Hyperkin RetroN 5: HD Gaming Console for Game Boy Advance/ Game Boy Color/ Game Boy/ Super NES/ NES/ Super Famicom/ Famicom/ Genesis/ Mega Drive/ Sega Master System (Black)

I have been playing video games for over 35 years and have had just about every system ever available so i played a few games in my time.I have to say the Sega Genesis was always my favorite but i did have a SNES and i loved to play import games from Japan so i modified both systems.It use to be the games would come out about 6 months early in Japan before they made it to the states.When i looked at the RetroN 5 i watched many You Tube videos first on good and what seemed to be more bad from games not working to having a very hard time getting the carts out of the system.Then there was how cheap it was made so the day i ordered it i decided to cancel but they said it was to late.So got it in a day and and finally opened it up and it looked really good nothing like i read.I will say right up front the controller is a waste go right to a sega or snes one from the start.Easy to hook up and it really is pretty cool how once you put a game in it loads it up and the game name come up at the top and you are ready to play.I changed the sound for more bass and treble and the size of the picture and found i filter i like.You must know the games do not look like anything you would see on a PS4 or Xbox One but there really is a much brighter and clear picture so the HD 720 really helps.I only had some problems when loading the NES games some worked some did not but i was ok with that but the Genesis & SNES i have no complaints.And if you place a hand on either side of the cart and pull one side up first it comes out so easy.I think it was the first style that had the to tight of a grip on the games this is great.I like going from game to game and how you can use a snes controller for a Genesis game this is a great option.I think they got it down now and they know what they are doing and i would have no problem telling a friend to buy one.I always liked Japanese Import games the Super Famicom & Sega Mega Drive so today i bought some Famicom games and that is a big feature about this system able to play all these systems.It is so nice you put the game in and it loads fast and you are ready to play.I did have one baseball game lock up no big deal and what is really nice is you can play a game and stop at a certain point in the game take the game out to play something else and the next time you play you have the option to pick up where you left off.I tried it on a HD 55" 1080p TV but i felt it just did not look right so i moved it to a HD 37" 720 and it looks perfect.It's fun again playing all of my favorite ones when i was growing up but most up all its super to see a much better picture.The one big thing i liked from the games back then was only a few buttons to play so simple not like today's games with 9 buttons on one controller and just to much to do.I did realize on how long it has been since i played and i SUCK and that i need to play more and i will.If you have doubts like i did for a long time trust me it has brought a smile to my face.

Having a HD tv my childhood systems show high detail of pixels. As a kid I never noticed this (maybe those 80's tv's smoothed the edges of our games by blurring everything) and only seen what the objects as they were meant to be seen. The retron 5 makes your games look like you remember them.The filters are great (I only use one) and forcing a refresh rate of 60hz the game play is smooth while my controller's response is 100% spot on (great I can use my snes controller to play nes games). So far all my games work (not the game genie for any system) and the controllers work as well (didn't use the retron 5 controller cause I don't care to).The only thing that would have made this the greatest system ever is if sega master system, Sega Game Gear, N64, Game cube and atari games played on it. I can only hope the next system will have this feature (which I will pre-order again).Now I'm not saying that the $200 + price tag is worth it (I lucked up an locked it in at $99 pre-order) but if you really are bummed about the next gen system's lack of games and you have a huge 8/16 bit collection then getting one of these is pretty much up there with eating.I have never owned a Hyperkin retro system, mostly because it only played 2 system games and the picture quality/reviews were not so great. I'm just really glad I bought this, haven't turned on the ps3, ps4, 360. or x-1 since I've got it. I haven't even played the wii u with games I've downloaded on it now that I can replay the carts with better graphics.To clear up something, Yes I've got a wii and can play game cube games, plus I can hook up any of my old systems to play those games as well but this system brings old games up to date. My n64 looks pretty bad on an HDTV and even though my snes looks pretty good, along with my nes, it is unbelievable what this system has done to cart style games.(UPDATE) didn't make it. JAN 10 2016 died. Will not turn on.

This all-in-one package is a really great deal for playing almost all NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, and Game Boy Advance games. It plays games for the Japanese Famicom and Super Famicom as well. You can use any of the original controllers for the NES, SNES, or Genesis as well, which is good because the pack-in controller is not very good. The emulation is incredible, with a good selection of visual filters to get the best look on modern TVs depending on the game and your preference. Running through HDMI makes the games look very crisp, and very easy to hook up to any modern display and widely used capture devices like the Elgato Game Capture HD line of products, so it's great for streaming and content creation on top of just being a great way to play your old games on a new TV. Thanks to how the system handles playing your games, you can apply translation patches as well, saving money on retro games which can be much cheaper to buy the Japanese game, even in genres with lots of text. Best of all, it has saves independently on the hardware, so even if your games have dead batteries and can't normally save, you can play them hassle-free without having to replace the battery on the cartridge.Overall, I highly recommend replacing the controller with a different one, either another Bluetooth controller like from 8bitdo or any of Hyperkin's other aftermarket controllers for SNES or Genesis, but after that, this gives you a sleek all-in-one console to play many retro games so you can have a convenient, overall good package to play those games on modern TVs either for pure enjoyment or capturing or streaming gameplay.If you have lots of retro games on consoles this supports and want a good way to play them all together, with original controllers, and anything mentioned previously appeals to you, this is a great pickup.