portable sega genesis

[xan_racketBOY_fan]

This reminds me, I've got to snap pictures of my Genmobile's innards for Hobie's sake.

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

What does the Nomad go for and is it worth it? Do you get a decent battery life out of it in both rechargable and regular?

While I'm at it, does anyone know what the name of the portable NES system is and same questions apply as the Nomad? Thanks!

[vlame]

hyperkin FCmobile - newer
game axe - older

prolly some other ones but i think these are the main ones.

[xan_racketBOY_fan]

You guys should consider the Genmobile design flaw that Hobie pointed out in this thread:

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 29#p504929

Not so much as a design flaw - more like unnecessary force being applied when inserting or removing a cart. The only things flawed or (of course) sound emulation, and the crummy dpad (impossible to perform a Hadoken).

[retrosportsgamer]

What does the Nomad go for and is it worth it? Do you get a decent battery life out of it in both rechargable and regular?

Nomad's rechargable batteries need to be re-celled but regardless I don't believe the life is very good. I just use an AC adapter with it.

I bought mine a while back, it was part of a sega bundle that was 50ish IIRC. They are not terribly expensive.

[Hobie-wan]

Not so much as a design flaw - more like unnecessary force being applied when inserting or removing a cart.

The socket should be secured by more than just the soldered pins. Those tiny surface resistors shouldn't have been so close to the frame of the plug where they'd get sheared off if someone did push or pull too little hard. A little safety in case of over eagerness.

[xan_racketBOY_fan]

I see. After taking it apart for the photos, I gave the cart slot a little stress test and it feels pretty solid. Did that picture help, btw?

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

Ok so which one of these would you recommend:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Retro-Mini-X-Po ... 027wt_1165

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FC-MOBILE-2-II- ... 826wt_1398

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Retro-Mini-Port ... 061wt_1165

[hashiriya1]

What does the Nomad go for and is it worth it? Do you get a decent battery life out of it in both rechargable and regular?

I get a few hours out of my Nomad per charge. I have a modded LCD screen tho, so that makes a big difference.

[Gunstar Green]

RetroGen and Genmobile are your best choices right now for portable clones. Both have pretty terrible sound but the games play fine. I prefer the slightly larger screen of the RetroGen but really the units are pretty identical except with the GenMobile having 15 built in ROMs, the RetroGen has its own games built in and all of them are very bad.

I have trouble playing the Majesco re-releases on them and some of the more graphics intensive games suffer a lot of slowdown. Other than that they're pretty dirt cheap and okay for quick play sessions.