My goodness! I thought that was per week but I just looked it up online and it is per MONTH!!! :shock::shock::shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by macbee
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My goodness! I thought that was per week but I just looked it up online and it is per MONTH!!! :shock::shock::shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by macbee
In Brazil we're always playing the game of life in "Nightmare" difficulty level - so *of course* it's per month. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SEGA.GENESIS1989
And this is the salary of the majority of Brazil's citizens (essencially we'll have to choose between eating or buying a Mega Drive when Tectoy releases it).
By the way, Tectoy is announcing that now you can have consoles with custom names or sentences:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-6Icfz9oYU
how do you not have "HIGH DEFINITION GRAPHICS" written there though
Bill's Tomato Game, Prince of Persia 2 and ResQ are the cancelled Psygnosis titles that have been released already. Then there's Hardcore from DICE who showed it and attempted to release it some years ago since the game was completed, but nothing has come out of it yet. And the other cancelled Psygnosis games which may or may not have been completed seem to be Blood Money (Matt Furniss worked on the music of this one, same as Shadow of the Beast III), Globdule, Walker and Whizz. Most of them were released for the Amiga except Hardcore which was going to be an exclusive Mega Drive and Mega-CD game. Whizz was also released for some other platforms without Psygnosis involvement and including the Sega Saturn.Quote:
Originally Posted by IrishNinja
Speaking of the Sega Saturn, there's also some unreleased Psygnosis games for it like Adidas Power Soccer (alleged to have a completed but unreleased conversion), Destruction Derby 2 (there's a rough unfinished beta in collector's hands, but not released) and Formula One (there are reports a conversion was started but cancelled even earlier than Destruction Derby 2).
Oh dear, the DAC would be working overtime on that Title Screen. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Wesker
This I find quite sad!Quote:
Originally Posted by macbee
Thanks for providing additional info regarding the custom signature on the MD!
It's very sad indeed. I'm joking because we're used to laugh of our own disgrace.Quote:
Originally Posted by SEGA.GENESIS1989
You're welcome! =)Quote:
Originally Posted by SEGA.GENESIS1989
I'm reading some suggestions (of custom sentences) from people in Brazilian forums and Facebook. My favorites so far are:
1- "No HDMI"
2- "RIP Tectoy"
3- "Made in China"
This thread turned from exciting to one big fail. Is there not a single entity out there who can faithfully reproduce the hardware with 100% compatibility, but with modern connections and SD card support? It's 2016 and all we have are these cheap garbage clones. SIGH.
Hey now, we haven't actually gotten any samples from TecToy yet. For all we know, it is indeed a 'perfect' clone, or even the exact same ASICs, that TecToy used in the 90s.
We simply don't know yet.
Unfortunately, these people are far from a good reference to any relevant, most who say this really wanted a custom emulator that run roms with the extra to come in a custom Mega Drive case with HDMI and scanlines filter. Like the ridiculous version of the classic Nes released shortly.Quote:
Originally Posted by macbee
No, it's not even remotely trivial.Quote:
Originally Posted by GameUser-16-32-128
First of all, the SD card slot since it seems the easiest - indeed, we have flashcarts with that already. But you probably want them to behave like a cartridge - so you need RAM to load them (and it needs to be DRAM since 4MB of SRAM is still significantly more expensive in comparison), you need to recreate the PSIV and SSF2 mappers, you need to make 32KB of non-volatile RAM (needs to be non-volatile so it can survive power off) and also program the firmware to always save it on boot (by the way, you have extra memory to save it, right?), and also simulate the EEPROM for games that want that (not even Mega Everdrive does this as far as I know). And this is the easy part.
Then you have HDMI. The video output is not perfectly in sync with what HDMI uses, and it's also directly tied to the clock speed, so your options are either tearing or messing with every single timing in the console and hope nothing breaks. And you're also going to need a customized upscaler to ensure video output is good enough (granted, if you're already doing a custom ASIC this is a non-brainer), otherwise if you go off-the-shelf you end up with significant lag or worse, forced deinterlacing (whoops). You also want both 720p and 1080p output to reduce the risk of scaling-induced lag. Oh, and then there's the fee for a HDMI license...
And then there's the big problem of the cartridge and expansion slots. You need signals to go through exactly as in the original hardware or add-ons won't work, nor the SVP, nor any game that has any sort of custom hardware beyond the bare minimum. This is also true for the controller ports but at least that part is easier since the 68000 handles the signals manually (unless you're in serial mode, but I think only the modem used that - Game Gear cable too but no official game does this).
Now, all of that may be feasible to do at scale, but the problem then is that you're unlikely to get a high enough scale to make the price drop to a reasonable level (you're not going to be selling millions of these in 2016), and even if you do an off-the-shelf Android SOC is still going to be cheaper. The numbers simply don't add up, you're better off just doing stuff to tack onto existing hardware if you really want. (heck, maybe the best thing would be to actually just release original hardware and then accessories to improve on it, e.g. a separate custom-made HDMI upscaler that feeds from the raw RGB signals - which also helps offset the cost for those not needing it :v)
EDIT: I lie, just remembered the Sega Channel also uses serial mode for some diagnostics stuff. But that's even less relevant than the modem =P
Stefano Arnold hinted once again (2 weeks ago, at Brazilian Comic Con) that it will be a system-on-a-chip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flygon
A crude translation (sorry for my bad English!) of this part:
"A guy from Taiwan created an excellent chip sometime ago. I can't remember the exact year, but it was when the five basic (Mega Drive) patents expired. If we achieve the same level of what this guy did, I'll be very satisfied".
He didn't said with all letters - but if they want to make something in the same level of the work of a guy who created a GOAC, I presume they're making a GOAC too.
You can read it all (in Portuguese) at http://blogtectoy.com.br/confira-os-...perience-2016/
http://blogtectoy.com.br/wp-content/...260x200@2x.jpg
There's the fpga implementation of the NES (in the AVS), but whether anyone skilled enough wants to do one for Gen...
Tectoy started a poll to choose how the new box will look:
Box 1:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...ps1duapmvw.jpg
Box 2:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...psvvjesyy2.jpg
Box 3:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...psndzfcbmb.jpg
I'd say Box #1, for the simple fact that it pleases me in a nostalgic way.