The Mighty Polymega

[burningdoom]

I LOVE mine.

I get the spite directed at it after they initially were going to make it an FPGA console, and then in pre-production changed that. FPGA would, of course be preferred. But given what we got, I'm still not disappointed in mine, in the slightest. Well...I take that back, sort of. The company behind the product, Playmaji, can be frustrating. They do not make enough product to meet their demand.  And this seems to be a common practice with them, still, years later. The product itself is great...waiting months, sometimes even years to get it, is not so great. (I'm still awaiting my N64 module add-on.)

What this machine does is take your existing physical retro game library, and put it onto one multi-system console. I know, I know...I hear you, "My Retron 5 can do that!" and, "Raspberry Pi!".
1. Regarding Retron 5: This is a much better designed and better built system than the Retron 5 could ever hope to be. It's got more solid feeling hardware (the Retron 5 feels like a child's toy). A robust GUI that is intuitive and fun to navigate. And I don't experience the input lag I did on the Retron 5. And I can have more consoles worth than the Retron 5.
2. Regarding Raspberry Pi: I'm not a techie guy, so I don't get into that stuff. And I don't pirate, I use my own physical collection, and I love having it all in one place.

Out of the box, this things covers:
1. PS1
2. Sega Saturn
3. Sega CD/Mega CD
4. Neo Geo CD
5. Turbo-CD/PC Engine-CD
And we recently got a tease from Playmaji saying a new core is coming...

There are also also add-on modules that you can add as you like for the following:
1. NES/Famicom
2. SNES/Super Famicom
3. Nintendo 64
4. Genesis/Mega Drive/32X
5. TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
6. Atari 2600/7800

And it has all the modern bells and whistles such as save states, filters, aspect ratio settings, play speed settings, etc. and even selectable Game Genie codes built in.

In addition, they have been putting out officially licensed retro game collections on disc that are compatible with the Polymega...I really hope this leads to some original or indie games also doing the same thing (like the Evercade).

In even bigger news for the system, they just announced both a new more powerful version of the console coming soon, and a handheld version of the system coming soon. So now is the perfect time to jump in and get a pre-order in on the new consoles if you were ever on the fence.

Do any of you have one? What do you think of it?

[ssj4yamgeta]

I liked the idea when it was first announced, but when it was released, I balked at the idea of paying $400 plus $60 per module to play a lot of old games on a single console. At the time of release, it cost more than a brand-new PS4. Now it's gone up to $550 for the base unit and $80-$90 for each additional module. After my interest in collecting pre-7th-gen physical games waned, I lost all interest in the Polymega. I'd rather spend $640 on a mini PC that plays everything the Polymega plays (and then some), and has far more uses on the side.

[sly345]

And I don't pirate

It's not really piracy, considering the original developers don't lose out, but they also don't receive any money from their games being sold anywhere today - instead, all the money goes to the current rights holders, usually a big publisher like EA, Microsoft, Embracer, THQ Nordic or anybody else who sucked up all sorts of licences for old games and now makes a quick, easy buck and considering how awful these companies are, they don't really deserve money, imo. If these games would make money for the original developers, i would support it, a lot of them never became rich and were always underpaid for their creative work (especially in the 80's). For every millionaire John Romero there are 50 developers who never made a living from their passion, no matter how creative they were.

This thing is also hideously overpriced. For half the money you get a Retroid Pocket that can emulate everything in 1080 up to the WiiU (except Xbox because that's still a mess). It's the best thing i ever bought in regards to gaming, makes my commute to work so much more fun

[burningdoom]

And I don't pirate

It's not really piracy, considering the original developers don't lose out, but they also don't receive any money from their games being sold anywhere today - instead, all the money goes to the current rights holders, usually a big publisher like EA, Microsoft, Embracer, THQ Nordic or anybody else who sucked up all sorts of licences for old games and now makes a quick, easy buck and considering how awful these companies are, they don't really deserve money, imo. If these games would make money for the original developers, i would support it, a lot of them never became rich and were always underpaid for their creative work (especially in the 80's). For every millionaire John Romero there are 50 developers who never made a living from their passion, no matter how creative they were.

This thing is also hideously overpriced. For half the money you get a Retroid Pocket that can emulate everything in 1080 up to the WiiU (except Xbox because that's still a mess). It's the best thing i ever bought in regards to gaming, makes my commute to work so much more fun

You took that tiny bit out of context. It was in the sentence about Raspberry Pi, not the Polymega.

[kashell]

Pass.