@YANDMAN yes. there are no scanlines, no support for vector games, midway games tend to run poorly (but you can run the older games with pre-loaded nvrams and other tricks). only dedicated usb controllers work (and no more buttons than the default controllers have, which is 8 plus the 4 way d-pad). it does a surprising amount of things, but this doesn't replace a laptop running mame/mess or a really good pi. it's a cheap & easy replacement for those awful "tv plug 'n' play" games that are just running nes clones and shovelware though! Now some people have "hacked" the firmware, but that's beyond my expertise and obviously would void any warranty, I'm talking what you can do with an sd card
@gamerjay I don't know what all it supports (I have v1.1), but I do know the following work (besides the ones we already know: mame, genesis, snes, nes): turbografx16, gg, gba, apparently gb and gbc (have not tested myself). sms does not work well (unless the game is loaded in gg mode which makes most games glitchy: the colors are messed up and zoomed in, etc). 32x doesn't seem to work (even with loaded bios). many of the later neogeo games just give a black screen or are very slow loading/run choppy. other systems may require some kind of hacked firmware (but they won't all run well due to hardware limitations of the unit). hey, I'm just reporting what others have said. it's not a perfect system. some games don't run well, it's all based on the limitations of the emulator loaded in the firmware (retroarch). so, I have a rasberry pi... but for the price, this is a decent system if you like the ease of packing it along for your friends and they have a crt tv lying around that's even better.
@Steviis_Father Sadly, no, it doesn't. I tried my 4 port USB adapter and no matter what, it will only ever recognize 2 joypads plugged in (the other two just mirror the functions of the first two), and this is even when loading up a rom of a game that was made for four players. So two players only is your answer.
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Re: Hardware Review: Retro-Bit Super Retro-Cade: A Treasure Trove Of Vintage Gaming Goodness
@YANDMAN yes. there are no scanlines, no support for vector games, midway games tend to run poorly (but you can run the older games with pre-loaded nvrams and other tricks). only dedicated usb controllers work (and no more buttons than the default controllers have, which is 8 plus the 4 way d-pad). it does a surprising amount of things, but this doesn't replace a laptop running mame/mess or a really good pi. it's a cheap & easy replacement for those awful "tv plug 'n' play" games that are just running nes clones and shovelware though! Now some people have "hacked" the firmware, but that's beyond my expertise and obviously would void any warranty, I'm talking what you can do with an sd card
Re: Hardware Review: Retro-Bit Super Retro-Cade: A Treasure Trove Of Vintage Gaming Goodness
@gamerjay I don't know what all it supports (I have v1.1), but I do know the following work (besides the ones we already know: mame, genesis, snes, nes): turbografx16, gg, gba, apparently gb and gbc (have not tested myself). sms does not work well (unless the game is loaded in gg mode which makes most games glitchy: the colors are messed up and zoomed in, etc). 32x doesn't seem to work (even with loaded bios). many of the later neogeo games just give a black screen or are very slow loading/run choppy. other systems may require some kind of hacked firmware (but they won't all run well due to hardware limitations of the unit). hey, I'm just reporting what others have said. it's not a perfect system. some games don't run well, it's all based on the limitations of the emulator loaded in the firmware (retroarch). so, I have a rasberry pi... but for the price, this is a decent system if you like the ease of packing it along for your friends and they have a crt tv lying around that's even better.
Re: Hardware Review: Retro-Bit Super Retro-Cade: A Treasure Trove Of Vintage Gaming Goodness
@Steviis_Father Sadly, no, it doesn't. I tried my 4 port USB adapter and no matter what, it will only ever recognize 2 joypads plugged in (the other two just mirror the functions of the first two), and this is even when loading up a rom of a game that was made for four players. So two players only is your answer.