Totally missed opportunity on the name.... "Mini Mega" sounds much cooler IMHO :)
The law of run Nintendo consequences: Sega brings out mini Mega Drive / Genesis
Veteran game maker Sega announced it was getting back into the hardware game at the Sega FES 2018 event over the weekend, with a shrunken version of its classic Megadrive (or Genesis) console. In an announcement in no way connected to the success of Nintendo’s SNES Mini, Sega might well have been inspired by the tried and …
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Monday 16th April 2018 12:57 GMT Dz
Pah, but i'm bored with all the emulated hardware after playing with it for years on years so now i've started buying all the originals right when everyone is going for the minis.
It gives me a special nostalgia glow that emulators or emulated hardware simply can't compete with.
If you need me i'll be watching 80/90s TV adverts on YouTube.
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Monday 16th April 2018 14:33 GMT defiler
i've started buying all the originals right when everyone is going for the minis.
Snap. The lad like his retro games, so I just organised a SNES. Thought about the Mini, but it doesn't take carts so that's a bit of a waste. Looking forward to Play Expo now - he'll be coming along this year!
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Monday 16th April 2018 12:58 GMT ThomH
So exactly what they've been letting AtGames sell for years?
E.g. here.
Those are just emulators in a box and not especially great ones as they suffer, like many old Mega Drive emulators did, from audio issues because the author approximated the relationship between the Z80 and the 68000. But on the plus side, there's a model that comes in a nice handheld size, and accepts an SD card for additional games, which would be a lot more effort to reproduce using a Raspberry Pi.
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Monday 16th April 2018 16:16 GMT Captain Scarlet
Re: So exactly what they've been letting AtGames sell for years?
Its probably what AtGames has sold for years and years just rebranded, no idea why AtGames can't get the sound right (Although might be down to having to emulate two seperate sound chips) but if its just as bad there is no point.
Nintendo small consoles have been way better in emulation which as a Sega fan hacks me off (Especially when emaulators as old as the dos based Gens managed to get it spot on)
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Monday 16th April 2018 18:32 GMT Ugotta B. Kiddingme
Re: So exactly what they've been letting AtGames sell for years?
AtGames also has another version of the same thing here. Perhaps one is a US version and the other isn't? No idea but I do remember seeing that particular one on store shelves last Christmas. It's also considerably less expensive than the version you cite although I'm uncertain why.
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Monday 16th April 2018 21:05 GMT ThomH
Re: So exactly what they've been letting AtGames sell for years?
Having hastily performed some ninja research: the older ones are composite only. The 2017 model supports HDMI. All are software emulators and the newer ones — they've been doing these for almost a decade — are built atop Android. I couldn't find specific information on the older machines, but the HDMI model allegedly features the emulation work of Marat Fayzulin, who wrote a lot of '90s-style emulators* back in the '90s, but fell of the public radar after that. From LinkedIn it looks like he went into Intel to write emulators for upcoming Intel architectures, so I'm sure he's not still writing '90s-style emulators. Nevertheless, reviews of it are pretty dire but a member of the company on AtariAge insists it's because an unspecified manufacturing error caused audio, frame rate and graphical glitches in all the review units but has been resolved since. Draw your own conclusions.
At least putting it out again will invite fresh reviews, to verify that claim.
* in the sense of inaccurate as dictated by available processing. Usually involves pretending that instructions are atomic, that different ICs actually take turns to run for prolonged periods, etc.
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Monday 16th April 2018 23:27 GMT J. Cook
Re: So exactly what they've been letting AtGames sell for years?
"But on the plus side, there's a model that comes in a nice handheld size, and accepts an SD card for additional games, which would be a lot more effort to reproduce using a Raspberry Pi."
Well.... It should be possible to stuff a Pi under a modest sized screen, bung in some controls on a board on either side, and slap a battery pack on the back of it all to run it.
As far as a plug in model, shoot- there are companies selling RetroPIE kits in your choice of nostalgia-inducing cases on amazon for a while now; I was half tempted to buy one until I looked at the price.
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Tuesday 17th April 2018 11:50 GMT Nimby
The road to nostalgia is paved with good inventions.
Now I miss my Nomad! (I wonder whatever happened to it.)
I think I will need to pick up a Lazy Susan at a garage sale for the collection of these mini retro consoles. (Or a Sit 'n Spin.)
Here's hoping the Sega isn't just an emulator. Has anyone contacted Mattel about the Intellivision? Atari?
I wonder how difficult it would be to write new content... New old content? Err ... actually, opposite of "new old stock", so maybe reverse that to old new content? What is the phrase for new software on old old old hardware?