Oh no, it does exactly what it said it would do. How terrible. Apparently.
And while a Genesis controller will fit in the slot (and work on original hardware), it won’t work on the Atari 2600+, for some reason.
… what the fuck? How? There’s no microchips in those controllers, they’re just bare PCBs where the buttons complete a circuit. Is that warning specific to six-button controllers?
After you plug in a cartridge and hit the power button, a five-second loading screen hangs around just long enough to be annoying before dumping you right into the game (a distinct downgrade from the “instant” boot up of original Atari 2600 hardware).
The hell is inside this thing? I thought they’d just modernized the 7800 hardware. Even an FPGA or SOC shouldn’t need to boot.
Apparently it’s some Raspberry Pi lookin’ thing, and I presume it’s running Stella, because why wouldn’t you. But five seconds for a single-program OS is an eternity for this much overkill. FreeDOS would have a boot time of “don’t blink.”
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