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Can they just bring this over without making it a limited release or did they pissed off AtGames so much now that AtGames refuse to partner with them anymore? C'mon Sega you can do better than this, don't go the Nintendo route with this thing.

@Jawessome The thing is that Paprium game did finally arrive but it arrive in such a bad shape that I wouldn't guaranteed it to anyone. The cartridge had a microSD card slot that the dev use to sent updates to the game but most of those updates are just the Watermelon dev sending firmware to block the game from working on other platforms such as the Mega Sg, clone consoles like the Retron 3 and Super Retro Trio, and even the Sega Genesis Model 3 and Nomad. Kevtris had to released a new firmware for the Mega Sg to make the game work on the system while Terra Onion released their firmware to make the game work on their Mega SD flash cartridge. It seems one of dev team of Paprium did not want his game working on Analogue's product such as the Mega Sg or anything clone related or flash cartridge.

@Zenszulu Still the beta testers got one with no issue, MadLittlePixel just got his 3 months ago and he never even ask for one. Ironically the time when MLP got his unit was the same month the console was suppose to originally launch.

@Sherrick1980 @CrimsonLaceStudio Okay but still their customer service was terrible. They could have at least sent updates if they won't be able to meet demands.

What a joke of a system, it keeps on coming and coming and coming but never got here. Odd how the beta testers got theirs for free but the actual customers and backers who pay for this still had to wait.

@Toliveistobe I don't own the system but I knew someone who did and the answer is yes, once you plug in a game to the system you could create a dump of the rom or ISO within the console. Then you will never had to reinsert that game onto the system ever again and could just play em through the dump install instead similarly to a PC or the Retro Freak. The only thing is if you got a bunch of back-up games on a flash cartridge (such as EverDrive, Mega SD, SD2SNES, or PowerPak) or a homebrew title to try like New Super Mario Land and Sydney Hunter you probably won't be able to run those on this thing as it doesn't support flash cartridges, repros, or roms. I'm not even sure if you could patch games of never before release title so to play translated version of those games.

As much as I like hardware emu devices like this, the fact that it's a do it yourself kind of product means it's bound to featured issues with game performance, sound, and control. Even if you bought an already built unit for massive price, that doesn't guaranteed that what you get will run games accurately.

I feel devices like these are for people who just want to preserve their games and play them on this thing so they don't have to bother hooking up their original consoles. With multiple options for playing retro games out there going this route may be risky and if you had no computer knowledge or knowledge of hardware engineering in general these kind of product won't benefit you in the long term as making one tinkering mistake could end up costing you hundreds just for trying to make old games work on off the market products.

As for should you get this no name product, if you already own an Analogue system like the superior Super Nt and/or Mega Sg console you probably could already tinker with cores for old systems on those devices which are better options anyways as those are more optimized for those system without you having to worrying about making them work yourself. I would only recommend this product if you're a tech savy otherwise best to just go the cheaper route with Analogue or the many software emulation for now.

To think the Atari VCS came out before this thing is a sign that this device is now just worthless trash. Soon someone would be able to get the Sega Saturn emulator working on other OS and there wouldn't be a reason to get this thing as almost all the emulations on this could be done and done better on other OS and devices including the Atari VCS as evidence by ETA Prime who tested emulations on these kind of things.

You could already play close to perfect emulations from Arcade like MAME, Final Burn Alpha, Atomiswave, Naomi, NeoGeo MVS, consoles like Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, Colecovision, Intellivision, NES/Famicom, Super NES/SFC, SG-1000, Mark III/Sega Master System, Turbo Grafx-16/PC Engine, MS-DOS, MSX, Commodore 64, Amiga, Amiga 32, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Sega Game Gear, Tiger Game.com, Tiger LCD, Game and Watch, Apple Pippin, Philips CD-i, 3DO, NeoGeo AES, NeoGeo CD, NeoGeo Pocket Color, Virtual Boy, Wonder Swan Color, Turbo Grafx-CD, Super Grafx, PS1, PS2, PS3, Sega Dreamcast, N64, Game Boy, GBC, GBA, GameCube, Nintendo DS, 3DS, PSP, PS Vita, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii, Wii U, and even the Nintendo Switch.

The fact that it doesn't let you rip and dump games for external back-up digitally is also another reason not to get this. Heck for the $400 price tag, they could had at least let us Steam link so we could stream play our PC games on there for added convenience, a lot of those RetroPi setup already had that feature, the fact that this doesn't is just lame.

@StevenG What you talking about Nintendo is swimming in money right now with the New 2DS, 3DS, Switch, and Switch Lite, why would they care about what a Chinese emulation company does? This PocketGo S30 had no effect on the sale of the 3DS and Switch or any retro games Nintendo had on their service, mobile, or eShop.

Looks nice but why they didn't make the Y & X buttons concave is a miss opportunity. If you're going to make this after the NA SNES controller design at least get the buttons right. The fact that it had no menu button and is missing stuff like SorR, FreeDoom, Cave Story, multimedia apps, and DOSBox which the previous models had makes this an inferior update compare to the previous PocketGo v2.1.

I'm surprise this is the first Sega hardware in years since the Sega Saturn where Sega didn't rely on their blue hedgehog mascot for marketing.

Remember when they say that this thing is launching for real this November or earlier? Yeah me neither.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/07/polymega_will_launch_for_real_this_november_-_or_earlier_if_were_lucky

I don't have any games for the Turbo/PC Engine systems so I may had to pass on this clone. I'll wait for the Analogue 64Nt (N64 FPGA clone) or the DreamSg (Dreamcast FPGA clone) though.

@Slowdive That's the problem with Sega this year, they are throwing money away when they should be making money. The Astro City Mini would had sell like hot cakes here. Sega had more fans oversea than they had in Japan so I don't get why they couldn't take advantage of that situation.

Sega could had give this another chance and make a bigger one for us internationally and with more games. For every one good idea Sega makes, they seem to go two steps backwards and make this.

Just give us a Dreamcast collection or Dreamcast archive classics for Switch please.

Wait they're not part of a collection like what the Jaleco and Data East games were? Will that's lame. This is Retro-Bit screwing Sega Genesis/Mega Drive owners.

So is this better than the Polymega in terms of Sega Saturn compatibility in HD?

If you got this for free and couldn't be bother with testing roms (not the ones that are pre-loaded) on it then you just wasted our time. It's a useless review when the most important aspect of an emulation system couldn't test its most basic feature.

@stevep Yeap also Xeno Crisis. The dev even let you download the Mega Drive rom for a reduce price on their website.

Have you test any roms on it yet such as a PC Engine, Super NES, or Sega Genesis/Mega Drive roms? I just want to know cause that would save me a lot of time and money instead of investing in buying those expensive modules. If it had USB and/or SD card support and built-in emulators then you should be able to run roms off of it out of the box.

Just so ya know you could now play as Sheeva in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for Super NES as well as all the 10 classic MK3 stages like the Subway and Soul Chamber stages via this hack. Though the hack is still early in development, this does make the game feel closer to the arcade version. The hacking community is getting interesting as time goes on, hopefully soon they restore Yokozuna and Bam Bam Bigelow for the Super NES version of WWF WrestleMania Arcade as well.

@Tim_Vreeland Me and everyone I knew own the Super NES version and none of the nonsense you spoke of were ever in the game. We even had both versions featured during a Street Fighter party from time to time (6-buttons and everything) and mostly everyone prefer the SNES version and all of us are die hard arcade and Sega players at the time.

All this just to fix a version that doesn't need fixing. If anything he could use that time to fix the Sega Master System version, that one need the most polish, probably with the control and framerate. Also there's a reason Capcom altered the arcade opening of the Sega Genesis port. They feared of racist remark, restoring that in a time when racist still exist ain't a good idea.

@commentlife They still haven't update us on anything about the handheld ever since the day they announced it which was last year. I sign up on their mailing list so the least they could had done was sent me updates on how the product is doing. The fact that there's still no updates on the Pocket let me to believe that at this time the hardware is heading towards vaporware territory. Hopefully they update soon.

Yay 2020 is officially the year when vaporware such as the Atari VCS, Intellivision Amico, Play Date, Smach Z, and Polymega will hopefully be release. Maybe Covid-19 did some good after all. Still waiting for Analogue to update on their vaporware, the Analogue Pocket.

Looks like a predecessor to the GPD Win for some reason.

Wait so this is the mascot of the Aladdin Deck Enhancer? I remember that thing could toast any NES that is not the original front loader.

All these talks and it still not out yet, they couldn't even tell us what cloud gaming scam they are supporting either. Why even announce anything when nothing is ready?

$400 for a bunch of emulators that aren't even as good as the free ones? Yeah I will only get this if it's under $200 and had GameCube, Sega Dreamcast, and N64 support.

I would had been all over this if it didn't required the need to open up the consoles. Either way all the games would still look ugly unless play on a modded consoles so yeah I'll just stick to playing my games on actual emulators for now.

Still you had to ask why bother getting this when you could play pretty much all these same games and more through emulators on cheap Chinese handhelds or a hack PSP/PS Vita which run these much better.

Still disappointing that they hadn't show us the new Earthworm Jim or Toejam and Earl. At least some early footage of those would be nice.

Tanglewood is nice entry and it's good to get Xeno Crisis in there as well but without multiplayer it's rather pointless to have fun with that game. This system looks like it's going for retro and after market games and while that's a good thing, I feel it's much better to play those on the original console that they were made for instead of the ReroCade.

The people who runs Atari are stupid and doesn't believe in risk and reward, I mean you could give them the world and they still wouldn't take it. I betcha if Sony was to partner with them for the PlayStation they still would rather go under then to give it a try.

If the PS1, Sega Saturn, Sega CD, and NeoGeo CD compatibility works well enough then perhaps I may pick one up in the future but I'm not pre-ordering it knowing it'll still had problems. Also it needs N64, Sega Dreamcast, and 3DO support.

@technotreegrass If you grew up throughout the 90s, talks of the Super NES vs. Genesis is everywhere. On tv, in magazines, at the playground, after school, in the arcade, at the shopping mall, etc. Me and my friends use to argue which arcade game would hit home console next, he bet on Genesis and I bet on Super NES: Final Fight got SNES port, them Strider got Genesis port, then Knights of the Round got SNES port then Merc got Genesis port then Sunset Riders got ported to both but I told him the SNES version is the better one. Things started to go beyond that when SNES got 3D style games like Donkey Kong Country while Genesis still releasing old 2D sprite based games like Comix Zone. It was a fun era to be a gamer at the time. To us Sega was like WCW and Nintendo was like the WWF.

Looks freaking ugly and those controllers are awfully design. Considering it's a clone on a chip handheld, a number of games will probably not work on it likely Virtua Racing, Super Mario RPG, and Star Ocean. Also it using a 16:9 over a 4:3 aspect ratio kill it for me if Sega Genesis and Super NES games are all it supported. Why do clone maker tend to use 16:9 as default when they're not even supporting HDMI output nor had the option to turn it to 4:3? This is just another Chinese garbage that is trying to cater to those die hard retro gamers that still can't let go of those CRT display.

When they can't even give us an exact launch date, then there's bound to be more problems or delays.

I would had bought this if it was a collection on Switch and not an arcade stick. Would had love to have an official version of AVP but not going to be paying $200 for it.

I love the original first two Killer Instinct games both in the arcade and on the Super NES and N64. Also Killer Instinct, unlike most of the other popular fighting games at the times, is just one of few fighting games that never cheap out in making characters for their game by way of palette swap. A trend which Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat heavily rely on just to have new characters. This makes all the cast in Killer Instinct feel unique as they don't share the same physique, move, or sprite with one another.

At this point this is just the Coleco Chameleon 2.0 except under a different name. We still hadn't seen an actual working prototype with actual games.

Just recently got one and I had to say trying Sega CD games on it is awesome. Works just like the real deal, my only problem is that although the Sega CD games work on a Sega Genesis Model 3, the Nomad, and clone systems there are no CD audios playing on those so unless you can hack those for the audio part it's just a bummer. It works great on a Sega Genesis Model 1 & 2, and the Mega Sg.

At least it'll be more affordable than the Play Date. I'll see if I could find one if I could find one. A lot of retailers are disappearing from my city one by one so I hope to find it before they all dissolve.

@construx 15 years ago the Nintendo DS was launch, it doesn't have HDMI out and only a handful of games but it does had GBA backwards compatibility and is region free plus it launch at $150 just like this.

I might get one just for ClayFighter 2, Top Gear, and Earthworm Jim.

This like the 4th or 5th re-releases of these things and still no clicky sticks. Sorry SNK no clicky sticks no buy.

Nice trailer but everything are still just CGI render, it didn't actually show a real person holding the thing yet which proclaim that there's still not a working prototype yet. Hopefully this doesn't end up like the Coleco Chameleon.

The handheld looks good but I'm not comfortable with the menu button locating just below the d-pad there. For one it could accidentally interrupt gameplay for example if I'm playing a fighting game, my thumb could easily hit the menu button by accident when performing a move thus interrupting my game session. Hopefully they fix that with the final design.

@BeefSanta It's like an Ouya but you're buying the retro or indie games on cartridges instead of downloading them.