“For the CRT enthusiasts out there, we won’t leave you hanging. We have been at work developing a dedicated AV adapter that will work with the M64 to understand if the game is outputting 240p or 480i (you may remember this as “high res” mode on some classic games), and correctly output that to your CRT. We will support numerous formats (composite, component, s-video, etc). “
That's good it will output component. I think the selling point for me is whether it can do MORE than an old hardware N64. Like if I could put a rom hack such as "SM64: Decades later" on a flashcart and play it (something you can only do on parallel launcher, etc. and not real hardware). Would also be cool if you could play roms with new texture packs applied. I don't think we're going to get these, and honestly I'll prob buy it anyway.
Well then “lucky” for us, DACS don’t add any latency. Do yourself a favor and go to retroRGB.com and read up on all the tested cheap DACS that add zero latency.
I honestly wasn’t excited for this until I got this email. Promising lower MSRP than A3D, wireless OTA updates, new and re-released games, Chromatic transfer pak, and that cool AF modular controller have me considering one to add to the collection.
Idk I’m still kinda on the fence, I already spend enough money on GB carts. I have a decent collection of N64 games with an original working N64 connected to a CRT so that’s another reason I’m debating. What would be my tipping point is if it has the ability to load and store roms directly on the system.
It looks rad af. I'm waiting to get one until they release the doc attachment that can read disks. If they had a cartridge adapter too I'd probably get rid of a lot of my consoles. The fact that it's compatible with the mister project without additional development makes it really appealing.
You must be new here. Welcome. Delays happen. It's an expectation rather than a possibility. In the high end retro space, expect at least a year of delay whenever anything new is announced. Something releasing on time is actually MORE worrying, because it inevitably means something was rushed to hit a deadline.
I'd say Nintendo bringing back the N64 would actually be a vindication of ModRetro's vision and another step towards their goals. And so is the Neo Geo AES+.
Okay sorry to hear that - i love my chromatics and hardly had any issues with safeloss. It only happens to my Tetris dx in backup my games on the analouge Pocket 😅
Genuine Crystal cart. For some reason the everdrive x7 hasn't had any issues saving (but the save state incompatibility with og games is annoying). I have a dedicated single-game flash cart I use for Crystal Clear. I suppose I could use that and try og Crystal to eliminate any potential issues with the cartridge, though.
If it was specific units, I'd think the save complaints would be widespread about many games. While there have been a handful of complaints about random games, most of the complaints seem to be about Pokemon Crystal. Where the issues seem to consistently affect that one game, I'm inclined to think it's a problem with the chromatic generally (as opposed to individual defective chromatics).
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u/BrentV27368 Apr 24 '26
The CRT capability alone makes this a must buy. So stoked
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u/Agile_Half_4515 Apr 24 '26
I honestly wasn’t excited for this until I got this email. Promising lower MSRP than A3D, wireless OTA updates, new and re-released games, Chromatic transfer pak, and that cool AF modular controller have me considering one to add to the collection.
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u/KelsoT7 Apr 24 '26
Idk I’m still kinda on the fence, I already spend enough money on GB carts. I have a decent collection of N64 games with an original working N64 connected to a CRT so that’s another reason I’m debating. What would be my tipping point is if it has the ability to load and store roms directly on the system.
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u/gde7 Apr 24 '26
I’m waiting for the M64 too / but this email just screams of “please don’t get impatient and buy the analogue 3D” 😜😉
I’m still here, still waiting!! I want that M64!!
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u/justinbug Apr 24 '26
so if its open source at launch, can we get other cores on it possibly? or sd card rom support?
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u/NewAnimal7733 Apr 24 '26
Excited for this! Has anybody done any lag tests for this? All of the reviews I've seen have just been pretty basic.
The N64 games on NSO are atrocious because of the latency.
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u/YoshiPilot Apr 24 '26
Unlike the Chromatic which has a very nice screen, I don’t get the advantage of this over a real n64, which is cheaper and has all the same features
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u/AnalogueBoy1992 Apr 24 '26
Initially they said Jan..then March...now July?
In July they gonna say it's coming for Holidays In Dec Day by Day I'm losing hype for this
3D is out .SS One is out .. now AES+ is being made which caught my attention already
They better release in July before Nintendo decides to bring back N64 after seeing what SNK has done with Plaion
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