Hyperkin Finally Shipping Its Retron 5 Console This Week

I'm still interested, just let me save up some more money...

I still getting one eventually, but that 40 bucks price hike made me buy a Retro Bit Trio instead. I'm quite looking forward for it to arrive, I have a really bad SNES hunger right about now and I want to keep my PAL SNES out of harms way.

I want one but i want to see how it performs first, i'll wait for it to be on the market for a few months first

The gba feature is nice, now i dont have to look for a gba player for gamecube (or one of thoose expenisve gba to snee converters)

Yes, finally!!! So looking forward to this.

I have been waiting for this for a long time, but that £40 increase has made me decide to wait. Plus I fear this will have a large impact on the prices of retro games on places like eBay, especially when some are already so expensive.

If only Game had not destroyed all those games and consoles when it purchased GameStation.

Im just not interested. I mean, retro gaming is meant to be playdd on retro consoles. At that price, I can buy each console represented off of Craigslist.

I can play SNES and Mega Drive on my HD TV just fine with some RGB scart cables I bought online. My problem is with NES and N64 games, because I just can't make them look any good on it. This thing would be nice to have for the HD output of NES games, but it wouldn't alleviate the need for my CRT television since this thing doesn't support N64 cartridges.
Not gonna get it, but it seems cool.

NOW I'm interested. Can't wait for the review!

@shigulicious And it is just emulation. (The Analog Interactive NES is a different thing entirely).

Will it play PAL SNES games as well as USA SNES games too?

@EarthboundBenjy

I bought a modified S-Video cable for my N64 from www.consolegoods.co.uk, if you have an S-Video port on your TV it's a no brainer. As close to RGB quality as you can get on a non-modified PAL console.

Just don't let the dog awful website put you off!

@Hank_Scorpio
That's the site I got the SNES and Mega Drive cables from.
I do have the N64 cable as well, but my current HD TV doesn't have an S-video in, so it's just connected to my CRT via S-video.

Also, I agree, that website is indeed dog awful. And I didn't have a great experience with the guy who runs the site as well. When I ordered a bunch of cables, one of them didn't arrive and he didn't believe me when I inquired about it. I eventually got it, but he didn't seem happy about it and I'd rather not shop there any more because of that. :/

@EarthboundBenjy

I was a bit apprehensive about ordering, but my experience was fine. It was just that one cable though. Will think twice if I need anything else though!

FINALLY

The quality might be sub standard. I would wait for a review, cuz I bought A NES/Genesis/super Nes one and some of the games didn't play and it felt generic. I know nothing about This company I know there's links to them but I will wait.

I can get almost all of these on VC i don't know why i would want this

@River3636 IGN did a video yesterday showing the system. If you can get past the awful video player, and the bad presenting it may be worth a look: http://uk.ign.com/videos/2014/05/21/check-out-10-in-1-retro-console-retron-5

I've been looking forward to this for ages. I have all those machines bar the NES and SNES, but one box and one cable going into the TV is huge for me.

Is that a control stick on the controller?
That's an awful choice for these consoles 0_0

@Mega719
Well, the idea behind this is to allow one to insert the original cartridges into the machine, and it's a fact that not every single game was re-released for VC download.

well, this is pretty cool... have to keep my eye on this one

Another release date. Yay?

I should have preordered at $99.99.

it's a good idea but I think I'll stick to my original systems as it just feels wrong to play retro games on anything than the original system

I still have a working SNES, Genesis, and GBA, and I don't play import games. The only benefit this would bring for me is allowing me to play NES games, and I'd rather just get ahold of an NES and a new connector pin.

Now, if I DIDN'T already own all those systems...

Not worth £119.99 should have stayed at £90 or less shame as I was interested.

Sweet! This would be good for me, since I want to stream older games on twitch without having to use emulators and such. I am not getting it anytime soon, since I still have every single one of my old consoles.

It would have been really nice, but then again I have the Virtual Console for this, so no need.

I'm interested in the Retron5 despite owning all of the consoles, mainly because it isn't region-locked and supports HD, which is a big plus. People saying the original games are meant to be played on original hardware are correct, but the original hardware is not always ideal and there are currently a lot of people who are put off by the fact retro games look and play badly on modern HD tv's. The Retron will fix that issue.

For me, it's just another way to enjoy my extensive collection and a good means of playing imports without resorting to modding my consoles. Although my NES and SNES have already went through simple mods, the lack of region locking is a huge plus.

Wow ok I'm quite interested in this. Too bad it doesn't play N64 games.

Hopefully Hyperkin add support for Atari 2600, Jaguar, Colecovision, Intellivision, Turbo Grafx-16/PC Engine, Neo Geo AES, Sega 32X, and Nintendo 64 for the Retron 7.

Interested but waiting to read the reviews before getting in on the act.

I'll take the analogue NT & it's original hardware over this, but this looks very cool as well. And a much lower price, making it more accessible to everyone.

maybe get it if they have a price drop

Wait, have fifty years passed that quickly already?

I might get one if the price drops a bit and if I don't have to pay import tax for the console, I did for the retro duo and I was annoyed I had to buy a plug for it too and in the end it would have been cheaper buying the original systems. If it was £70- £80 I'd buy one but until then I can't. Can you use different pads for it? like the ones designed for and with the original consoles?

@FragRed it does look good.

@Pj1 From the article 'There are joypad connectors which allow you to plug original pads'. So yes.

So where is the proof it's finally shipping? They've already said "definitely April", "I guarantee within 30 days", "they're shipping tomorrow" and all these have passed with nothing.

Finally shipping and there's still only a render of it? Weird.

When PCEngine is supported I will get one