Funny thought. On my FC twin and that adapter, and the Japanese super gameboy I have on the way I could feasibly play, and for a fraction of the price of something like a retron 5.
NES
SNES
Genesis
Gameboy
SMS if I ever get one of the adapters
GBA if I ever get retrobit's GBA to SNES adapter.
The twin itself was 8 bucks total
Genesis adapter 13
Super gameboy was 10
SMS and GBA adapters will be about the most expensive things.
I've got a Super Retro Trio, cloned GBA adapter, plus vintage Super Game Boy and a Stone Age Gamer SMS Mini. The GBA adapter plays natively through the composite out of the SRT (Svideo works great with SNES and Genesis games; just don't try using the Svideo with NES cartsp or the SNES clone adapters or you'll get horrid black and white picture) but you'll need an external video cable if you try to use it with a real SNES.
That makes the SRT system compatible with everything that plays on the Retron5, with the exception of Game Boy Color.
That's one of the benefits of the way we went too, we're not completely stuck to HDMI.
Don't get me wrong, I have a Retro Freak and reserved a preorder on the AVS. IMO the RFreak/Retron5 are a complete can of mixed nuts when it comes to dumping carts.
I love CRTs for retro games but also have an Asus 1080p monitor for HD. Best to play each system on the display it was originally designed for (for AVS this does mean playing NES in HD), so an HD monitor / CRT TV combo covers the bases for pretty much everything except the Wii, which needs a widescreen display but lacks HDMI. Wii-U has those bases covered though. Also discrete hifi speakers for superior sound.
The on a chip style, I hate those atgames things except for like, the Atari flashback 2. That's the only good AtGames thing.
I have a Atari Flashback 2 and I also really dig it. Not sure what's special about it in particular but it's just a lot of fun to play on (and it has some pretty good titles, too).
With the flashback 2, you can actually solder on an atari 2600 cartridge slot and play the real cartridges. Can't on any other version.
Also the Flashback 2 was not an Atgames product. It used a special Atari-on-a-Chip designed by Curt Vendel and was the only product to use this design. Sadly my FB2 does not work. Not sure if mine is legit or bootleg. Someday I'll get around to fixing it. I hope it's just a blown 7805 or busted trace which would be an easy fix.
The Jakks Atari plug-n-play joystick and Flashback 1 used an NOAC which ran what were basically hastily made ports of Atari games converted to run on NES. The FB1 joysticks were 9-pin pirate clone 5-wire NES logic and were modeled after 7800 joysticks. They map to Dpad and A + B with no start/select. Some Yahoo dumped the ROM from the original Jakks plug-n-play Atari joystick and is selling NES repros of Centipede, Yars, Missile Command and a few others. Don't waste your money if you see an NES repro of these. I own the joystick version of the Jakks Atari pnp with ten built in games and it's nothing to right home about. The NES ports don't have that Atari feel obviously because they're not running Atari hardware and aren't half as good as the original Atari games.
AtGames controlled the production of Atari Flashbacks starting with the Flashback 3. They are all ARM CPUs running emulation with standard A/V output and support real joysticks. Sound/video emulation is pretty good for the Atari products unlike their horrid Genesis lineup. They are releasing an Atari portable this fall with SD card support. It should run most standard bankswitch games that don't use DCP or DCP+ (Activision Pitfall II and any Melody homebrews won't work).
The on a chip style, I hate those atgames things except for like, the Atari flashback 2. That's the only good AtGames thing.
I have a Atari Flashback 2 and I also really dig it. Not sure what's special about it in particular but it's just a lot of fun to play on (and it has some pretty good titles, too).
With the flashback 2, you can actually solder on an atari 2600 cartridge slot and play the real cartridges. Can't on any other version.
Also the Flashback 2 was not an Atgames product. It used a special Atari-on-a-Chip designed by Curt Vendel and was the only product to use this design. Sadly my FB2 does not work. Not sure if mine is legit or bootleg. Someday I'll get around to fixing it. I hope it's just a blown 7805 or busted trace which would be an easy fix.
The Jakks Atari plug-n-play joystick and Flashback 1 used an NOAC which ran what were basically hastily made ports of Atari games converted to run on NES. The FB1 joysticks were 9-pin pirate clone 5-wire NES logic and were modeled after 7800 joysticks. They map to Dpad and A + B with no start/select. Some Yahoo dumped the ROM from the original Jakks plug-n-play Atari joystick and is selling NES repros of Centipede, Yars, Missile Command and a few others. Don't waste your money if you see an NES repro of these. I own the joystick version of the Jakks Atari pnp with ten built in games and it's nothing to right home about. The NES ports don't have that Atari feel obviously because they're not running Atari hardware and aren't half as good as the original Atari games.
AtGames controlled the production of Atari Flashbacks starting with the Flashback 3. They are all ARM CPUs running emulation with standard A/V output and support real joysticks. Sound/video emulation is pretty good for the Atari products unlike their horrid Genesis lineup. They are releasing an Atari portable this fall with SD card support. It should run most standard bankswitch games that don't use DCP or DCP+ (Activision Pitfall II and any Melody homebrews won't work).
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Funny thought. On my FC twin and that adapter, and the Japanese super gameboy I have on the way I could feasibly play, and for a fraction of the price of something like a retron 5.
NES
SNES
Genesis
Gameboy
SMS if I ever get one of the adapters
GBA if I ever get retrobit's GBA to SNES adapter.
The twin itself was 8 bucks total
Genesis adapter 13
Super gameboy was 10
SMS and GBA adapters will be about the most expensive things.
I've got a Super Retro Trio, cloned GBA adapter, plus vintage Super Game Boy and a Stone Age Gamer SMS Mini. The GBA adapter plays natively through the composite out of the SRT (Svideo works great with SNES and Genesis games; just don't try using the Svideo with NES cartsp or the SNES clone adapters or you'll get horrid black and white picture) but you'll need an external video cable if you try to use it with a real SNES.
That makes the SRT system compatible with everything that plays on the Retron5, with the exception of Game Boy Color.
That's one of the benefits of the way we went too, we're not completely stuck to HDMI.
Don't get me wrong, I have a Retro Freak and reserved a preorder on the AVS. IMO the RFreak/Retron5 are a complete can of mixed nuts when it comes to dumping carts.
I love CRTs for retro games but also have an Asus 1080p monitor for HD. Best to play each system on the display it was originally designed for (for AVS this does mean playing NES in HD), so an HD monitor / CRT TV combo covers the bases for pretty much everything except the Wii, which needs a widescreen display but lacks HDMI. Wii-U has those bases covered though. Also discrete hifi speakers for superior sound.
The on a chip style, I hate those atgames things except for like, the Atari flashback 2. That's the only good AtGames thing.
I have a Atari Flashback 2 and I also really dig it. Not sure what's special about it in particular but it's just a lot of fun to play on (and it has some pretty good titles, too).
With the flashback 2, you can actually solder on an atari 2600 cartridge slot and play the real cartridges. Can't on any other version.
Also the Flashback 2 was not an Atgames product. It used a special Atari-on-a-Chip designed by Curt Vendel and was the only product to use this design. Sadly my FB2 does not work. Not sure if mine is legit or bootleg. Someday I'll get around to fixing it. I hope it's just a blown 7805 or busted trace which would be an easy fix.
The Jakks Atari plug-n-play joystick and Flashback 1 used an NOAC which ran what were basically hastily made ports of Atari games converted to run on NES. The FB1 joysticks were 9-pin pirate clone 5-wire NES logic and were modeled after 7800 joysticks. They map to Dpad and A + B with no start/select. Some Yahoo dumped the ROM from the original Jakks plug-n-play Atari joystick and is selling NES repros of Centipede, Yars, Missile Command and a few others. Don't waste your money if you see an NES repro of these. I own the joystick version of the Jakks Atari pnp with ten built in games and it's nothing to right home about. The NES ports don't have that Atari feel obviously because they're not running Atari hardware and aren't half as good as the original Atari games.
AtGames controlled the production of Atari Flashbacks starting with the Flashback 3. They are all ARM CPUs running emulation with standard A/V output and support real joysticks. Sound/video emulation is pretty good for the Atari products unlike their horrid Genesis lineup. They are releasing an Atari portable this fall with SD card support. It should run most standard bankswitch games that don't use DCP or DCP+ (Activision Pitfall II and any Melody homebrews won't work).
The on a chip style, I hate those atgames things except for like, the Atari flashback 2. That's the only good AtGames thing.
I have a Atari Flashback 2 and I also really dig it. Not sure what's special about it in particular but it's just a lot of fun to play on (and it has some pretty good titles, too).
With the flashback 2, you can actually solder on an atari 2600 cartridge slot and play the real cartridges. Can't on any other version.
Also the Flashback 2 was not an Atgames product. It used a special Atari-on-a-Chip designed by Curt Vendel and was the only product to use this design. Sadly my FB2 does not work. Not sure if mine is legit or bootleg. Someday I'll get around to fixing it. I hope it's just a blown 7805 or busted trace which would be an easy fix.
The Jakks Atari plug-n-play joystick and Flashback 1 used an NOAC which ran what were basically hastily made ports of Atari games converted to run on NES. The FB1 joysticks were 9-pin pirate clone 5-wire NES logic and were modeled after 7800 joysticks. They map to Dpad and A + B with no start/select. Some Yahoo dumped the ROM from the original Jakks plug-n-play Atari joystick and is selling NES repros of Centipede, Yars, Missile Command and a few others. Don't waste your money if you see an NES repro of these. I own the joystick version of the Jakks Atari pnp with ten built in games and it's nothing to right home about. The NES ports don't have that Atari feel obviously because they're not running Atari hardware and aren't half as good as the original Atari games.
AtGames controlled the production of Atari Flashbacks starting with the Flashback 3. They are all ARM CPUs running emulation with standard A/V output and support real joysticks. Sound/video emulation is pretty good for the Atari products unlike their horrid Genesis lineup. They are releasing an Atari portable this fall with SD card support. It should run most standard bankswitch games that don't use DCP or DCP+ (Activision Pitfall II and any Melody homebrews won't work).
Ah ok, thank you!