Finally got mine. Like others have mentioned on the NG forums, Best Buy are shipping these things “gift wrapped” in plastic shipping bags. Thankfully no major damage was done on mine, just one corner dinged (no biggie for me).
A lot has already been covered so I’m just going to say I actually prefer using the AV cables only because I’m more accepting of its limitations than what they’ve done to the HDMI output. With some tweaking I've managed to get it to acceptable levels on my LCD TV. The main fix is to just set the Black Level to "Light" (if a setting exists for your TV).
It’s hard to describe, but you know how there’s a setting on your TV called “Zoom” so you can zoom in on a 4:3 aspect signal to get rid of the side bars? This is what the “HD” output looks like for the NGX except it fits on your screen and a filter is applied to try and hide the fact that it’s extremely “zoomed in”. It's disconcerting and my TV can't compensate for the overscan so some of the pic is cutoff on the bottom. I'm sure with some tweaking I can fix this too but I'm using my lone HDMI port (TV is old) for my PS3 and don't want to mess with it's current settings.
Even with those, I'm more disappointed in the fact that there is no save system in place. Most included games wouldn't miss this feature, but my favorite game is Baseball Stars 2 and would've liked to continue playing other teams with my extra POW's and Helpers.
I applaud Tommo for pulling this off but I feel they cut corners to get this product to do be able to do everything as advertised and released during the holidays.
I compared the PS3 replica stick and the differences are the joystick shaft on the PS3 is thicker and the balltop is bigger compared to the NGX version. The balltop is glued on the NGX joystick so there's no way of changing it. The manual explains that it tends to loosen during gameplay so this is their "fix".
Overall, I'm satisfied. The hardware quality and the little touches they did to replicate the AES really shows. I'm still optimistic that Tommo or someone else can do some magic on this thing to at least get a save system in place.
Oh yeah, the handheld is nice. I don't see myself using it that much and it's probably going to stay docked in it's AES coffin.
Edit: Oh another thing. My NGX handheld was shipped with no charge whatsover so when I set it up and turned it on nothing happened. As per their FAQ just leave it in the dock to charge for 20 minutes *or* you can charge it using a micro USB cable.
A lot has already been covered so I’m just going to say I actually prefer using the AV cables only because I’m more accepting of its limitations than what they’ve done to the HDMI output. With some tweaking I've managed to get it to acceptable levels on my LCD TV. The main fix is to just set the Black Level to "Light" (if a setting exists for your TV).
It’s hard to describe, but you know how there’s a setting on your TV called “Zoom” so you can zoom in on a 4:3 aspect signal to get rid of the side bars? This is what the “HD” output looks like for the NGX except it fits on your screen and a filter is applied to try and hide the fact that it’s extremely “zoomed in”. It's disconcerting and my TV can't compensate for the overscan so some of the pic is cutoff on the bottom. I'm sure with some tweaking I can fix this too but I'm using my lone HDMI port (TV is old) for my PS3 and don't want to mess with it's current settings.
Even with those, I'm more disappointed in the fact that there is no save system in place. Most included games wouldn't miss this feature, but my favorite game is Baseball Stars 2 and would've liked to continue playing other teams with my extra POW's and Helpers.
I applaud Tommo for pulling this off but I feel they cut corners to get this product to do be able to do everything as advertised and released during the holidays.
I compared the PS3 replica stick and the differences are the joystick shaft on the PS3 is thicker and the balltop is bigger compared to the NGX version. The balltop is glued on the NGX joystick so there's no way of changing it. The manual explains that it tends to loosen during gameplay so this is their "fix".
Overall, I'm satisfied. The hardware quality and the little touches they did to replicate the AES really shows. I'm still optimistic that Tommo or someone else can do some magic on this thing to at least get a save system in place.
Oh yeah, the handheld is nice. I don't see myself using it that much and it's probably going to stay docked in it's AES coffin.
Edit: Oh another thing. My NGX handheld was shipped with no charge whatsover so when I set it up and turned it on nothing happened. As per their FAQ just leave it in the dock to charge for 20 minutes *or* you can charge it using a micro USB cable.