The more appropriate term would be emulation box wars. But yeah the atgames things are pieces of shit. I mean the emulation is okay and sounds alright on my TV. BUT the no support of battery back up saving for RPG's just totally makes this useless.

I knew a guy in high school who would speed run Zelda and Metroid. Took him about five minutes per game but it never looked like he was having fun which always made me wonder why he did it. :P

Without cheats, and using only what was likely known at the time that person would have been running the games, there is no way he could have beaten the games in 5 minutes. The world record for Metroid, as of 3 years ago, is over 15 minutes. The old world record for Zelda, as of 1 year ago (and ignoring the Arbitrary Code Execution route that requires the Japanese version), is just under 30 minutes. Even the glitched TAS of Zelda 2 takes over 5 minutes to complete, and that's with tool assistance and using both glitches and the use of Left+Right to save time, and which skips all palaces except the final one.

That and hardware clones don't seem to run emulators and don't have a problem with saving on genesis carts that use it.

Didn't know about it until earlier this day when i stumbled upon the old version of this mini console in a shop window in my town. The price they asked for it was 50 euros. Too much for what it is, i'd better give my money for the mini NES or even better for a mini version of SNES.

yeah they're usually around $30 here.

The main problem with these Sega retro consoles is that they've put out several collections on many different systems which are better emulations than the consoles can hope to be and also provide mid-game saving which beats no saves any day. If it weren't for the omission of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Revenge of Shinobi and a couple other games from Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, that would be the perfect collection right there.

For the third time, these ATGames consoles have been released for years (since 2009 at least). Some with 15 games, some with 40, some with 30, etc... But they have been released before. It's nothing new. They just put a new stamp on the box for the anniversary and that's it.

For Nintendo, it's the first time. But they didn't invent anything as far as this is concerned. These are just cheap emulation hardware.

They won't fix anything. It's the exact same cheap SoC hardware.

It's not a SOC, it's an emulation box.

and for the third time this is sega's response to the mini nes
they are scrambeling to get in on that action despite this machine being nothing new

thats not that hard to grasp now is it ?

It, most likely, is emulation software running on a Single Board Computer; something like a Raspberry Pi, but pre-loaded with emulation software and games and no way to access the storage directly.

Yes......that's exactly what I was getting at, it's a single board computer, running that horrible Firecore emulator.

I have heard about those cartridges with batteries in them. But... do those batteries ever die? Or run out of energy?
I never owned a console, and played only a few times.

Yes they do, but if you can solder you can change them out.

they do die yes usually after a decade or two
in some cases its trivial to replace them ( open the game and replace the cr3220 battery ) in other cases they actually fucking soldered them in