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Yeah, I don't understand this marketing at all. "Scholarly"-what? It's a... nicer front end for their products? The appeal of the product for me that it's an e

Yeah, I don't understand this marketing at all. "Scholarly"-what? It's a... nicer front end for their products? The appeal of the product for me that it's an extremely well made, nice looking Genesis with HDMI and retains peripheral compatibility. It is in my mind an unofficial "Model 4 Genesis". I don't mind that it isn't a MiSTer and that I can't modify it further - to me I suppose it's like a fancy new record player. I like to physically take carts down off my shelf, look at the labels, plug them in and play them. There's a lot of stuff out there that's just absolute junk in comparison, like the Retron you mentioned. Cheap plastic, tight cartridge ports that feel like they're causing damage, dodgy emulation. I may build something like a MiSTer eventually but it will serve a different purpose.

spicybright 5y ago
Fully agree with you! I only mentioned the retron because it's in a similar category. But it's seriously terrible, having used one. The only good portable emulators imo have really been other devices but repurposed. Like a tablet/phone + bluetooth controller, or something like an NVidia Shield. Every other piece of plastic junk... well yeah, they work, but their emulators are generally jank with emulation glitches. And you generally can't update them like internet connected devices. So if you ignore the marketing (and the lack of 6 face buttons for genesis games ;) ) this would be really nice device for that. And I agree with the carts. Maybe it's nostalgia, or a yearning for a physical medium, but there's nothing like a shelf of media imo. I used to be very into cassettes, splicing together mixtapes from other tapes, radio, computer, etc. in 2017. It's very pleasant putting a tape in the deck for work music. If they can get their marketing straightened out, and the FPGA method gets a lot of mileage, I can see this being a really nice device.

spicybright 5y ago

Fully agree with you! I only mentioned the retron because it's in a similar category. But it's seriously terrible, having used one. The only good portable emulators imo have really been other devices but repurposed. Like a tablet/phone + bluetooth controller, or something like an NVidia Shield. Every other piece of plastic junk... well yeah, they work, but their emulators are generally jank with emulation glitches. And you generally can't update them like internet connected devices. So if you ignore the marketing (and the lack of 6 face buttons for genesis games ;) ) this would be really nice device for that. And I agree with the carts. Maybe it's nostalgia, or a yearning for a physical medium, but there's nothing like a shelf of media imo. I used to be very into cassettes, splicing together mixtapes from other tapes, radio, computer, etc. in 2017. It's very pleasant putting a tape in the deck for work music. If they can get their marketing straightened out, and the FPGA method gets a lot of mileage, I can see this being a really nice device.