I appreciate your honesty John. The fact that they raised the price multiple times and you can build a better experience yourself for half the cost kills it for me.

Great video John! The value in this is for people who don't want to buy all the individual systems and deal with the potential problems of 30+ year old hardware, to have something that works out-of-the-box with modern hdmi tvs. And also the support and updates the company provides.

Almost 600 for the base unit? Jesus!!

I remember being subsribed to this channel from my old account (2010s). Now I rediscovered you coz of this console. Resubbed! Thanks ❤

I been following you since you started doing videos on KZfaq, it's always a pleasure to watch em ,please never stop,great content

Love the vids John! As long as you upload I'll be watching

Thanks for the fair review. I am a collector and for me the base system is worth it for the Neo Geo CD and Saturn alone. Everything else is a bonus. I heard the performance of games on the N64 module is a little rough but hopefully it will improve by the time it is officially released.

Short answer would be no. If it were 4 years ago at $250, then it would be worth it.

Hey john! been following since i was a kid, currently sitting in my game room surrounded by my collection that started from watching channels like yours. happy to see new reviews from you with the same honesty ❤️

800 is a lot but we love the reviews. thanks John for decades of retro to modern gaming love it all, game on!

I miss your console reviews!

The idea is neat, but the price is still pretty expensive overall.

Yeah, no communication is the worst.

Glad you put your bias aside and gave this a fair review. Seems out of my price range but looks like a good machine.

happy fathers day👋👍 john i love coleco vision the most like you been with you a long time my dad bought me coleco vison in my teens early 80s 🎮

They should have had all the cart slots on the main unit rather than having loads of add-ons like the Retro Freak does.

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That was a way more interesting system than I initially thought. The pricing is what kills it for me. Thanks for posting John!

I love my polymega, but i got lucky, i landed on firmware 1.1.22 so i can still play SNES games fine. Yeah i can't do N64 but i don't got that module anyways, I have over 600 games installed on my polymega right now, but i really hope 1.1.32 update comes out sooner rather than later.

Just to let you know on all your videos your sound bounces from left to right continuously might be worth in post putting your sound in mono as it's distracting when you are listening via headphones. Thanks for the great content John 😊

Interested but the price is scary!🤑 Happy Father's Day bro! 🎉🎊

When they make a dream cast adapter with the polymega I buying it

I ordered mine, and the shipping took a while like 1 year, so I thought I got ripped off, I finally got it 😅😅😅 now I need the N64 add-on

Im from Colombia I have one and I love it! yeah expensive for me especially because I have to pay in COP, but totally worth it! ❤ im in love!

I like the ideal of the Polymega and I would purchase one if they would just drop the price a little on the base unit. I have a physical copy of Sega CD's Wheel Of Fortune that I would not mind running on the Polymega.

Looking for a hand held that does GameCube. Looking to play phantasy star online on a trip will have no access to a TV. Best option one of the retroid or Asus ally?

Hello from Kyiv❤

I started collecting from N64 and beyond, so as it stands, I don't have a use for it right now, but once the N64 module comes out, that would be nice! Though, what would be even better if it supported Dreamcast, (Orignal) Xbox, and Xbox 360. But I doubt any of those will come out. Maybe Dreamcast, but seeing how long the N64 is taking to come out, it'll probably be a while. Portables, like 3DS, PSP, (Super) Game Boy, Game Gear, etc., would also be nice.

If it was $250 I might get the Polymega. I see it more as a convenient way to play games while traveling, or to lend to family without worry, but a top-end product? I just don't see it. The current price sure implies that Playmaji does see it as that lol. You can sideload games with the retro blasters. I would do that with NES games, as those are just too old to pay good money on for me. The Polymega would have to have retrotink 4k quality scanlines for me to want to play NES games on it, though...

Looks like a good build and the module approach is nice but the price is way too much ... And i know you were avoiding being bias and good on you because that was a dumb bridge for them to burn.bbbbi domt see this succeeding

Dreamcast would have sealed the deal for me

It's an emulation system so no. I am counting the days until Analogue releases the new N64.

Is this good for the target audience? I’m not it so I have no idea. Seems kinda high still .

can you download old games on this console??? and you play some your games from your collection???

this is cool but i really wish that the raspberry pi based disc emulation machine that was being worked on years ago was a thing...would be cool if someone started work on that back up especially with 3d printing and the jump in hardware with the pi 5 could make it support up to gamecube with just a simple external dvd drive and a pi 5 and maybe a custom 3d printed case.. ..way cheaper than 550 could even add cartridge support with some cart rippers for pc.. something open source like that would kill the poly mega especially for people that like to tinker like myself..if only i was good at writing code...

Nice review. Its too expensive tho

The idea is nice , but it’s just an emulation box with a rom dump. If it was fpga the price would be justifiable. Still too expensive.

Nope...way too expensive. I would never buy it.

Hey John , thorough review and it does sound like plenty of fun ,but the price factor , and considering more limited budgets of the average household just in the last 3 years 😢 plus as you pointed out ""it is definitely emulation" , , so for that price for emulation no less , , very easy decision -i m not going to buy Polymega , , , its competition will not have to fear the polymega , , , CD dump is ok because it doesn't hurt CD , , ,but this is awful formula when it comes to the cartridge poly-adapters , because Cartridge dumping eventually erodes the info on your vintage cartridge to the point the original cartridge will no longer Boot , , machines that cause this are identified as "Rom Rippers" ,, a danger to your vintage cartridges 😮😢😮😢😮

I wish the Polymega was worth it. When this product was originally envisioned as Retro Blocks, it seemed like a cool idea. I wouldn't mind emulation if this was a $300 system. As it stands, all it is is a software kit that rips roms off your CD based games, which, while cool, isn't impossible to do on your own on a Windows PC with Retroarch. When you can get a Steam Deck, a gaming laptop or even an entry level pre-built thats around the cost of a Polymega, I don't see why you'd want an emulation box. Period. It isn't a lag-free, FPGA based solution. Why bother? Analogue will come out with these in the future.

Well, before i watch: no, not even a little. Not even if you have money to burn. It is absurd how much this thing costs for being such a low powered, innacurate software emulator/rom dumper. But still, I'll watch to see if you enjoyed your time with it 😅 Edit: since i just got the point you mentioned it, having FPGA modules would have been the only thing that they could have done to justify getting close to the price it is. Also ive got to say, whoever made that frontend menu for them did a good job on the design. Very clean looking.

A little too expensive for me, I am sticking with the Anbernic for now

I was on board 100% until they dropped the price on us. That was not at all what they promised. It's also, not what the backers paid them for.

Wean i lreaned the truth about The Polymega years ago I give up on it and suck with Retro Pi since I knew being based on Linux and uses The Raspberry Pi computer system. I'm not as worried about it.

This makes no sense to buy in my opinion. If you want emulation, get a mini PC for $250-350, and load it up with Retrobat, or any other emulation front end, with Retrobat most controllers are already set up, put the roms in the folders, get a bios pack, you're done. This is just not the way.

$550 is way too expensive for a cd emulator. For less than $350-$400, one could buy a cheap laptop with an external cd drive and a current gen console controller to play or rip disc images with easily through open emulators.

Total pass... to honest looks nice but i have every console this emulates. Ill take my analogue, everdrives, mode, etc over this any day. But at least your video explained a few things. Only if the pocket could play saturn games...

The one module you didn’t get sucks. The n64 emulation is horrible

So they went with emulation to cut costs. So how much would an FPGA system have been, $1200?! $550? Get outta here!

WAYYYY too expensive. they have lost their minds. should've been fpga....

This console is in a dead spot. Sure it offers CD comparability but the entire idea falls apart when you are selling the base unit for $550. If you have the CD's to use on this console; and you are passionate about plying them, you probably already have invested in a PC, upscalers, flashcarts/cd-rom emus, and/or HDMI mods to original hardware. Yes, there is a luxury about playing these on 1 box in your living room, but you are likely to be unhappy with emulation if you are dropping this much cash to play your original discs/carts.

Is it worth it? No. Just, no.

it's a cash grab emulator box.. for ridiculous price

gah! please mono mic :(

Nope this is overpriced trash. If it was FPGA, and actually played the games from the cart, sure. But this is just a glorified Retron 5.

Listen to this with headphones on dude. Your voice goes back and forth from the left to right speakers. Very annoying