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Analogue announces the Mega Sg (shipping early, March 25th)
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Smoke Monster is a retro focussed / hardware youtube and ex rom pirate, he has absolutely no part in or the skill set to develop fpga cores.
Hopefully they can find a way to do it with a Sega CD attached, rather than trying to make the SG do it all. I'd love to not have to worry about the laser or some other part of the drive crapping out on me.
So their cost in producing a system with a disc drive would probably jump up pretty dramatically (especially their first time out). Also, pretty much all of Analogue's products have just worked right out of the box and the chances of that continuing if they made systems with a disc drive would be pretty low (especially their first time out). There's so many potential points of failure in a disc drive that don't exist in the kinds of systems they currently make. Not that Analogue's current products are incapable of failing but a disc drive would definitely increase failure rates on their products. Also, I feel like if they had plans to make their own Sega CD they would've announced it with the Mega SG like they did with the other adapters.
I think post Mega SG Analogue would be more inclined to go back and make plastic Neo Geo FPGA console, a plastic Analogue Nt and I think they'll tackle a bunch of other cartridge based systems before they ever tackle something with a disc drive. Not to say that they won't ever do a system with a disc drive BUT i think even when they do go down that road it will be to make a FPGA PS1 console. Still, I think that's pretty far off.
I think you know what I'm saying. Smoke Monster has been used as the go between for the Super Nt "jailbreaking" stuff and I think that'll continue with this system.
FWIW I similarly messed up with my super nt order and despite their FAQ saying no cancellations they still did it for me. So once the site is no longer on fire might be worth reaching out if you decide you want to cancel and re-order.
do they charge when they ship or out the gate? i'm kinda broke cuz of halloween and an upcoming trip.
FWIW, I wasn't and still am not having luck on my wifi. I switched to LTE on my phone and got in right away.
I'm at home on my normal internet connexion.
I'm in France right now so no LTE data available
Argh nothing on LTE for me either. I've tried 2 wired ISP's and AT&T Wireless.
For the jailbreak firmware sure but if Kevtris develops a Mega CD core (which given its complexity and space left on the FPGA to implement it is highly unlikely) then there is zero chance of them distributing it via a jailbroken firmware and not officially.
I can get to the site on 3G (yeah yeah, I know) but I get 403 when I try to buy. Feels bad man.
I think the site replication is just on fire in general. Like why wifi would fail and LTE would work is beyond my understanding of network engineering. It isn't even slow over LTE, the site is incredibly responsive. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Super NT has the option to run PAL carts in NTSC mode. If the game was already speed adjusted for PAL it doesn't help though.
I grew up with SNES, so this one doesn't appeal to me as much, but it looks pretty neat. My Analog NT arrived the other week, still need to get some carts and controllers for it.
It was $35 US shipping for the Super Nt during the first wave. :(
Controllers are sold via Amazon. The link on their store is just a redirect to Amazon's listing US listing
Not sure about other countries.
$50 to the uk too. Analogue shipping has always felt rather scammy
Spent a while trying to find a place to actually order the controllers through them, that amazon US redirect is the only thing I see.
which is weird because they talk about a "special reduced price" for the controllers.
Yes, but when I ordered my super Nt last year I got it 2 days later though.
Which is rather fast for something coming from the U.S to Canada .
That actually worked a charm. Thanks man. I've been waiting for this day for a very long time.
First of all: I love fpga but don't run a website with such a thing.
Second: I would love to see some open source fpga emulation going on but I know it's an insane amount of work so they deserve all the money.
Third: of course when I just bought an 8bitdo controller, they show me this thing. I guess I have to buy another controller from them if it works with PC.
Forth: I think I have to buy this thing :-(
Second: I would love to see some open source fpga emulation going on but I know it's an insane amount of work so they deserve all the money.
Third: of course when I just bought an 8bitdo controller, they show me this thing. I guess I have to buy another controller from them if it works with PC.
Forth: I think I have to buy this thing :-(
Hilariously enough the furthest I've gotten is in my car's web browser. When I click buy I get the 403 error message
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