General A&R Cool Videos Thread

Steve SI wrote: »

So the Retron 5 is an OUYA, except you cant play roms on it!!
It partially dumps the game rom to internal memory and then runs it on emulators and in doing so you cannot use any saves from the cart or save back to the cart.
Not liking this at all.
Gamester81 is fairly nice about it(he's a bit too sponsored these days if you ask me), but its a turd of a system.

Seemed like a fairly decent review of it across both videos.

Strange he listed the audio as a Pro rather than Con. I thought the retron5 audio sounded awfully muffled compared to the original hardware. Maybe it was the way he recorded both.

Kinda puzzled as to who the target audience is though. Not sure why anyone who has original consoles would bother with it? Are people who don't have any retro consoles going to start buying just the carts? No flash cart support sounds like a silly omission, maybe it could be patched in with a firmware update though.

That controller that comes with it looks a bit duff, an analogue stick instead of a d-pad.

A strange creature indeed.