Polymega console to start shipping next month for early pre-orders

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Following production issues and delays, Playmaji says that its retro modular console, Polymega, will now launch next month. The press release specifically mentions that this launch is for those who pre-ordered their systems via polymega.com between September 2018 and April 2020. The company will begin fulfilling orders, in the order received, of Bundles, Base Units, Module Sets, and accessories starting September 12th and will complete fulfillment by the end of October 2021.

"Despite the challenging shipping environment presented by the COVID-19 pandemic starting last year, and other factors beyond our control at our Myanmar assembly facility in 2021, our team is excited to finally reach this critical release milestone, and further, we're beyond grateful to our thousands of customers who stuck with us and believed in the vision of POLYMEGA® and what it could mean to the future of the video games industry," Playmaji CEO Bryan Bernal said. "We're now ready to move forward to the next phase of this project including the launch of our digital games store for Holiday 2021, and a sharp increase in production and availability of POLYMEGA® systems for 2022 and beyond."

For orders placed after April 2020, partial shipments will be provided in September to official Polymega international distributors, with ongoing fulfillment proceeding through Q1 2022. As for orders placed placed more recently in late 2020 and 2021, shipping will be delayed to the first half of 2022, including the GC01 Light Gun.

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Why waste money on this when you can emulate all of the compatible systems with moderate speed on a PC? It looks interesting, I know, but paying around $600+ for a console that runs only retro consoles is just...blah...

Seriously, ditch this and stick to emulation.
 
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What's this system do?
EVERYTHING!

The idea is, it rips games from original media (CD, cartridges), stores them on internal storage, and plays them via built-in emulators. It is modular so you can add readers for multiple cartridge types. So you can play the retro games you own, while the cartridges and original consoles are stored somewhere safe and snug.

And supposedly it won't let you load ROMs but I wonder how good it is at detecting flashcards.

Then again, anyone who would spend $450 (plus whichever additional cartridge reader they need) for an emulation box must really be into this whole "legit backups only" bunk and won't bother with trying to load ROMs.

There are so many other emulation stations out there, this thing is so niche, I can't see it taking off.
 

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I think it just plays original CDs you have of old games and other things, check their website: https://polymega.com/
Not worth 450 if you ask me

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EVERYTHING!

The idea is, it rips games from original media (CD, cartridges), stores them on internal storage, and plays them via built-in emulators. It is modular so you can add readers for multiple cartridge types. So you can play the retro games you own, while the cartridges and original consoles are stored somewhere safe and snug.

And supposedly it won't let you load ROMs but I wonder how good it is at detecting flashcards.

Then again, anyone who would spend $450 (plus whichever additional cartridge reader they need) for an emulation box must really be into this whole "legit backups only" bunk and won't bother with trying to load ROMs.

There are so many other emulation stations out there, this thing is so niche, I can't see it taking off.
I've seen this concept before but this sounds a little under the line
 
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EVERYTHING!

The idea is, it rips games from original media (CD, cartridges), stores them on internal storage, and plays them via built-in emulators. It is modular so you can add readers for multiple cartridge types. So you can play the retro games you own, while the cartridges and original consoles are stored somewhere safe and snug.

And supposedly it won't let you load ROMs but I wonder how good it is at detecting flashcards.

Then again, anyone who would spend $450 (plus whichever additional cartridge reader they need) for an emulation box must really be into this whole "legit backups only" bunk and won't bother with trying to load ROMs.

There are so many other emulation stations out there, this thing is so niche, I can't see it taking off.
I wonder how long it'll take until hackers/modders take advantage of this by having the console run ROM files rather than having to insert a disc or a cartridge.
 

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I wonder how long it'll take until hackers/modders take advantage of this by having the console run ROM files rather than having to insert a disc or a cartridge.
I really don't see the point, when that kind of money can buy you much better emulation hardware.
 

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Not to mention how fragile discs are, especially after decades of likely-very high usage...disc rot, scratches, just plain shattering.
ROMs are pretty much immune to this wear'n'tear, and are thus so much better.
 

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