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Originally posted by gware View PostShips in May 2021!
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Originally posted by Asura View PostThis is actually tempting me for this reason... Though would it be the same without the click-stick?I'm never happy.
Originally posted by Asura View PostI was really interested before I got my RG350M. Now I'm pretty much sorted. Just took them too long to get this to market.Originally posted by Asura View PostI think I'm going to side-step this one, because I just don't want to collect carts. You could get an everdrive for each platform but then I'm wondering if it's worth it, over the RG350M.Originally posted by Asura View PostYeah, definitely going to avoid this. I mean, to get what I want from it, it's going to be like $400 to get all the converters and everdrives.Originally posted by Asura View PostIt doesn't have an SD card slot though, does it?
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Perhaps I'm a bit jaded, but this doesn't really seem much different than those Chinese handhelds that Yakumo reviews on his channel, other than some fashion magazine style photography and the sheer cheek of selling a USB-C cable for $16 (I can't get over that).
I'm sure somebody will like them, but I can't help thinking that it's not really doing much new, other than running real carts which I imagine 99% of prospective customers are going to ultimately sidestep anyway. I guess you could say maybe it does super realistic emulation or something like that but in all honesty I don't think we're sat here in 2020 worrying that the internals of the Atari Lynx are just too complicated to be understood by our primitive ways.
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Originally posted by Hirst View PostPerhaps I'm a bit jaded, but this doesn't really seem much different than those Chinese handhelds that Yakumo reviews on his channel, other than some fashion magazine style photography and the sheer cheek of selling a USB-C cable for $16 (I can't get over that).
I'm sure somebody will like them, but I can't help thinking that it's not really doing much new, other than running real carts which I imagine 99% of prospective customers are going to ultimately sidestep anyway. I guess you could say maybe it does super realistic emulation or something like that but in all honesty I don't think we're sat here in 2020 worrying that the internals of the Atari Lynx are just too complicated to be understood by our primitive ways.
Firstly it's FPGA, which as well as having accurate emulation, will also have 100% compatibility (because it's like running on an actual console); most emulators still don't have that, or they might be able to run a game only to find that something unplayable happens halfway through it.
Secondly it's the screen, and this is something I do think is genuinely new - that super high-res screen. Displaying games on portable screens results in screen artifacts. Compare this on my RG350M:
The top image is my RG350M, while the bottom image is a (slightly blurry as I had to cap it from a youtube video) version of how it should look. The sprites get mangled.
The problem is that handhelds have awkward res screens, so they don't "play nice" on screens that are readily available for generic devices (and people like ANBERNIC have to choose whether to support one platform really well at the expense of others, or multiple platforms to a reasonable degree).
Admittedly this is more of an issue for the NGPC than other consoles because it tends to get the shaft in this regard. Also some of the best games have awesome sprite work where it's a real shame to see it screwed up in this way. That being said, on the RG350M the games are perfectly playable and you notice less when actually playing.
The Analog device will still have this problem, but the much higher res will make it much harder to notice. This is something which is just going to be universally better than prior devices.
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