I want this to be real so bad-- but given my limited knowledge regarding the hit-and-miss compatibility, low-performance state of Saturn emulation, until I see this thing sitting in a room, obviously running on a television from the actual system, I'm skeptical.

The other Saturn-specific question is whether it will be able to run unsigned discs; presently, collecting for Saturn essentially requires a "Pseudo Saturn"-flashed "Action Replay" cartridge, so that CD-R based repros can be used in place of $250-$500 original game copies.

Presumably, the thing can emulate Saturn ROMs-- with accompanying audio track data-- off of its internal storage. If so, it should be able to do the same off of a CD-R. But it would be nice to get confirmation.

At least, this system will no doubt work as advertised for the eight and sixteen bit systems, since emulation for those is extremely mature. The notion of having sexy physical hardware, with modern design reliability and sensibilities, but using authentic controllers and game media, is my definition of the perfect video game system.

And with a simple, thirty dollar HDMI-to-S-Video box such as this, the system should be pitch-perfect on a CRT-- which is how I would play it of course; I have zero interest in playing old games on modern televisions. If it all comes together, I could quite literally get rid of the entire rooms full of systems, in both houses, and replace them with this little system! 3DO-excepting, unfortunately.