/vr/ - Retro Games

The Retron 5 is an emulation machine that, in an almost unuimaginably retarded twist, you still need the original cartridges for. That is insane - why not just get a retropie or hacked wii or modded xbox or cheap laptop, then you have all the games in the roms for free, use the best emulators, and so on . The fact that this monstrosity exists at all is a shitstain on humanity.

>>5194839
INPUT LAG

>>5194821
Congratulations, you now think what everybody else thinks.

>>5194843
yep, it has all the downsides of emulation while still managing to have all the downsides of original hardware.

>>5194843
Yes, emulators have input lag and real hardware is superior, but if you're going to emulate anyway you might as well skip having to own the games.

Real hardware with real games > flashcarts/burned discs > emulation > shit > the Retron 5

>>5194821
>I heard Arin on Game Grumps
>I replay Yoshi's Island because they were playing it
Slave minded cattle nigger thread. Dont speak directly to goyim

>>5194821
I own one. I don't use it a lot but I still like it. being able to play the original games with the original controllers is nice, without having to have all the different systems hooked up to your tv at once.

>>5194821
>Retro 5
It's garbage. Bought one and hated it almost immediately. Was going to chaulk it up as a bad buy and throw it out but it turns out my wife's son really loves it. Ended up giving it to him which got me a sticker on the "good hubby" chart. Only 3 stickers away from being able to a buy a new game for my switch :^)

>>5194821
Hi guys. Sorry to see you guys are so upset at what sounds like a defective unit. My wife and I have a RetroN V and we think it's just perfect. We use it for hours each day and enjoy HDMI quality visuals with virtually no input lag. I even have a couple extra kept in storage for later years.

Right now me and my wife are replaying all the home alone games on multiple systems.

I really recommend the RetroN V

>>5194859
idk man they're just chull guys who I listen to play video games. I grew up playing Yoshi's Island on my DS Lite and it's one of my favorite and most nostalgic games. GG just made me want to play it a little bit again.

also imagine being so much of a faggot that you think it's somehow a bad thing to want to play a game because a let's play peaked your interest.

>>5194880
Oh yeah I definitely enjoyed using it while it worked. It was really great for GB/GBC/GBA games. I just wish there was an alternative that was more reliable. Once I get a laptop and mod my PSP with it it'll probably just be a pirate's life for me.

>>5194880
First time I see a PR reply in 4chan. Fuck this 4channel shit.

>>5194821

>>5195053
>First time I see a PR reply in 4chan
anon... you are the problem here. please kill yourself.

>>5195172
>>5195053

>>5195053
>PR
Not sure if this is your first day on this board or trying to troll.

>>5194876
>>5194880
>>5195169
How did this may-may even start?

>>5195240
Basedboys tend to like Nintendo, but people often forget Nintendo is also the choice for Chad

>>5195285
>forget Nintendo is also the choice for Chad
Whatever helps you sleep at night brah

>>5194857
I'd put emulation on top and real hardware/games closer to the bottom. I grew up on Intellivision and NES and fuck paying out the ass for all the old games I used to have. Both systems are emulated perfectly and have features the real hardware didn't, unless the flashing power light horseshit from the NES days counts as a feature. Also, the Intellivision II controllers was literally painful to use.

>>5194839
MAYBE I HAVE A SAVE ON A FUCKING CARTRIDGE, NIGGER.

>>5194876
/pol/ pls...

>>5195285
Yeah, but it always seems to be the Retron 5 specifically. The Switch thing makes more sense.
>>5195308
There's something to be said for the no-nonsense experience of plopping in front of the TV with the original hardware, but I don't miss swapping out cartridges and dealing the blinking light garbage. Flashcarts really are the best of both worlds.

Zoomers even let ecelebs decide what they want to play. Hilarious.

>>5195240
>>5195285
Children who grew up playing Nintendo ended up being weak jawed myopic beta males, while those who played sega or playstation were significantly more likely to be alpha.

>Mario and wii gay sex vs halo and god of war.

Now, it doesn't mean everyone who played ps/sega wasn't a beta-not by a long shot. But there is some definite correlation.
I grew up playing gameboy and shit and ended up on this site.
Friends who played ps/sega grew thick facial hair, stronger jaws, sooner changed interests to sports cars, fucking women, and had 16+ inch arms 12% bodyfat going to the gym once a week.
I believe they were genetically inclined to play more violent, mature games, versus the submissive low prenatal-T betas who played pokemon, mario, or wii.

>>5195307
based and redpilled, Sega does what Nintendon't

>>5196138
Top row, second from the right is opening a ps4

>>5194821
Man, that's too bad. Have you tried cleaning your SNES cart? Sometimes those old things just don't want to work right.

As for me, my wife and I bought a Retron 5 a few years ago and absolutely love it to pieces. It saves so much space versus having tons of old consoles and wires creating a mess all around the family room. Plus, we can even play our growing collection of cool, original retro SNES cartridges on it (did someone say Earthbound and Donkey Kong Country 2? Woop woop!). It also looks beautiful in full HD on our modern flatscreen TV via HDMI. No bulky old TVs or strugling to figure out how to get a good picture with confusing yellow, red, and white cables here! Man, I really can't wait for more fun retro gaming nights with my wife and our trusty Retron 5 this holiday season :-)

>>5194821

Yoshi's Island! Great game! Me and my stepson play it every other Friday, it's great being able to bond with your kids over some classic retro-games, best of all with the Retron 5 you can save your progress so we can always pick up right where we left off next time if it gets too late for the little guy = )

>sega fans are still upset they lost

>>5195240
Assuming you're talking about "my wife and I love our Retron V" and not the wife's son shit, one anon made a post that sounded suspiciously like a paid shill (though he swore up and down that it wasn't intentional and even posted in other threads months down the line trying to insist it wasn't), and people thought it was amusing so they copied it endlessly.
"My wife's son" is just /pol/ shit, referring to cuckoldry and men whose wives sleep around and get pregnant with other men's seed.

>>5196138
>Friends who played ps/sega grew thick facial hair, stronger jaws, sooner changed interests to sports cars, fucking women, and had 16+ inch arms 12% bodyfat going to the gym once a week.
The console choice of Chad every gen is always the one with the best sport games.

>>5196160
Flop out of the console market.

>>5196138
Bottom-right lost his jaw. Did his Dad die after buying the N64 or something? Where did all of their testosterone go?

>>5198185
>judging men's jaws
Gaaaay

>>5195240
The real manly men of /pol/ are insecure in their fetishes and are forced to shitpost 24/7 about cuckoldry.

>>5194821
>I heard Arin on Game Grumps shitting on the Retron 5
Hmm, that's weird. You'd think he would love the Retron 5. Seems his style, and his alien wife's son would probably love it too.

>>5195240

When the Retron first came out /vr/ was flooded with very suspiciously marketing sounding threads about it, praising all its features and convenience etc. As always soon you could not really tell anymore which posts were serious really plump marketing and which ones were parodies by people mocking them. This lead to a few now classic memes regarding the thing:

>-My wife loves it
which was quickly transitioned to
>-My wife's son loves it

>-It saved our marriage

And my personal favourite:
>-It saves so much space!

>non-FPGA retro clone console
lmfao

>>5196138
>left pic in middle row
Imagine being almost 30 and your parents still buy you game consoles.

>>5195240
Consolewarriors get really upset when Nintendo consoles sell well. I honestly don't know why.

>>5197727
>>5198294
>Assuming you're talking about "my wife and I love our Retron V" and not the wife's son shit, one anon made a post that sounded suspiciously like a paid shill (though he swore up and down that it wasn't intentional and even posted in other threads months down the line trying to insist it wasn't), and people thought it was amusing so they copied it endlessly.
Okay, that explains it. I must have missed that.

>>5195309
Just replay the game jesus christ

>>5194821
a thread had to die for this...

>>5200054
And you had a better idea for a thread? Something insightful and thought provoking perhaps? Not just regurgitating a catchphrase you’ve seen posted here a million times? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

>>5195240
If you have to ask, it’s probably about you

>>5194821
I've had two that have both failed on me. Both with the same problem of simply not powering on. The second one (replacemtn for the first, I din't buy another) developed the exact same problem after being used once.

Returned it and got a Retro Freak as all I really wanted it for was to play my Super Famicom games with translation patches.

>>5200068
oh the irony... you must be new here

>>5194821
My Life in Gaming and Metal Jesus uses the Retron regularly and recommended it for translation patches.

>>5194821
They just can't get the NES sound chip right. The Yobo FC series is better quality.