This arrived yesterday and I got a chance to check it out. My goodness what utter rubbish it ended up being.
In all fairness it has some good points. The controller cords are extremely adequate at probably 8-10 feet long each. The controllers feel alright but the d-pad has a delayed response in both the GUI and games. I don't know if it's due to a shitty d-pad hardware needing a hard mash to register or if it's lag on the software side. There are no arcade games that require a 2x3 six-button layout yet plenty of SNES games, so I really don't understand why they just didn't use the Super Retro Trio SNES style controller. The only games that require six buttons are now shoehorned into a layout they weren't designed for. They did have the foresight and good taste to include the original Japanese version of Rushing Beat Shura instead of the castrated US version of Peace Keepers. That's about it for the positives.
First thing to notice is the box itself is covered in piecemeal stickers where last minute removals and additions were done to the game list. There's a few screenshots of games and a newly applied sticker listing nearly all the titles in a tiny font. There's ZERO info provided about what system/version of the game is. It's important to note that a few games still listed on Retro-Bit's website and Facebook page are not included at all.
Games list is the most bizarre, out of left field, mish-mash crock of shit you've ever seen. Capcom as a prime example; you've got the arcade versions of Forgotten Worlds and Captain Commando, the Genesis verison of Mercs, and the NES (!) versions of Bionic Commando and Gun.Smoke. Yes, I was dumb enough to assume these would all be arcade versions.
The emulation is horrid with at (or below) AT Games quality in most instances. My first reaction was to honestly assume the console arrived defective. No video/filter options other than choosing a 4:3 or stretched 16:9 image. No emulator options for arcade dipswitches or console region setup. Every system I've tried was emulated poorly. The sound isn't too bad but every system either had slowdown or very obvious frameskipping. The Genesis in particular was extremely bad with both frameskipping cranked to the max and the sound playback strangely running at 2x normal speed. The Genesis is one of the most well documented platforms to emulate, can be ran well with very low hardware requirements, yet runs much worse than the SNES emulator.
Early impressions had some people calling this a better alternative to the mini NES. If Retro-Bit doesn't supply a software update to fix these issues you won't hear that comparison made again.