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@AJB83 You could still make it like you have your well-crafted SEGA tracks sprinkled throughout an open world map, so just instead of selecting a race from a list and press Start, you actually drive to the locations where it then is a "closed track" race. But I'd love to fool around and go haywire with "sega physics" not gonna lie!

To me it feels like SEGA is the eternal underdog, mostly because they are stumbling over their own feet and keep doing so for decades.

There is so much dormant potential. I'd even go as far and say they could dabble into consoles again, with the latest gen consoles somewhat stagnating, looking at the Nintendo Switch, which basicly is a remaster/remake/indie/retro gaming console, I feel like there's a place for a professional retro console with a digital storefront where you can legally buy old back catalogues (imagine virtual console, just way bigger and more ambitious).

I'm of course just dreaming. But SEGA is sleeping on so many gems of yore. I hope that whole new "revive old franchises" thing goes over well, but to be honest, I'm not so confident, just because of SEGAs track record and company structure.

Basicly NintenDOES what SEGA don't.

And I hate to say that.

Imagine if Sega would revive Sega Rally and Sega GT and give Rally the Forza Horizon Treatment and GT the Gran Turismo treatment! Once could dream.

These Olympics are hard to forget for all the wrong reasons. lol.

I have some devices from Anbernic. Can't say I'm too happy. Especially software-wise these are often horrendous. CFW is not up to snuff most of the time either. Build quality usually is good though.

@-wc- This!

@Blast16 A pack-in foot you mean!

I love my filters, but this, especially when playing the lovely synths and twangs of the Mega Drive... n'ah.

I will develop something myself:
A whole box of nothing, faithfully recreating the awesomely nostalgic feeling of not being able to afford buying your favorite Videogame, just like back in the day!

Peak Retroism! Haha.

I can't believe I watched it all.

That ruined an already ***** day lol. I guess I’ll take my chances thank you.

@KitsuneNight If you are into emulation you can still get a used mini PC for like 50 bucks, slap a CRT filter on your GBA games and play them like they were always meant to be on a home console.

I dont see this selling much. Might as well just get a Modretro Chromatic for that kind of money.

Love this. throwing money

I really don't like Anbernic. I love my RG ARC S (for obvious reasons) but the software is abysmal and the custom software is also not what I'd like to see. But oh my.

This thing seems to have the typical "bad" Anbernic D-Pad (Love Trimui ones) and again I think the thumbsticks are not really necessary for this kind of power in a device. But that's just me.

I'd love to get the Trimui Smart Pro over this, but the 16:9 screen AND the thumbsticks make absolutely no sense to me.

Weird. Seems like a missed opportunity.

Finally someone with common sense. I have a plethora of retro handhelds and none work well across the bord for me. Anbernic is hit and miss for me, especially on the software side. A dedicated, modern "GBA clone" is an instant buy from me. GBA has a stunning library that deserves the best possible experience.

So.... take my money already!

Wish I could make Megadrive games. I'd love to see two particular ideas realized on the hardware.

@Bonggon5 There's that FPGBC thing.

MEGA DRIVE!
That is all! <3

@KitsuneNight My comment obviously was tongue-in-cheek. There's plenty of business decisions made by any other company out there that I can't comprehend. So let's wait and see.

I do think though, that if Switch 2 goes HARD on retro gaming not only with remasters but also with "officially sanctioned" emulators, i.e. a Virtual Console with plenty of filters, language patches and rom hacks too I think they'd be able to monetize big on it!

You guys need to read between the lines. You know what that means?

RETRO-GAMES-STOREFRONT on SWITCH 2 confirmed!

lol

Im intrigued.
Let's see what comes from it.

I'd love to see something FPGA-like to play OG XBOX games from some company out there!

Can't wait, always had an eye on this one!

FM synth, while maybe subpar, is a large part of what made the Mega Drive so iconic. Never lose that.

LOOKS nice, but the trailer was a snoozefest. Could be bad presentation though.

YES finally NO analogue sticks! Perfect formfactor for everything from GB, GBA to SNES. Love it.

Absolutely lovely and while 800 isn't much comparatively in the watch world, it's still a lot for a "single function gimick". Sporting a Seiko 5 fully automatic watch that I picked up for 200 and loving it. 300 would be the most I'd spend on a watch. 300 buys you a lot of great watches, including those nice 90's looking Casios.

Almost nailed it. Make it GBA classic formfactor and I'm all in.

@-wc- Exactly what I wanted to say.
Who needs ONE analogue stick on something this small, mainly aimed to play 16-bit 2D games? What?

Crap. Otherwise it looks nice!

Looks (and sounds) good! Lovely!

I do think discussions like this are unnecessary. Indy and Bond are fictional characters portrayed in a certain way. Oftentimes a female protagonist is employed for storytelling reasons and maybe give the (small) female audience something to root for and a laugh or two when the hero stumbles because he was "distracted".

There is no argueing creative choices. They are made and you like them or you don't and creative choices should only ever be influenced by decisions regarding storytelling, the craft and original vision of the characters portrayed, never politics.

All that said, I think even "masculine heroes" like Indy and Bond pale when comparing "body count" to many young, modern, liberal women IRL and there it seems to be somewhat accepted, even frowned upon when one is not so keen about high bodycounts and speaks their mind.

Also since OF is a thing, this discussion is moot anyways.

@AlexOlney The interesting thing is that current mainstream society always thinks it's "on the right track". Now and then. That said if the choice is skippable trigger warning for the minority of easily offended people or censorship, it's of course the trigger warning. But this is only the beginning. Rewriting books from the past to fit into modern narratives is already a despicable practice.

Imagine a world 25 years from now, where all these games we're talking about now will be re-released, with a trigger-warning for the trigger-warning.

Societies change. Always. If they don't, it's tyranny.

I don't think that a content warning is needed for an evolved mind to see how far we have come as a culture. It's literally tapping yourself on the shoulder but also we will be judged by time.

Anyways. As long as something does not get in the way of us enjoying our media, I guess it's not as bad, or something!

Now excuse me, an old SEGA retro game needs a playthrough.

It’s not like trigger warnings do right any wrongs from the past and not everything needs to be commented. If our sensitivities really changed for the better we won’t need a trigger warning or content warning to know if some content is „outdated“ or not, right?

Also changing the past robs us of the opportunity to learn from it as evolved individuals making up a whole species.

Modifying or censoring media in any way is just muddying the historical record - like it has been so often. I prefer the uncomfortable truth over the candy cotton treatment any day.

This is laughable. I’m old enough to remember better times. It’s not like the old tomb raider games broke anyone’s mental health back in the day…

Education fixed a lot of problems. It’s not too hard to grasp the concept of different times different sensibilities.

Got this on my Switch. Came away hardly impressed.

Funny how the whole Retroarch community tries to get "console blur right" when in reality back in the day all you wanted was clarity, Europeans were blessed with SCART cables for ultra sharp imagery and now in Emulators everyone is trying to get the most blurry RF-signal-like image quality it seems.

Just enjoy the Pixelart!

Still something for a modern GBA thing (the classic shell). Also waiting for some usable custom firmware for my Anbernic Arc S.

Yes and no. I was a SNES kid, now I'm hardcore into Mega Drive gaming. I'm nostalgic for the time and 16-bit style of games as a whole, but not for the games of the Mega Drive. I play them, because I missed out on most of them.

Wow, that was out of left field.

I'd love to have such a device for GBA games. Just cut out the analogue sticks. Heck the OG GBA had the perfect horizontal layout.

I think the early bird prices are "fine". Just wish that touch screen would work independent of Windows, which it surely doesn't, does using this as a Batocera box looses lots of it's appeal.

@KingMike Maybe alternate universe version of it! Too much fictional steampunk stuff in it.

Cute, okay. But the hell with the vertical design. All I really want for those old SNES/GBA games is a GBA or even GB-Micro horizontal design (without any extra fluff like analogue sticks). Still waiting...

@Gorejelly Don't worry, normal people don't fuss about gender as much as the TV wants us to believe! What a wonderful experience and well told anecdote! I always wanted to have it back in the day, but never got to it unfortunately.

@RupeeClock Yeah especially since Twitch is like "EVERYONE come and do crap on our platform and EVERYONE ELSE come and WATCH them on our platform" and when they do, they suspend him. Fail. I bet he would still be online if he was a barely dressed e-girl chewing bubblegum all day...

Getting this to play Genesis/Mega Drive, for which it is simply perfect. Oh yeah throw in some PC Engine Shmups and Basically whole of Neo Geo and this is the best handheld you can get!

Hm. It is what I expected. Slow pixelated software scaling with a fixed top-down perspective. I mean. Yay to the effort, but Super Mario Kart this is not. I love the Genesis for what it is, no need to make it something it is not.

@Azathoth Exactly my thoughts. It has that "newgrounds" look, if anyone's old enough to remember that platform. All flash games and short films. Castle Crashers also looks like this, but is a way better game and the aesthetics fit way better than with a horror-themed game.

Can you imagine Splatterhouse in this boring flat cel shaded look? Ugh...

@farrgazer No he just stated HIS hands grew too large, which happened with adulthood. Not everyone has large hands. Some can stand handcramps better. But yes, generally, hands grow larger as we become adults.

@Poodlestargenerica If it's powered like a regular Miyoo Mini, it won't do much beyond the odd PS1 and N64 game. Otherwise, yes I'd agree.

I hate how they put those analogue sticks on everything barely able to handle PS1 emulation. I'm perfectly fine with up to 16 bit and some GBA (technically 32 bit, isn't it?). No analogue sticks needed for that.

I'd love to have some modern, sleek reimagination of the original GBA, formfactor wise it was a godsend! Loved it!

Gone too young, that's for sure. But I didn't know "we gamers" are an elitist group based on how hardcore of a game we tend to consume in what kind of frequency. Sorry if I come along "too sensible" about this stuff. Just that whole "us and them" mentality irks me the wrong way in all walks of life.

He was a cool dude. RIP.