Please be aware that a T618 will NOT give you full catalog PS2/Gamecube. I own two T618 devices (and plenty more both slightly more and slightly less powerful than the T618). The performance varies a bit per device (based on cooling, OS, CFW, many other factors). But, on average, I would expect a T618 to give you around 30-40% of the GC and PS2 catalog with zero tinkering required. Sure, that’s great, and amazing for the price, but you put “PS2 and GC level emulation”, then you get people buying them expecting to play every game on that and then try to stretch it further.
In reality, if you don’t mind spending a few extra dollars on various standalone emulators on the Play Store (or maybe you already have them), then you will get maybe 75% of both catalogs. But, that will require extensive tinkering that not everyone may want to do. It’s fairly difficult for the average user (even the advanced user) to get to 100% of both PS2 and GC on this chip.
It might be a great device, or it might be absolutely awful. But, people should have some reasonable idea of what they will be able to do with the device. Hope this helped a bit.
I’m a little confused. There was an Onion update a bit over a month ago (I think it was May or June) that seemed to enable these features. I know the Poke trading works. I haven’t yet had the chance to try out a more common link-cable multiplayer game scenario, but I figure that will work as well without any new patches. I just checked, and no new test patches for me (yet).
The biggest downside to all of this is that Onion is making the MMP the easiest device for multiplayer emulation, but it doesn’t have the power or controls to play the console/pc generations where multiplayer really came into its own. I’m particularly upset that MHP3rd just got achievements, and already has an English translation patch AND an ultra high definition texture pack, all with functioning multiplayer, but there’s no way the MMP could even boot the PSP OS landing screen.
Still, it’s a great feature and I hope more CFWs add this or something similar!
Reading my post back, it could be construed as sexist. I should explain more. I’m also female. My mother wanting to play it (which was super surprising to me) is because she doesn’t even like to use her phone. She hates technology and I am frequently 24/7 tech support for her. She has thrown out computers because she could not figure out how to exit a program (yea, I’m shaking my head too).
The final player (who did the best) was most surprising to me because she spoke no English. And, as anyone that has played this knows, there is definitely a lot of information (spoken and written) that is happening during the missions (where to go, what to kill, what to avoid, etc.). But, she was just like a pro at it on her very first try. She did a lot better than I did on my first try too!
I have two of these (one still sealed). It is still, to this date, one of the most unusual and enjoyable gaming experiences I’ve ever had. The game itself (the part on the disc) was pretty good, though you could easily abuse a few exploits to remove the legendary difficulty.
But, the controller was something else. I had some people over, and someone noticed the absolutely enormous box (that looks like an ammo container). Only one of the eight was into video games, so I kind of waved it away and saying it was something they would not enjoy. But, they insisted I open it up and explain it to them.
I brought out the first copy (the one that was opened), and showed them the controller in pieces…Nope! It has to be assembled. Ok, happy now? Nope! We insist on seeing the start of the game! We have reservations, and we are going to be late. Doesn’t matter! I boot the game, start mission 01, and halfway through the startup sequence their jaws just collectively drop.
These are people that think video games are mario (maybe tetris). This is an ultra hardcore mech game where blinking can get you killed and lose dozens of hours of progress. The viewscreen of the mech is ridiculously small. The graphics are average by the standards of the time. They don’t even like science fiction or fantasy (books, movies, etc.).
The 1/8 that likes video games insists on trying it. He dies in a few minutes (after I spend a few minutes showing him the startup sequence for the mech, and how to control it). Another person wants to try. My MOTHER wants to try it. They all die very quickly (you’d think you’d be safe landing in the ocean with nothing around you…). The last person that wants to try it: she has just arrived in our country days ago. She knows around 20 words in English. I am not exaggerating when I say that fairly common things seemed like magic to her. She made it almost to the end of Mission 01.
I understand that this web site may not know (or understand) what an Xbox is, but it seems to pretty clearly state in the twitter post that it is also coming to XB in some form. No idea which generation Xbox though.
Feels odd that both the article and title do not mention this.
I really loved the Lynx. It had some absolute amazing games for the time.
That said, I laughed out loud when I saw poor lil Toby pull out what looks to be a 10 pound laptop out of his jean jacket pocket (and my SO was joking to me that the Lynx in the commercial had to be plugged in-check, it really is plugged in-because the batteries would not last the length of the commercial).
I haven’t held my original in forever, and I was quite a bit older than Toby when it came out, but I suspect I’d be shocked if I dug my original out and just held it.
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Please be aware that a T618 will NOT give you full catalog PS2/Gamecube. I own two T618 devices (and plenty more both slightly more and slightly less powerful than the T618). The performance varies a bit per device (based on cooling, OS, CFW, many other factors). But, on average, I would expect a T618 to give you around 30-40% of the GC and PS2 catalog with zero tinkering required. Sure, that’s great, and amazing for the price, but you put “PS2 and GC level emulation”, then you get people buying them expecting to play every game on that and then try to stretch it further.
In reality, if you don’t mind spending a few extra dollars on various standalone emulators on the Play Store (or maybe you already have them), then you will get maybe 75% of both catalogs. But, that will require extensive tinkering that not everyone may want to do. It’s fairly difficult for the average user (even the advanced user) to get to 100% of both PS2 and GC on this chip.
It might be a great device, or it might be absolutely awful. But, people should have some reasonable idea of what they will be able to do with the device. Hope this helped a bit.
Re: Pokémon Trading And Ad-Hoc Netplay Coming To The Miyoo Mini Plus
I’m a little confused. There was an Onion update a bit over a month ago (I think it was May or June) that seemed to enable these features. I know the Poke trading works. I haven’t yet had the chance to try out a more common link-cable multiplayer game scenario, but I figure that will work as well without any new patches. I just checked, and no new test patches for me (yet).
The biggest downside to all of this is that Onion is making the MMP the easiest device for multiplayer emulation, but it doesn’t have the power or controls to play the console/pc generations where multiplayer really came into its own. I’m particularly upset that MHP3rd just got achievements, and already has an English translation patch AND an ultra high definition texture pack, all with functioning multiplayer, but there’s no way the MMP could even boot the PSP OS landing screen.
Still, it’s a great feature and I hope more CFWs add this or something similar!
Re: The Making Of: Steel Battalion, The Ultimate Hardcore Mecha Experience
Reading my post back, it could be construed as sexist. I should explain more. I’m also female. My mother wanting to play it (which was super surprising to me) is because she doesn’t even like to use her phone. She hates technology and I am frequently 24/7 tech support for her. She has thrown out computers because she could not figure out how to exit a program (yea, I’m shaking my head too).
The final player (who did the best) was most surprising to me because she spoke no English. And, as anyone that has played this knows, there is definitely a lot of information (spoken and written) that is happening during the missions (where to go, what to kill, what to avoid, etc.). But, she was just like a pro at it on her very first try. She did a lot better than I did on my first try too!
Re: The Making Of: Steel Battalion, The Ultimate Hardcore Mecha Experience
I have two of these (one still sealed). It is still, to this date, one of the most unusual and enjoyable gaming experiences I’ve ever had. The game itself (the part on the disc) was pretty good, though you could easily abuse a few exploits to remove the legendary difficulty.
But, the controller was something else. I had some people over, and someone noticed the absolutely enormous box (that looks like an ammo container). Only one of the eight was into video games, so I kind of waved it away and saying it was something they would not enjoy. But, they insisted I open it up and explain it to them.
I brought out the first copy (the one that was opened), and showed them the controller in pieces…Nope! It has to be assembled. Ok, happy now? Nope! We insist on seeing the start of the game! We have reservations, and we are going to be late. Doesn’t matter! I boot the game, start mission 01, and halfway through the startup sequence their jaws just collectively drop.
These are people that think video games are mario (maybe tetris). This is an ultra hardcore mech game where blinking can get you killed and lose dozens of hours of progress. The viewscreen of the mech is ridiculously small. The graphics are average by the standards of the time. They don’t even like science fiction or fantasy (books, movies, etc.).
The 1/8 that likes video games insists on trying it. He dies in a few minutes (after I spend a few minutes showing him the startup sequence for the mech, and how to control it). Another person wants to try. My MOTHER wants to try it. They all die very quickly (you’d think you’d be safe landing in the ocean with nothing around you…). The last person that wants to try it: she has just arrived in our country days ago. She knows around 20 words in English. I am not exaggerating when I say that fairly common things seemed like magic to her. She made it almost to the end of Mission 01.
This game seems to transcend all.
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Can’t wait for this one! Like others here, I love my RP2+!
I really hope we get something a smidge more powerful than the T618…there are so many devices with that chip already.
Also hopeful for hall sticks and hall triggers and a $120 or cheaper price.
Re: Fans Are Translating The PC-98 Dungeon Crawler Madou Monogatari Into English
Very neat! Looks like a hardcore Wizardry/Bard’s Tale adventure, and I’ll never have enough of those!
Re: CD-ROM Classic 'The 7th Guest' Is Coming To VR
@NatiaAdamo Great question! Also, do we need extended or expanded memory manager for this? I always get the two confused…
Re: Jotego's Neo Geo Pocket FPGA Core Hit With Delay
One of my favorite systems ever! Had way too many fighting games (for me), but I thoroughly enjoyed everything I played on this lil wonder.
I’m replaying Cardfighter’s Clash right now!
Re: 'Cyber Citizen Shockman' Getting First Western Release Later This Month
I understand that this web site may not know (or understand) what an Xbox is, but it seems to pretty clearly state in the twitter post that it is also coming to XB in some form. No idea which generation Xbox though.
Feels odd that both the article and title do not mention this.
Re: The Atari Lynx Was Closer To Being A Sega Console Than You Think
I really loved the Lynx. It had some absolute amazing games for the time.
That said, I laughed out loud when I saw poor lil Toby pull out what looks to be a 10 pound laptop out of his jean jacket pocket (and my SO was joking to me that the Lynx in the commercial had to be plugged in-check, it really is plugged in-because the batteries would not last the length of the commercial).
I haven’t held my original in forever, and I was quite a bit older than Toby when it came out, but I suspect I’d be shocked if I dug my original out and just held it.