RetroBlox : Another new Play-Everything "Retro" Console

[elmer]

The RetroBlox post last week just made it sound like they were in the middle of negotiating some deals, and were probably under NDA.

I suspected that this "foefan" guy just misinterpreted that.

He really should be corrected on the forum, even if the guys still don't want to say what is going on just yet.

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if one of the many trademarked users of the word "blox" wanted to have a word with your guys. 

But I'm hoping that what they're really trying to do is to properly license things like the Playstation, Sega CD and PCE System Card BIOSes.

If they actually pulled that off, then the whole project would get a huge boost in credibility.

[Gredler]

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if one of the many trademarked users of the word "blox" wanted to have a word with your guys. 

 :-"

[sirhcman]

damn those legal roadblox

[esteban]

XBlox.

[ClodBuster]

Polymega Wondermega Mega-CD Mega Drive Multi-Mega Megatech Mega-LD Mega Jet Mega PC Epic MegaGames


Mega.

Oh and by the way, that reddish-blonde on the left was in my class during high school. She has grown a pair of impressive boobs since then.

[Lost Monkey]

It's happening!

http://polymega.com/2017/05/29/introducing-polymega/

Their logo tutorial reminded me of the opening credits of Wild At Heart: 

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/wild-at-heart/

(And Polymega is only one letter off of Polygram...)

Sorry to be critical, but I don't like the name...
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/wild-at-heart/

[Necromancer]

It's kind of a dumb name, but no biggie.  It's just a name, and I doubt any Swedes will care about a game console.

I'm more interested in details on the actual product, but it looks like that ain't gonna happen until they ask for money.

[Mi5terDNA]

Admittedly, I hadn't thought about that... If this device is going to play ISOs as well that's all fine and dandy, but well, I don't know about you, but I already play both PCE CD ISOs and Sega CD ISOs on my Wii ;3

Also wii is only upscaling to 480p, this thing hopefully will upscale nicely to whatever tv you're using.

I do want to try to mod my wii, I recently got a broken one that was just dirty or something works fine for me, so I kinda want to try to mod it. Can you pm me links on how is the best way so I don't have to trudge through the shady corners of the world wide webs?

https://please.hackmii.com

You need the Wii's MAC address and an SD card, that website does all the bundling and downloading work for you.  After that you plug the SD card with the files on it into your Wii, open the 'letterbomb' in your messages, and follow the steps on screen.  Once that's good grab all the emulators you want from wiibrew and you're good to go!  A $4 Wii2HDMI adapter from AliExpress is a personal recommendation of mine if you're running on an HDTV and not a CRT though, cleaner 480p image than component in my experience.

[elmer]

Please note: This is a technical / educational post, so if you’re looking for juicy new tidbits of info on the console itself – you’ll need to wait until next week!

Wake me when they say something that is actually interesting.

[Gypsy]

Oh so no actual info just a bunch of bs and buzz words.

[SignOfZeta]

Please note: This is a technical / educational post, so if you’re looking for juicy new tidbits of info on the console itself – you’ll need to wait until next week!

Wake me when they say something that is actually interesting.

No shit! A massive screed about how to overthink a name is not much of an update.

[Dicer]

The classic "we have nothing but we need to give them something" update...

[Necromancer]

"Just give us money.  We'll figure out the specs later!"

Sound familiar? 

[Gredler]

They've asked for money? How much are they asking? I am curious about this but would hope to hear specs before I heard the price haha

[Necromancer]

They've not said much of anything, really.

But I should've been more clear in my previous post.  I meant it in response to your comment that "hopefully the technical info will be covered in such detail when it is released"; as in it's possible that they don't give technical details even when the kickstarter launches.  Considering the amount of hype and lack of substantive info. surrounding the project thus far (not unlike a certain chameleon), it wouldn't surprise me at all.