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General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition
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32X poses a problem due to the linked AV in/out. That would need to be incorporated into the cartridge itself (or attachment). It would really need to be an all-in-one FPGA system like the Mega SG, with all that routed or switched internally and makes you wonder why it wasn't a feature of the Mega SG, but I suppose if it was easy it would have been done already.
Ah yes, I forgot the 32X only renders half the bloody things on screen...so it'd need its own output. So short of a combined MegaDrive/32X fpga core, with a video-out on the cart itself (which basically means the original hardware is acting like a glorified power supply, and pointless really), there's no meaningful solution to 32X via fpga on a dedicated cart
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You could set that cart up so it's doing exactly what the 32X does, with the Megadrive's part of the video feeding into it and then a video out of that to the TV.
Wouldn't be the prettiest though. (Although since when did Sega's black mushroom care about being pretty?
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You could set that cart up so it's doing exactly what the 32X does, with the Megadrive's part of the video feeding into it and then a video out of that to the TV.
Wouldn't be the prettiest though. (Although since when did Sega's black mushroom care about being pretty?)
True, but you're using more hardware that way (it needs a video input and accompanying signal processing)...which could push the cost up even higher
The neatest solution might be to wait for someone like Analogue to create a dedicated system, Mega Drive, Mega CD, & 32X all in one.0 -
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The 32X CPUs are off the shelf parts so well understood and also used in the Sega Saturn so could help a FPGA sega saturn project.
However it's the AV input that is a massive hurdle as it's analogue and probably a timing nightmare to get the megadrive generated graphics to align with the 32X ones.
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Is that definite? I only ask because in emulation terms, the 32X has to rely on Picodrive (a small, lightweight emulator that can run on lower-powered device...this meaning it's sacrificing accuracy for speed). I'd have hoped by now that the big hitters like Genesis Plus GX & BlastEm would have added 32X support...
Maybe it's down to a general apathy towards 32X in general?
It's just two Hitachi sh-2s.
I'd say the main emulation issue is that analogue pass through again. Anything analogue will be difficult and I imagine the video chip that combines the av video with the 32x video is custom.
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Analogue's NT Mini Noir delayed until later in the year
https://www.twitter.com/analogue/status/1279067393822621696
Decent, not completely mad, theories doing the rounds about how they are probably trying to incorporate a cheaper model variant, by elevating the Mini to a premium scale (as of the price didn't already) and making room for another product in line with the previous Megadrive and SNES offerings. Leaving it till the actual month it was due to ship with talk of global supply issues does seem a bit unprofessional if taken at face value, and certainly lends itself to a marketing move rumour, but who knows. Offering straight out refunds doesn't exactly seem to support this idea, likewise, no prior indication of a cheaper model that would need to be announced and ready to rock this year.
We'll wait and see.
Some original NT owners not to happy seeing the improvements announced only after this delay as well
And no.......still no update on the Pocket0 -
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Folks, I'm looking for advice.
I bought those Shinden light guns that work on LCDs (due to arrive in Sept/Oct). I haven't got a cab for it yet.
Is it good "arcade etiquette" to combine a shooter cab with a 2 player control panel? I mean in relation to angle of the screen.
I'd like to be able to play some games on the sticks and buttons, and then if the mood strikes me, switch to Gunblade or whatever, with the guns.
But shooters are generally straight up vertical, as opposed to tilted up to 45 degrees with a standard cab. I don't think it would be a good experience to have a shooter with an angled screen.
I reckon if I could get a cheap Viewlix then that would solve the issues, but I get the impression they're pretty big and I don't have a lot of room.
Maybe I'd be better off slapping a telly on the wall instead?
Provided the tilt of the screen isn't overly so, I don't think you'd have much issue. The majority of cabs I've owned have only had a small screen tilt, which I couldn't see having any negative effect on how a shooter works. I could be wrong, just guessing here
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