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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At around £541 for the Deluxe Bundle (+ Duty?), this would have to be as close to perfect emulation as possible.
 

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what is this another shitty android box? doomed to fail. nice ripoff of the pro controller :lol:

so what, we only need to wait 1 or 2 years, to buy one of this for 1,99 and use as emulation box? (with some alternative android OS made by comunity) XD (and yes, 1,99 was only a joke)
 

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I really don't see the point, when that kind of money can buy you much better emulation hardware.
A Raspberry Pi 4 will probably do better emulation. Or a dusty old Dell Optiplex with a 3rd gen i3 you can find for as little as $50 on eBay.

Scratch that, apparently it's running an Intel Coffee Lake S CPU. Expect Dolphin and possibly PCSX2 and Dreamcast emulators to run if it gets hacked.
 
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Is anyone here actually gonna buy this?
Unless it has the specs to run Dolphin and whatever PS2 emulators exist for Android, I definitely won't. If somebody can hack it and slap Linux or Windows on it and have it run PC emulators I'd consider it too. Edit: Apparently it's using an Intel Coffee Lake S CPU seen in the mini PCs like the NUCs. We might even get to see some jank ass PS2 and Dreamcast emulation on it, and it should absolutely be capable of running Dolphin.

I might get the light gun controllers though. They're like the Sinden ones so they work on any screen.
 
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From their web page:

"More than 15 disc-based legacy game systems are compatible with every Polymega® Base Unit - no setup required. Get back to your roots and explore thousands of games for systems like PlayStation®, TurboGrafx-CD, Sega CD, Neo Geo CD, and Sega Saturn from the dawn of the modern video game era. "

Even if someone is interested in the CD feature where to buy CDs for old systems now? I'd rather be honest if I want to play those old systems I'd rather search eShop, PSN, or some emulators
 
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From their web page:

"More than 15 disc-based legacy game systems are compatible with every Polymega® Base Unit - no setup required. Get back to your roots and explore thousands of games for systems like PlayStation®, TurboGrafx-CD, Sega CD, Neo Geo CD, and Sega Saturn from the dawn of the modern video game era. "

Even if someone is interested in the CD feature where to buy CDs for old systems now? I'd rather be honest if I want to play those old systems I'd rather search eShop, PSN, or some emulators
For cart based games, that's even more for the modules for those. No thanks.
 
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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.

So it's like a 'legal dumper'? It does not run games directly from the discs, it just dumps them first to create its own ROMS that are in turn run from the internal storage? Do the dumps disappear from the storage when you switch games? What would prevent people from using pirate discs or dumped games by 3rd parties?
 

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this seems like a pretty niche product. Only certain types of collectors will want it, but those kind of collectors will have that cash so I can understand the pricing. Not really meant for me, who prefers roms, but it's for those who like to have a wall of games and to pick one out, pop it in, and play it. I can see the appeal...if I was rich and had loads of games.
 

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it is for people like me, not smart enough to get an emulator machine with a nice gui and some info about the games. sadly im poor as fuck uwu
 

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Framemeister + everdrives is an amazing solution for sure. Money, space and wire mess ia what throw me to those inferior options.

Now that you talked about it I realized that the polymega costs more than the new retrotink. So yeah, makes even less sense...

Still, we are comparing apples to oranges. Many of these old consoles are now past the point of servicability. I recently lost my Sega Saturn as the drive no longer reads discs. My Atari Jaguar CD unit also kicked the bucket a few years ago. My Playstation original needs to be put upside down to read discs. My Sega Dreamcast needs a bucket of water on top of the disc unit in order to 'think' the top loading system is actually closed down and not ejected. My NES can barely read cartridges anymore. My Master System died when the external AC sparked and fried the motherboard. Yes, we can buy another console - true. Or go full emulation (and I assure you, most of retro gamers do that too).

But why not simply have one console that plays our originals instead of all this trouble, all these cables? This new system will presumable also have all the new tech display bells and whistles that retrotink offers. I simply cannot see what people don't find this an attractive option.
 

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