/vr/ - Retro Games

Total normie apparatus

>>3787639
My wife says we already have Retron 5

>>3787640
It's actual hardware and it works with flashcarts so it sounds fairly decent to me. I'm looking for legitimate criticism not buzzwords you ass.

The wife and I are content with our pic related, but I just might have to pick one of these up for her son. It reminds me of his father.

>>3787639
My wifes son loves it.
I plan to buy him another one.

>>3787650
It probably has a terrible scaler and cycle inaccuracies. If it's like 50 buck, then whatever. Any more and I would just emulate until you can get your hands on a classic mini or a used AVS.

I will actually look into one of these the day the add N64 support.

But by then every 64 game worth a damn willbe going for a cool thou

It's considered the best clone console. That said, there are some quality control issues.

Google sega-16 super retro trio. There's a thread there with some guy who took apart some and found the revision 2 (with SNES plug controllers packed in) has the same shitty Genesis chip as the retron 3.

If you get one, order from Amazon or somewhere that has really easy returns. From what I gather, it's pretty good if you get a good unit.

>>3787639

Aren't those literally emulator machines giving the illusion that you're playing with your real cartridges?, If so better built yourself a raspberry Pi emulator machine or use a PC.

>>3787661
That would require good N64 emulation to exist.

>>3787715
That would be the Retron 5.

The Trio uses hardware clones.

>>3787639
That gamepad looks so crap. I never got the hype behind the SNES controller. Sega Saturn had the best 2D retro controller ever.

The HDMI version just has a bottom-of-the-barrel composite-to-HDMI upscaler in it. Same quality as buying the cheapest composite-to-HDMI box on Amazon.

>>3787717

Exactly.

>>3787737
How do you know that?

Why doesn't someone just buy the rights from Nintendo and Sega and start manufacturing all this shit again already? Sega is gone and Nintendo is on its last legs anyways, it should be easy as fuck. I can't wait to see hipsters' faces when the bottom falls out of the 'look at me I'm a retro game nerd' market.

>>3787763
>just buy the rights from Nintendo
>Nintendo is on its last legs anyways
Picrelated.

This is realistic with Sega who don't give a fuck anymore. Heck, Tectoy does this. But getting the consoles is not a big problem today, especially an NES. They are widely available for tolerable prices. There are plenty unlicensed clones too.

The problem is hooking them up to modern TVs, scaling, synchronization, etc. Modding them up for this can cost a pretty penny

>>3787780
I was thinking more of the carts, which is the real price bubble. I want to burst that shit.

My wife's bull love it

>>3787780
Is there any stores that even sell crt tv anymore?

Such a shame because those things seem built to last long unlike modern tv.

>>3787760

Your mom spilled the beans.

>>3787763
That wouldn't help.
For example:
Nintendo owns the rights to the N64, but SGI owns the RSP, so having Nintendo's patents would do dick all for re manufacturing consoles.

For other consoles, even having the IC patents wouldn't help, because the chips were made with outdated processes, like NMOS.

>>3787781
1) There will still be retards seeking initial print copies, not the uncool new ones.

2) If it was profitable, companies would do this long ago. Physical media's a bitch, and retro is not that big of a market to guarantee profits. Where and how will you sell the new carts? Not in big stores for sure. Online? Maybe, but that's a hassle. You need plants and tech process set up for making carts.

>>3787802
Nope I guess. Most plants closed long ago. Buy used

>>3787891
The last CRT plant closed in like 2014.

Still though, plenty of used ones to buy.

>>3787914
Interesting. Which one was it?

The problem is, with the advent of plasma, CRTs got pushed out of high-end segment. But then LCD got an unexpected development burst; prices started falling rapidly in around 2006 while diagonals got bigger and bigger, and it first pushed CRTs to budget category, and then finished them completely. I remember in late 2000s they became absolute poorfags' choices, with a bunch of shit China OEM brands shoved in the least visited corners of tech stores for laughable prices.

So I think that even if they still made them, they'd probably be shit, just the budget stuff, cutting corners on every aspect imaginable.

>>3787940
Other way around actually.

The last plant was Japanese or Chinese, I can't remember, but they were marketed as high quality gaming monitors (faster response time than LCDs), and some photographers still prefer them because CRTs have better color reproduction than LCDs.

>>3787639
I pair the clone console with Chinese bootlegs. It works with the Super Gameboy (1 & 2) and there is an adapter which allows for GBA games on the system too.

The controller ports for SNES/SFC only works with SNES/SFC games as are the NES controller ports are only for NES games. The Genesis ports work with all formats on the clone console. The two controllers it comes with looks like SNES controllers but are actually Genesis controllers.

The NES port outputs composite only, even through the S-video connector. The output on the Genesis/Mega Drive portion has some slight jailbars with alternating darker and lighter pixel columns. There may be some slight inaccuracies with NES games, like Castlevania 3 not working.

It is pretty fun for the little bit of money spent.

I would wait and see how the new HDMI version pans out before committing to buying one.

>>3788187
>mfw admiral television

Are you a negro, by any chance?

>>3787639
If you're not going to play on the real thing, just emulate it.

>>3788274
hardware clones are better than emulators

>>3787946
Well, yeah, I wanted to mention this, but that market is relatively small and more targeted to professionals (or semi-professionals).

>>3787763
sega already is with the atgames shit

>>3787763
>>3787780
Huezil already is remaking old sega genesisses. With SD slot built in.

>>3787781
You can get into repros yourself. Multicarts would help.

>>3787802
They could make other monitors designed for retro gaming. Say, a plasma screen in 4:3. Probably a small one too.

>>3788368
lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYLL9GlsSI

>>3787763
>Nintendo is on its last legs anyway
>>>/v/

>>3787780
http://www.tectoy.com.br/pre-venda-mega-drive-edicao-limitada/p/995040461825