I could of swore Street Fighter Alpha 2 worked on the RD
How about The FC Twin Gun, I'm going to buy one for the RD
I could of swore Street Fighter Alpha 2 worked on the RD
How about The FC Twin Gun, I'm going to buy one for the RD
Bit the bullet and bought the retro duo today off of fleabay. Can't wait for it to come in, probably early next week. I would've waited to find just a regular NES cheaper than $45 shipped, but I'll be getting my repro cart of FF3j, and I'd seriously like to play that, as well as my FF5 import.
Hellraiser, won't the regular NES zapper work?
nope... well at least i cant find a way to use it.
the retro duo uses snes controller ports. so a regular Nes zapper wont work. theres a couple of you tube videos out there showing how to hack a nes controller to work on the system but they warn the zapper wont work. Ive read a few places
the company that makes the system was supposed to come out with an adapter but i havent found it. the FC twin has there own zapper that has an snes connection but ive read it wont work on the retro duo. (would love if some one could confirm this)
If im missin something someone please chime in...
to me this is one of the only real draw backs to the system other then the sound on smb3 and ninja gaiden..lol
Last edited by hellraiser; 08-26-2010 at 09:09 PM.
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Just so you know, since I keep seeing you tell people a lot of things about the NES top loader. There is a version with the SNES/GC style AV out. You can also pass the RF through a VCR, and go out composite, along with clearing the picture up. The top loader is a great product and superior to any NES machine made for the US.
I love the Retro Duo, but honestly it has nothing on real hardware. Don't kid.
And as far as I'm aware, there's well under a half dozen of those NES top loaders with composite out confirmed to exist. For 99.9% of NES gamers, it basically doesn't exist and isn't a viable option.
And running the rf output of the NES to a VCR with composite output doesn't work any magic on cleaning up the RF signal. The deficiencies of RF out are still going to be present even though the signal is arriving to the television through composite cables. The most the VCR is going to do is boost the signal a bit, it doesn't do anything special to magically upgrade RF to composite video quality.
For the best video quality for models widely available in the US, the original is the way to go. Even top loaders modded for composite out fail to equal it in quality.
Last edited by Leo_A; 08-27-2010 at 10:21 PM.
My adapter just died , already bough replacement. Good thing 5V 1Amp adapters are easy enough to find.
Now I'm about to mod my unit to get rid off that Godly annoying NES audio distortion.
Im on my second 3 slot that means NES, Sega Genesis and SNES. First one died as too much booze got in my system from drunks at my old condo.
Now Im on a new one and the wires on the controllers are coming out. They couldve made the controllers reach longer. Mine cant even get to the couch. Also my Genesis port dims to black. Im thinking the system is going to die or it's burning out. This system has been well played at my house.
STILL the originals are so much better but for compact wise...the 3 slot is the way to go.
The Best Fighter in HISTORY!!!
just an fyi...
My copy of madmax for the nes didint work.
It starts up but the controller dosent work.
I know, i know madmax is a crappy nes game but i love the movies!!!! oh well guess im stuck playing outlander for the snes side. Just squint my eyes and make belive!!!lol
I'm the best there is at what I do. But what I do best isn't very nice. -James "Logan" Howlett
Guys , I want to report that all the SNES Copier units that I tried on Retro Duo work perfectly ,not sure if that a new discovery though.
Anyway a new snes flashcard (Everdrive) I just bough is on it's way here, will see if it works on Retro Duo or not.
So I've succesfully done the audio mod to my Retro Duo, now the NES audio is a hundred times better.
But I don't understand the part that says "Make sure to shield this new cap legs connections ".
What is Shielding? What an I suppose to do here , and yes my NES Video now has a bit of ghosty lines.
Thanks for the answers in advance.
Works flawlessly with SNES Everdrive!
thanks for the follow up tko !!!!
I'm the best there is at what I do. But what I do best isn't very nice. -James "Logan" Howlett
Would the Everdrive/Super Everdrive work on Retron 3?
sorry for bumping an old topic but I just got Paperboy and rolling Thunder which work both perfectly with my blue-white v.2 retro duo so I don't know where that Incompatible:
Rolling Thunder (Verified incompatibile on video)
and
Paperboy (Verified) came from.
Both game work in retro duo.
I own a lot of Famicoms and Famiclones. I've owned every commerical Famicom except for a Titler, I composite modded an NES-101 toploader and I own a Yobo FC Game Console, Generation NEX, Handy Fami-Eight, RetroN3, GameAxe Color and I've still got my ol' clunker NES toaster.
I've read about half of this thread and am rather intrudged byt the Retro Duo. It's a Famiclone that plays MMC5 games and has more or less correct audio? Shocking!
I have a few questions.
1. To make sure I didn't read it wrong; the Retro Duo will output NES games in S-Video?
How in the hell did they do that? Outside of the Titler, the Famicom was never designed with S-video output and NOACs are true to form in that respect.
Another thing, how good is the S-video? How good are the colors in comparison to the real hardware? Does this Famiclone produce vertical lines like a stock NES-101 toploader or the NEX? I read that you can get proper S-video from the Retro Duo by hooking up only the S-video cable and leaving the composite cords disconnected. True/False?
2. Can someone please post links to detailed pics of the motherboard, particularity the NES portions? From a few scatter pics I've seen it looks like there's a main board for the SNES, and the NES is housed in two smaller daughterboards and connected by small ribbon cables.
3. Except for its power switch and controller input, is the NES portion completely independent of the SNES board? In other words, could one in theory remove the NES portion from the RetroDuo, rewire it slightly and make it a standalone Famiclone? I ask because this might be the perfect candidate for a mod project I have in mind.
Along the lines of that question, does the RetroDuo havea 7805 voltage regular and built-in video amplifier? the less I have to rebuild, the better :P
Can I get measurements of the NES boards, both the one with outputs and the cart connector?
4, Kinda obviously not, but does this NOAC handle Famicom expansion audio for the VRC6 and VRC7 and other chips? lol I guess I'm being greedy now.
5. I'm curious if anyone has modded the RetroDuo to use NES 7pin controllers as the SNES used the 4021 just as the NES did and its possible to wire up an adapter.
6. I was reading here that people had issues with certain colored units. A quick ebay look reveals there's now two colors: black and red and silver and black. Is the silver/black one a newer revision? Any reason to choose one over the other?
Thanks.
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Please Satoshi_Matrix buy a Retro Duo. So you can test compatibility with Powepak for me. lol
After my Rolling Thunder and Paperboy works with my Retro Duo, I no longer believe in compatibility test in Youtube video.
I'll gladly buy one, but can anyone address my questions?
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