RetroGen Review - Play Genesis/MD games...on your SNES!?

[Satoshi_Matrix]

Hey guys thought you might be interested in taking a look at a pretty cool recent clone called the RetroGen. What's so special about it? It lets you play your Genesis or Megadrive games.....on your SNES.



I'll have a written review up soon as well.

[d123456]

Like I said in your other thread, very misleading.
You could play ps3 games on a Atari 2600 using this method.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

here's the full written review.

http://satoshimatrix.wordpress.com/2012 ... en-review/

[pakopako]

I remember this from a few months back. What an odd peripheral.

I figure it's selling point was the shock value of seeing a Genesis cart sticking out from a SNES because if you could bypass the cart-port, you could probably create an AC-adapter plug on the "converter" itself.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

I suppose, but the SNES is still needed to interface for controller input.

[Gunstar Green]

Now there's two clones named the RetroGen. This and that shoddy handheld system.

[Hobie-wan]

I'm going to stop watching your videos because you keep blowing into carts which damaged them. You're reinforcing the terrible habit of blowing in carts. You don't even need to blow into them anyway. Proper cart edge plugs never had the problem that the NES ZIF connector did.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

I do clean my carts properly with Isopropyl and q-tips plus a clean eraser, but even so every now and then dust will still build up and require blowing. I've been doing this to the same game cartridges for in many cases over two decades and I haven't ever had any issue or felt I'm damaging them in any such way.

I do understand the theory of why people say it might be potentially harmful, but honestly I just feel it's a popular myth built up around all the problems of the ZIF bay of the NES and Nintendo telling us all to buy their cleaning kits.

I've bought some games, N64, NES, Genesis, you name it - in completely disastrous conditions. Some have been burnt, caked on with mud, years old dried coke syrup, spider webs, pebbles, whatever. With all but a single exception, I've been able to restore all of those games back to working condition just by using a cloth and then blowing on the contacts.

I'm a firm believer in that infrequent moderate blowing on cartridges does no harm whatsoever.

[brandman]

I do clean my carts properly with Isopropyl and q-tips plus a clean eraser, but even so every now and then dust will still build up and require blowing. I've been doing this to the same game cartridges for in many cases over two decades and I haven't ever had any issue or felt I'm damaging them in any such way.

I do understand the theory of why people say it might be potentially harmful, but honestly I just feel it's a popular myth built up around all the problems of the ZIF bay of the NES and Nintendo telling us all to buy their cleaning kits.

I've bought some games, N64, NES, Genesis, you name it - in completely disastrous conditions. Some have been burnt, caked on with mud, years old dried coke syrup, spider webs, pebbles, whatever. With all but a single exception, I've been able to restore all of those games back to working condition just by using a cloth and then blowing on the contacts.

I'm a firm believer in that infrequent moderate blowing on cartridges does no harm whatsoever.

If you do clean like you say you do than good; but that does not require blowing on the carts. You can't blow hard enough to knock dust out anyways. Just clean the carts the correct way and abandon this barbaric form of "upkeep". When you blow into the carts, you're also blowing your saliva in there as well, along with other problems that can arise.

Just say NO to doing it. And if a game screws up just turn the console off, remove the cart, reinsert the cart, turn the console back on, repeat if necessary. This will work most of the time, unless the connectors just need to be cleaned, in which case once again, blowing on it will not help.

Well at least your not destroying Shaq-Fu carts...

[Hobie-wan]

I do clean my carts properly with Isopropyl and q-tips plus a clean eraser, but even so every now and then dust will still build up and require blowing. I've been doing this to the same game cartridges for in many cases over two decades and I haven't ever had any issue or felt I'm damaging them in any such way.

Why is there dust building up on your carts? Why aren't you storing them properly?

Blowing in them means (accidentally) spitting on them as well as the humidity and garlic from lunch being breathed all over the carts. You know when you breathe on a mirror and if fogs up? That's moisture in your breath. When you're breathing into a cold winter day and it makes fog? That's moisture on your breath.

I do understand the theory of why people say it might be potentially harmful, but honestly I just feel it's a popular myth built up around all the problems of the ZIF bay of the NES and Nintendo telling us all to buy their cleaning kits.

Faulty logic. At some point, people had left their NES carts out and they did get dusty. They were blown on and worked, but mostly this was because of the crappy ZIF, not the dust. The moisture from blowing all the time might make it contact a little better when damp, but then when it dries, that corrodes. Pure water doesn't conduct electricity, but water with ions and other things dissolved in it does. Just like the 'other things' in the moisture in your breath help temporarily. These things also foster corrosion.

I've bought some games, N64, NES, Genesis, you name it - in completely disastrous conditions. Some have been burnt, caked on with mud, years old dried coke syrup, spider webs, pebbles, whatever. With all but a single exception, I've been able to restore all of those games back to working condition just by using a cloth and then blowing on the contacts.

I'm a firm believer in that infrequent moderate blowing on cartridges does no harm whatsoever.

Well, you're unfortunately wrong and spreading misinformation that harms games is no good. If you clean your systems and carts (barrign extra ZIF maintenance) and keep them put away instead of leaving them on the table or kicked under the couch or whatever, you shouldn't need to keep cleaning them or feeding the circle of failure by breathing on them.