I've been watching old streams what contain Windjammers because I really want to play Windjammers, but I'm waiting for the PS4 release of Windjammers and the PS4 release is not out yet, and Disc Jam kind of sucks or I suck at it... As a result, I came across an old stream of Jeff showing off his RetroN 5, I think. He seemed up on it, but I was curious if anyone else has picked one up and used it extensively. I'd like to grab one, I have a bunch of old NES, SNES, GBA, etc. games I'd like to dust off, but is the RetroN worth the cost? They're going for $160 at the moment, which doesn't sound too unreasonable if it's a quality piece of engineering, but if it's cheap crap that's going to crap out quick, I'd rather save my money. Anyone have any insight here?
Anyone picked up a RetroN 5?
Everything I've read or heard, the construction is fine. The issue is that it's just emulating, and it doesn't do a 100% job of it. You'd be just as well getting ROMs or finding a way to dump your cartridges, and using an emulator on your PC or putting together a Raspberry Pi with some emulator.
I have one. It's fine, doesn't fell like it's worth $160 when you hold it, feels hollow, and thin cheap plastic, but it totally plays those old games. I actually found out about raspberry pi a few months after I got it as a gift.
I would just go with a Pi 3 myself. 35 bucks and it'll play windjammers.
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