Retro VGS Game Console

[MrBroadway]

While on facebook, looking for some info about the kickstarter, this is the first comment I read:

"I'm hope I'm in the first 500. I'm going for the exclusive but will there be a bigger bundle that'll include launch titles ir other things? I'm going with whatever the best package ends up being whatever the price. I'm selling old gaming stuff to raise the money so the sooner I know how much I need the sooner I can start raising the money."

Somebody please tell me this is a shill account started by the makers of the RVGS to make their product look appealing.

Sounds more like a troll than a shill.

[esteban]

While on facebook, looking for some info about the kickstarter, this is the first comment I read:

"I'm hope I'm in the first 500. I'm going for the exclusive but will there be a bigger bundle that'll include launch titles ir other things? I'm going with whatever the best package ends up being whatever the price. I'm selling old gaming stuff to raise the money so the sooner I know how much I need the sooner I can start raising the money."

Somebody please tell me this is a shill account started by the makers of the RVGS to make their product look appealing.

Sounds more like a troll than a shill.

Yeah, I'd vote "troll" on that post, bless him or her.

[glazball]

I'm curious to see if KS will end up pulling the campaign, since the RetroVGS folks are violating the rules by not having a working prototype.

And that's IF they even use Kickstarter.  If they really don't have a working prototype, they may use some other site to raise money.  Their FB page simply says "mid September crowdfunding campaign."  He has mentioned KS, implying they do (or will) have a working prototype, but we'll see.  If they don't not only will this RVGS idea crash and burn but may also f*ck up the chances for any better team to come out with a cart-based console in the future.

[elmer]

And that's IF they even use Kickstarter.  If they really don't have a working prototype, they may use some other site to raise money.

They've mentioned Kickstarter too many times, including that they negotiated a "special" deal, for me to think that they'd go somewhere else.

I guess that there's also a question of what a "working" prototype is. They've got a shiny case, a working controller, at least one "prototype" game with Tiny Knight, and a piece of cardboard with output connectors positioned on it.

They're not proposing to do anything radically new here, they're just matching an ARM chip with an Altera FPGA. You can look at the MiST, or any recent Terasic development board to see that that can be done. It's just a case of having the funds.

Heck, you can even buy the basic hardware on eBay ...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Altera-DE1-SoC-Cyclone-V-Development-and-Education-Board-P0159-with-Extra-/262032197804?hash=item3d025608ac

I'd be somewhat surprised if the Kickstarter management would actually force them to have a board running inside their JagWire case.

And even if they did want to see running "hardware", all that the RETRO VGS guys need to do is to buy a cheap Chinese Android media-box system and take it out of it's box, and the Kickstarter guys wouldn't know the difference.

What they're selling isn't a piece of hardware ... that bit is easy. They're selling the dream of a whole eco-system of game developers making new cartridge-based games.

How does the Kickstarter management police that particular fantasy?

[SephirothTNH]

I am still waiting for it to be cancelled, but I fear ego and hubris will prevent this silly thing from dying gracefully.

It's death will come in the form of a failed KickStarter campaign.

Edit: In case you weren't aware, they want MILLIONS of dollars in KickStarter funds.

[elmer]

Hahaha ... it just keeps on getting weirder! 

Now they've dropped the s-video output and added a large "expansion" connector to the back.

It looks like a pretty huge connector ... I wonder what kind stresses on the motherboard they're going to get from people plugging and unplugging all their RETRO VGS "old cartridge" expansions.

[Black Tiger]

Are any "retro" connections left, so that you can actually hook the thing to a proper "retro" TV, or is it only hdmi now?

If it becomes hdmi-only, they should get a supply of cheap led monitors and have a cheap crt shell made for them and sell them for a premium to those hardcore enough to afford an authentic "retro" experience.

[BlueBMW]

Not sure if someone pointed this out yet, looks like they're going to use indiegogo instead of kickstarter.  Probably because of the whole prototype issue people were mentioning.

[Jibbajaba]

Not sure if someone pointed this out yet, looks like they're going to use indiegogo instead of kickstarter.  Probably because of the whole prototype issue people were mentioning.

Lol.  Indiegogo. 

This gives me an idea...

[BlueBMW]

How can I buy a console and games when they’re available?

The RETRO VGS will be sold initially via a Summer 2015 Indiegogo campaign.  At the conclusion of the campaign we will continue to take pre-orders on our website and on FunStock.co.uk. More retail options to be announced.  Finished consoles will be delivering in the order purchased beginning mid 2016.

[mickcris]

will be interesting to see the details.  if it does fund (which i highly doubt), i wonder how long it will be for them to prototype the system and build them.  Cant see it being anything less than a year.

edit:
just saw post above after I posted.  I am thinking there is a good chance of them not making the mid 2016 estimate.

[mickcris]

delete.  bad reading comprehension by me.

[Jibbajaba]

https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=19780

 

[SignOfZeta]

Not sure if someone pointed this out yet, looks like they're going to use indiegogo instead of kickstarter.  Probably because of the whole prototype issue people were mentioning.

Man, they better be careful. If they don't make their goal on Kickstarter they get nothing. If they are short on Indigogo they get to keep no matter what gets donated.

So they could find themselves with a million dollars or whatever easily...but that also sort of obligates you to actually make the thing and that's a responsibility I wouldn't wish on anyone because the product they want is extremely difficult to make. Impossible, practically speaking. That million bucks may end up being their albatross.

[Necromancer]

Not sure if someone pointed this out yet, looks like they're going to use indiegogo instead of kickstarter.  Probably because of the whole prototype issue people were mentioning.

Ha!  They can't get something as dead simple as a funding campaign decided and ready on time (their facebook page still says it'll be on kickstarter), so I don't know how anyone can continue to defend 'em.  It's one thing to be optimistic and hope for the best, but you gotta be mildly retarded to ignore so many warning signs.