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With it appearing likely that 8bitdo is going to be releasing a Turbografx control pad: https://www.retrorgb.com/8bitdo-p30-2-4g-wireless-gamepad-leaked.html Is anyone like me thinking that Analogue may eventually complete the holy trinity of the 4th gen consoles?

Extremely convenient since PS1 is 2 months away from being usable and SNES enhancement chips aren't implemented.

Update 6: Now some bad news, 14nm supply shortages are affecting the ship date for Polymega. We're in line behind a few larger companies but target is summer for receiving most of the CPUs and ship. Press preview units and pre-orders will be shipped as soon as received. Bingo

Update 3: On the eve of the Sega Saturn's 25th anniversary, we are proud to announce we have hit 99% game and 99% HLE BIOS compatibility for the entire Sega Saturn Disc Library. Full speed. PS1 HLE BIOS is 90+% currently and will be improved further in the coming 2 months.

Complete silence, no movement on the rewards page... People may as well start doing charge backs on their credit cards now.

Well, now they are at $339,678. Things are slowing down but it sure is depressing.

I wouldn't mind betting for some of these stretch goals for CD systems an additional module will be required for the "enhanced processing" required and to give control ports. Got to keep the cash flowing in after the pre-order afterall.

You would think that they would want as many unsecured creditors as possible.

Finally I can actually get on the website and view it properly. Only took 4 days. Seemingly they have managed to get $71,302 in "pre-orders" *cough* crowdfunding so far, which is a bit terrifying. People apparently really want a x86 emulation box that isn't the computer they already have... I find it really interesting that on Twitter they refuse to discuss how much funding is required to make a N64 module a reality, just saying its a rewards level - despite the fact that it is plain as day on their website that they need to get to a mere $8m to make it happen. Now, OCD time.. even if I was willing to ignore every warning sign from this project, the fact that the SNES module's controller port labeling is in a different format to the rest of the modules (IE SNES is 1 [PORT] [PORT] 2 compared to all other modules being [PORT] 1 [PORT] 2) I could never live with it haha.

From Twitter: Just for fun one of their responses to someone questioning why the old FAQ and new FAQ are completely different was along the lines of "The Sega Saturn wasn't on the old FAQ either". Real pleasant people this lot are. EDIT: How in God's name is the website still not up. I am in Australia, surely I am trying in off peak times when the website should actually work.

No no, they are educating people that FPGA is only necessary for "hardcore gamers" that are concerned with minuscule differences.

Waaaait a second. This thing is shipping in April? In 7 months... After credit card charge backs will no longer be possible... On their own website (if it is ever up), not an independent platform... For a product that doesn't resemble what was initially presented... And people are actually giving them money? While there is some negativity on Facebook and Twitter, there is quite a bit of positivity and YouTube 'personalities' are still defending the product. I give up on humanity. EDIT: I am really struggling on this one. To me, any rational person would look at the back peddling from what Polymega has been touting since day one up until recent interviews and think "Hey, maybe I should wait on this a bit and see how this plays out" but instead people are fawning over this as the second coming of Jesus.

I do find it amusing that in the correspondence between Bryan and godslabrat they claim to be delivering on everything they promised when they simply are not. At the end of the day this is just an x86 box (Intel Pentium Gold G5500T processor is listed in the FAQ) running Linux pre loaded with licensed emulators. The thing that really irks me is if they had come out at launch and said exactly what they are doing, making a better Retron 5 that has modules to support the exact systems you desire I would have bought the bloody thing. Now I feel I can't trust anything they claim.

I am taking this as they are acknowledging that this is nothing more than a Retron5 style device, something that have claimed since the beginning that they are not. Surely this has been known internally for a while, so why would they go into E3 still touting this as some revolutionary "hybrid emulation" system where it seems to be a simple cartridge dumper running in emulators that they didn't develop from the ground up but merely licensed. Also, reward tiers? So this pre-order is a Kickstarter... EDIT: From their interview on RPG Site: https://www.rpgsite.net/interview/7350-polymega-interview-how-this-modular-console-may-change-the-way-we-enjoy-retro-gaming So in June 2018 at E3 it was going to work, just like they had claimed since day 1 of this product. Now on launch they have suddenly realised it isn't possible. How can anyone trust these guys...

So, they are cutting it real fine on their commitment to launch their pre order campaign in August... Of course no sign of their technology rundown before launch as well. Their forums are buzzing with excitement as they all know that Polymega are doing this for the love of the scene, not for money...