retron 5 console[clone]

[fredJ]

I am looking forward to it, hope to bring the old games to a modern audience. That's gonna be awesome. There's nothing better than famicom carts, and with machines like this we can keep on playing them in the HD era. Frankly the original consoles have so many problems that they just don't cut it. NES with its bad connector, famicom with its jailbars and composite at best, controllers getting worn down, the SNES with its white bar and other artifacts. The need for regionmodding. Etc. Also consider the cost for all those consoles in different regions and space they take, only hardcare gamers could afford.

I would of course still recommend whoever to own both the original hardare and the retron5. But think about it, you don't play your old beatles records on an LP, do you.

[L___E___T]

So did anyone buy one of these? 

I just read/watched some reviews, very disappointed to read it is still emulation, that's a dear shame for me as it renders the entire system moot off the bat.

If you don't care about that it looks like a sweet little machine though.

[P]

Yeah I'm not interested in it either, I don't really see the point with it. Apparently it dumps the cartridge and then runs the ROM in an emulator. This probably mean it isn't compatible with Powerpak or Everdrive, and can only play games which mappers are supported by the emulator.

[jayjay06]

If the retron5 doesn't play all bootleg and multicart games i wont get it

[Pikkon]

Yeah I'm not interested in it either, I don't really see the point with it. Apparently it dumps the cartridge and then runs the ROM in an emulator. This probably mean it isn't compatible with Powerpak or Everdrive, and can only play games which mappers are supported by the emulator.

This
http://krikzz.com/forum/index.php?topic=1735.0

Also since it wont play a flashcart I can bet it wont do mulicarts.

[P]

But the Everdrive isn't simply a multicart. It has all kinds of stuff including an SD card that it copies games from to the ROM chips. Normal multicarts should work as long as their mappers are supported by the emulator used by Retron 5. However since bootlegs often use their own mappers that are not implemented in most emulators I doubt that the Retron 5 will be able to run them all.