Sort of suprised at the lack of interest in the Analogue Duo

[Spartacus]

The Duo went live today and neither version appears to have sold out yet. I was really nervous about getting one as they were a fixed quantity and not an open pre-order. Had my order in as soon as it opened.

https://i.ibb.co/2n6KjrJ/PCE-Collection.jpg (https://ibb.co/2n6KjrJ)

I have a beautiful PC Engine collection, something at one time I thought I would never be able to afford. I started collecting video games by collecting shmups. Those weird ships, monsters and robots appealed to my love of horror, sci-fi and war films. Almost seems comical to me now because I don't care for the forced forward scrolling game play at all. Baltron and Xenon 2 are two of my favorites simply because they allow you to go backwards - retreat!
I used to look at the PC Engine shmup library at http://www.shmups.com/xenocidefiles/pcengine.html and drool at the pictures. My goodness that PC Engine had some pretty games! But it was a PC Engine game called Mr Heli that got me started collecting PCE games. I have a helicopter game collection and knew it would have to have a game with Heli in it's title. I'm sure the PC Engine is easy to emulate, but I'm not aware of a console release of a PC Engine compilation disc. The Evercade doesn't have PC Engine games either as I recall.
I bought two Japanese PC Engine Duo consoles modded to output in S-Video and RGB, both of which are easy to upscale to HDMI. But the CD drives are old and I am happy to have Analogue's modern version of the Duo.

[Aussie2B]

This is the first I'm hearing of it. I have two PC Engine Duo-RX systems that are holding up, so I'm good, but it looks like a nice product. I haven't been keeping up with the values of retro games and systems that well, but as far as I know, there isn't a version of the Duo or base model + CD add-on that wouldn't set one back just as much, if not more, and that's not even getting into system cards and the SuperGrafx and such, so it looks like a no-brainer for anyone wanting to get into the system now.

[Niku-Sama]

i mentioned something about it in the SuperNT thread. i really want to get one but pre orders when live today and payday isnt till next thursday and i dont wanna dip into savings that badly...

also i still havent gotten my SuperNT

[Tron 2.0]

I'm fine with my current setup,TG16+TurboCD and Duo-R.Beside analogue really get's you with that shipping fee etcs :p Not to mention analogue is really terrible at having enough systems in stock.When the price was gonna be $199.99 i all most consider it.Still looking at it now if i want another way to play pce on a hdmi tv i rather just have a mister at this point.Btw yes it has a core for playing pce,hucards and cds.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPa5EW5mp8

[Steve W]

I'd never heard of it until today. And I just can't justify the cost. I have a TurboDuo with bad caps, it'd be financially easier on me to recap it, get an HDMI converter, and a region converter card. Or I can just play the games in emulation.

[turboxray]

i mentioned something about it in the SuperNT thread. i really want to get one but pre orders when live today and payday isnt till next thursday and i dont wanna dip into savings that badly...

also i still havent gotten my SuperNT

You don't have a credit card???

[Spartacus]

One YouTuber who passed on the Analogue Duo gives his thoughts: "Too Late To Care? Why Are People Not Buying The Analogue DUO? " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSCh-XTsF0

Gamespot thought "Analogue Duo Preorders Go Live May 19, Will Likely Sell Out Fast"
Slashgear thought "Analogue Duo Pre-Orders Finally Open, But You Have To Be Fast"

At this point I'm just thinking that there aren't that many folks who own TG-16 or PC Engine games. This was never a cheap collection to have. If mine was a TG-16 collection instead of a import PC Engine collection, I could not have afforded it. Nobody was giving away the Japanese versions either.

Analogue is really slow at shipping. I'm still owed a Pocket (my second) with all the adapters. But I excused it because the news was full of supply shortage stories, especially for micro chips. I don't feel Analogue's Duo was priced too high because I know what a real Duo cost me. Heck, you could probably find a working Genny or SNES for under $40 and Analogue's versions cost 5 times that! I'm one of those who plunked down $500 for a aluminum Analogue NES. That's kinda crazy, but I own over 500 NES and Famicom games that I could use to justify it with and I wanted to play them on my HD TV. Plus it made me the coolest kid on the block. Nuk Nuk Nuk

That MiSTer, I don't know. It just seems more complicated to me that what I'm willing to deal with. I don't want to build the machine. I want to play the machine.

My hope is that Analogue will sell out of Duo's, encouraging them to further develop other future FPGA CD ROM based consoles. And I'm really really curious what might be next.

[Aussie2B]

Yeah, I figure anybody who has or plans to buy legit games probably either already has the original hardware or would want it, so it comes down to who wants to double-dip getting another system that plays the games. Everybody else would probably say screw it to the prices for the games and any of the system options and just emulate. I'm lucky that I got most of my PC Engine stuff in the '00s when prices weren't too crazy. I've got a TG-16 too, but I have very few US games, and that collection isn't likely to increase in size with prices as they are.

[Tron 2.0]

I'd never heard of it until today. And I just can't justify the cost. I have a TurboDuo with bad caps, it'd be financially easier on me to recap it, get an HDMI converter, and a region converter card. Or I can just play the games in emulation.
This and have it modded for rbg and run it through a retrotinx 5x or an ossc and you're set.

[Niku-Sama]

You don't have a credit card???

I do but i paid it off right before i moved so it was one less bill i had to deal with, that and the rate went well over 10% for the first time ever since i've had it. most likely from the rest of the rate hikes in the economy lately


This and have it modded for rbg and run it through a retrotinx 5x or an ossc and you're set.

you modded it for Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

[Greg2600]

Analogue's customer base I feel is really the streamers, and that's not trivial, seems like everyone does it now.

[Tron 2.0]

I do but i paid it off right before i moved so it was one less bill i had to deal with, that and the rate went well over 10% for the first time ever since i've had it. most likely from the rest of the rate hikes in the economy lately



you modded it for Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Dunno on that question but there are people that can mod it for rbg.Even when the analogue duo get's released i assume it will be sold for for certain amount of time then discontinue.Like what happen with mega sg and super nt which are flipped now for crazy prices.

By the way this neat kit came out recently which can be used on a base tg16,pce and coregrafx.Not to mention there is a everdrive now that can play games on cd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuWjIey_76o&t=240s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwxHT68mjR0

[Koa Zo]

As of today, 4 days after orders opened, they've sold well over 30,000 units.
That is hardly "lack of interest".

[Az]

Yeah, I figure anybody who has or plans to buy legit games probably either already has the original hardware or would want it, so it comes down to who wants to double-dip getting another system that plays the games.

I think another point is that much of what this does has already been available with other hardware add-ons. People that want to run ISOs and ROMs have options to do that, people that want HDMI or some other modern video have plug & play options for that already too. That's not even touching on other FPGA options like the Mister or even Analogue's own Pocket cannibalizing potential sales.

If this came out prior to all that stuff, say 5 years ago, I could see it having much more success.

[Niku-Sama]

in all honesty modded for Ruth Bader Ginsburg or not, the analogue systems have a place outside of streamers.

I bought the Analogue NT and Super NT so i could play them on my bigger screens. my, to be soon, OLED screens.
Partly because its a space issue, when i owned my own house my entire collection was in one little room and most of it was still boxed up and stashed away not making it very easy to get to things that i wanted to play some times.
Sure i have a PVM and have ample ability to rGb mod the systems to work with it, do some digging here and you'll find my research into getting RGB sync on green for PSX using the PS2 component cables to get the signal out (PS2 and PSX share RGB and Component lines on the multi out), BUT i only have a few inputs on the tv, i ran out of room for a decent extron RGB switcher and now i've been priced out.

On the other side of things, I have a TG16 but i've never found the CD add on and again, now priced out. I wanted to get a PC engine instead of that strange region mod card thing, but now i dont feel like they are worth the $100 for a loose system, again priced out. Duos NTSC U or J, Priced out.

at $250, i can get this nearly flawless on my modern equipment and play Any region card or cd based game for $250. sure i dont think i can get it to display on my PVM but thats a small price to pay to be able to even play these games in the first place.

so no these arent really for streamers, they are for people that have been priced out or dont have the space.
I dont have any more room in my new place, plus its only temporary till i can figure out what to do with my life so yea, i'm interested.

i'd like to get my SuperNT first though, still havent gotten it yet

[Oobgarm]

I've had Mega SG and Super NT since they each came out. I was on them immediately. They've seen a lot of use, Nintendo more than Sega.

I immediately signed up for the Duo notification list so I could be on top of it too once it was made available. Of course, that was 2020. It wasn't too long after I had purchased a CIB RGB-modded Duo from a friend (a former regular here I might add) and even though I don't have much of a collection - maybe 6 cards and 2 CD-based titles - I was excited. I could mothball the Duo and not stress it too much. As fate would have it though, something gave out on it and it stopped getting power. Add in the fact that I've moved twice since then and I currently have little space for gaming stuff - so my focus changed to MiSTer and Retroarch on the Series X.

And that's where things have stayed for quite some time now. I'm not really collecting much anymore at all, and when I do feel that urge to play something, I have everything at my fingertips. I don't have to look for the game and/or console. And emulation now is a far cry from years past, and I'd imagine for many, it fits the bill now. There will be some enthusiasts that spring for it, sure, but fringe cases (such as myself) who aren't hardcore-dedicated to having everything be latest and greatest can pass on this. And of course games are already stupid expensive so I can't imagine this machine being someone's gateway into collecting for the system.

All this said, I almost did go ahead and buy one as soon as they were available. Had it in the cart and everything. Eventually decided that I have other ways to play these games practically flawlessly and that I'd be better off not dropping the nearly $300 with shipping to get one. I'd love to play my Rondo of Blood and Gradius 2 discs again but is it really necessary now? Emulation can handle that. I don't regret changing my mind at all.

Eventually I'll have room again to get my CRT collection out and I'll be able to use my older consoles again, especially the Duo if I ever bother to get it repaired.

It just feels that the market has shifted and the space for things like this is way smaller than it was 3 years ago. And this is to say nothing of the Pocket.

(also, long time no post!)

[YoshiM]

Woah! Oobgarm! Long time no see and welcome back!

Me and the Turbo have a on again, off again relation ship. Not as bad as me and the Genesis (which I think I owned five times?) I think I've had three Turbos during my gaming life. One when the system was being sold with a free game (then got a CD system a couple years later), sold it, maybe got a second and sold it then got a third as a gift (bought it for 50 cents if memory serves-just add power supply) and then I sold that before my divorce. I bought the Turbo Not-So-Mini about a year ago and I think I touched it twice. Part of me wants to continue the cycle and sell it but a smaller part of me says "better not.....you'll only buy it again". If I can convince myself that, when I do want to get my classic on, that maybe buying a controller that is a replica of the original controller and just do PC emulation that it'd be good enough. The inner debate continues.

I now have a mini makeup of all my teenage game consoles: NES Mini, SNES Mini, both Genesis minis and the Turbo. IT *IS* neat to see them all lined up. Ugh, my fickle heart.

30,000 units is pretty dang good! I wonder if that's worldwide or if Analogue has a breakdown of where these are all going? That would be interesting to know. Are there a lot of US buyers as it didn't do oh so hot here in the States?

[Koa Zo]

30,000 units is pretty dang good! I wonder if that's worldwide or if Analogue has a breakdown of where these are all going? That would be interesting to know. Are there a lot of US buyers as it didn't do oh so hot here in the States?
It would be very be interesting to see a breakdown of where units are shipped.
The sales numbers are world wide. 20,000 units in each color to be manufactured.
Just under 1600 white remaining and just shy of 7000 black remaining in stock apparently.

[SparTonberry]

Tempting but probably shouldn't, as my Turbo collection consists of only a few PC-Engine CDs.
I don't think it'd be a good idea to get into card collection at this time.

[Gamevet]

I pre-ordered the black Duo on Saturday. I always wanted to play the PCE CD games, so this was better than trying to feta Duo with the arcade card. I currently have a TG-16 with 10 hucard games, complete, plus the Turbo Booster.

[Gameguy]

This does look like a well made console, especially compared to other knock off clone systems that have been produced by other companies. The main issue I would consider is the price, as that's a lot for a system that people with original games would already own. But with original hardware becoming unreliable, this is a good option. I just wish this would include standard composite output in addition to HDMI so this could be connected to a standard CRT as an option. I play classic consoles on essentially period correct type monitors and as this is only HDMI I wouldn't consider buying it for practical use.

Also good to see long time posters in this thread, it certainly has been awhile.

[Tron 2.0]

This does look like a well made console, especially compared to other knock off clone systems that have been produced by other companies. The main issue I would consider is the price, as that's a lot for a system that people with original games would already own. But with original hardware becoming unreliable, this is a good option. I just wish this would include standard composite output in addition to HDMI so this could be connected to a standard CRT as an option. I play classic consoles on essentially period correct type monitors and as this is only HDMI I wouldn't consider buying it for practical use.

Also good to see long time posters in this thread, it certainly has been awhile.
Analogue just release there dac adapter which allows you to play there consoles on a crt.
https://www.analogue.co/dac

[Niku-Sama]

i wanna say the DAC has been out for a while...
at the same time though it didnt interest me, i get their consoles to play games on high def TVs, if i want to play on my PVM then i'll just slap a OG console on there and call it good. when i have the space of course

[Gamevet]

I have a Sony KV-32HS420 CRT that has an HDMI port. The games look awesome on it in 480p.

[Gameguy]

Analogue just release there dac adapter which allows you to play there consoles on a crt.
https://www.analogue.co/dac
I wasn't aware of this, so that's pretty good. Though it doesn't actually have straight composite outputs and appears to need an additional adapter to accomplish that type of hookup. I know RGB is better quality, but plenty of visual effects were made to take advantage of limited composite output.

I would also prefer original consoles too, I'm only concerned about long term reliability as the disc drives and lasers can/will all fail eventually with replacement parts getting difficult to acquire. Plus the general failing capacitors with this console specifically. In the past I've pretty much insisted on original hardware with a die hard collector mentality so it's rare for me to consider any aftermarket console worthy of purchase. This just seems infinitely better quality than something like the Retron 5. Personally I have an original console so I wouldn't need this, assuming my console is still working as it's been years since I've actually hooked it up.

It's also great to have CRTs with HDMI inputs, but those are pretty rare to find if looking to purchase. Maybe I'll come across one locally someday.

[Tron 2.0]

I wasn't aware of this, so that's pretty good. Though it doesn't actually have straight composite outputs and appears to need an additional adapter to accomplish that type of hookup. I know RGB is better quality, but plenty of visual effects were made to take advantage of limited composite output.

I would also prefer original consoles too, I'm only concerned about long term reliability as the disc drives and lasers can/will all fail eventually with replacement parts getting difficult to acquire. Plus the general failing capacitors with this console specifically. In the past I've pretty much insisted on original hardware with a die hard collector mentality so it's rare for me to consider any aftermarket console worthy of purchase. This just seems infinitely better quality than something like the Retron 5. Personally I have an original console so I wouldn't need this, assuming my console is still working as it's been years since I've actually hooked it up.

It's also great to have CRTs with HDMI inputs, but those are pretty rare to find if looking to purchase. Maybe I'll come across one locally someday.
Any console by analogue are not sold at retail.Unless you find it secondhand but by then sellers will charge double for it.Recently since they discontinue the super nt and mega sg used they go for allot.

[Gameguy]

Any console by analogue are not sold at retail.Unless you find it secondhand but by then sellers will charge double for it.Recently since they discontinue the super nt and mega sg used they go for allot.
I mostly meant finding a CRT with HDMI inputs locally. Though I probably wouldn't buy any analogue consoles unless I randomly came across them locally either, I mostly just don't need them that badly. I'm assuming they ship from the US so there would also be duty added to the already expensive costs.

[Tron 2.0]

I mostly meant finding a CRT with HDMI inputs locally. Though I probably wouldn't buy any analogue consoles unless I randomly came across them locally either, I mostly just don't need them that badly. I'm assuming they ship from the US so there would also be duty added to the already expensive costs.
Yeah there shipping is expensive since the bank they use is in china ouch ! Far as CRT goes i wish i had the chance to buy a PVM before they become valuable to retro gamers.

[Gamevet]

Just find a Sony Hi-Scan. They do everything a PVM does and more. Most people are just trying to give away those heavy beasts.


https://www.google.com/shopping/product/1?q=sony+hi+scan+crt&biw=375&bih=621&prds=eto:14700915531398237961_1,pid:14700915531398 237961,cs:1

[Mangar]

I own a Mega-SG and an NT Mini Noir. I had planned on purchasing this, but decided against it. I love Analogue products, but the reality is that a Mister setup just does the same exact thing as every Analogue system, but in one package. If you're playing off roms or a flashcard, there is pretty much no reason to buy it. The only reason why I don't have Analogues SNES system, is that I had a console copier back in the day, so I have no real physical SNES collection. Hence, no need to own a system. Same with the Duo.

The Mister is really the way to go unless you own a lot of physical carts, and truly desire playing off them.

[Niku-Sama]

i would like to buy it after i get my Super NT.

i still havent got my super NT, also Q2 ends really soon

[Tron 2.0]

MLIG review of the analogue duo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhWHqz3wxgg

[Gametrek]

I honestly did all my PCE collecting already. I mean there are titles to look foward to, but on the other hand I pretty much experienced it on a real TV, and on my computer. The only person I honestly see purchasing this is somebody who has not figured out how to run stuff on your computer and or ( like me previously ) have purchased the actual unit.

I am still blown-away by the experience and till this day I say to myself. PCE > NES. Nintendo obviously looked at the prices but lets be realistic. The prices would have dropped over time and we would not need the SNES for a very long time. My only problem with that is the possibility of no FX microchip and no specialized chips add-ons, and no Satilite-view ( like those home-made RPG maker games ). Think about how the costs would have been justified.

NEC + Nintendo + Red + Konami ( when they were great and not jerks ), it would have wiped SEGA out making them dependent on the Amiga. The SNES could have been the Genesis by logic. I would have love to see a Motorola SNES + mAster-System + Genesis + 32X, but alais we will never know.
You also have to consider the creation of the SONY sound-chip. My good word we would just have to live with regular red-book audio-tracks. Rather then carts.

When the PC + CD world started to become a reality Nintendo games would have been copied, with pirates selling everything to anything on the side, along with home-brew games and software popping up. Imagine "The Guy Game" on the PCE in all it's glory, or the actual amount of AV ( audiovisual ) models CD would be flying around.

I guess the carts was good for censorship and keeping within the "kids toy" mainstay. It did way better then the Dreamcast and there lame GD-roms, dummy space.

[Spartacus]

I had a chance to play with my Analogue Duo and it is a solid piece of kit. I thought I would have preferred the Analogue Duo's CD drive to be a top loader for it's simplicity and easy access to the disc. But after handling the Analogue Duo for awhile, I realized that a top loading CD drive would have made the Analogue Duo more flimsy feeling, with hinges, lids and latches likely becoming easily broken liabilities. But I wish Analogue had included a emergency eject pinhole for the CD drive.

I own hundreds of PC Engine games on various formats and regions and everything I tested ran without problems. I'm using a 65" OLED TV with a 5.1 surround sound system and did have to change my TV's screen from 16.9 to 4.3 for the best picture. I set the Analogue to 480p with RGB color to get the best looking video for my preference. I noticed that some in game sound effects were coming from my rear speakers, but maybe this was only happening on CD games. I expected only front left and right stereo so I was pleasantly surprised hearing those effects coming from back speakers.

The original PC Engine controllers I tried worked fine but I found that having easy access to the Analogue Duo's OS made using 8BitDo's TG16 wireless gamepad the easiest way to play. Oddly, the home button on the 8BitDo which brought up the Duo's menu screen only worked for me when wired. In Bluetooth Mode the home button simply paused the game. I didn't play with that too much and maybe other button combinations would have brought up the menu.

My PC Engine consoles are white and my Analogue Duo is black, but after seeing how closely Analogue matched the cream color of my PC Engine consoles, I kinda envy having the white version giving me reason to double dip. I have already purchased two SuperGrafx games now that I have the hardware to play them. If only the Analogue Duo would have been capable of playing PC-FX games too. I could have justified adding a whole new collection of games to my library.

I think the Analogue Duo is a great back-up system for people owning original PC Engine/Duo hardware and software.

[Tron 2.0]

It has a jailbreak now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YhiXTRbPcU

[Gametrek]

I am going to be honest here. Looking at this is like looking at opening a bank account.
What are my options?
Do I need this in my life?
Are there any bonus features?

Reggie Philis ( etc name please correct ) in his book breifly talked about "the culture". That got me thinking. His previous CEO positions and current ones, and taking a hard look at these products and where they are at now.

Dominos - is allowing marketing of Black ( African American ) + LGBT ( Homosexual ) inside an Anime.
Nintendo - new CEO basically is saying "We need more sales".

Back to the culture. When I see a woman who clearly needs to go to an eye-check-up, with her hair held back, and clearly is fat, living inside of a NYCHA building, making NYCHA complaints. I think why does this woman with some kind of "Anime-shirt" on have any sense to go to the doctor about her eye condition.

I apologize if I make somebody depressed.

What does this have to do with this PC-Engine machine. Granted yes it looks auwsome and I want it.

However the deal is this. I have a real PC-engine, and a real CD-rom system2, and back up save cards and devices. Granted yes in order to keep the saves inside the PC-Engine functioning you have to keep it plugged in 24/7 ( with that big "yamato" AC Adapter which I could use a smaller sine version of ). I own the physical copy of Castlevania and even purchase fake discs just to test them.

Here is the deal.

1) Make it look like a SNES/NES/Famicom design.
2) Make a licensed copy of thriller with the unlicensed version on the PC-engine
3) Make sure we can use an NES/SNES/Genesis, etc light-gun. Even if the gun has to use the wii-bar,
or Superscope, or the Master-system light-gun ( like with Zillion second controller ), or Saturn-light-gun
( like with Scud Disposable Assassin ), and make sure it could work with Triller.
4) Make sure their is a composite AV or RF out for this lightgun or Wii-bar plug-in for Wii-mote in light-gun mode, or even the SNES Super-scope RF ( Wii-bar same thing ?? ).

They ( whoever made this ) might as well make a Gunpei-express gaming system and allow us to play
Gameboy and Wonderswan games. Might as well include the ability to use NES and SNES, or even Genesis games, to PS1-PS3, and Saturn, 32X, and blah blah. See my problem here?

Okay you ( whoever ) made a game system. Yeaaahhhhhh!!!! I mean part of me would jump on this. I own PC-engine games and would like to play some Turbo games and the SuperGrafx all in one. Then
the other me says ( in the back of mind whispering )

"It is not the original hardware"

That is where I pull back. Giant Gameboy that looks like a gameboy I could hump like a dog or rabbit in heat. Okay ++ Sexy Slim Gameboy Koisk with BrainBoy backup features. Okay ++ But when you have another gameboy and another gameboy and no backup features for my pokemon. Why?

Insert Picardo Face-Palm

I see why somebody would buy this but right now I am comfortable with my current setup.
Ned Flanders would buy this for Ned Flanders reason, but I would rather be Moe on this one.

[Tron 2.0]

I am going to be honest here. Looking at this is like looking at opening a bank account.
What are my options?
Do I need this in my life?
Are there any bonus features?

Reggie Philis ( etc name please correct ) in his book breifly talked about "the culture". That got me thinking. His previous CEO positions and current ones, and taking a hard look at these products and where they are at now.

Dominos - is allowing marketing of Black ( African American ) + LGBT ( Homosexual ) inside an Anime.
Nintendo - new CEO basically is saying "We need more sales".

Back to the culture. When I see a woman who clearly needs to go to an eye-check-up, with her hair held back, and clearly is fat, living inside of a NYCHA building, making NYCHA complaints. I think why does this woman with some kind of "Anime-shirt" on have any sense to go to the doctor about her eye condition.

I apologize if I make somebody depressed.

What does this have to do with this PC-Engine machine. Granted yes it looks auwsome and I want it.

However the deal is this. I have a real PC-engine, and a real CD-rom system2, and back up save cards and devices. Granted yes in order to keep the saves inside the PC-Engine functioning you have to keep it plugged in 24/7 ( with that big "yamato" AC Adapter which I could use a smaller sine version of ). I own the physical copy of Castlevania and even purchase fake discs just to test them.

Here is the deal.

1) Make it look like a SNES/NES/Famicom design.
2) Make a licensed copy of thriller with the unlicensed version on the PC-engine
3) Make sure we can use an NES/SNES/Genesis, etc light-gun. Even if the gun has to use the wii-bar,
or Superscope, or the Master-system light-gun ( like with Zillion second controller ), or Saturn-light-gun
( like with Scud Disposable Assassin ), and make sure it could work with Triller.
4) Make sure their is a composite AV or RF out for this lightgun or Wii-bar plug-in for Wii-mote in light-gun mode, or even the SNES Super-scope RF ( Wii-bar same thing ?? ).

They ( whoever made this ) might as well make a Gunpei-express gaming system and allow us to play
Gameboy and Wonderswan games. Might as well include the ability to use NES and SNES, or even Genesis games, to PS1-PS3, and Saturn, 32X, and blah blah. See my problem here?

Okay you ( whoever ) made a game system. Yeaaahhhhhh!!!! I mean part of me would jump on this. I own PC-engine games and would like to play some Turbo games and the SuperGrafx all in one. Then
the other me says ( in the back of mind whispering )

"It is not the original hardware"

That is where I pull back. Giant Gameboy that looks like a gameboy I could hump like a dog or rabbit in heat. Okay ++ Sexy Slim Gameboy Koisk with BrainBoy backup features. Okay ++ But when you have another gameboy and another gameboy and no backup features for my pokemon. Why?

Insert Picardo Face-Palm

I see why somebody would buy this but right now I am comfortable with my current setup.
Ned Flanders would buy this for Ned Flanders reason, but I would rather be Moe on this one.
Half the time i can't figure out what you're saying on these long winded post.Dude settle down you're gonna have a heart attack at the rate you're going currently.You can brag all you want about having original hardware but it won't last forever.Analogue is just giving fans a option if they don't feel like messing with the maintenance or price of owning the original.Heck,i few years ago i had to have the turbo-cd gears replaced and recapped because the unit broke down and i'll be glad when i'll sell it finally to.

[Spartacus]

It has a jailbreak now.

Good grief! Someone managed to turn the Analogue Duo into the most expensive NEC library emulation device ever. Isn't that thing like $300 shipped?

[Greg2600]

I'm not sure what the big deal is? Frankly I was under the impression that everything Analogue produced was "jailbroken" out of the box. I feel like the primary user of their stuff is the streaming community, and if you're not part of that, it's not really that important.

[Aussie2B]

Reggie Philis ( etc name please correct ) in his book breifly talked about "the culture". That got me thinking. His previous CEO positions and current ones, and taking a hard look at these products and where they are at now.

Dominos - is allowing marketing of Black ( African American ) + LGBT ( Homosexual ) inside an Anime.
Nintendo - new CEO basically is saying "We need more sales".

Back to the culture. When I see a woman who clearly needs to go to an eye-check-up, with her hair held back, and clearly is fat, living inside of a NYCHA building, making NYCHA complaints. I think why does this woman with some kind of "Anime-shirt" on have any sense to go to the doctor about her eye condition.

What on earth are you even going on about here? Your post is so incoherent that I don't know what to make of it, but I suggest you read the "Don't be a Misanthrope" section of the FAQ.

[Gametrek]

But that is the thing. Will you/me last forever?

Have you ever been to the hospital and the "Doctor/Physician" Literally told you
A. Some crude remark at your intellegence for not understanding a chart.
B. Try make you take the cheap path instead of the expensive costing surgery paid by your insurance.
C. Lied/Avoid telling you the origin of your _______ medical part. I mean literally dodge you?

We all have seen, been to a funeral and have seen the aftermath, and your solution is to sell the corpse that is "currently working" right now?

I am not saying it is bad. I am saying a person ( like another random person who is not me at this moment ) is going to head on over and get one of these. In fact I had a dream.....cast.

"Segata-Sanshiro-Saturn-V" A SEGA Saturn with
A. built in Changable storage.
B. Can play blu-ray and HD-DVD with no region block, including DVD
C. Can play original Dreamcast games, PS1-PS3, Wii
D. Most importantly you can load cartridges via the memory slot ( which is still a memory/save option ).
E. Sega 32X and Genesis,
F. With optional MSX, Sega Master System, gameboy or SNES/SFC adapter
G. Kalleria inside for netplay

And it all comes with a free Game-maker type game making kit that is super-simplier then drag and drop, with pre-made engines which could run on SEGA SATURN.

The promotion would literally have

Yuji Nanka + Segata Sanshrio + and the founder of the system and they all eat hot-dog and make stereotypical Japonesey commentary. The promotion could also feature a group of Models in SEGA uniforms ( trational Service game quality )

It would hard blue and pure bleach white looking system, And feature light-gun support with Wii infared or some special connector.


What on earth are you even going on about here? Your post is so incoherent that I don't know what to make of it, but I suggest you read the "Don't be a Misanthrope" section of the FAQ.

Sweet deal but IDK still. For me ( right now ). I have my Backing up and the official PC-Engine. If that messes up I might as well use a back-up ( which I suggest everybody to do because horrors have happen ).

[Aussie2B]

I fail to see how any of that was a response to what I said.

[Tron 2.0]

Good grief! Someone managed to turn the Analogue Duo into the most expensive NEC library emulation device ever. Isn't that thing like $300 shipped?
$200.00+ at least still a original duo can cost twice as much compared to analogue.Though this isn't shocking there's all ways a jailbreak for there consoles.

[Gametrek]

I had an idea while thinking about this again.

Can this play "Street Fighter 2" and "Populus" ?
The card insert lacks that bit of space for those two cards or cards like them?

Am I able to do the card trick to access the mini game in Castlevania ?

Since this is a CD-player am I able to attach any CD-player into data-read mode and use as a backup reader?


$200.00+ at least still a original duo can cost twice as much compared to analogue.Though this isn't shocking there's all ways a jailbreak for there consoles.

Here is the funny. Look at the cost of an actual PCEngine setup when it was released, and combine the Turbografx/Duo cost as well.

If you think about it the PC-Engine was the greatest invention, because even the Switch
is basically what a PCE is today or at least was.

Then the cost of owning one today and repairs that would need to be made over time.

Like right now I am thinking my CD-rom AC adapter might fail one day. Looking at that big adapter ( which can be repaired ) but would rather a slim adapter plug instead.

[retroman]

I bought both of the Analogue Duo's. I have a black one and a white one. I have the black one hooked up and the white one still sealed in the box. I always like to have back up systems to everything I buy. This thing is far from perfect. Its nothing but FPGA emulation and that is to be expected. Nothing beats real hardware.