I LOVE mine.
I get the spite directed at it after they initially were going to make it an FPGA console, and then in pre-production changed that. FPGA would, of course be preferred. But given what we got, I'm still not disappointed in mine, in the slightest. Well...I take that back, sort of. The company behind the product, Playmaji, can be frustrating. They do not make enough product to meet their demand. And this seems to be a common practice with them, still, years later. The product itself is great...waiting months, sometimes even years to get it, is not so great. (I'm still awaiting my N64 module add-on.)
What this machine does is take your existing physical retro game library, and put it onto one multi-system console. I know, I know...I hear you, "My Retron 5 can do that!" and, "Raspberry Pi!".
1. Regarding Retron 5: This is a much better designed and better built system than the Retron 5 could ever hope to be. It's got more solid feeling hardware (the Retron 5 feels like a child's toy). A robust GUI that is intuitive and fun to navigate. And I don't experience the input lag I did on the Retron 5. And I can have more consoles worth than the Retron 5.
2. Regarding Raspberry Pi: I'm not a techie guy, so I don't get into that stuff. And I don't pirate, I use my own physical collection, and I love having it all in one place.
Out of the box, this things covers:
1. PS1
2. Sega Saturn
3. Sega CD/Mega CD
4. Neo Geo CD
5. Turbo-CD/PC Engine-CD
And we recently got a tease from Playmaji saying a new core is coming...
There are also also add-on modules that you can add as you like for the following:
1. NES/Famicom
2. SNES/Super Famicom
3. Nintendo 64
4. Genesis/Mega Drive/32X
5. TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
6. Atari 2600/7800
And it has all the modern bells and whistles such as save states, filters, aspect ratio settings, play speed settings, etc. and even selectable Game Genie codes built in.
In addition, they have been putting out officially licensed retro game collections on disc that are compatible with the Polymega...I really hope this leads to some original or indie games also doing the same thing (like the Evercade).
In even bigger news for the system, they just announced both a new more powerful version of the console coming soon, and a handheld version of the system coming soon. So now is the perfect time to jump in and get a pre-order in on the new consoles if you were ever on the fence.
Do any of you have one? What do you think of it?
