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Retron 5 (aka 4)
wiggy:
--- Quote from: JDavis on October 14, 2013, 08:12:21 PM ---The bigger disappointment than the lack of N64 is the lack of 32X support, since the 32X carts have the same pin-out as Genesis carts.
The reason, sadly, is that nobody's made a decent 32X emulator for Android yet. Thankfully, the Retron 5 will do firmware updates, so once someone makes a 32X emulator Hyperkin can just patch it in.
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Honesty, I'm willing to bet that it's because the N64 is harder emulate, unlike the GBA which isn't at all.
Nacho3:
--- Quote from: Dr.Agon on October 15, 2013, 10:10:47 AM ---
--- Quote from: Nacho3 on October 14, 2013, 11:10:13 PM ---Famicom Disc System? I very highly doubt it.
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why not? AFAIK the FDS connects to the Famicom cart slot, if this has an FC slot it should be able to run the FDS?
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I guess I was more thinking of FDS support as if you have a game for it you could play it on this system, not hooking up the FDS to it.
Dr.Agon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_disk_system
wikipedia confirms fds attatches to the cart slot
THERORETICALLY, you could make your own retron 6, with an additional famicom cart slot and the fds perminantly hooked up, you'd just need a switch to "turn off" that extra slot if you wanted to play a FC cart...
Lord_Britannia:
--- Quote from: videogametrader on October 15, 2013, 07:59:24 AM ---
--- Quote from: Lord_Britannia on October 15, 2013, 02:13:19 AM ---
--- Quote from: CrimsonEnigma on October 14, 2013, 09:04:54 PM ---One thing I want to know before I buy one - Does it have FDS compatibility?
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its unfortunate but I dont ever see a clone on the FDS ever being made to market in the US mostly because famicom gamers are a very small (but strong) base here in the states and the FDS in an even smaller subsection within that. From a marketing and profit POV it wouldnt make sense for a company to put money into R&D to replicate the original hardware to a group that is just not there. Although that would be awesome lol
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I seem to remember some FDS games being put on cart to play on a normal system. Is that possible?
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Im not experienced in repro carts (if thats what your asking) But Nintendo of America did convert some FDS only games to Cartridge games with there US release a couple being Zelda 2, and Doki doki panic which became Super mario 2 here in america which then got a re-release in cartridge only in JPN as Super Mario USA. It sucks though I really wish they created a peripheral for the NES
Lord_Britannia:
--- Quote from: Dr.Agon on October 15, 2013, 08:11:28 PM ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_disk_system
wikipedia confirms fds attatches to the cart slot
THERORETICALLY, you could make your own retron 6, with an additional famicom cart slot and the fds perminantly hooked up, you'd just need a switch to "turn off" that extra slot if you wanted to play a FC cart...
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I was also thinking in the sense of FDS support on the system itself rather than plugging one into the retron.
Im not an trying to claim to be an expert on this so please please call me out if im wrong just going of the bit of info ive researched
I know the FDS goes into a famicom slot but even still im still skeptical about that fact alone being enough to make it work on the retron5, because by that logic the sega 32x and all its games should also be compatible. Reason being is im willing to bet that there was something in the FDS that Synthesized with something specific in the famicom to make the whole process acceptable or even just work in the first place, the principle is the same as when you put an nes cart in the nes slot the 10nes chip in the cart corresponds to the 10nes chip to the nes-001 to make the thing work which is why people to the pin4 mod sometimes. Clone consoles have always had compatibility issues, ive heard mario RPG is a good example but I dont have a copy to test that :-[ >:( Not trying to knock the beauty of the idea that shit would be amazing but i just dont see it