Hi,
I bought this portable console, the latest (2018) model in white/blue color and everythings considered it's really a good system on a chip based console even considered the far from great sound quality compared to model2 megadrive too, let alone the original console (I've read about the new bootloader that fix this for other games even if I was hoping it would've worked for internal games too). Price is ok for the many original titles and screen is good as good is the general megadrive hw-simulation itself on framerate/input latency. Maybe only bad things beside the sound, are the weak mono-speaker too and the six-buttons choice, I'd have liked the three-buttons model with larger buttons and a better input feedback feeling.
I'd like to ask more info if there're any, about this system-on-a-chip and if there're any way to run master system programs considered it should internally have the Z80 circuits for the sound subsystem and maybe it's just a boot process setup if (as tried) it can't run them. If I'm correct the original Megadrive would decide at boot which processor to use between the two if any SMS game would be inserted with the converter and using the compatible VDP SMS mode of the Megadrive VDP.
I'd think that probably the same processor maybe used for the cheaper Master System/Game Gear portable console but with different boot config/setup.
Also what about the TV-out connection? I've tried different 3-RCA cables and pressing Menu (reset) as written in the manual still reset the console but no video goes out to the cables.
Thank
I bought this portable console, the latest (2018) model in white/blue color and everythings considered it's really a good system on a chip based console even considered the far from great sound quality compared to model2 megadrive too, let alone the original console (I've read about the new bootloader that fix this for other games even if I was hoping it would've worked for internal games too). Price is ok for the many original titles and screen is good as good is the general megadrive hw-simulation itself on framerate/input latency. Maybe only bad things beside the sound, are the weak mono-speaker too and the six-buttons choice, I'd have liked the three-buttons model with larger buttons and a better input feedback feeling.
I'd like to ask more info if there're any, about this system-on-a-chip and if there're any way to run master system programs considered it should internally have the Z80 circuits for the sound subsystem and maybe it's just a boot process setup if (as tried) it can't run them. If I'm correct the original Megadrive would decide at boot which processor to use between the two if any SMS game would be inserted with the converter and using the compatible VDP SMS mode of the Megadrive VDP.
I'd think that probably the same processor maybe used for the cheaper Master System/Game Gear portable console but with different boot config/setup.
Also what about the TV-out connection? I've tried different 3-RCA cables and pressing Menu (reset) as written in the manual still reset the console but no video goes out to the cables.
Thank
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