godslabrat Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 "SuperRetroBoy: A 3-in-1 handheld, single port gaming system that instantly plays classic Game Boy, GB Color, and GB Advance games." I'm totally with you ... I think the GBA SP with the bright screen is a high bar to clear. I love its small size, perfect controls, fold-up screen, and long battery life. It also plays every GB, GBC, and GBA game. What I don't love about it: nonstandard charging and headphone jacks, plus the fact that they don't make it anymore. A clone will have to be significantly better than the Revo K101, which fixes the original's issues with nonstandard charging and audio ports, and adds the ability to bring your own games. I'll bet it will be somewhat worse, but cheaper than the going rate of $110. The flavor-of-the-month seems to be the GB Boy Colour, with its off (though not by much) sound and slightly misshapen screen. I'm not going to spend any money on a system that can't even get the shape of the screen right. I won't lie, I would spend some cash on a "new" Gameboy, but it better feel like I'm picking up something Nintendo themselves made. There's a booming market in GBA refurbs. If I can get the real thing for under $100, which I can, Retro-Bit has zero room to screw up. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Yup. We should make a new thread about gameboy clones and go on and on about these things there. Retro-Bit Generations plug and play doesn't deserve this attention. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jojooi812 Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Street fighter alpha, aliens vs predetor, fatal fury, final fight, forgotten worlds, ninja combat, ninja commando, super street fighter 2 work so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jojooi812 Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I bet this will excite everyone. Retro-Bit Generations Portable And Super Retro Boy Handheld Coming To CES 2017 I am 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 "SuperRetroBoy: A 3-in-1 handheld, single port gaming system that instantly plays classic Game Boy, GB Color, and GB Advance games." I'm totally with you ... I think the GBA SP with the bright screen is a high bar to clear. I love its small size, perfect controls, fold-up screen, and long battery life. It also plays every GB, GBC, and GBA game. What I don't love about it: nonstandard charging and headphone jacks, plus the fact that they don't make it anymore. A clone will have to be significantly better than the Revo K101, which fixes the original's issues with nonstandard charging and audio ports, and adds the ability to bring your own games. I'll bet it will be somewhat worse, but cheaper than the going rate of $110. Bah. My GBA native hardware runs everything he demoed in that video using the Krikzz Everdrive X5 flashcart and add-on emulators, except for PCe which was so broken on the tester's demo unit, it isn't funny. And he had an SNES folder but didn't test the ROMs. Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Yes, but it hangs out of the system like a gameboy cartridge. Yuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StopDrop&Retro Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Delete. I'm dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 Yup. We should make a new thread about gameboy clones and go on and on about these things there. Retro-Bit Generations plug and play doesn't deserve this attention. done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Yes, but it hangs out of the system like a gameboy cartridge. Yuck. https://gbatemp.net/attachments/cme03tkwcaase0q-jpg.55062/ Only 6mm at most. Compared to old gameboy carts, that's nothing. Hardly sticks out any more than Yoshi Topsy Turvy, a game I sought out specifically for the gyro controls, which the X5 ironically doesn't emulate. done.Link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 https://gbatemp.net/attachments/cme03tkwcaase0q-jpg.55062/ Only 6mm at most. Compared to old gameboy carts, that's nothing. Hardly sticks out any more than Yoshi Topsy Turvy, a game I sought out specifically for the gyro controls, which the X5 ironically doesn't emulate. I think old GameBoy carts sticking out of a GBA are grody too. I know Everdrive is the best, but stuff like this really matters to me (especially on a handheld) so I'm holding out for their next edition in the hopes that they fix this. We really should take the GameBoy talk out of this thread in my opinion. Retro-Bit Generations isn't worthy of washing GameBoy Advance's feet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 https://gbatemp.net/attachments/cme03tkwcaase0q-jpg.55062/ Only 6mm at most. Compared to old gameboy carts, that's nothing. Hardly sticks out any more than Yoshi Topsy Turvy, a game I sought out specifically for the gyro controls, which the X5 ironically doesn't emulate. Link? I think old GameBoy carts sticking out of a GBA are grody too. I know Everdrive is the best, but stuff like this really matters to me (especially on a handheld) so I'm holding out for their next edition in the hopes that they fix this. We really should take the GameBoy talk out of this thread in my opinion. Retro-Bit Generations isn't worthy of washing GameBoy Advance's feet. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/260468-super-retro-boy-other-game-boy-clones/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavica Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Has anyone kept trying roms on this thing? I have not had much time, yesterday I did a bit of testing, and Got NES, SNES, GENESIS, CPS1 games to work, I will try GB, GBC, GBA, Neo Geo and CPS2, MAME next. ANyone know since the controllers are USB, can you just swap the crappy controllers for any USB controller? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted January 3, 2017 Author Share Posted January 3, 2017 ANyone know since the controllers are USB, can you just swap the crappy controllers for any USB controller? Apparently not. This is the final nail in the coffin, IMO. Even being hackable, the RBG is useless if you're tied to its pack-in controller. It might as well be proprietary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavica Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Apparently not. This is the final nail in the coffin, IMO. Even being hackable, the RBG is useless if you're tied to its pack-in controller. It might as well be proprietary. I cant remember if it was in this thread, but someone said when you plug those controllers on the PC, it recognizes them as PS3 controllers, wondering it a PS3 controller would work? I'll test it tonight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 I cant remember if it was in this thread, but someone said when you plug those controllers on the PC, it recognizes them as PS3 controllers, wondering it a PS3 controller would work? I'll test it tonight. Nope. I already tried this. "PS3" is just in the ID for some unknown reason. My Windows 7 doesn't detect PS3 controllers properly, though it does charge them. The controllers really are just clone junk, and unless someone designs a better USB HID controller that clones the ID of the retrobit one, I don't think anything is gonna work. I can't believe that one Youtube reviewer who harped on about how bad the emulation was said the one redeeming quality of the Retrobit clone was the USB controllers. They are garbage. One of mine only responds on the Dpad down if I mash really hard. I feel the dimple sink down but no response onscreen unless I really dial up the thumb pressure. Also why they assigned the Dpad on this POS controller to "point of view hat" instead of X1/Y1 is beyond me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavica Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Nope. I already tried this. "PS3" is just in the ID for some unknown reason. My Windows 7 doesn't detect PS3 controllers properly, though it does charge them. The controllers really are just clone junk, and unless someone designs a better USB HID controller that clones the ID of the retrobit one, I don't think anything is gonna work. I can't believe that one Youtube reviewer who harped on about how bad the emulation was said the one redeeming quality of the Retrobit clone was the USB controllers. They are garbage. One of mine only responds on the Dpad down if I mash really hard. I feel the dimple sink down but no response onscreen unless I really dial up the thumb pressure. Also why they assigned the Dpad on this POS controller to "point of view hat" instead of X1/Y1 is beyond me. So I tried more systems, so far I got to work the following: NES, SNES, GENESIS (.bin), GBA, GBC, GB, CPS1, CPS2, no luck on NEO GEO, MAME, for Master System and TurboGrafx16 it would not even see the files. Of course with the systems that worked, not all games worked, for example on CPS2, I could play Alien vs predator, SF Alpha, but none of the Marvel VS series worked, or Xmen Children of the atom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jojooi812 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 So I tried more systems, so far I got to work the following: NES, SNES, GENESIS (.bin), GBA, GBC, GB, CPS1, CPS2, no luck on NEO GEO, MAME, for Master System and TurboGrafx16 it would not even see the files. Of course with the systems that worked, not all games worked, for example on CPS2, I could play Alien vs predator, SF Alpha, but none of the Marvel VS series worked, or Xmen Children of the atom. I got neo geo working on some roms, ghost pilots, sengoku, art of fighting, fatal fury, some shooters, seemed older neo worked mostly, Cps1 1941, strider worked for me. Not much info out there to guide us , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavica Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I got neo geo working on some roms, ghost pilots, sengoku, art of fighting, fatal fury, some shooters, seemed older neo worked mostly, Cps1 1941, strider worked for me. Not much info out there to guide us , I was pretty sure I tried Fatal Fury with no success. Do you need a bios or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I imagine Retrobit only added enough emulation support for the handful of arcade titles included. Most games listed in fact used the console ports when feasible. The fact Neo Geo works at all is bonus. Does Puzzle Bobble work by any chance? I could care less about their fighter games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Looks like Retro Bit is going to now be selling derivatives of this with cartridge ports. Also coming are Capcom themed USB controllers (In NES, SuperNes, and Genesis styles) as well as Jaleco themed multicarts for the Game Boy, NES, and SuperNes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 HD = HDMI compatible, no more composite. Good move. Here's a bit more detail. The Trio will be $80, the NES clone only $40. http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/01/super_retro_trio_getting_a_hd_upgrade_this_year_nes_top_loader_clone_also_incoming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Looks like Retro Bit is going to now be selling derivatives of this with cartridge ports. Also coming are Capcom themed USB controllers (In NES, SuperNes, and Genesis styles) as well as Jaleco themed multicarts for the Game Boy, NES, and SuperNes. I hope the HD is better than the Gamerz Tek clone: Published on Dec 21, 2016 You get what you pay for! Painfully broken audio, graphical glitches abound, left side chopped, generally blurry mess. Gamepad doesn't work on Paperboy, Gauntlet backgrounds screwed up, etc. All standard NOAC bugs of something made as cheap as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vw57drvr Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 That video looks stretched which makes any retro games look awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 I hope the HD is better than the Gamerz Tek clone: That's the first thing I thought of. Is it an ACTUAL HDMI signal, or a composite signal plugged into an HDMI Adapter? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Chances are that it's just Retro-Bit Generations guts powering each system, so I was mostly posting it for amusement value only. If they could get a decently upscaled HDMI output from a SNES-on-a-chip though, I'd buy one. I thought the accuracy of the SuperNes side of the Retro Duo was excellent, but I'd bet money that it's similar hardware to their plug and play, powering the exact same lackluster SuperNes (And Genesis and NES) emulators. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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