The Cover Project
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Arseen on August 05, 2017, 10:29:59 PM
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This HDMI thinggie looks very promising alternative to the official component cables:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUks9-jW9xw
At the manufactures's site he indicates that after this video the demand boomed, so if you want one prepare to wait.
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Yeah, I sent a message a while ago and I'm still waiting back. Unless I'm missing something, there isn't an order page. When you click on order, it sets up an email message to express your interest in purchasing it.
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Yep the page has now video (added on friday) explaining the wait time and ordering.
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I've had mine for a few months and it's incredible. I did a ghetto review a few months back, although, I'm no MetalJesus, so nobody really noticed it, despite ZeldaxPro linking my review on his official Blog. lol. You can see mine here, as well as direct capture footage at the second link. This is by far the happiest I've been with any recent retro device!
https://youtu.be/E9QFNzp_9p0
Direct capture
https://youtu.be/jHoTf570234
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If you have had that for few months why didn't you post here!!!
But yeah I gotta buy that thinggie, the graphics just look so much better.
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I posted about it in a few of my other forums and although there were some people that were really excited about it, so many people whined about the $100 dollar price tag and just had negative sh!t to say, I sort of just let it fall by the wayside. LOL! Not to say that this community is negative, but I just sort of let it go after listening to some whiners at other forums. HA HA!!
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I posted about it in a few of my other forums and although there were some people that were really excited about it, so many people whined about the $100 dollar price tag and just had negative sh!t to say, I sort of just let it fall by the wayside. LOL! Not to say that this community is negative, but I just sort of let it go after listening to some whiners at other forums. HA HA!!
All interesting things that make gaming better are always welcome to be posted.
True some might whine about the price but core center members less.
And compared to the price of the component cables that price is OKish.
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I'm looking forward to this and the new BBS Akura box!!!
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So...I don't know if this is his own fault, or just a dangerous side effect of the piece. Still, but idea of a bump potentially causing a problem is unfortunate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvd-73clV6E
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So...I don't know if this is his own fault, or just a dangerous side effect of the piece. Still, but idea of a bump potentially causing a problem is unfortunate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvd-73clV6E
Basically it's a design issue. There is nothing that prevents the connector from moving from side to side which can cause pins on the dongle to contact the incorrect pins in the GC. If the dongle gets bumped and the incorrect pins come into contact, it can short out the GC. Supposedly, V3 of the HDMI dongle will fix this issue.
In other words, picture the way that the A/V cable plugs into the back of the SNES, N64 or GC. There is only one way the cable can be plugged in and once it's inserted, it can't move around except to be pulled back out. The original HDMI dongle didn't have this form factor which allowed it to move around. I'm assuming that the fix for V3 is to 3D print a new connector that should have the same form factor as the original plugs, and therefore, won't move if the system gets bumped.
It's unfortunate, but I believe with the proper fix, it's still something I might be interested in purchasing.
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I think MetalJesusRocks could have been bit less of a dick about this.
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the title was a shock news move. Not truly ethical, but he did it to get views.
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As bad as it was, the guy that's making it is pushing his product very hard onto youtubers and people with influence in this area. Even though it's still a prototype. It's obviously not near completion and is more a functional proof of concept more than anything. He's taking a ton of orders on something that is clearly not a finished product.
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Honestly, I felt Metal Jesus handled it fine. He is (unfairly) getting a lot of shit from people online because he backed this product in an earlier video. I think the best thing to do is put out a video explaining what happened and making sure that your viewers have all the information. He specifically said that he still believes in the product as long as the design issue can be addressed.
What I really can't understand is all the hate Kinsey is getting for tripping over the cord. How many gamers can claim they have gone their entire lives without tripping over a controller or yanking a console off a shelf because they really got into the game they were playing?
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I agree. He didn't blow anything out of proportion, didn't place any unfair blame. It was mostly just facts.
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I think MetalJesusRocks could have been bit less of a dick about this.
I must have missed the video / forum post? I watched the unveiling and the deathkiller video. Both, he was very generous about it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvd-73clV6E
They're referring to an updated video.
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Yeah, I've seen that one. He's not a dick in it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvd-73clV6E
They're referring to an updated video.
Yeah, that's the video I was referring to when I said that I felt he handled it very well.
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OK I admit:
After rewatching and knowing the full story he doesn't look that dick anyore, but on first watch before knowing whole thing he definitely did.
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Just checking back into this thread to say my 2.0 dongle is still working fantastic! 1.0 and 2.0 should definitely be considered prototype. But, Zeldaxpro just released new footage of the 3.0 and he's 3D printed a Gamecube plug that will only go in one way and separates the pins. I'll be getting a 3.0 as well. As far as Metal Jesus goes, it's good that he addressed the problem. However, even though I consider 2.0 a prototype, if you don't trip on your cord and yank your entire console off of the shelf, your Cube will probably be just fine.
If you watch his video of it happening, the damn Gamecube is hanging by the cable with the entire weight of the console pulling on the adapter and HDMI cord. And although, if the plug had been probably 3D printed and the pins separated, the Cube probably would have been fine, it did irritate me a little bit that he titled his follow-up video "Adapter killed my GameCube". Actually, the adapter did kill it, thanks to your careless, drunk friend, which is fine, but he's got people thinking it's solely the adapter's fault, which it's not. I've had mine for 6 months and it works perfectly and my Cube is just fine. I also don't jostle my consoles around when I play or stumble around drunk when I'm playing. Go figure, that mine still works. ;D
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Just checking back into this thread to say my 2.0 dongle is still working fantastic! 1.0 and 2.0 should definitely be considered prototype. But, Zeldaxpro just released new footage of the 3.0 and he's 3D printed a Gamecube plug that will only go in one way and separates the pins. I'll be getting a 3.0 as well. As far as Metal Jesus goes, it's good that he addressed the problem. However, even though I consider 2.0 a prototype, if you don't trip on your cord and yank your entire console off of the shelf, your Cube will probably be just fine.
If you watch his video of it happening, the damn Gamecube is hanging by the cable with the entire weight of the console pulling on the adapter and HDMI cord. And although, if the plug had been probably 3D printed and the pins separated, the Cube probably would have been fine, it did irritate me a little bit that he titled his follow-up video "Adapter killed my GameCube". Actually, the adapter did kill it, thanks to your careless, drunk friend, which is fine, but he's got people thinking it's solely the adapter's fault, which it's not. I've had mine for 6 months and it works perfectly and my Cube is just fine. I also don't jostle my consoles around when I play or stumble around drunk when I'm playing. Go figure, that mine still works. ;D
Technically his careless, drunk friend is solely at fault. There is no fault on the part of the adapter, as it performed no action of its own to cause any such damage. It would be like blaming the floor for breaking a piece of glassware that someone dropped upon it.
And entirely in appropriate click-bait title that isn't at all fair to the product >:(
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Technically his careless, drunk friend is solely at fault. There is no fault on the part of the adapter, as it performed no action of its own to cause any such damage. It would be like blaming the floor for breaking a piece of glassware that someone dropped upon it.
Not the only report of this happening - and if the adapter doesn't fit in the port, and a bump causes it to fry the gamecube, then the product is defective. No excuse for not having a piece of plastic or something to keep the pins from shifting while in the port.
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Technically his careless, drunk friend is solely at fault. There is no fault on the part of the adapter, as it performed no action of its own to cause any such damage. It would be like blaming the floor for breaking a piece of glassware that someone dropped upon it.
Not the only report of this happening - and if the adapter doesn't fit in the port, and a bump causes it to fry the gamecube, then the product is defective. No excuse for not having a piece of plastic or something to keep the pins from shifting while in the port.
It, indeed, isn't the only report of it happening. The problem is, we have no idea what those people actually did to their adapter when it failed. Did they knock their Gamecube off the shelf, were they moving it around a bunch while it was running? Now, obviously, the Cube shouldn't fry just from moving it a bit, but it still makes me wonder how their devices failed. I've seen people claim they didn't touch their Gamecube and it still fried. I find those claims hard to believe as you know damn well there are people that abuse their items and don't want to fess up about it. Either way, yes, the adapter plug should have been 3D printed from the start. Version 3.0 looks incredible and I can't wait to get mine. But, my 2.0 is still working flawless.
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Technically his careless, drunk friend is solely at fault. There is no fault on the part of the adapter, as it performed no action of its own to cause any such damage. It would be like blaming the floor for breaking a piece of glassware that someone dropped upon it.
Not the only report of this happening - and if the adapter doesn't fit in the port, and a bump causes it to fry the gamecube, then the product is defective. No excuse for not having a piece of plastic or something to keep the pins from shifting while in the port.
I just meant that one instance specifically. I can appreciate that the early designs were simply unfinished prototypes and had some significant flaws :)
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Anyone else included on this mass email???
Anyone who buys something from this moron deserves to have their
gamecube fried. Bob from RetroRGB and others told him for months his
adapter was garbage and he ignored them. Dumb fuck doesn't even know
how to use email in 2017.
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OK, so this has been fun. I was on the email list for when the GameCube HDMI dongle was back in stock. When the creator sent out the email, apparently he sent the info out in a mass email, but didn't BCC everyone. So someone "replied all" with the message I quoted above. Now there is a bunch of back and forth with people arguing. It's like a YouTube comment section in my email inbox right now. Shit. :-\
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I got a couple emails from Zelda about ordering my 3.0 but haven't seen the back and forth that you speak of. That's kinda funny. LOL!
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I got the emails too. I try hard to avoid this kind of toxicity now.
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I got a couple emails from Zelda about ordering my 3.0 but haven't seen the back and forth that you speak of. That's kinda funny. LOL!
Same here.
Order info e-mail recieved and answered, but nothing else.
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I'm having trouble finding it, but anybody know how much he is charging for one of these?
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I'm having trouble finding it, but anybody know how much he is charging for one of these?
I believe it's still 100 bucks.
https://zzblogs.wixsite.com/home
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Even after his update to the hardware (which was questionably quick) to fix that major design flaw, I'm still very hesitant to even consider giving him money. The guy over at badassconsoles is taking the time to engineer the part correctly, instead of just rushing to be first to market. Even though the guy NEVER posts status updates, I'm still more willing to trust his product over an "I was first!" product
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Even after his update to the hardware (which was questionably quick) to fix that major design flaw, I'm still very hesitant to even consider giving him money. The guy over at badassconsoles is taking the time to engineer the part correctly, instead of just rushing to be first to market. Even though the guy NEVER posts status updates, I'm still more willing to trust his product over an "I was first!" product
I agree, to a point, my only issue is, the guy at Badassconsoles took money from some people a long time ago and then never updates anything and is taking foreeeeeveeeeer.
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Oh, no, I totally agree. He has an obligation to people that he's totally falling through on. But "hopefully" his product will be made correctly and actually worth it. Lots of people in the community are giving him grief on it. I think a big part of it is that the process is so slow and there's not a whole lot to share. The last thing I saw was an update where he had received some prototype connectors
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I have been following the badassconsoles one for a while, but from what I gathered the badassconsoles version isn't PNP, am I mistaken?
The only stuff I've seen posted form the badassconsoles folks are boards or blueprints.
I'd love to get HD out of my gamecube, but I'm in agreement. I'm not willing to throw out $100+ and not know what I'm getting. If some other issue comes up and he manufactures a 4.0, I'm not gonna want to throw out another $100+.
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Currently, BAC only offers internal boards. But he's designing a PnP HDMI dongle. But like we've been saying, you wouldn't know that, since he's terrible about social media and providing updates. The "GCVideo X" is the HDMI dongle I believe.
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Currently, BAC only offers internal boards. But he's designing a PnP HDMI dongle. But like we've been saying, you wouldn't know that, since he's terrible about social media and providing updates. The "GCVideo X" is the HDMI dongle I believe.
Good to know. I'll have to keep an eye out for info on GCVideo X.