RetroN5: Hands on first look

[stardust4ever]

Please delete this. I'll share this on my own, thank you very much, and not in this thread. This content belongs on page 3 of the Super Retro Trio thread, but page 3 hasn't rolled over yet. When it does, I'll post. For now, please delete these links.

Sh**, posted this in the wrong damn thread. Moving over. Page 3 is still a virgin. Take her now before it's too late!

You don't understand. They couldn't have done that. The PAL SNES uses a TX0003812530 CIC, which is completely different from the TX0003812529 required to run NTSC games. These cannot be swapped, these cannot be disabled. Disabling them would render the system bricked. The PAL SNES market is a small one, so just like Yobo and Hyperkin, it's also unlikely that Retro-Bit will make a PAL version of the Super Retro Trio, although they could.

Funny how "region free" clones run 98% of NTSC and Jap games, and many PAL games. Retrobit added the CIC technology so that it can run the remaining 2% (SA-1 games) but completely disable 100% of PAL titles as well as many bootlegs. There are mods to disable the lockout on an NTSC or PAL SNES, but it's complicated. Still, there's no reason Retrobit couldn't have built in some sort of CIC bypass.