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so if you're like me you may be a little tired of AAA developers releasing broken

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or subpar games over and over again

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often with DLC that officially or not fixes the experience this phenomenon has

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pushed myself and a number of my friends back to the Retro Gaming crowd but

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managing a collection of old consoles and managing the space required for old

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school TVs can be frustrating enter the

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Retron 5 from hyperkin also I will be hopefully reviewing the Makey Makey or

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the Kano fairly soon so stay tuned for

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that from December 13th to 20th 2014 you

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can save on select Intel CPUs KN and ssds with special holiday rebates from

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select retailers click now to learn more first off we have the actual

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physical unit on the front we're greeted by Game Boy Game Boy Color and Game Boy

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Advance slot and the power button which takes a kind of surprisingly long time

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to engage but does feel quite solid and has a satisfying click to it on each

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side we have a controller port for NES SNES and Genesis which totals to six

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controller ports in all for a two-player gaming experience on any one of the

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consoles on the back we have an HDMI port USB mini for the included

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controller an AC power jack and an SD card slot which you can use for things

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like updating the system cheat codes and screenshots along with Save State files

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speaking of the included controller it's garbage and I don't recommend using it

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for absolutely anything the quality control seems to be more than a little

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rough two seemingly identical buttons in the top corners of the controller feel

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completely different one has a nice tactile audible feedback and the other

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one feels mushy and dampen the shoulder buttons are similar

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again the left side shoulder button has a satisfying tactile and audible

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feedback while the right one is mushy and sometimes leaves you wondering if

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you even press the button at all the best word I could use for the other

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buttons on the controller is acceptable

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but then it comes to the eight-way thumb stick which is straight up puke worthy

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it squeaks when you spin it which will happen while playing from time to

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time and while most of the lower directions work fine I guess there's

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some sort of obstruction in the top which grinds against the stick creating

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an unpleasant noise and a horrible

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feeling I wish hyperkin would have ditched this abysmal excuse for a

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controller and just lowered the price Unfortunately they didn't so we're stuck

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paying full price and ditching the controller ourselves but wait Luke it

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has a redeeming feature

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Wireless really Wireless you wanted to

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add more latency to this setup we're

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playing retro games with a wireless controller there's more latency between

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your controller input and your character's movement and it's noticeable

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in this case this will stack on top of the input leg on most modern TVs

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compared to Old CRTs and you're going to have a bad time speaking of latency it's

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a shame that the only output option is HDMI so this pretty much precludes the

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use of a CRT TV so forget about light guns and superp Scopes if you don't need

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those you can have a TV with game mode which turns off the image processing or

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a low latency PC monitor and that would help a lot in fact having it next to

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your PC monitor seems like a really cool use case for the Retron 5 if you're

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concerned about the legality of PC emulators and we'll talk about that more

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later on simply plug the Retron 5 into an alternate input on one of your

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monitors and switch your input to it whenever you'd like to play and with

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that we'll jump back to the top of the unit in the back there's a slot hold the

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controller but we just use it to hold games and just ahead of that we have the

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glossy finish something I wish manufacturers would stop using for

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Fairly obvious reasons slotted into that

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glossy finish is your ports for Genesis SNES NES and famicom cartridges other

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reviews are complaining that on this Retron 5 the slots are too tight to

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actually remove the game from and sure the first time you use it it might be a

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little bit tight but even after a moderate amount of use it becomes quite

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easy to just swap games in and out in front of these slots we have the logo

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for the Retron 5 and an LED indicator system letting you know which game is

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inserted the LED would have been much nicer if it was possible to have more

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than one game inserted at a time anyways

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if you insert more than one game instead of just choosing which one you want to

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play you are served an error message until you remove all the game cartridges

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that you don't want to use when you boot up the Retron 5 you're greeted by a

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simple yet surprising ly or not

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Android-based gaming system within the settings menu you'll be able to find

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various video and audio settings included but not limited to image

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filters scan lines and sound enhancement

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which actually sounds pretty good you also have options like controller

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remapping when to load save states and where to save things for those that wish

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to use maybe an SD card there are loads of options and overall this menu system

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is a good experience even with its overall kind of cheap easy menu sounds

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and a little bit tedious software and firmware updating process which really

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isn't that bad if you watch their video on how to do it you can even access

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quick menu within the game for stuff like save states and other various quick

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menu options simply by pressing down and start at the same time now loading games

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can be a little funky with no official compatibility list as far as I know it's

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a bit of a gamble plugging a game in it will probably work and you'll mainly

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just find issues with multi-game cartridges or multi- cartridge setups

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but there will be the odd game that should probably work but totally doesn't

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another frustrating issue with this is that sometimes a ROM May load and it may

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be able to run the game making it playable but it won't actually recognize

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the game meaning that it won't L load any of your save states and none of the

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cheats will actually function properly one really cool thing that the Retron

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lets you do however is to utilize old carts that have dead batteries much more

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effectively than you could have otherwise if the battery is dead in your cartridge and you don't go through the

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process of replacing it you won't actually be able to save anything

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properly but if you use save states on the Retron you can essentially replace

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this functionality which is great as it can breathe life back into some old

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beloved games those are problems I can look past however as honestly the vast

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majority of games will work just fine you just have to be careful about

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keeping things like the contacts on your carts clean enough for the conso will be

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able to read it as well as possible every time to get a good load and a good

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detection whenever you insert it what does get on my nerves however is moving

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the save data from the game to the Retron and from the Retron to the game

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it feels like moving the save data to the Retron Works essentially every time

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but I can't really be all that sure that moving the save data from the Retron

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back to the cart actually ever worked it it didn't actually ever work work it

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seems like it would be able to sometimes work but it would wipe part of the data

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that was on there and then not load the new data which is essentially destroying

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your save file I had that happen to my

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Pokemon Blue cart rest in peace Pokemon

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Blue save game rest in peace early on I

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mentioned that this is a cool way to play your old games through emulation in

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order to utilize things like save states while doing it more legally than

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emulating ROMs on something something like a PC or a phone and while being

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able to use your badass original carts at the same time unfortunately it seems

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that hyperkin may be using other developers code for a lot of their

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emulator support without asking or contacting those people at all all of

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this is under a code license of gplv3 which forbids incorporating the

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software into something like for example a locked down piece of Hardware which is

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then sold so

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there's a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo going on which I don't fully understand

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and the situation is kind of a mess so if you want to learn more I suggest you

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just Google retroarch versus Retron or retroarch versus hyperkin and you'll

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find more information there in conclusion is this the end all

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replacement to Old School console clutter no latency issues that you will

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most likely have to deal with at some degree due to the inclusion of HDMI will

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be frustrating and it has its quirks

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with features like moving saves on and off the Retron totally not working and

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in some cases even breaking what is already there and it comes with a

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controller which will just add Mass to landfills but in a lot of cases the

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actual unit can get the job done I personally think it would be pretty neat

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accessory for someone's PC setup when configured as an alternate input to

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their monitor but at its current price of

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$160 I see most people looking the other

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way let me what you guys think in the comments down below things that are

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