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@Silly_G 3D consoles can render in a higher resolution than it's original. PS1 is where you can do most on RG353P. PSP you have nowhere to go, it is on limit.

The console has hdmi out, so upscaling beyond the screen resolution makes sense, again, earlier 3D systems will benefit most here.

@tadams587 yes, it does. The rumble motor is the same used on 8bitdo's sn30 pro

@Silly_G the Chipset is way more powerful now, it runs Saturn, DS, Dreamcast and PSP nicely. Only the later two needs auto frameskip for some games. Everything bellow that runs perfectly.

This thing goes up to very good NDS/PSP emulation if you flash the Jelos CFW. I was not expecting that.

I got mine the day it went live on aliexpress (like 12 days ago). It amaze me in many ways, and I have it hands on just since Friday.

@Orokosaki the extent of the coverage may suggest that it was more than a free device that they got. It is just a thought of mine, if makes sense is up to you.

@Alexface powkiddy, odin and anbernic machines are far superior in every single spec, and run much more systems, also are cheaper.

If read cartridge and installing for whatever reason is important to you, retrofreak exists since 2016, it has modules too, also cheaper and also run more Nintendo systems than polymega. There is the retron 5 since 2013 too, but I never used it to know if it is any good.

So my question keeps, why Nintendo Life covers every single tiny update for Polymega and mention, at best, one time all those other superior devices?

Nintendo Life love this product, cover it to an absurd extent, I just don't know why. It is an emulation device like many others, and it is not even close to be the best one.

@gaga64
Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge is the only game that uses OBC-1 witch is very dumb of them to make it supported, as it is a Super Scope game, and super scope do not work on emulators like polymega.

@Angelic_Lapras_King
Not in its original form (floppy disk) as the accessory needed is not supported. It is playable if you have a repro on cartridge.

@Rykdrew the big "emulation is legit" discussion is a lot of BS. Both switch emulators for PC (Ryujinx and Yuzu) do require original switch keys in order to boot games. So to play a switch game legally on the deck you will need an original modded switch and an original game, so whats the point to play on the deck is you already required to have the whole setup?

Switch emulation on PC only make sense for who is pirating (and I do support piracy, not ashamed of that). The "legit" talk is pure BS.

@Rykdrew I don't got you comparison. On the RG552 the games are free. I never mentioned nor compared with the switch, the comparison was RG552 vs Steam Deck. The RG552 is way smaller and cheaper, and you don't need to buy or download games. The deck has the power, but it not competition to this device, it is a backpack thing.

@Rykdrew Steam Deck is better, but cost much more, it is way bigger and way less available. Desktops are better than the Steam Deck, but we can't compare, can we?

@Ristar24 You said everything. This thing at this price is just weird. Not to mention that you have to pay extra for for every that do not use CDs unlike every other competitor emulation box out there.

But for whatever reason this Nintendo website gives huge coverage to only one emulation box option, and for whatever reason it is the only emulation box that do not play Nintendo games out of the box.

@Damo

2 to 2.5 frames of lag makes sense. It is 32ms to 40ms. This info us believable. What people were spreading here in this comment section is that Polymega delivery 1ms of lag with cycle accuracy. This us straight up a lie.

Other points you raised, if the original controllers is managed through usb protocol, no lag will be reduced.

(Just one more thing, pre populated database with cover exist for a decade on Chinese consoles)

@ramu-chan they never advertised cycle accuracy and low response time.

By the way, 1ms is BS. No classic console delivery such low input delay on a CRT. The usb overhead itself has much more than 1 frame (1 frame is more than 16ms). So I would love to see the source of that info. Both infos, the 1 ms latency and the cycle accurate emulation.

@ramu-chan good luck finding Dreamcast, PS2 and PSP compatibility on Polymega, variously "cheap knok off box" from AliExpress can do it but Polymega don't.

Wake up people, this $430 thing can't even play gameboy, yes the monochrome gameboy, it can't. It is less than a retrofreak out of the box. Less than a Retron 5. Less than a pi4. Costing more than a PS5.

It is an overpriced Retron 5 that reads CDs, except that you need to pay a retron-5-worth value in order to make this thing read cartridges.

You get better emulation boxes on ali express for way cheaper, and you don't even need to scratch (or even have) an expansive CD game.

@Damo not true. Retrofreak (that even was reviwed here on NL) does just like that. Retron has a bunch of machines doing that too. All of that available to buy right now. Polimega is not.

anyone can put together battery + charging board on the gameboy. Extremely easy and cheap mod, and you got to choose battery brand and capacity. I don't understand why this is advantage to anyone.

Evercade is actually good, unlike that thing called polymega that this news site advertise like crazy.

@WhiteTrashGuy if works for you, then nobody has to say you anything.

@WhiteTrashGuy you can get better accuracy and features right now with a Windows PC or a MiSTer FPGA. Polymega is just an ordinary clone console.

Why this news site is so adamant in covering what is basically a Retron5?