Here's Your First (Blurry) Look At SuperSega's PCB

"Still a few components needs to solder"

by Damien McFerran 10:45am

Here's Your First (Blurry) Look At SuperSega's PCB 1 — *Image: SuperSega*

The SuperSega project has taken another tentative step towards reality with a rather blurry image of the system's prototype PCB, which shows Sega SG-1000, Master System and Mega Drive cartridges in situ.

The photo is intended to drum up interest for a YouTube reveal, which takes place later today.

"Still a few components [needed] to solder, but we hope in a few days to get those finished and publish a video to show it, and then, ask for you guys who are really interested to pay 3 euro / USD to pre-reserve first units," says the announcement email.

SuperSega is an FPGA-based all-in-one console which will play SG-1000, Master System, Mega Drive, Saturn and Dreamcast games.

The company behind it has said it doesn't think Sega will challenge the use of its brand name in the console's title, a viewpoint which has been challenged by multiple people online. The project has already been accused of being vapourware, something the team acknowledges.

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

1
Razieluigi
11:20am

Shock of shocks that the same scam artist responsible for a vaporware 8K cinema camera can't shoot a clear video.

Stop. Giving. Them. Publicity.

2
Steel76
11:28am

Just buy a used Mega Drive, add a Rad2X cable,

https://www.timeextension.com/reviews/rad2x-is-the-only-hdmi-cable-you-need-for-your-retro-consoles

and you have much cheaper option, with original hardware.

And yeah, this FPGA console, smells like a scam.

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KitsuneNight
11:56am

Le shock , le horreur.
Who would have thought that they cant even produce a decent photo of their or so legit machine.

If there werent enough red flags about this thing, this certainly must set off the alarm bells.

Now nobody can check if this isnt just a random PCB with a heat sink 4 VGA ports and 2 cartridges placed on top posing like they are supposed to be there.

Not dodgy at all !

4
LowDefAl
12:17pm

@KitsuneNight The obvious thing here is that it has a compact flash socket where the sd card reader is on the case "render".

Even if we allow some benefit of the doubt for this being a prototype board (and I don't), It's not exactly helping their case. I can't think of a practical reason for doing that even on a prototype. You don't test using CF if you are going to be using a SD card, you use SD.

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KitsuneNight
26m ago

@LowDefAl
The CF card suggest to me that this is a clone board of an Amiga or the like.
Whatever it is though it is not a prototype of their vaporware scam.

They must be shaking with excitement. How hard is it to take a proper photo with sensitive parts redacted? This gonzo photo sh1te reeks of shysterism

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