one!
Rocket Knight Adventures is ace and one of the first games I revisited with the Mega Sg.
Rocket Knight Adventures is ace and one of the first games I revisited with the Mega Sg.
It's recreating the original hardware
I dislike the emulation term because it isn't emulating. It's basically the original chips « engraved » on the fpga.
FPGA can be for many processors the first step before becoming an ASIC one
I'm now in the same place as you. Despite telling them that I received a USA model and giving clear and concise questions I wanted answering about how to send it back and that I would fully expect them to pay for said return they just responded with a pre-typed message about the EUR model that I have seen other people receive.
If anyone in the UK has an unopened EUR or JP model that they would want to swap for a USA one then let me know because I can tell this is going to be a painful experience and I just cant be bothered to deal with Analogue if they don't even have to capacity to read the emails.
They just replied to me and told me that it will now take a number of weeks to get a replacement even though I paid on day 1 of pre-orders. They offered me 25 US to keep the euro unit and they stated it's better because it is rarer.
They still have not answered my questions.
I really just want my jpn model I ordered all those months ago...
you got the same email as everyone else is receiving, clearly they can't deal with this on an individual basis.
They finally answered my questions (is it okay that it is opened, etc) and now they're saying it will take long time to get a replacement.
I still think it would be interesting for at least one person in the games writing business to post an article about this. Or are they afraid to offend the people that gave them free units?
At this point, I'm convinced they overproduced the euro model.
I still think it would be interesting for at least one person in the games writing business to post an article about this. Or are they afraid to offend the people that gave them free units?
At this point, I'm convinced they overproduced the euro model.
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Yeah I bet the got their order submissions mixed up. More of the Euro and less of one of the others. So they just sent people the wrong orders hoping few people would complain.
Have you updated the M30 firmware yet? I had some issues at first but not noticed any since updating.
2.4GHz
I haven't yet. I'll give that a try.
Considering people are now reporting that Analogue can't replace their wrongly-shipped model with the JPN one because they're out, it's pretty clear that's what's going on.
If it's a "conspiracy theory," what other explanation is there? Analogue under-producing the JPN model, and fulfilling those orders with whatever they had on hand is the only reasonable explanation.
I'm not trashing Kevtris (what in the world would he have to do with this anyway?) and I don't know why people are being weirdly defensive of Analogue. Analogue is now doing the right thing by offering people $25 to keep their incorrect console, but they should have been upfront about it before shipping to give people that option. The situation is an unfortunate mar on an otherwise spectacular launch.
I contacted them about my order and they said they'll reach out to the shipping partner and I should see movement on the order today. But based on them telling other people they're all sold out, it's sounding like they might not even have one to ship me. Really hope that isn't the case.
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