Z28James
19 de marzo de 2014
Bought this to keep the "miles" off of my originals and for a "garage" setup.
This console claims to play NES and SNES games and I've found it to do so well. I've essentially bought it so for a few reasons. I have a big CRT TV in my garage I'd like to play NES/SNES (my consoles are inside) and I'd love to preserve my original consoles. After doing a painful amount of research I had learned that the retro duo was the most compatible out of the current lineup of clones. They all seem to have a fatal flaw and in this case it had been said that the NES sound was a bit wacky. Almost like the sound is distorted from being over driven. I had actually bought the parts needed to "fix" the sound on the NES side. I'm not sure if later version 3.0 models we're revised but the sound for the NES sounds pretty clean and very close to the original. No mod needed. I'm more than satisfied with the NES performance. I actually pulled my apart and the NES on a chip is much different then the pictures I had seen online. It appears they have improved it although I did notice that Castlevania III no longer works.The SNES side is wonderful. You would be hard pressed to find irregularities on the SNES capability.You know what else is pretty cool about this? It uses SNES ports and this has a benefit to the NES side as well. Both the NES and SNES used the same gamepad controller chip. If you're handy with wiring you can pick up an NES and a SNES extension cable, cut them open, match the colors and splice it back together to make yourself an adapter to use an NES controller.The included controllers are not bad and can get you by but I'd recommend you round up the originals for sure.The game slots themselves tend to really hug the cartridges. Especially the NES. The fix that I ended up with was to just keep my game genie in the slot so I'm not wrecking the console itself.You should really make it a point to find the originals but this clone console is not bad!EDIT: I decided to do a side by side comparison of Super Mario Bros. and Kickle Cubicle. The Retro Duo is spot on. Sound and all.I also decided to create an NES to SNES adapter so that I could plug in an NES controller. Fortunately, the SNES gamepad has the same gamepad microcontroller as the NES except that it has two of them to drive the extra buttons. This means they are essentially the same. I purchased a Retro-Bit SNES 6-Feet Extension Cable and an NES extension cable also by retro-bit. The wire coloring differs from the authentic NES/SNES wiring. Here is how they are laid out:NES extension cablePin # / Color1 brown2 orange3 black4 red5 yellow6 blue7 greenSNES extension cablePin # / Color1 green2 blue3 yellow4 red7 blackHere is how you need to wire them together:SNES Side / NES Sidegreen / yellowblue / orangeyellow / blackred / redblack / brownThat's all. Now you can use a NES controller to play your NES games with the retro duo.Source of NES/SNES pin layout: [...]Ver másVer menos
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