RetroBlox : Another new Play-Everything "Retro" Console

[elmer]

UNLEASH YOUR NOSTALGIA WITH THE RETROBLOX™ MODULAR RETRO GAME CONSOLE

RETROBLOX™ Elevates Retro Games to a New Level Combining Innovative Cartridge-Compatible Element Modules, Disc Game-Compatible Optical Disc Drive, and Online Connectivity features to Create the Ultimate Living-Room Worthy Retro Game Console.

http://retroblox.com/press/

Nice renders, overblown description, few real details, industry veterans, going to Kickstarter in April.

Does another emulator-in-a-box excite anyone???

[Arkhan]

No, because they're stupid and using the word retro like 900 f*cking times in the span of two sentences.

That word needs to be banned from the internet for awhile.

[ClodBuster]

That word needs to be banned from the internet for awhile.

Along with "rare" and "vintage".

[Necromancer]

It's got a CD drive, so that's different.  I actually would buy a Turbob emulator box that output to hdmi, supported bluetooth wireless pads, and played hueys, cds, and roms/isos off a sd card, but only if it used something accurate (Mednafen) and wasn't more expensive than building myself a little pc.

[Gredler]

I hope that there is some sort of online component, I'd love to play some obey with some of you guys

[Desh]

I bet they don't have a working prototype ready for their Kickstarter date and try to fund on indiegogo.  When that fails some of the guys will give up and some other mysterious guys will continue development until they show their prototype at Toy Fair in NY.  It will end up being a GameCube case with a Turbo Express stuffed inside.  Then, when they show a clear version of the prototype it will end up being an old 3dfx Voodoo 5 graphics card with a bunch of wires and stuff soldered to it. 

This is just my prediction of course.

P.S. WTF do they mean by hybrid emulation? 

[Black Tiger]

"If you're hardcore into playing old games like us, nothing but real hardware will do.

So please donate money so we can build yet another fake hardware device".

[Dicer]

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[wildfruit]

It looks very pretty but I bet the modules will be expensive. Would probably piss the wife off less than my current set up of an illustrated history of nec, sega and Sony stacked on the bedroom side.

[Arkhan]

RETRO

This made me lol so hard, my lunch ended up in my nose somehow.

thanks.

[Dicer]

RETRO

This made me lol so hard, my lunch ended up in my nose somehow.

thanks.

Quite welcome, I would have loved to do a amber or green on black but alas...

[sirhcman]

I bet they don't have a working prototype ready for their Kickstarter date and try to fund on indiegogo.  When that fails some of the guys will give up and some other mysterious guys will continue development until they show their prototype at Toy Fair in NY.  It will end up being a GameCube case with a Turbo Express stuffed inside.  Then, when they show a clear version of the prototype it will end up being an old 3dfx Voodoo 5 graphics card with a bunch of wires and stuff soldered to it. 

This is just my prediction of course.

P.S. WTF do they mean by hybrid emulation? 

Talk to dangdang in DoxPhile chat. He is one of the guys making this machine

[crazydean]

Other than playing original games which are identical to roms, what is the advantage of this over a raspberry pi?

[Black Tiger]

Other than playing original games which are identical to roms, what is the advantage of this over a raspberry pi?

The opportunity to wear out pins and scratch discs with drives that are designed simply to be "close enough".

Any "retro" box should just feature a large storage space and fully support roms and isos of various formats. It should also be cheap, otherwise there is no point.

[Michirin9801]

Does another emulator-in-a-box excite anyone???

I already have one of those, it's called a "Nintendo Wii"