Your experience with the Retron 5??

[BlastProcessing402]

One thing surprised me. I have a couple of German games, and they did not play so well. The input lag was there (not really bad but noticeable), and overall it was slower. I put the TV on Game Mode, and made changes to the settings (forced 50Hz, changed the region from automatic to Europe), but to no avail. I tried this with the first Castlevania and the first Mega Man. Faxanadu, however, showed no difference between the German and American Version.

This is important to me because I intend to buy the three Parodius games which came never out in the US. (I found it terrible since I first read in a game magazine in the 90s about the Parodius games) Did someone of you had similar experinces with Japanese games?

I know this is an older post, but I just want to assure you that jap region games should be fine. US SNES hardware is internally no different than a Super Famicom, only the cases are different. Eur hardware is a bit different, which is probably why your ger games weren't behaving right.

[Az]

Last night I ended up with a small bit of plastic rattling around inside the cart connector of my Retron5. After chasing it around with a pair of tweezers I ended up having to unhook all the cords and flip it upside down to get it out. When I did that I noticed a puddle of brown liquid dripping out of the side. On closer inspection the battery of the wireless controller (which sat in the rear cradle) apparently caught a case of diarrhea. There was brown battery acid all over the bottom of the controller due to the battery acid leaking out and collecting in the bottom trough of the cradle, which also spilled down into the console itself due to the air vent slots being located in the battery cradle.

I took the console apart and luckily there was minimal damage to the PCB's. Rather than sit flush with the bottom their elevated a few centimeters by sitting on plastic mounts, so the only part that actually came in contact with the liquid was the ribbon cable connecting to the P1 controller ports. It had managed to drip directly onto the ribbon cable connector. I thought I had it all cleaned out, but when I fired it back up the P1 SNES port was dead and the P2 Genesis port was going apeshit. (Now it makes sense why the SNES port was acting a bit flaky last week).

Took it back apart again and cleaned the gunk off the cable and PCB the best I could and it seems to work fine for now. I took the controller apart to clean it and remove the battery, but the battery is glued to a plastic pad with glue used on NASA space flights so I couldn't get it loose. Ended up tossing the disassembled controller in a ziplock bag and into the closet.

This might have totally been a freak accident but I'd definitely advise you NOT to keep the controller in the cradle just in case it wasn't.

[Az]

Quick follow up to this; the system is now a doorstop thanks to the battery acid. What little bit fell onto the main PCB managed to make it so neither of the two controller PCB's are recognized. System still boots but you can't start it due to no controller input. Can't use the wireless controller even when powering via the USB cable since the controller is ruined also.

Thought about ordering a replacement but head exploded when looking at prices. Did Hyperkin quit making these?

[Hwj_Chim]

Quick follow up to this; the system is now a doorstop thanks to the battery acid. What little bit fell onto the main PCB managed to make it so neither of the two controller PCB's are recognized. System still boots but you can't start it due to no controller input. Can't use the wireless controller even when powering via the USB cable since the controller is ruined also.

Thought about ordering a replacement but head exploded when looking at prices. Did Hyperkin quit making these?

Look into a retro freak as a replacement if you can't find a retron 5 at a decent price.


http://youtu.be/58Jp4d3Uqck
I don't know how to embed the video on my phone. But it is gamester81 review on the retro freak

[Tanooki]

retrofreak is famicom only going to see a NES adapter if you care about that. Also have to pay more cash to be able to plug normal controllers in as well.

As I said I might sell my mostly unused r5 but Id like to know what it would be worth to think about it.