Now updated with impressions of the final retail firmware.
This review was originally published on August 11th 2020 and has been updated to factor in our impressions of the SNES, Mega Drive and TG-16 Element Modules, as well as their respective controllers. This review now also takes into account the final retail firmware for the Polymega system.
Originally announced back in 2017 as the RetroBlox, Polymega has endured a fairly tumultuous journey to market. While the system’s objective has always been the same – to offer players the chance to access software for a wide range of cartridge and CD-based retro consoles in one place – we’ve seen a lot of changes over the past few years. FPGA support was dropped early on, something which caused a lot of consternation amongst potential buyers accustomed to the impeccable performance of Analogue’s excellent Super Nt and Mega Sg, then the system missed its proposed ‘early 2019’ release window. Pre-orders opened, but the launch was pushed back again and once more at the close of 2020, and at the time of writing (early 2021), the machine still isn’t in the hands of those who laid down their money all those many months ago, but, with the final retail unit now in our hands, it would seem the end is in sight.
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