So remember that whole shit storm with the Retro VGS, where they basically put all attention into making the plastic than the system.... Well after a name change and some work, the RETRO VGS, now called Coleco Chameleon (ugh..) has some sort of prototype ready.. I wonder if it is actually a prototype or they just slapped a Raspberry Pie in there running an emulator (because this is a lso a new SNES homebrew).. Thoughts?
I still dont understand why use the jaguar casing. It's ugly. BUT if it ends up playing carts of any system through hardware addon boards instead of emulation then i will be all over it.
Glad they are sticking with it. Prove it by showing. It'll be interesting to see what comes further. They explained this several times over the last year, creating tooling for shells is extremely cost prohibitive. So they purchased the tooling and rights of the Jaguar Shell from whomever owned it. Also that's a great idea about the addon boards. I bet if they did that right off the bat more people would've been more into the idea.
never stopped clone manufacturers! Also I have a very strong feeling that this 'prototype' is just a raspberry pie running a snes emulator as this is a SNES game! http://www.custompartnet.com/estimate/injection-molding/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/retro-vgs#/ So they wanted just under $2 MILLION to make this system right, so using this calculator it would cost them around $150,000 for new injection molding, including tooling and 1000 units made... That still leaves about $1.8 Million...
This thing looks cheap. Like those AtGames shitty consoles. Emulation or not i don't think it will be good.
http://imgur.com/a/SOhhK Someone at Atari Age put a Jag case on top of a SNES mini board. That's obviously what they did, and covered it in tape. The SD2SNES obviously fits inside a Jag cart case, which is what Mike brought to demo most of the games. Piko Interactive arrived with a custom SNES PCB to demo their games. This is something you don't dare do outside of your dev dept. There's another kickstarter in a couple weeks, though what that will be for is anybody's guess right now.
Font size 256 IF. If it comes out then I may buy it, but I'm not putting any cash down without some guarantee it'll work. Too bad it won't play fifth gen Nintendo games too, SUPER JAGLECO 64 Don't most clone companies just use other system molds? Like that one that looks like a Dreamcast but has 999999999 NES games (well only 100 or so, but repeated 80 times each). Also the SNES mini board would explain why it's using a crummy CRT instead of a huge HDTV like the mockups they used.
you missed some of the evidence i posted. this pic is better as someone rotated it: I would have to cut up my jag shell to make it fit exactly like theirs which i did not want to do. also note in the picture of the coleco, you can see a tiny part of the snes mini back panel peeking out of the tape on the back left corner. I also had some pics as to why i think its an SD2SNES in their "prototype cartridge" case http://imgur.com/a/4qD68 http://imgur.com/a/LNChD i didnt see this thread till now or i would have cross posted earlier