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Retron 5 Review
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onipar Posted on Dec 29, 2022 at 07:30 PM
Great article. Loving mine, have had it for almost two years now.
RetroOtaku620 Posted on Dec 29, 2022 at 05:51 PM
That's pretty cool! I think I might have to do my own review article on the RetroN 5, specifically the special edition that I got.
Rick Ace Rhodes Posted on Jul 19, 2019 at 11:31 AM
I just got the Retron 3 for my birthday last year. I originally wanted the 5 but after seeing all the negative reviews talk about the same issues with the console, I realized the 3 was a safer bet.
Benjanime Posted on Jul 19, 2019 at 03:05 AM
@vapor
i think the icing on the cake was this being my 50th article, haha. i'm definitely loving this thing :) thanks again for gifting it and i'll have tons more articles on the way!
Vaporman87 Posted on Jul 19, 2019 at 02:18 AM
I'm glad to learn you're getting some good mileage out of that RetroN 5 you saved up so long for. You earned it sir!
Benjanime Posted on Jul 19, 2019 at 01:22 AM
@blueluigi
i wasn't too interested in the retron 5 myself until i heard about an exploit that can make the system run actual rom files, definitely a solution when it comes to scalpers selling games on ebay for a steep price. i may invest in a raspberry pi myself in the future, but for now i'll see how the retron goes for me.
blueluigi Posted on Jul 19, 2019 at 01:05 AM
I bought a RetroN 5 a few years ago. I enjoyed it for a little bit, and it was great to be able to use it as a way to run translation patches for certain Japanese games. I played the original Fire Emblem on the RetroN 5 for a little bit, before my entire team was wiped out, and I was only left with Marth to fight with.
Eventually, as I purchased the XRGB Framemeister, and started looking into other ways of getting RGB out of my old consoles, the novelty of the RetroN 5 began to wear off for me. As I tried the RetroN 5 again, I soon realized that using the system doesn't feel that much different than running an emulator on my computer, or even using a Raspberry Pi. And also, I find the emulation on the NES and SNES Classic to be much better than the RetroN 5's emulation.
The RetroN 5 is good as a cheaper and simple way of running retro games on your HDTV. But me personally, I'm so over emulation based clone consoles that run on cartridges. To me, I don't find those to be nearly as satisfying, especially when the console doesn't actually run the games straight from the cartridge. I find that if I were to ever buy another clone console that runs cartridges, then I would rather go for a system on a chip, like the FPGA consoles that Analouge makes, as those actually recreate the original hardware, and is not emulation based like other clone consoles are.
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