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  1. Or.... it just isn't as important to others as it is to you. It would be cool if it could be a more ideal result for those that want it. I personally would never use this, but I don't object to it being worked on obviously. That said, you've made your point. You need to stop posting as if you are entitled to having it changed.
  2. I'm not sure which games are effected, but I know at least my Startropics rom works on my everdrives just fine but doesn't play audio on the JB core. I read it has to do with the header or something in the rom file. I'm sure I can track down another copy, or figure out how to rip my cart, but I just never felt like screwing around with it since I already had the everdrives. i'm incredibly lazy. If I had an FDS setup i probably would care more about it... but meh.
  3. I don't know that anyone is trashing it, so much as pointing out some annoyances with it. I have both an AVS and NT Mini. I originally owned an AVS before the Nt Mini came out and sold it, but recently picked up another AVS to try out after so many people on this post talked about how much they liked it. They are both great systems, but each definitely has some minor design flaws. The AVS door design is just annoying if you want to use famicom stuff. I don't have a lot of space in my setup so i really don't have room to have the door wedged open. I could see it being genuinely annoying for people who do favor famicom stuff. Also the NES connector on mine seems especially tight for certain games... particularly ones I purchased from RetroUSB. This isn't a big deal, it's just odd. The NT mini as you mention has the NES cart stability issue. It was bad enough that I swithced to using my famicom everdrive for the most part instead of an NES one, just because famicom carts are considerably more stable in it due to their lower center of gravity. I mean I can understand the cost would be higher for the aluminum if it arched up instead of down like it does... but it's definitely a bit problematic. I wish someone would release a 3d printed "collar" or something that would hold the carts tighter up higher... at least I think something like this could potentially work. Additionally, not so much a problem but more of a "would be nice", some of the newer video options on super nt/mega sg would be really nice to have on the nt mini. I can honestly say I never had an issue with having to clean carts excessively to read them on any that I tried. Most of the time I just use everdrives, a famicom one for the Nt mini, and a NES one for the AVS. This for the most part mitigates the issues i have with both... and I call it a day. They are both great systems and either one is perfectly fine for my nes gaming needs. If analogue released another one maybe smaller, plastic, without analog video and with maybe only 2 controller ports. I'd buy that as well just for the space savings if anything.
  4. Wow, that would be a much better design. While in the end it's just a minor annoyance, i've never heard anyone say anything positive about the extra long door that doesn't close for famicom stuff and heard plenty of people make negative comments about it. If it was designed like in that picture and each slot had cartridge flaps that pushed in, that would be a much more ideal design.
  5. I'm pretty sure everyone saying this is going by them having personally experienced it, and the number of other people who have also shared that experience. I don't know wtf you are talking about with never having even heard of the genesis having jailbars, it's a very well known and often stated thing. I know I personally have 1 model 1, 2 x'eye, and 1 cdx console. I've never modded the model 1, but all of the others I have done rgb bypass mods on, and even still the only one that I could completely remove the jailbars from, at least visually to me was the CDX. That required fully lifting the rgb pins and running those only to a voultar bypass board and straight out. All of the other ones still have jailbars, even after modification in some cases. As for your pictures, they are very difficult to judge. The lighting is uneven, they have quite a bit of particle noise, and in some cases (the fantasy zone picture for instance) extreme ringing. In some of the pictures (outrun for instance) there are odd lines patterns, but it's tough to say if that is the result of a signal problem or an element of light bouncing off the display or the camera taking these pictures. Honestly, if you are happy with your consoles, that's great... nobody is trying to take that away from you. The fact is that many people have genesis related hardware with problems though. While I will agree that the SMS model 1 I have blows everything else out of the water in terms of how visible its jailbars were before modification, they are still there on many genesis consoles. I think people are just confused as to why you are trying to convince us that our consoles don't in fact have these problems? It's somewhat baffling.
  6. It depends on how sensitive you are to lag. I mean if you have a threshold that sits somewhere above original hardware on a crt, if you can reduce lag in most places you can afford some on the controller comms overhead. While I don't doubt that some people are very sensitive to lag, and the effect is cumulative between parts of the setup, I think people tend to overblow the amount from some individual sources. Not everyone is as demanding about every aspect, and people that are demanding about various aspects may not be so for the same reason.
  7. Yeah, pretty much saturn and jaguar are the only consoles (other than older atari, coleco, intellivision) I am aware of that don't have a decent wireless solution. Most other things can somehow be converted to SNES, GEN, or PS2-4, which wireless receivers/controllers exist for. Saturn can be converted to ps1 or 2, i forget which, but the layout sucks obviously.
  8. You seem to have some seriously misplaced aggression toward anyone who doesn't agree with you. I accept the fact that you are not a native English speaker, so your grasp of English isn't... all there, but I honestly can't understand what you mean by far-fetched in this case. I didn't give any indication that i thought anything was far-fetched or confusing. I simply pointed out that you were blaming those outside your country, for the fact that you are being taxed by your country to import goods, which is a stance that is not on sound logical footing. No merchant is choosing for your country to tax their customers. I don't need anything broken out into steps. I understand the premise of your claims. They are still based on the same assumptions and biases that they have been all along. You can keep restating the same thing condescendingly, but it doesn't make it accurate. You seem to be blaming them for shipping delays. They are not a shipping company, they do not have any domain over the shipping company assets. One of your points starts with (Terraonion knew...). You are taking a biased assumption and stating it as a fact, with no idea what another party actually did or did not know, and what they may or may not have considered. It makes it difficult to take you seriously. Points like these just doesn't stand up to logical scrutiny. It seems to be a matter of debate as to whether people should have been aware of where it was shipping from or not. See Todd's response here: https://forums.terraonion.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=1066&start=100 Either way, I don't understand why people are making a bigger deal out of this than it actually is. If you don't want to pay it, and/or don't want to do business with this company just refuse delivery and if they refuse to give you a refund, do a credit card chargeback. TL;DR: If you don't like their business practices, refuse the product, do a credit card chargeback if it becomes necessary to get a refund, and never do business with them again.
  9. So your country, being part of the EU levies import taxes on things coming in from outside the EU. You blame that on the people OUTSIDE the EU, instead of squarely on the policies of the EU. So you blame the people being taxed, instead of the ones doing the taxing... That is one really, really warped world-view. I can't even conceive of the level of mental gymnastics needed to accomplish this. Yeah, I guess that is a good point, if original hardware finally dies out this replacement stuff might still be working and you may want to get analog output from it then.
  10. I don't have first hand experience on a high quality CRT, but am familiar with the concept and why people desire it. I too grew up mostly using RF on a crappy spare TV back when I actually owned consoles growing up (after the genesis I was primarily a PC gamer for about 20 years until i got back into consoles a few years ago). I guess that makes sense. Like I said in the original post I just suspect that people that care about CRT gaming probably had original hardware, so it wasn't really a knock against people who prefer CRT, it just didn't make much sense to me that they wouldn't use the original hardware they had for that. This makes sense, it's just something I never considered ?, which is why I was genuinely curious about what others were planning on using the DAC for. I guess in my mind I would expect the same people who are adamant about CRT gaming to be the same way about only using original hardware for it, and original cartridges in extreme cases. It seems that is not the case though. Interesting.
  11. Well... not me. I was never trying to take anyone's fun away, just trying to understand what exactly the use case would be. I always forget about lightgun games so that's fair. Other than duck hunt I'm not sure i've ever played another one on any system.
  12. Look... if that's all the reasoning you need... I can fully support that. ? That's usually my reasoning for these things too. ? I guess I was more curious why people seem to be SO excited for it. I mean I might pick one up just because it exists, I'm just not sure how much I'd use it. I mean I grabbed analog cables for my NT Mini as well, although other than testing them I've never used them. I don't actually have an analog NES anymore though, so it's possible I'd use that if I ever got into CRTs. Fair enough, I hadn't considered the jailbars. I managed to get rid of them at least visibly on my cdx, but all my other variants still have it regardless of how many times they go under the iron. hah I remember the whole "Must have a touch tone phone" in ads.
  13. Yeah, this pretty much sums up that entire issue. I'm 35 and I've only ever heard the term used in the sense it is used in by (sociologists? marketing professionals? people who otherwise like to pigeonhole demographics? i have no idea), which is "people who came of (young adult) age in the 2000s." i.e. people who graduated high school in those years. My understanding is (though i've never personally seen this) that later on, people continued using the term to bash 20 somethings they didn't like in the workplace, for being lazy, coddled, entitled, etc. Even though at that point millenials were in their 30s. So people now conflate millenial with people BORN in the 2000s, but those aren't millenials at all. Honestly though... as I said the entire concept is stupid. We've experienced a dramatic generational squish due to technology. I was born in 84, my sister in 87, and have coworkers born in the mid 90s or even 2000, and they are all very different experiences. We had one hooked up in the basement for some reason. Pretty sure I know how to use one, but I haven't even seen a wireless non-cell phone in a private residence in a decade. I got nothing here. I am perplexed by the whole DAC thing. I feel like most people who have a crt and wanted an analogue console, probably have an original console and either have or don't care about everdrives. So I just legitimately don't understand why you wouldn't use the original hardware instead. In a completely serious, non-sarcastic manner.... what am i missing here?
  14. Gen Y and Millenial are different names for the same generation born starting 1980-1982 and ending 1994-1996 depending on who you ask. Although I would agree that this grouping doesn't make much sense as due to the rate of technology change, even people 3-4 years apart had vastly different experiences growing up. Edit: So if you are 38, you are in fact a millenial.
  15. This was a legitimate complaint: You have every right to complain about this. This is shitty behavior. Pretty much everything else you have said across all of your posts is gibberish. I think, you are proceeding from many unverified assumptions. Some of which collectively border on a persecution complex. The biggest of these seems to be confusing indifference at worst, with ill intent. Just because a company does something you don't agree with, or doesn't end well, doesn't necessarily mean they are out to screw their customers. It could simply be a result of mistakes, poor planning, or optimistic estimation that leads to a failure to deliver. None of those things are malpractice without intent. As for the running a company vs shipping from a different country, I don't know enough about the laws and taxes involved to say you couldn't do this effectively. However, even from your basic description there is additional cost to the business to maintain a second location to store and ship the items from, employment costs for doing that, etc. So it seems like the item would need to cost more to compensate. Logistically it would probably be at least annoying as well, so why would they want to do this? Just like your millenial comment... WTF are you talking about?!? How is any of this relevant, what do smartphones have to do with anything? What makes you assume that anybody definitely has one, and/or cares about keeping up with the latest one? Honestly it just sounds like you are impoverished or overly cheap, and bitter about it. The value of something is literally defined by the value assigned to it by the people purchasing it. So in a very real way it is absolutely dependent on the purchasing power of the customer, combined with the value they place on the item. If the item was overpriced, it wouldn't sell sufficiently, by definition, and the price would have to come down. Basic supply and demand in a small market, without many outside influencing factors, is not a hard concept to grasp. I'm not sure what the joke was... the oldest millennials are currently 38 years old. If you argument is that millennials are just inherently more irrational than other pseudo-generations, regardless of their age or experience, that's just idiotic. If you think millennial is just a stand-in term for anybody young that you don't like... again, idiotic. While I can agree wholeheartedly that the conversation should return to FPGA stuff and less about whining about the inequities of life, is Kevtris really looking to break away from analogue? While you might view analogue as the devil for reasons that are suspect at best, the rest of the community seems to appreciate the products that have come out of that partnership. Kevtris has not been particularly vocal one way or another about what he thinks about the relationship other than that he can get paid to do this stuff which is a plus. Also, whether terraonion was deliberately plotting with the illuminati to try to screw EU customers or not... it hasn't stopped me from enjoying my Mega SD. And despite Analogue being the devil's son's college roommate or whatever the line of reasoning seems to be, I've been enjoying it on my Mega SG.
  16. As far as the whole andorra thing, maybe I'm not understanding how this works. In order to ship from somewhere that is in the EU, wouldn't that country have to pay the customs fees/import taxes whatever to receive the product in the first place before they shipped it out? Wouldn't this naturally lead to the item then having to be sold at a higher cost anyway? I would agree that often from both of these companies communication is poor to non-existent, but I think you are overreaching to call any of it malpractice, vs just being perpetually marginal when it comes to running a business. I too am still wondering where these cartridge adapters are... but meh. This is non-sequitur, and a douchey one at that. Also I strongly suspect, that like most people you don't realize just how old millenials are. The oldest in that age group is quickly approaching 40. Basically most of the interest in gaming from the NES through all pre-hdmi consoles is largely due to millenials existing. This is a matter of opinion, not a fact. Comparatively I'd say their more recent line of products actually is priced quite cheaply. I'd say if $200 USD breaks the bank for you, you should not be wasting money on retro video gaming stuff to begin with, it's probably better spent elsewhere like food/shelter. Well if your goal was to avoid this, this giant ranting wall of text pretty much missed the mark of being rational.
  17. Every time a new product comes out and gets discussed on these forums, I feel like a millionaire even though I am very much objectively not. The amount of complaining from people over products for an optional hobby is staggering and smacks of entitlement. Price worthiness, is obviously going to depend on how much you like colecovision, and/or whether you just have money to burn. If you actually are into the colecovision a lot, and the community around it, it seems like it's pretty obviously worth it. Especially if you like supporting physical releases of new stuff. I feel like the various price breakdowns of hardware cost to put together something similar in a real system, has made their case. If that's not enough to justify the cost to you, then just don't buy it... I literally do not understand the people who come out for every product and are like "well at X cost it's too expensive, but at X - 15% I would totally be in". Well then it's not for you, move on with your life, or maybe wait it out until it reduces in cost (which is unlikely for niche products like this). Personally, despite having bought in at the early access price, I actually don't have any knowledge of, or previous attachment to colecovision. I'm 35, although I think i played a 2600 first because of how ubiquitous they were for years, I mostly started gaming with NES. I don't think I ever even played a colecovision until 3 or 4 years ago when I got into collecting and playing on hardware... and even then I only bought one, a handful of games, and pretty much never played it again after that first couple weeks. So why buy a phoenix? It's small, it doesn't have to be rgb modded, plays carts and roms. It seemed like a cool project, that actually was going to get made at least in limited quantities, and I didn't want to regret never grabbing one when they were available, the same way so many people feel about the nt mini now. Potential future updates are a bonus. Essentially, I just wanted one because, why not? Am I going to spend 300 hours playing colecovision to justify the 300 i paid for it? well, probably not. I play games from all eras and platforms, including modern games, and particularly prefer longer story driven rpg/action adventure games. I don't care much for arcade style, score type games. I don't think the colecovision has much to offer in this regard. On the other hand, I never expected it to and made my decision to purchase knowing this. If you are on a tight budget I can completely see why this item would be a pass for you. Then again if a few hundred dollars was going to break the bank I don't understand why you would be into physical hardware or collecting of any kind. If that is your situation, just putting together a cheap emulator solution seems much more practical.
  18. Any updates on an expected time frame for shipping early access?
  19. My only issue with the AVS was really the point that I think Joe from Gamesack brought up in their review of it, that for some unfathomable reason most (none? I don't remember) of the settings in the menu have numbers they just have that annoying bar where you would have to count the notches if you want to map it to numbers. Kind of minor, but it really annoyed me as well. Also when I owned one, I could never get zelda 2 to look right when walking through towns or the dungeons, it always seemed to cause shimmering. I realize that is an integer scaling issue, but I don't think I ever got it sorted for whatever reason. Could be I just understood less at the time and didn't try enough settings.
  20. Hyped by who? The megasg always said it would handle SMS as well as Genesis (and maybe sg-1000 too?), but really other than that I don't recall anyone hyping multiple cores. If anything I'd say many people especially here did the exact opposite, constantly having to remind people that the jb firmware is completely extra, unsupported at least officially, and they ought to show more gratitude for it. After the Super NT release specifically there were people waiting on or demanding cores from the NT mini get ported over and a number of people here had to point out that nobody ever said that was going to happen, and the machine only ever promised to play SNES cartridges officially. I would agree on both points. GBA Consolizer seems like it would address what most people would want from a big screen GB(C/A) solution, at least for playing actual carts. On the other hand i do like the number of configurable options the analogue consoles ship with in regards to audio/video settings, so I'd still buy one of those if it came out just to have both. I'd say with the consolizer out there though, they don't have much market incentive to create one. I do agree that the GBA Consolizer is way overpriced for the fully assembled, and maybe even slightly overpriced for the kit + case. But kit + case + 40/32 adapter + shipping still comes to slightly less than an analogue console + shipping. And while there is also install time it basically consists of soldering 15 wires and using a screw driver, so fairly easy.
  21. I think they are definitely marketed a bit overly hyperbolic for sure, especially at release since there are always going to be bugs up front due to the size of the libraries. There is absolutely nothing wrong with pointing out hey, bugs X, Y, Z still exist, and really should be fixed. But there is a bit of a leap from that to: OMG these things are worthless, and business is the devil. One is legitimate criticism, and one is just immature ranting. Edit: And as for pricing, I'd say the nt mini was enthusiast priced, the super nt and mega sg seem targeted at a much larger audience with their pricing.
  22. While there isn't anything wrong with open source, the people that that come in and insist in every discussion that everything needs to be open source, gets really old. Yes, sometimes bugs can be worked on years later. Just as often though, open source projects die off. I work in software and this happens all the time with third-party libraries that are incorporated into larger projects. Honestly, if you hate the very nature of closed source products, just don't buy them. I mean this is all for a non-essential hobby of playing video games, it's not like you have to buy this stuff just because it's there. You can always stick with the Mister only. You can always just try each analogue product and re-sell them if you don't like them... or leave them sitting on a shelf. At the price point this stuff comes out at, it's hardly breaking the bank to just grab it all and evaluate it after the fact, especially compared to many other hobbies. Spelling aside, all this translates to is entitled, out of touch whining: Groovy man... down with the corporations. People have a right to make money. People have bills to pay.
  23. I don't think anyone is missing your point, it's just that generally speaking that is not how most ODEs work. It's a neat idea, but not really that practical from a design or marketing standpoint. I have ODEs for the dreamcast, saturn, 3do, gamecube, pce, and in all cases they replace the original optical drive by hooking in directly to the port that the original drive hooked up to (except the pce). As SegaSnatcher has said In the case of the pce the ssds3 replaces the entire cd unit and more, so it is more of an ODE and some other stuff, but for simplicity i would lump it in with other ODEs. I think the gamecube had a way to install the sd card reader and keep a drive, or swap the drive out for a wii one, or something, but by the time i got into this hobby it was hard enough to find the wasp chip and parts to hook it up at all, so mine replaced my drive. The only one I have that compliments the original drive and doesn't replace it is the psio, since it uses the serial port on the ps1. Later model systems like the PS2/Xbox can use an internal drive (or with adapters an external sd card) and still use the standard disc drives. I think in the case of the Sega CD, the most realistic scenario that even approximates what you are looking for would be a pass through device that hooks to the board connector where the cd unit normally hooks up, that has an ability to read from an sd card, and a passthrough edge connector to also connect back to the standard SCD units... although at that point the fit would be a bit off. Interfacing with an off the shelf cd reader just doesn't seem like a likely thing that anyone would ever do considering the mechanisms to read the physical media already exist as part of the normal system. At best someone would build something that compliments the original drive. The list of people that enjoy the SCD library, want to play it, don't care about using the original disc reading hardware, but must use the original media - has got to be a very, very niche group.
  24. I've never actually tested them with a ps3 controller, though they claim to work. I do have one, so I could though if anyone is interested. PS4 definitely works fine. It seems like you have to pair them wired, but after that they can be used wirelessly forever. I've been using them for a couple years maybe? on my ps1, ps2, 3do (with a 3do to ps2 adapter in the chain first), dreamcast (with some sketchy looking but perfectly functioning dc to ps2 adapter). Pretty sure I've tested them working through some other adapters like gamecube to ps2 and xbox to ps2... but don't quote me on that, I just tested those ones because I had them, not something i regularly use. Essentially between those and the 8bitdo nes/snes receivers, I switched any consoles that don't need a 6 button layout over to wirless ps4 a while ago. I want to say I had like 8 ps4 controllers years before i ever actually owned a ps4.
  25. I know you were talking about a non-existent device from 8bitdo, I just meant: does this satisfy your requirements? Yeah, I think they are being unclear by lumping the PS3/4 together in the description. It does work with PS4 controllers just fine wirelessly, pairing with holding the ps + share like it does with the actual ps4 console, or the 8bit do snes receivers. As for other BT controllers, I'll have to test it when i get a chance, I assume at least the 8bitdo ones should work fine. I know i have one of those snes pro ones with the sticks somewhere around here. Update: I tried pairing my sf30 pro to it, and I could not get it to work wirelessly. It seems to work in switch mode wired. Actually in order to re-pair my ps4 controller i also did have to plug it back in, pair, then unplug it. Maybe that's how it always worked, not sure. I have a different ps4 controller for everything that uses one and have been using them a while, so not sure how I originally paired it.
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