It looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old. All clones suck. Period.
It looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old. All clones suck. Period.
Still, that would be one smart 3 year old.Originally Posted by JimmyDean
Any word on price?
$59.99 msrp on the Retro Twin and $69.99 on the Retron 3.
There's a thread over on the AA forums with quite a few questions already answered about the Retron3:
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic...-twin-nessnes/
Well, every single clone I've owned (the highly rated ones) sucks ass. Crappy compatibility, poor design, unreliable. Just a shitstorm of problems.
Yeah either way I probably wont get this because i do have the original NES, SNES, and Genesis. PLus they have 100% compatiablity!
NES, Atari 7800, Genesis, SNES, Saturn, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Atari Flashback 2, Limited Edition Red Wii, PS3 Slim, GBC, GBA, GBASP, DS Lite, and PSP 3000.
Hyperkin...might be another disaster.
If I am not mistaken, are they the ones that release really crappy clones?
Proud owner of a Neo 25 Neo Geo Candy Cab!
AHHHHHHH Actual NES, Genesis and SNES controller ports and wireless (hopefully RF not IR) controllers based on existing designs. They're learning. Slowly but surely they're learning.
Can't say as I love the design, but I'll gladly add the 3-in-1 to my clone library.
I'm not sure about really crappy, but they made up for a lot of sins with the excellent FC Mobile 2.
Last edited by Frankie_Says_Relax; 05-06-2010 at 05:39 PM.
"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
AtGames is the company who makes the really bad clones. Hyperkin distributed some AtGames products, but they did not make them. The FCM2 was made by Hyperkin and was pretty good.
I'm very interested in the Genesis and NES parts of the Retron 3. I'm in the market for both systems and not a huge fan of either, but if the sound is way off (as on existing famiclones and on Gen clones including the official ones) or the compatibility is bad (as with official Gen clones), I don't think I'd want to spring for one. Multiregion support is a big plus, since I'd love to get the Japanese version of Phantasy Star IV. I can't wait to hear the results of testing (I'm particularly curious about Phantasy Star IV, sound in Sonic, and sound in general on the NES side).
S.A.G. You mention over at AA that the button mapping is literal ... it is also on the FC3 controller, but C registers as A for most NES games providing NES players with a B-A setup. (I actually think it's a macro of A+B with A pressed a micro-second earlier.)
Does C function the same way on the Retron 3 controller??
"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
Yeah...no. That's sort of not true at all.
At any rate, do either of these have S-video?
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