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Those Neo Geo X’s are looking pretty good right now huh?
Originally posted by Lebowski View Postwas a cheap Chinese handheld with a wide screen display that stretched games or left big black borders at the side, so not really designed with neo geo games in mind, emulation was crap too. It had issues with battery swelling, the dock it came with was crap and you could only get a limited number of games officially that where sold on sd cards.Originally posted by Nu-Eclipse View PostPretty much the correct explanation for the Neo-Geo X's sheer unadulterated crapness but at this point there are plenty of things about it to read and watch online to find out for yourself, in all honesty.
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Originally posted by SuperDanX View PostThose Neo Geo X’s are looking pretty good right now huh?
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I love mine but I was joking
Originally posted by Nu-Eclipse View PostNope. Those X's are still a pile of sh1t. Even Tommo eventually realized that and had the decency to pull them out of the market quickly, even if their fallout with Playmore Corp prompted it. A complete and utter shambles from start to finish.
Originally posted by QualityChimp View PostI think we can all agree anything with an "X" at the end of its name is crap.
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Originally posted by SuperDanX View PostI love mine but I was joking
FWIW, I'd probably pick one up if I came across it selling for £10 to £20 with all of the "trimmings" (unlikely but hey) as it seems to have been given a somewhat small lease of life as a hackable portable multiplatform emulator, albeit one of highly questionable quality.
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Originally posted by Nu-Eclipse View Post(Neo Geo X was) A complete and utter shambles from start to finish.
A handheld console that slips into a dock that connects to a big screen?
Well, that concept is now the Nintendo Switch, the fastest selling console in the US, ever.
It also looks quite nice, although it's not too dissimilar to a Dingoo.
Side note, did anyone else see these:
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Originally posted by QualityChimp View PostSee, I don't think it was. It was a really good idea, but badly presented.
A handheld console that slips into a dock that connects to a big screen?
Well, that concept is now the Nintendo Switch, the fastest selling console in the US, ever.
It was all about the execution.
Personally I also feel it was a missed opportunity not to do a cart of NeoGeo Pocket Color games, especially because it had a "mini-stick" instead of a d-pad.
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Originally posted by J0e Musashi View PostThat was from the Neo CD controller.
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Originally posted by QualityChimp View PostSee, I don't think it was. It was a really good idea, but badly presented.
A handheld console that slips into a dock that connects to a big screen?
Well, that concept is now the Nintendo Switch, the fastest selling console in the US, ever.
It also looks quite nice, although it's not too dissimilar to a Dingoo.
As [MENTION=5941]Asura[/MENTION] said, the concept wasn't an issue and, as you've alluded, The Switch has made a success of said concept (even though it has its own problems - another debate for another time).
But even allowing for what you've said, that doesn't change the p1ss-poor quality feel of said Neo Geo X hardware, the fact that it couldn't properly emulate the games that came with it (partly due to it running a very rudimentary version of FBA to emulate said games, despite Playmore and Tommo deliberately pretending that this wasn't the case) and the accessories (a charge/data cable that was known to brick said hardware and massively overpriced ROMs on SD cards masquerading as extra software).
So yeah, pretty much a complete shambles from start to finish and I say that as somebody who was ready to be an early adopter of the X had it been remotely good enough. But it wasn't. The very fact that Tommo effectively binned the X almost as soon as they had launched it says it all.Last edited by Nu-Eclipse; 20-04-2018, 12:17.
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It was quite funny when people dug around in the X and found it was using Final Burn Alpha and an old build at that!
I think we're both in agreement, just arguing semantics. I include the concept and design as part of the start, but you're saying production is the start.
I was thinking of things like the recent Atari console announcement where everybody was asking who on earth would want this and that Coleco Chameleon that had a video capture card inside it.
One of the biggest controversies in the gaming world right now is the Coleco Chameleon. The Chameleon has faced its fair share of criticism after the prototype on display at the New York Toy Fair w…
Those really were utter shambles from start to finish, unlike the X, which does have a few fans, especially ones who've hacked it.
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Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
I think we're both in agreement, just arguing semantics. I include the concept and design as part of the start, but you're saying production is the start.
But like I said earlier, I would likely pick up one if I found it at a cheaper-than-bargain-basement price. So I digress.Last edited by Nu-Eclipse; 20-04-2018, 14:11.
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