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Retron 5 (aka 4)
TyrannicalFascist:
--- Quote from: JDavis on May 31, 2014, 11:36:18 PM ---I can confirm most of those as working. I don't have Super Circuit, Sonic Advance 2-3, Mario Advance 1-3, or Wario Land 2.
My Donkey Kong '94 and SML2 have bad batteries, so I can't confirm anything on them.
M&L:SSS, SMB:DX, Sonic Advance, SML3:Wario Land, Super Mario Kart, and Super Mario World import their saves no problem.
Wario Land 3 won't import its save data, but it didn't erase what's on the cart either. If I try to manually import the save to the Retron 5, it says "This cartridge either has no save data, or accessing its save data is currently unsupported"
Super Mario Advance 4 imports the save, but when you try to play it the first time you get a message from the game that the save data is corrupted, the end result being the same as if it didn't import it at all.
Yoshi's Island... I initially believed to be working fine, but on further review it's only semi-working. It imports the save file fine, but selecting some of the levels causes it to freeze on a black screen. Resetting the game either doesn't work (freezes, sometimes with glitched Nintendo Presents screen) or greets you with three empty save files. Import the save again to return to square one. :-\
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Thanks. Well I can confirm that a good number of the games that appeared to have lost saves did in fact still retain the saves on the cartridge. I guess for some reason the Retron can't recognize those saves and displays a blank save? I've noted which ones in blue in my above post. There are a small handful which I'm sure had the saves wiped from the cart, and those are noted in red.
I had the exact same issues with Wario Land 3 and Super Mario Advance 4. I wonder if the Super Mario Advance 4 issue is some kind of safeguard against playing the game on anything but a real GBA or the GB Player?
Oddly enough, I also had issues with DK '94 and SML2 which seemed to be battery related. Fortunately I shouldn't have too much trouble playing through them again to get where I was or further.
I'll hold off on testing Yoshi's Island until I see lots of people saying it works fine. I put A LOT of hours into that game as a kid. :P
I've finished testing all my NES, SNES, Genesis, GB, GBC and GBA games. Next I'll be testing a variety of controllers I have.
Blumpkin:
Have any of you guys tried testing any pirated/knock off carts? I have a few GBA carts that are Hong Kong specials and wonder if they'll play.
TyrannicalFascist:
--- Quote from: Blumpkin on June 01, 2014, 06:50:56 AM ---Have any of you guys tried testing any pirated/knock off carts? I have a few GBA carts that are Hong Kong specials and wonder if they'll play.
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I have a few, most of them are multicarts. They all come up as Unknown cartridge, but you can still try them. Some of them sort of work - my GBA multicart let me select one of the GBA games from the menu and play it, but others don't - most of my GB multicarts will display the menu, but once you select a game it just reloads the menu. This might be because of how the Retron reads game roms, in the same way it can currently run the Super Game Boy, but not the Game Boy game inserted. The only stand-alone pirate cart I have is Sonic Adventure 7, and that one just loads a blank screen. But it may be possible that all of these could work someday with updates.
I do have Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis for GBA which I picked up at CD Tradepost a year ago and I'm like 99% sure it's a bootleg - it comes up as unknown but plays just fine. So bootlegs of real games probably will work.
EDIT: So having tested all my games except Mario RPG, Yoshi's Island and A Link to the Past (Wiggy's doing some work on the cart), I'm happy to report that it recognized all my legit games! On to testing compatible controllers I have...
Ozzy_98:
What I'd like is for it to be like my current home setups. Each game\system has a default setting for video and input, but can override and save settings for each game. For my arcade machine for example, my joystick I remap the directional sideways for games like Q-Bert, so it plays correctly, none of this sideways left for up-left crap.
wiggy:
I don't like that they're losing saves here and there :/ Luckly I have a retrode, so I can back them up before I were to stick it in this mystery machine, but that honestly sounds like WAY too much work just to play a SNES/NES/Genesis game. That's my chief complaint with newer consoles (spending an hour dicking around until I can actually play a game). I sure don't need a retro console to require all that fuss. Seems more and more like a Raspberry Pi in a custom enclosure or something similar really would be the way to go over this, since the Retron is really just an emulation box with virtually no on-board storage :-\