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"never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

I'm getting annoyed with all this Li/Lee nonsense, let's start calling him "Lie" to compromise.

So I guess my video was a little more on the nose than even I knew with this capture card. If you missed it (Watara Ultravision): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXxdPQo8-Gk This is bonkers. BONKERS. I get PCBs made a few times a year, it takes no freaking effort or money to put footprints on a board to show a "concept". Just re-implement the FPGA dev board schematic in your own arrangement or something. Are we still thinking MK physically put this together? Or are we thinking it's another "hardware guy" gone rogue? What if MK really thought progress was being made and was honestly misled by both the SNESJag and the Coleco Hicap? I'm certainly not defending the guy, but it's SO FREAKING BONKERS IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

From my perspective everything lines up that they have a custom board but it doesn't work. So they pulled a switcheroo for the Toy Fair. Of course Mike didn't design the board, he never said he did. Problem is they've backed themselves into a corner by showing SNES era games at the Toy Fair. If they can't deliver the SNES FPGA or a custom architecture that can do that quality, they'll have to admit their deceit. My guess is the 'hardware guy' said he'd have that working by the 26th. Didn't work out.

No, no. It doesn't cost more. Blue and yellow PCBs are cool these days.

That 0.1" header is completely reasonable for a prototype for test points or for reprogramming, I don't think that's really something to focus on.

Those are all ancient PC mobos though.. I'm seeing ISA slots on a few. The fourth to last one looks more recent server mobo and they are all SMT caps. Unless someone comes out and identifies it as an off the shelf dev board, it's my opinion that it is a custom board (or two), that it is not what was shown at the Toy Fair, and that they don't actually have a working platform yet, hence no real demo video.

Care to link an example? I'm looking at 2015/2016 Asus motherboards and I'm seeing almost entirely small SMT caps.

That isn't really a problem, the USB connectors go down through the board so that 0.1" IDE type connector wouldn't be in the way.

What's that big white thing to the right of the lower big flat IC?

Well, if it's a custom PCB as they say, then that doesn't hold water. They would pick reasonable parts and it's my opinion that those caps don't fit the design of a complicated, packed board like we can see. In my opinion someone who can arrange a board with 200+ pin ICs wouldn't pick those caps. There's no way to make a one off with 'parts lying around' at this level of complexity.

Wondering what those giant electro caps are for. Go look up Cyclone evaluation boards and those types are nowhere to be found. Why put big tall through hole caps on a mostly surface mount board?

Quotes to remember going into tomorrow: that is untrue. Our software was running the games. We will prove a lot more on the Kickstarter page. (in response to the SNES question on twitter) Thanks Kevin. The excitement should still be high for the first fully architected FPGA gaming console we've created. We will address the Toy Fair unit now that we have dug out from all the great leads from the show. We still have much more to show and prove yet this week. Thanks for keeping the faith! (facebook)

Can we all agree to pile in to chat around 7:00pm EST on Friday for a frank and constructive discussion about the results of the day?

I'm so giddy for Friday.

Can someone make a video response to my video in the style of the PartyGameNetwork guy? I want to see Watara Ultravision DEBUNKED

Ha! Maybe, that's just coincidence. It's a useful little device for repairing arcade boards. You might also see my custom JAMMA tester beside it.

I'll just leave this here... https://youtu.be/XXxdPQo8-Gk

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