Subj : RE: Polymega
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : NuSkooler
Date : Sun Dec 10 2017 10:30:33


On Sunday, December 10th Richard Menedetter muttered...
 RM> I am VERY vary with such things. Also I think that any RetroPi whatever 
 RM> else is a much better, cheaper and much more versatile. You can use PS3 
 RM> Bluetooth controllers or USB replicas of different controllers (SNES, 
 RM> NES, Genesis, ...)

It depends on what you're after. I have a RetroPi set up with 128 GB of stuff
-- which is near the complete set on some systems, and everything you'd want to
 play on others. 

However, I've started building a cart collection again as a kind of side hobby.
 I think it's cool to have them in hand. At first I was using the original
systems for this. The problem there is the connections a) are an extreme pain.
For example I have a Atari 2600 -> VCR (for the RF adaption) -> RGB out -> RGB
to HDMI -> HDMI switch -> Receiver. Now I could elimiate one of those (the RGB
to HDMI, by getting a VCR with HDMI... but that's hard to do; or get an
expensive device to do the same thing).

....or I can use the Retron, Polymega, et. al., and go direct to HDMI with good
upscaling and and so on.

....and still use carts, which is just fun :D

When I'm lazy, don't knwo what to play, etc., I still go direct to the RetroPi,
 but like I said... I enjoy this (somehow!) :D



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