Quote Originally Posted by Ace View Post
You seem to have a faulty unit. Out of all my NES, Super NES and Genesis games, there are only 5 which fail to work correctly (two don't work at all) on my RetroN3 Version 3. Those same 5 don't work on the RetroN3 Version 1, either (all 5 fail to work), but only 1 of those fail to work at all on the RetroN3 Version 2 (Virtua Racing), though there's still one NES game that fails to work correctly due to what I presume is a wiring error on the cartridge slot (After Burner). You should get that system exchanged.



Not if Hyperkin pulls off the same shit as AtGames did with their ARM emulation-based Geniclones. They combine software emulation with the use of original cartridges and do a VERY bad job at it. If Hyperkin pulls this crap on the RetroN4, and I wouldn't be surprised if they would as they've been half-assing everything since the RetroN3, you can expect the RetroN4 to be REALLY bad.
Well, the arm-based Firecore stuff was Linux/Dingoo style emulation if I'm not mistaken, and while there are audio and video problems with that, at the end of the day, it's not really THAT much worse that what they do with the on-a-chip hardware.

However, if they can manage to scrape together an affordable Android chip-set for this thing, I know from experience that even the lowest of the low-end Android tech can handle NES, SNES, GBA and Genesis just fine.

I had all of those emulators running at a decent clip on my old Android G1 4 years ago, and the mid to low range stuff that's out there now is MORE than capable of running 10 times better than that.

My expectations are tempered, but I'd like it if they went the Android route.