but for the price, this is a decent system if you like the ease of packing it along for your friends and they have a crt tv lying around that's even better.This article needs additional citations for verification. some games don't run well, it's all based on the limitations of the emulator loaded in the firmware (retroarch). hey, I'm just reporting what others have said. other systems may require some kind of hacked firmware (but they won't all run well due to hardware limitations of the unit).
many of the later neogeo games just give a black screen or are very slow loading/run choppy. 32x doesn't seem to work (even with loaded bios). sms does not work well (unless the game is loaded in gg mode which makes most games glitchy: the colors are messed up and zoomed in, etc). Sun 15th Mar I don't know what all it supports (I have v1.1), but I do know the following work (besides the ones we already know: mame, genesis, snes, nes): turbografx16, gg, gba, apparently gb and gbc (have not tested myself).NES, SNES and Genesis emulation is nigh-on perfect, and pretty much all of the Capcom CPS-1 and CPS-2 titles run flawlessly, too. Emulation isn't perfect across the board – Double Dragon and Midnight Resistance are noticeably choppy and Boogie Wings has some very minor audio and frame-rate problems – but it's a massive improvement over the Generations. Varth is also displayed in its proper vertical orientation, too. The good news is that R-Type III no longer suffers from awkward slowdown, and the music no longer fluctuates depending on the intensity of the on-screen action. On the Generations, we noticed serious issues with games like R-Type III on the SNES, so we were quick to test these on the Super Retro-Cade. The console appears to be Android-based (at least judging from UI elements) and uses emulators (in the case of the some of the arcade games, the MAME decryption screen even appears upon loading – oops). The good news is that on the whole, such problems have been eradicated with the Super Retro-Cade. One of the big issues with the Retro-Bit Generations was the quality of the emulation many titles suffered from crippling performance issues such as slow-down, glitchy music and – in the case of Capcom's arcade shooter Varth – the wrong screen orientation.
Elsewhere, we have Mega Man 2, Mega Man 3, Final Fight 3, Mighty Final Fight, Joe & Mac (and its tropical sequel) – all games that are worth a look and, in their original cart format, would cost you an arm and a leg to acquire.
We also get two versions of Strider – arcade and NES – but the latter is a very different game, so again, it's not really the problem it initially appears to be. There are two versions of Mercs, for example (arcade and Genesis / Mega Drive), but given that the Sega port has an exclusive mode, it's not a massive issue. Technos games predictably include brawlers such as Double Dragon, Double Dragon 3, The Combatribes and Renegade.Ĭoin-op games take up the vast majority of the Super Retro-Cade's library, but home console versions are also featured – sometimes duplicating content. Heli, Image Fight, Ninja Spirit and X-Multiply. DragonNinja, Super Burgertime, Midnight Resistance, Boogie Wings and Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja all make the cut, while Irem contributes the likes of Mr. Capcom's arcade offerings include Final Fight, Strider, Forgotten Worlds, 1942, Gun.Smoke, Mercs, Mega Twins, Three Wonders, Armored Warriors, Side Arms and Bionic Commando, as well as many others.