The development of the Spartan console project has taken an unfortunate turn, don’t worry it hasn’t stopped. Development has temporarily slowed down.
Our office is based in Cape Town, South Africa. Currently, South Africa is in a peril state. Mass civil unrest, the uncertainty security and possibly the threat of civil war has lead us to make the decision to relocate our base of operations from South Africa.
On top of this Cape Town is going through a severe drought and is the first city in the modern would that may run out of water.
Our focus has always been to keep our team under one roof. We’ve had a key member of our team has left already. With this in mind, not all of our team can move from South Africa.
Where will we be moving?
Now that’s an interesting question. We have 2 feasible locations in mind but an announcement won’t be made until we have made a final decision.
We’ll be prepping smaller updates from now on to show some sort of progress. Sorry everyone.
I’m going to be honest with you guys — I don’t buy this for a second.
First of all, there are WAY too many typos in your post to even take this seriously. Hell, it isn’t even a finished post.
Secondly, the whole situation is just ludicrous. You guys make empty promise after empty promise, saying that you bought a new camera, and then another tweet saying that you “just got the finalized design for the 6-button controller”. How about *proving* it to everyone? Even a SMALL update would be nice rather than posting a lame excuse for why you can’t provide us with ANY kind of update.
For the record, I went ahead and decided to build my own “Sega console” out of various modern PC parts inside a nice little Sentry case, with the Sega logo traced on the front of it. I also plan on buying the Retro-Bit controllers Sega is putting out to make it as official and authentic as possible.
I’m not saying all this to be a troll or a Debbie-downer, but I think if you guys were really serious about making us believe you, you would’ve been more transparent about your operations, and posted a lot of smaller, more frequent updates instead of trying to make every update a big announcement of sorts. The reality is, it’s pretty much impossible to believe a word you’re saying to us here anymore. Sorry guys…
We’re sorry we’ve lead you to doubt us Tommy. Our unit doesn’t consist of off the shelf parts.
Well, I accept you’re apology. If you guys are really based in South Africa and are having a hard time with you, then I *do* hope you recover from that. But without any physical proof to show where you guys are located (like pictures or something), it’s really just some stranger telling us a story and expecting us to believe it..
they were based in california….
I do believe they were working with someone in south africa, a coder/programmer. Who was probably making their front endsystem/software… realised this projct simply has no backing, no invetment and no direction. In other words a more of a failure then the new atari vcs.
Their software guy has bailed … just like all the people who initially thought “when they lied about sega being interested” that this was genuine.
sad thing is someones parents have been paying for this webspace for awhile now…
Why don’t you snowflakes understand that you are going nowhere with the sega Brand. If you had half a brain cell you would have talked with tectoy who have far more money then you to find out why sega wont even make a new console with them for the brazilian market.
I can tell you but i think a single cell organism would jave more chance of understanding.
Creative excuse though… very creative
You’re completely incorrect, we’re all based in South Africa and will be moving the project over to the UK.
Our main developer and product designer bailed which left us stranded.
Where did you get this false information?
I believe in this cause consoles are such communal and homely thing to have and to create.
Sega will make a console if sega wants to hear from you project. so go for it I’ll give you a link here and sent it to sega https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/03/02/nostalgic-about-your-old-sega-genesis.html
Sega will make a console if sega wants to hear from you project. so go for it I’ll give you a link here and sent it to sega https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/03/02/nostalgic-about-your-old-sega-genesis.html
Sega will make a console if sega wants to hear from you project. so go for it I’ll give you a link here and sent it to sega https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/03/02/nostalgic-about-your-old-sega-genesis.html
Thank you for the links.
Hello Chris L. I am deeply intrigued and have been a hardcore Sega fan! If this does come to fruition I would be ecstatic! And if you need tester I’m so available. Can’t wait to hear more on your progress, and would love to be a applicable role in it. Contact me at my email anytime.
Thank you! These comments really help keep us motivated <3
Chris Why don’t you start your own consloe business if sega doesn’t accept your proposal
Good luck to all of you.
Sincerely: Gilmar
Rio de Janeiro – Brazil.
*having a hard time over there
(sorry)
Somewhere safe where your project can be completed in a stress free environment with the people you love. Bring the gamers passion and soul into your system! I’ll be watching…
I’m just happy to finally have some sort of clarification true or not. You see I’ve been following around the Spartan Company ever since that one youtuber said something about it I became intrigued about your company. I just ask that when you do get settled that I at least get an default update threw the Spartan News and Updates email thingymajiger.
And by smaller updates, updates every week!
i would like to be help beta test and review the console. im glad you guys are putting your safety first . this is important. and appologies to any one who cant read a post with spelling mistakes
I realize your focus is on this model, but I want to ask something.
Can you please insert a Blu-ray Drive? Not just for movies, but for a way to get games the retro way. Plus it’s better incase your system breaks, you won’t lose your games.
The next iteration of the design will include a disc based drive. 🙂
Sorry, I was getting impatient on that first one to load
This was part of my impatience… lo siento.
How do I delete this coment?
How do I delete all these access comments!?
We deleted them 🙂
If the Spartan does happen, I will 99% get one. 20 years without SEGA hardware, despite not being alive when any were in production, really sucks. We need a new competitor in the gaming industry other Google.
I have nothing but hope for your team, as well as yourself, Chris! I do not want to see this fail. This is very disappointing to hear as many may immediately receive doubt from an update like this, but I’ll keep my chin up for you guys with beaming eyes! I look forward to your smaller updates with the console. Good luck!
Thank you for the support.
I think your team should goto Sega of Europe because Sega of Europe is into nostalgia
Where Is SEGA Europe
Best of luck with this
BTW if your looking for a place to move to, might I suggest here in Canada and namely Ottawa. Lots of the needed infrastructure here is in place for a project like this, huge employee base of experienced and skilled technical, marketing and production people are here on the west end in Kanata. Lots of office space and whatnot. Even some competition and other players in the game market place (Phil Giroux from the Tom Green Show has his company Lixar here or players like Shopify for example). If your going to go anywhere, come to Ottawa.
Thanks for the recommendation and support. 🙂
Sega will make a console but sega wants to hear from you and your project so go fir it/.. I’ll give you a link
This is bullshit.
This is bullshit.
This project isn’t stopping, it’s just temporarily slowing down.
would new titles be coming to Spartan?
There will be new 3rd party titles coming to the Spartan Console!
Who can compete with Spartan?
If they make it quick enough they can compete with gen 9 console like the Nintendo switch
We’d prefer not to rush this, sacrificing quality would be a bad idea.
Will you also make the 4-6 face buttons [A, B, C, X, Y, Z] analog, as apposed to digital?
Trust me, it may do well for certain games.
Sounds like a sega dream cast 2 project failure all over again. I hope that you prove us doubters all wrong and make the dream come true.
We’re back on track. 🙂
I’d love to be able to play on your upcoming Sega console my old 8 bit Master System and 16 bit Genesis cartridges which i still have in my possesion.Would you support this feature?, i’d like to see someday a Sega console that supports playing with our good old video game cassetes too withouth having the need to download them from the web
Cartidges can be played using an external adapter. 🙂
Will the old cartridges exclusive to Spartan?
Hey Spartan team I’ve been covering news on the Spartan console for some time now and have questions of my own regarding the console. There is too many delays,not seeing enough of the spartan. We only got a look at the ui
But let’s actually get some gameplay know there, post stuff like that show us what we are in for. And also I am here for you guys if you need help Chris you know we’re to find me bro. Lastly the console is great.
You rock Mikey. Thank you for sticking by us.
If you are wondering why he has not done posts on social media for a while, read this;
Our office is based in Cape Town, South Africa. Currently, South Africa is in a peril state. Mass civil unrest, the uncertainty security and possibly the threat of civil war has lead us to make the decision to relocate our base of operations from South Africa.
can you specify when you say: « slowing down »?
Thanks you
It was only a temporary set back, we’ll be able to provide more frequent updates now.
What’s your progress on sega saying yes
As much we’d like to, we can’t give any information out regarding that… yet.
Where You Want To Go ?
I can’t wait and I have faith in you Spartan!
Estoy harto ya es abril 15 quiero saber su procedimiento en verdad quieren hacer una consola muestrame imagenes o pública lo que está pasando
We have a new update out.
Oioi! Well happy if you go through with this! If you plan any exclusive titles I’m a catalogue music producer with tracks spanning many genres 🙂
https://soundcloud.com/axiom-theory
Hope you go through with this I will buy one straight away lol.
Thanks,
Lee. 🙂
You have some great tracks! You’re on our list of contacts. Thanks Lee!
Can I plug flash drives into the Spartan console to view photos, play music and watch videos?
Can I insert memory cards into the Spartan console?
Ooh, that’s not a bad idea
Will they have 2 memory card slots?
Any new updates on the console or the civil unrest?
I get it, South Africa is a hectic place, but come on, where are the updates? It’s been so long since I’ve gotten this one that I had started to wonder if I had fallen off the email list somehow. Considering how little info there is on this thing right now, I think the Ataribox has a much better chance of coming to fruition, because 1. It is being fully developed by Atari, not some guys in South Africa, 2. They have appeared with working prototypes at E3 and give consistent updates, and 3. Have released significantly more information to the public, even though Spartan and the Ataribox came into the spotlight pretty much simultaneously. As my name suggests, I own a Switch. I also own a Dreamcast. I am also a PC gamer. I have spent an entirely unhealthy amount of time playing Sonic Mania and Adventure, as well as Shenmue. A new Sega console would be amazing. So why not get your act together, go straight to Sega’s world HQ in Japan, and propose the damn thing? I am praying for this thing to be released, please don’t muck it up and go the way of Project Dream. Also, on a more optimistic note, have you thought of trying to incorporate a VMU into the controller like the one on the Dreamcast? That would make it somewhat of a hybrid system, like the Switch, which could be another selling point.
With any small team, when you lose key members it impacts a project significantly. Fortunately, we’ll be able to provide a better flow of updates from now on because we’ve sorted out administration issues and gotten people on board which can push this forward. To answer your points:
1. Sure, Atari is a corporation and we’re just a little team in South Africa. Atari is asking for money from the public, we’re funding this privately. We’re moving to the UK within the next 3 months. Which brings point 2.
2. Being in the UK will allow us to easily attend international conventions, overall it allows us ease of travel.
3. Atari started development prior to us and they have a much larger team.
As we get closer to a finished product we’ll put forward a concise proposal for Sega.
Will the new sega console be revealed at E3?
Unfortunately not.
Hey, Chris. heres some questions I want to ask.
1. Will the Spartan console be released in early 2019?
2. Will a third Sonic Adventure game be developed by SEGA and Sonic Team and come to a Spartan console?
3. Can I insert flash drives to the Spartan console watch videos, view photos and play music?
4. Will the Spartan console prototype be at E3 2018?
Hi Scott,
1. We cannot give any official release date, if this project is endorsed by SEGA then it will be up to them to determine the release date. 🙁
2. That would be a dream but that is not our decision to make.
3. You can play media from a flash or external drive.
4. Unfortunately not.
Would that will be Sega’s dicision to work on a third Sonic Adventure game?
Will Spartan be Dreamcat’s successor?
When will the Spartan prototype be revealed at, but not e3?
Will Spartan include more Sonic games?
Hey Chris
1. Will the Spartan include Sonic games updates like Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle?
2. Will the Spartan include the Sonic game combinations like Knuckles in Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Blue Sphere?
3. Will the Sonic Boom games come to Spartan?
4. Will Spartan be named Dreamcast Elite?
5. Will the future Sonic games come to Spartan?
Hey Chris L,
Will the flash drives store game saves?
Will the SD cards store game saves too?
Hi Chris L.
Will the Spartan console support Sega CD and X32?
Hey Chris
1. Will the 5 flash drives and 5 memory cards come with the Spartan?
2. Will the Spartan be finalised with memory card slots and usb 3.0?
3. Will Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic (2006), Sonic Riders series, Sonic Unleashed, Colors, Generations, Lost World, Forces, Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric, Sonic Mania, Sega Superstars series and Sonic All-Star Racing series come to Spartan?
4. Will SD cards store games?
Hey, Chris.
Question is: How do I transfer digital downloads?
Hey Chris
Question: Can I reload game saves on Spartan?
Yes you can. But you cannot resume saves from older consoles.
What about game saves for Sonic 1, 2, 3, & Knuckles?
Can I at least resume saves from the emulators?
What emulators do you use?
Game Gear, Genesis, Master System and Saturn.
Hey, Chris.
I can’t resume saves from older consoles until you show the proposal to SEGA.
Hey, Chris L.
Question: Why I can’t resume game saves from older consoles until you show the console to Sega?
EVERYONE, READ THIS: “It’s been very long but we are unable to say much right now on progress. Progress has been made but details need to remain under wraps for a little while. A post and mailer will be going out to let people know we’re not dead.”
Hey chris,
Can you remake Sonic X-Treme for the Spartan?