The Brazillian company GamesCare have announced a December 2025 release window for their hotly anticipated Genesis/32X hybrid FPGA console: the GF-1 Neptune. At the moment, pre-orders are not yet available and no price has been announced, though they have stated it will be average for consoles of this nature. Given the usual cost of most FPGA consoles, I would estimate somewhere in the ballpark of $200-300 USD, but we’ll see soon. (Expect tariffs to be an issue as well) They have also promised that crowdfunding will not be part of their plans.
This announcement was made public through GamesCare’s Twitter, along with a link to a signup page for their new email newsletter. You can sign up there to hear when more info comes out. The link will be right below the break.
— GamesCare (@MichelinFabio) July 1, 2025
You may sign up for GamesCare’s newsletter here, and then prepare your finances for whatever they’ll be charging for the GF-1 Neptune this December.
The GF-1 Neptune is a new FPGA console designed to look like Sega’s unreleased Genesis/32X hybrid console, the Sega Neptune. Just like that console, the GF-1 Neptune will be capable of playing your Genesis/Mega-Drive and 32X game cartridges and will be compatible with any Genesis accessories and the Sega-CD add-on. Unlike the Sega Neptune, the GF-1 Neptune will leverage modern FPGA technology to output your games in 1080p high definition and feature a built-in online store for purchasing and downloading indie Genesis games, including some that GamesCare will be publishing themselves.
Interest in the Sega Neptune has reached an all-time high with retro gaming enthusiasts lately. Some have even taken to creating their own reproductions of Sega’s original console shell design through 3D printing or merging original Genesis and 32X parts into a newly designed motherboard that can fit into said recreated shell redesign. For those of you who can’t, or aren’t willing to, go to those kind of extremes for a Sega Neptune of your very own, GamesCare’s new console looks to be an amazing option and, fortunately for all of us, they have more professionalism, more brains, and more serious intent than a certain other FPGA creator with big promises. (It might even be because of that weirdo that GamesCare have opted to not crowdfund the GF-1 Neptune, as they care a lot more about earning your trust.)
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Hopefully this works out on the long run. The last thing we need is another supersega like fiasco. The fact that they are not asking you for money for the consoles development is a good sign. Now if only someone out there could make an honest to God fpga console that can play saturn and dreamcast consoles with a disc drive and an optional gdemu/fenrir like add on.
Honestly never seen the point of those, unless Sega is involved, they are not true Sega hardware, it’s the equivalent of an ethnic Yank plastic pretending to be a Scot based on some far distant ancestor who was a Scot and then developing some romanticised attachment to the idea of mocking it. It’s not like it’s going to convince Sega there is any real market for it like in the 80s and 90s, Sega is fairly tolerant of with people using its IP, maybe too tolerant, and it’s what has led to them maybe re-considering this after the disastrous AtGames Mega Drive/Genesis sets and that dodgy Spanish swindler Allexandro (I think that’s the name) capitalising on Sega’s brands while ripping off investors, potentially giving Sega a bad name
I gotta ask. What is an “ethnic Yank plastic”? What is a “romanticised attachment to the idea of mocking” if somebody has Scottish ancestry? Just a real weird comparison to make that I honestly don’t understand.
An ethnic Yank plastic is a USian American who pretends to be anything except what they actually are – an American. usually the most common types of Yank Plastics are called Plastic Paddies (fake Irish), but you do now seem to have a much higher rate of Yank Plastics who pretend to be Scots as well.
it’s not a term used to mock them, it’s actually used to highlight the fact they are the real mockers, who mock Scottish and hi-jack the Scots identity as though it is their own.
It’s a fairly common comparison now because of his common it is for ethnic Yank natives of the USA to do this. It may seem like a weird comparison to some Yanks, so you can begin to imagine how much weirder it is to non-Yanks when they see Yanks pretend to be Scots rather than Yanks which is what they really are in reality.
An ethnic Yank plastic is a USian American who pretends to be anything except what they actually are – an American. usually the most common types of Yank Plastics are called Plastic Paddies (fake Irish), but you do now seem to have a much higher rate of Yank Plastics who pretend to be Scots as well.
it’s not a term used to mock them, it’s actually used to highlight the fact they are the real mockers, who mock Scottish and hi-jack the Scots identity as though it is their own.
It’s a fairly common comparison now because of how common it is for ethnic Yank natives of the USA to do this. It may seem like a weird comparison to some Yanks, so you can begin to imagine how much weirder it is to non-Yanks when they see Yanks pretend to be Scots rather than Yanks which is what they really are in reality.
Would this work with the Master System converter?
According to Gamescare, it should, but I don’t know what kind of Master System converters it would work with yet.