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| haloofthesun:
--- Quote from: oldgamerz on July 02, 2020, 06:42:40 pm ---I don't have a retro freak but I would however recommend a Retron 2 but only if you have an old CRT television since their is no default HDMI port, at least in the one I own. The Retron 2 only plays (NA) NES and SNES cartridges --- End quote --- Nah, I have an actual NES and SNES so I wouldn't bother with a Retron 2 since that offers nothing for me. In my current setup, I don't have room for all of my retro consoles out which is why I'm looking for a condensed alternative, otherwise I'd just use the real thing. --- Quote from: byron on July 02, 2020, 11:23:49 pm --- --- Quote from: kingrat101 on July 02, 2020, 05:23:45 pm ---Japanese consoles will work fine in the US. --- End quote --- For a while... US/JP power converters are cheap. really not worth slowly burning your console up to save the few extra bucks you would spend on one. --- End quote --- What would you recommend? |
| byron:
This is just the first one I found Googling "100v power converter." Anything like this is probably fine. 200W is way more capacity than you need. For all this effort though, I would just use emulators on a computer hooked up to the TV. All these retro thingies are just the popular free emulators in a plastic box. |
| haloofthesun:
Can't really get a computer over to the TV in my current setup. Space is pretty limited. Plus for the kids just having a console they can just turn on and play is easier than teaching them how to set up and use emulators since they're young. The cost of this is not too far off from buying a cheapo computer, which is what I'd have to do, but the convenience and more compact nature of a console makes it more appealing. Plus I don't want to go looking for roms for everything. I'd rather just play the games I own. |
| oldgamerz:
--- Quote from: haloofthesun on July 03, 2020, 05:45:59 pm ---Can't really get a computer over to the TV in my current setup. Space is pretty limited. Plus for the kids just having a console they can just turn on and play is easier than teaching them how to set up and use emulators since they're young. The cost of this is not too far off from buying a cheapo computer, which is what I'd have to do, but the convenience and more compact nature of a console makes it more appealing. Plus I don't want to go looking for roms for everything. I'd rather just play the games I own. --- End quote --- If I were you I would just stick to consoles gaming for the younger children. Plus as I said before on this site, ROM's are really not all that great, on PC. sure most of them are free to download and use, but some of them can have issues, plus you can sometimes get malware on your computer. from using a lot of a pirated game ROM, And even with Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware software you are still not safe from a lot of unknown malware, because those programs don't find everything. and a lot of Malware will do things to your computer you don't want to deal with, like being locked out of files, a frozen computer that will do nothing after you boot it or become vary slow. (etc), plus I ran across a Mike Tyson Punchout ROM once that was Impossible to pass a certain character. The "Hippo King" In short I used to download ROM's but I no longer do. (edit) I got some Atari ROMs for my portable device on an SD card but that is it, and I only got them because they were legal from AtariAge Forums |
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