Playmaji, the company behind the Polymega ecosystem, has announced a new hardware: the Polymega Remix. This portable device, pictured above, coupled with the free Polymega app (launching first on Windows 11-compatible devices), offers a plug-and-play solution to digitise CD-based retro games. Cartridge-based games are also supported via the Element Modules, which are sold separately. Once digitised, the game can be played via the Polymega App on a compatible device.

The Remix Base Unit comes with support for:

• Original CD/DVD game compatibility (via optical drive) for titles from consoles such as PlayStation 1, Saturn, Sega CD, and more.
• Original Cartridge game compatibility (via Element Modules, sold separately), for systems like NES, SNES, Genesis, Atari, and even Nintendo 64.

The Polymega App offers the same premium user experience as the full Polymega console, including advanced features such as:

• Virtual Display modes
• Patch support
• Custom playlists
• Extended Set game installations
• Polymega Collection game support

“Polymega Remix is all about flexibility,” said Bryan Bernal, CEO at Playmaji, Inc. “Whether you’re a retro game collector looking to digitize your physical collection or simply someone looking for a more portable way to enjoy your games, Polymega Remix is the perfect solution. The best part is, you can take your entire library with you wherever you go, and for an incredible price.”

Polymega Remix is priced at $199, and pre-orders will open on April 16, at 8 AM PST, with shipping expected to begin in May.

SOURCE: GBAtemp Inbox

 

[SylverReZ]

Just buy a Sanni Cart Reader or separate dumpers depending on which system formats you have and dump cartridges the proper way instead of buying overpriced premium shit that companies try to shove out to people's lack of skill.

And optical media, too? It's not hard to go on eBay and find a drive for less.

If the AVGN was here he'd tell you what's portable.

What were they thinking?!

 

[icegod]

Can't do anything for cd based games, that a normal pc drive can't. There are tons of cartridge dumpers that are way cheaper than this. But more so, pretty much every game this can dump, has been dumped dozen of times online. I see no real use for this.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Sadly, the N64 module (at least) is software emulation, it’s not even FPGA…

I’d love to have a go on the Polymega with the N64 module, to compare to my Analogue 3D.

I assumed that the app does all the emulation, and the device is purely just a dumper. That's what it sounds like anyway, since the app is needed to do literally anything.

i fit the realm of both collector and archivist to a degree. Like I bought every single FF collectors edition along with the hardback collector edition walkthrough guides which still remain unopened. I then downloaded copies of those games and strategy guides so that I could play the collection without actually opening them.

I collected something that I wanted to retain the value of it by not opening them and then found a way to archive my purchase without opening the collection.

I spent alot of my hardearned cash as a kid collecting star wars stuff from the prequel trilogies. Going to taco bell and buying the happy meal boxes and buying Mountain Dew and Pepsi special edition collector cans. I put them in totes and about 15 years later when moving them found that the Mountain Dew and Pepsi became so acidic that it ate through the aluminum cans and then destroyed all the other collectables that I had in that tote. It was a horrible feeling collecting something that diminished from its age. It taught me a valuable lesson.

If you collect something try to find a way to archive it to preserve it if possible. Understand the ageing process of products and the aging process causes degradation try to have a backup way of keeping the collectible.

A good collector has to balance preservation with archiving.

I do that too (buying games to leave them sealed and play a pirated version instead), but I don't consider myself a collector. Maybe an archivist. But mainly just a pirate. One that is pro preservation.

 

[JuanMena]

So, downloads a ROM or an ISO but with extra steps?

 

[tech3475]

So, downloads a ROM or an ISO but with extra steps?

Not everyone wants to rely on pirate downloads and believesdumping your own carts to be more ethical, YMMV of course.

For carts the main advantage of dumpers is being able to backup/restore saves if you own original carts.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

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Playmaji, the company behind the Polymega ecosystem, has announced a new hardware: the Polymega Remix. This portable device, pictured above, coupled with the free Polymega app (launching first on Windows 11-compatible devices), offers a plug-and-play solution to digitise CD-based retro games. Cartridge-based games are also supported via the Element Modules, which are sold separately. Once digitised, the game can be played via the Polymega App on a compatible device.

The Remix Base Unit comes with support for:

• Original CD/DVD game compatibility (via optical drive) for titles from consoles such as PlayStation 1, Saturn, Sega CD, and more.
• Original Cartridge game compatibility (via Element Modules, sold separately), for systems like NES, SNES, Genesis, Atari, and even Nintendo 64.

The Polymega App offers the same premium user experience as the full Polymega console, including advanced features such as:

• Virtual Display modes
• Patch support
• Custom playlists
• Extended Set game installations
• Polymega Collection game support

“Polymega Remix is all about flexibility,” said Bryan Bernal, CEO at Playmaji, Inc. “Whether you’re a retro game collector looking to digitize your physical collection or simply someone looking for a more portable way to enjoy your games, Polymega Remix is the perfect solution. The best part is, you can take your entire library with you wherever you go, and for an incredible price.”

Polymega Remix is priced at $199, and pre-orders will open on April 16, at 8 AM PST, with shipping expected to begin in May.

SOURCE: GBAtemp Inbox

Well there is 1 important thing that this thing needs to do. And if it can't do it then its not worth your time. Can it properly and I mean properly bit perfectly rip CDs and GD-ROMs? Because those formats are a pain in the ass to get down to the bit perfect rips of. GD-ROM requires multiple different types of disc drives to get all the data off of. One of which being some expensive brand of drive that went out of production over 20 years ago.

 

[littlemisskittn]

let's see how fast the ESA get's on them despite 1:1 copies being legal

Quicker than Superman outrunning a speeding bullet I assume.

 

[Exnor]

Yes finally a way to backup my games... Is what i would have said in 1998.

Who is this for?

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Also windows 11? F*ck that!

 

[Something whatever]

ewaste

 

[Marc_LFD]

ewaste

Watch out, someone might say you're virtue signalling.

 

[HarveyHouston]

That's surprisingly cheap for a box that does so much. I was expecting several MORE hundred dollars.

 

[Marc_LFD]

That's surprisingly cheap for a box that does so much. I was expecting several MORE hundred dollars.

$200 is surprisingly cheap? I guess it's a sarcastic comment.

 

[HarveyHouston]

$200 is surprisingly cheap? I guess it's a sarcastic comment.

To be fair, they can pretty much price it at whatever they want to, because there's actually not a whole lot of digital preservationists out there who would be interested in a one-size-fits-all system. Heck, there's not even a whole lot of digital preservationists in the world! It's a relatively small group compared to just your average people who don't care about preservation and would rather just play games any way they can (even via cloud streaming. Yuck! ).

So, considering all of that, I think the price is reasonable. It might could be lower, but just be glad they didn't price it much higher.

 

[Noctosphere]

To preserve retro games, huh? So, I guess it supports Wii U too? I mean... it's retro, right...?

 

[Ericzander]

I guess I don't understand why this is necessary. Everyone knows all you need to do is DM @AlanJohn for roms.

 

[blashy101]

forgive my ignorance but like...do we really need this? is there really still such a need for game preservation??

 

[BlusterBong]

forgive my ignorance but like...do we really need this? is there really still such a need for game preservation??

The percentage of people who actually dump thier roms is very low and if you know where to look, any and every game worth playing has been dumpped and preserved. The only people who don't think so are those waiting on the largely legal bullshit that is a lot of third party games by companies that don't exist anymore and the rights of which are not on an existing company that will sit on it because they know they'll make nothing unless its rentals or those who need to have every game's alpha, beta, and release canidite build numbered 420 and was made 69 seconds before the game released.

 

[ChibiMofo]

But... Every single game this pointless device can "preserve" (read as: pirate) has already been preserved.
#e-waste

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

$200 is surprisingly cheap? I guess it's a sarcastic comment.

Entirely depends how it works. Like if it can rip GD-ROM discs bit perfectly then its the deal of a lifetime. But I highly doubt it can.

 

[krakenx]

Assuming that this thing can't read special discs like Dreamcast, Gamecube and Xbox, it doesn't do anything any cheap internal or external CD drive made since the 90s couldn't already do. PCs can already natively read PSX, Sega CD, etc. and many emulators already let you play directly from disc.

You do need to be smart enough to install things like imgburn to rip discs and Retroarch to play the games, but I assume anybody into retro gaming enough to buy this would already know how to do that.