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Isn't SD2SNES free and open source? It's not illegal to clone it as far as I know. But if you're buying it, for such a small difference in price, you might as well support the people who developed it. I am guessing Krikkz does give Ikari a cut? It'sinda complicated. I did buy a unit on ebay, that I though was manufactured by Krikzz, but then as I got more information about the product I discovered it actually is a china manufactured one. It does work perfect so far. I did test the superFX firmware and it was all good. I mean, if you live in the USA, just get it from SAG. Do you really need to save 25 bucks on this?

Really cool topic. Thanks guys for all the infos. I didn't know a lot of this. Does anyone know wether the two directional knobs on the Cassete Vision were 8 direction stics, rotary, or what? I didn't really clearly see this information written anywhere I searched. They kinda look like rotary buttons, but they could actually be just about anything. just from the look of them.

I am very glad to hear that. Have fun Kev. And rest a bit too.

This is kinda sad, but there really isn't a middle of the road product. It's a known issue too. Either you go for a Super Retro Trio that will have lag, sound issues, Color palette issues and low quality video output, or ou go withh the AVS. There's basically nothing else out there. Theoretically Analogue could make an NES clone that costs less than the AVS, since their SNT uses higher end stuff and costs about the same. I ny dreams I want to recommend you to just buy a Super NT and forget about the everdrive, but you don't live in my dreams, so yeah... Seriously. Instead of getting any of these crap clones to use with an everdrive you should get a raspberry pi. I am not saying the pi is the be all end all of NES gaming. I'm just saying it's still less crap than these NOaC crap consoles out there.

Do you want to plug through HDMI? If so, the retro USB is the cheapest option that's not crap. These other clones are upscaling composite with questionable palettes, lack of scaling options, bad sound, etc.. On top of that, all modern clones I know of in the market are reported not to work with the Everdrive. You know, cause they're all crap...

What an achievement. It's already reached the "At least it's better than the Coleco Chameleon" status. Well done. BUT are those cart slots any better than the retro VGS though? Were those actually shown to work in any capacity? TBH, now they've admitted this thing won't even run flash carts, is anyone still interested? It's just a more expensive retron 5. Did anyone really want that?

So much for hybrid emulation. If it was accurate emulation using the cart slot anything that runs on the original would run on the polymega. But you need to be really gullyble to have believed this people were actually going to do it. Now they're switching this creap into an ouya? Seriously? Now I am just waiting for them to go in indiegogo asking for money. It's the last step they need. But hey, they might just release it traight up. But if someone actually invested 500k dollars into this crap, I pitty whoever did it. this thing isn't doing 500k back. Even with all the morons out there ready to buy any crap gimmick, this retarded brother of the Retron 5 isn't going to go far.

I just hope Kevtris is doing well. Otherwise, whatever reason for the silence is, I don't really care.

Who cares how many there are? There are like half a dozen worth watching. I mean, to me this sounds a bit like that entire "you're complaining about a traffic jam, buy you are the traffic jam." situation..

Every 100 years Dracula's castle reappears. Every 3 years this topic shall raise from it's grave and remind us how great the series is. See you guys in 2011.

Well, I guess it's understandable people would disagree on what the most important aspect of the system is. To me playing with actual arcade controllers is more important than accuracy. I basically can't play fighting games without a stick. Nor do I want to. I'd rather have an arcade stick, and colors that are off, and weird sound, and maybe a couple visual glitches, than having to play with a pad. But I'm not claiming my taste is better than anyone else's. That's just how I feel.

This thing has a 3,5 inch screen. The unit is minuscule. I definitely don't want to play any games on such a tiny toy-like unit. But obviously, anyone who buys this will have to pay for the controlls, built in screen ans speakers, and also live with the form factor, that could be cool for some, but also a total hassle for others. Best case scenario, this is going to be a decent, yet expensive and clunky way to play some Neo Geo games. Worse case scenario this is going to be utter trash. I'll be honest. I really just crapped on this with no explanation, because I thought it was obvious how stupid this is. But hey, I did say in my original post, some people like these cool looking collectible toys. This one is pretty good at that. I mean, the Japanese version is cool looking.Tthe western version fails at even that. How can one not be disappointed? Now as far as controllers go, first, there was nothing announced in that sense, and second, it's going to look pretty stupid, having controller cords comming out of an arcade cabinet. But fit yourself. I guess anyone who disagrees with you is a stupid, childish asshole. That's a very mature way of seeing the world.

What a damned joke. I wouldn't buy this crap for 50 bucks, and yet, for some reason I doubt it's going to be this cheap. Clearly this is targeting people who are looking for a shiny collectible over people who want to play Neo Geo games. To each their own I guess. The japanese model is at least a Replica of a cabinet they used to have. What is the western version? Some stylized representation of a middle finger?

Well, there is a possibility we might get some awesome stuff we don't even need to pay for. Wouldn't be the first time. But logic says some payed stuff should also be comming too.

Oh, So Kevtris said the Polymega is fine? Where do I pre-order? Fllojomojo, thans for the heads up. I missed that. Wait. Are they claiming to be the first HD modular retro game console? The Retro Freak already did that, didn't they? I mean, they only have 2 possible modules out, but it's still a modular design.

You entitled prick, Stop stating your opinion as fact, you don't actually know that for sure, you're just assuming. Gosh... I hate it when people make... jokes..

I wish this aspect ratio discussion didn't go so deep. People don't seem to agree on which aspect ratio corrects 4:3 properly, so this might be a harder thing to get consensus on. If you really want to have your perfect correction you can still do it just fine through the advance settings. I just wish the 1:1 thing was corrected. I don't care how you call it, but I have heard no one say there is a single use for this 1:1 aspect as it's implemented now. So just going straight to the point: The 1:1 aspect that's implemented now is completely useless, but the square pixel ratio is useful, so it should be on the basic menu. I don't care what you call it. Call it "leo DS is a moron" for all I care. Just get rid of that useless setting and put somehting people actually usein it's place. As for the entire 4:3 and 8:7 stuff, I am lucky to not care enough. Both look decent, and since there is no actual unique scaling throughout CRTs, nor is there an official standard, that's kind of a lost cause. It's kinda like NES palletes. You can discuss it all your life, and you can make or use one that you like, but you can't ever find the "correct" one.

They need to route all those hopes and dreams... Not to mention all the empty promises. Must have been hard with only 14 layers.

OMG! the 20th highest Donkey Kong score is a fraud! NOOOO! Seriously. The guy has been irrelevant on the competitive scene for over a decade. If people actually cared about competitive gaming they'd be discussing the actual new records, and the players relevant today. But youtubers will just to what they have to do to get some views, and people just jump on the bandwagon for whatever reason. And Mitchel has a 930k score that was valid, but his 1m score was proven to be made on MAME. The guy obviously could play videogames, but also was only ever famous because he was good at self promotion, and not because he was the best. But people talking about him and ignoring everyone else doesn't help that case at all does it? http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=366.0

Seems pretty decent. If I find one in the wild I'll get it and check it out.

What is even the button mapping of SFII on the GB? I mean, really doesn't sound great to not even have different punches and kicks...

PS2 sold tons of units, and the good arcade sticks sold the most on Playstation. That is generally the reason why PS1/2 -> other stuff adapters are the most common. In my oppinion there are many controllers that are better than the DS2. For the analogues the 360 controller is better, but that d-pad... The xbox one is a good all-roundewr that's basically on par wiith DS2. I love some of the hori controllers like the Hori Pad Pro for xbox one. Really good, and I prefer it over any stock controller.

RadikusRLZ, come on, share your firmware with us. Are you seriously going to keep that just for yourself?

I have mixed feelings about analog controlls. I just bought a bunch of old used controllers for the Super NT, and after a good clean, they still work really well. Good luck with original N64 controllers. MAybe it would be a better idea to really just get a really good controller adapter that lets you plug USB into the 64 and use that with different mappings. Still, doesn't matter how you look at it, retrofighters giving us an alternative is a positive thing. Worse case scenario you dopn't buy it, but It will keep prices on the original used stuff at bay, since people have an alternative. Any other people with experience on these controllers?

I'm not sure the hackers actually want to look into this, but I'll make a sure summary on some games where the hotkeys are broken on the Hacked firmware. On the game Spriggan Powered no hotkeys work on either JB or the official Firmware. On the game Dynamic Stadium the Hotkeys work in certain moments in the game, and don't work in others. Secret of mana is the most odd of them all: JB but through SD2SNES you can summon the menu in all situations unless P2 opens his inventory. If he does, then P1 can't access the menus. But on the Jailbreak you need to open your inventory for the hotkeys to be usable. Reinforcing: The behaviour is different when the game is side-loaded through the SD browser or loaded through SD2SNES. Now to me this is just a curiosity. Not sure people are interested in seeing this "fixed". I personally don't care. But this is the behaviour I've observed.