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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #706 on: February 25, 2016, 09:29:39 AM »
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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #707 on: February 25, 2016, 12:18:23 PM »
Check out this gem directly from the retrovgs website


So wait... is this FPGA or straight emulation?  Their SOFTWARE was running the games at toyfair?  Is anyone else as excited as a kid on Christmas Eve to find out what new hilarity they will bring with the kickstarter launch tomorrow?

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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #708 on: February 25, 2016, 01:08:31 PM »
I am curious, yes. They've spent a year failing to sell this shred of an idea but still haven't addressed any of the problems people were mentioning on the first page of this thread. For example. What CPU does it have, how much RAM? Does it have its own OS or do the cards self execute? If the former, what is it? If the later, who the hell is programming it? You can't make a SNES game with Unity, to my knowledge.

I guess what I want is more lies. They've regretted every technical detail they've ever uttered, but eventually, presumably, if the system is really on its way, they'll have to commit to something. And when that something turns out to be either unmarketable or impossible or both, this thing will finally f*cking die.

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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #709 on: February 25, 2016, 01:19:02 PM »
If they had real custom guts inside the Jag shell all they had to do was pop the top off. They seem to be more interested in showing off the shell designs than actual tech development.
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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #710 on: February 25, 2016, 01:30:13 PM »
My honest thoughts are that if they actually do ever produce anything it will be a harder to use and less reliable Retron 3 clone.

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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #711 on: February 25, 2016, 01:30:25 PM »
If they had real custom guts inside the Jag shell all they had to do was pop the top off. They seem to be more interested in showing off the shell designs than actual tech development.

"software" was the key word, they think since they will have jim power as an official port, that showing the snes version is the same thing. The are now saying they were showing software, not hardware...? I am getting so confused, although that is not difficult to do.

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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #712 on: February 25, 2016, 02:39:18 PM »
The only software in that thing was in whatever SNES cart they were running.

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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #713 on: February 25, 2016, 07:42:15 PM »
The only software in that thing was in whatever SNES cart they were running.

Those clever bastards.

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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #714 on: February 26, 2016, 03:51:13 AM »
Starting to believe there will be an 11th hour excuse train for why their Kickstarter won't go live today.

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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #715 on: February 26, 2016, 04:01:21 AM »
Let's just wait a bit for Mike Kennedy to have his morning Wheaties 'n' Beer before we count the thing "dead".

They've only-recently started deleting some of this morning's negative posts off FaceBook, so perhaps the "team" just slept in late today.

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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #716 on: February 26, 2016, 04:01:52 AM »
It's already a few hours late, so yeah.  :lol:
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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #717 on: February 26, 2016, 04:26:24 AM »
The antici...p...p...p...p...p...p...pation is killing me!  :wink:

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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #718 on: February 26, 2016, 05:09:26 AM »
Love reading this thread you guys are killing me.

I'm just not sure why the rush after the retro vgs failed.  Take some time to work on the product and come back in say a year not in mere months.  If they need the cash they can sell jaguar shell flower pots.

They just keep making themselves look bad by trying to pull one over on the audience they should be catering to initially.

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Re: Retro VGS Game Console
« Reply #719 on: February 26, 2016, 05:39:59 AM »
I'm just not sure why the rush after the retro vgs failed.  Take some time to work on the product and come back in say a year not in mere months.

I suspect that it's because Mike Kennedy is so sure that this is a brilliant idea, that he's deathly-afraid that someone else will see the true genius of it and get a competing system out in the marketplace first if he doesn't keep on pushing forwards at break-neck speed.

Even if we choose to totally ignore everyone else's opinions (including mine) on the basic stupidity of the idea, then we're still left with the massive incompetence of how Mike & Co have actually executed on it.

This morning's total silence should be yet-another indicator to the FaceBook fans that "these aren't the droids that you're looking for".