Mobiusstriptech wrote:
Keep in mind, this SD access noise is no worse than what has been evident on the Mega Everdrive for years. If you didn't hear it on the Mega Everdrive, then it's probably because you weren't trying to find something wrong with it. We accepted the noise on those or just never noticed it. Right now, this "community" is falling into an unconscious, and in some cases conscious, negative bias. We want to find something wrong with it to feel vindication over what happened with the previous product.
The problem is, this time around TerraOnion did exactly what everyone said to do, consult with people who are considered experts. No I am not including myself as I had nothing to do with the audio circuitry design, nor would I have considered myself an expert on it. As a "community" we are ready to go with our pitchforks despite them trying to learn from a mistake and do the right thing.
But they clearly didn't learn from their mistake of not honestly communicating with their customers. Why the deception about the Mega SD's limitations? Why the deception about moving the company to Andorra?
Mobiusstriptech wrote:
I am completely open and honest about my thoughts in regards to the prior handling of the SSDS3. I had no issue saying things that were negative about that situation because it was genuinely a bad one that could have been avoided.
Prior handling of the SSDS3? What about their continued handling of the SSDS3? There are several documented issues with specific games. The UI is borderline unusable. Just releasing an updated SSDS3 firmware with a readable UI font would go a long way to showing me Terraonion has learned from their mistakes.
Mobiusstriptech wrote:
Honestly I find the reaction by the "community" over this product to be extremely disheartening. All the people mad about the shipping time/costs, once DHL finally takes over you get the cart in a day or two. If they didn't send out the initial tracking number people would complain that it wasn't available. I know this because that is literally what is happening now. I saw a post on the TO forums from someone angry that they just placed an order in the last week and they don't have a tracking number yet.
Maybe don't accept orders until you are able to fulfill them in a timely manner?
Mobiusstriptech wrote:
If you don't like the shipping time I have 1 two part question. Did you ever order from Krikzz directly, when he still sold direct? If so, how long did it take to get it? I can tell you from my personal experience my shortest wait was a month. My longest wait was 4 months. Yet we accept this as a group and tell other people to just chill and be patient because you will get it.
Yes I purchased directly from Krikzz many years ago. You are comparing apples and oranges. Krikzz presents himself as an independent one man operation who designs and sells hand built hobby projects. Terraonion presents themselves as a professional corporation who sells finished high quality, meticulously engineered products (and their prices reflect this).
Mobiusstriptech wrote:
My point to this whole thing is why can't we as a group, as a REAL community actually look at what is before us and be excited and actually give it a chance? I was right with everyone on being skeptical. That moment changed as soon as I had this thing in my hands. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be playing Sega CD games on a Nomad or Genesis 3 without some convoluted hacked up mess. We have a chance before us to do things that we likely never dreamed possible, I know I didn't, and we want to punish the people who made it possible because of something that happened in the past that they actually learned from? I'm sorry, I don't get it.