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New ODE on the way

Aska - Nov 8, 2019

		Aska		Nov 8, 2019
			New Saturn ODE-Fenrir-On the way..., Seen it the other day in the Saturn Junkyard, Check it out.

		vbt		Nov 8, 2019

		cafe-alpha		Nov 11, 2019
			The amount of hate on twitter ("game over prof", or about limited availability of Rhea/Phoebe etc) is amazing ... but not surprising. I wish all the best to Ced as well as I wish all the best to other similar projects too And I'm curious to see which direction the project will take : open source or closed source but DIY or homemade or mass-produced etc.

		zone66x		Nov 30, 2019
			Oh interesting it's just an esp32 like the one I got. Should be much cheaper to make those.

		vbt		Jun 14, 2020
			thanks to @Ced2911... I got a fenrir ! you add the dev card (@cafe-alpha... ) and it should be the best dev environment !

		rorirub		Jun 14, 2020
			cafe-alpha said: I wouldn't put much thought into that, half the people who buy the ODEs don't even have a Saturn in the first place, they keep asking what units to get AFTER they order the ODE. They aren't Saturn fans. At the moment, the Fenrir is about as hard to get as the Rhea/Phoebe, AFAIK. The Satiator, if it ever releases, will have some huge advantages... if someone writes the software for it, you can interface with the SD card from the Saturn side. Would be kick ass if someone wrote a backup manager or a cart dumper for it. And then there's the USB port on it, so maybe you'll be able to control the console from a PC as well. But it all needs software written for it first.

		cafe-alpha		Jun 14, 2020
			rorirub said: Yes, that's like buying toilet paper during a pandemic People buy two units "in case of", and then eventually never use them for obscure reasons. rorirub said: That's why I was interested if the project would become open-source or not : if open sourced then offer shall become equivalent to demand, especially considering that Fenrir is a relatively easy device to assemble (no BGA chips, no 4 layers PCB, few chips required, and still in production nowadays etc). rorirub said: I'm not specially keen on autopromotion, but I set up a patreon project for that : cafe-alpha is creating a new Pseudo Saturn Kai | P... Satiator-related goals are to provide a better UI for disc image selection menu, and to use Action Replay cartridge to enable in-game backup memory support to Satiator's SD card. As you indicated, a lot of people want the hardware even if it costs a kidney but don't care about software. So if community is not interested in such kind of software support, I plan to put that patreon on pause and focus on other projects more interesting for me ...