Sega Game Gear Home console system ....

[QuickSciFi]

Please explain how "It would be nice if people learned" is a personal insult when it is clearly not directed at anyone in particular. Even if it was targeted at you, how is being expected to learn something an insult? Maybe your feelings are easily bruised. Somehow being "insulted" also gives you the excuse to specifically attack me and call me stupid, which I never did to begin with. Pretty impressive for a 37 year old man to act like a 16 year old.

Let's take another look at the point I apparently missed.



I'm not concerned with addressing the cartridge damaging adapter because there isn't anything that needs to be corrected there.

What I have issue with "Not interested whatsoever in using straight-up roms. I have plenty of phone apps that do that just fine." There is zero technical difference between using real carts on a RetroN5 and using ROMs on a phone emulator, ZERO. They are both emulators. If having your cartridges damaged is a concern for you, there will be nothing lost in using ROM files on the same software emulator. All I was trying to do was provide information for you. Clearly you don't appreciate information.

Why is this so hard to comprehend without having to insult me?

You assume too much. And you clearly know less than me about ROMs. And even less about letting others have their own fucking choices. I want to play my games using my own carts and I don't give a shit if you have any "issues" with that or what you have to say about it.

You're being a dick. And sheepishly trying to pass it off as me being too easily insulted is a lame excuse for the troll that you are. Seriously, I've let your imbecile insults go by, but you're not 16 years old anymore, dude. Grow the fuck up and learn to interact with others.

Seriously, I already told you you're not helping. Feel free to gtfo.

[Guntz]

And you clearly know less than me about ROMs.

Says the guy who thinks using cartridges on an emulator box is better than ROM files.

The only one throwing insults around is the 37 year old man calling me a dick. Grow the fuck up and learn to not take things so personally on the internet.

[Gogogadget]

The Retron 5 is a piece of shit.

Use ROMs on Genesis Plus GX or whatever, or mod a game gear. Just avoid the Retron 5 like the damn plague.

[QuickSciFi]

Says the guy who thinks using cartridges on an emulator box is better than ROM files.

The only one throwing insults around is the 37 year old man calling me a dick. Grow the fuck up and learn to not take things so personally on the internet.

That you infer that wanting to play using my own cartridges is the same as "thinking" it's "better" just accentuates just how much of an imbecile you are. It's. A. Fucking. Choice.

Again, like I told you first, grow the fuck up, and learn not to be intolerant of other's choices. You have yours. I have mine. Deal with it.

[QuickSciFi]

The Retron 5 is a piece of shit.

Use ROMs on Genesis Plus GX or whatever, or mod a game gear. Just avoid the Retron 5 like the damn plague.

Yeah. My first choice is to consolize a Game Gear. I know of a dude that used to sell them on eBay for like $300; with some warranty on his part. Then when I had the cash, he stepped it up to like $500. But I don't know if I wanted to shell-out that much for such a project.

Do you own a Retron 5? What can you tell me about it from your personal experience with it?

Thanks in advance.

[Gogogadget]

I don't know one, but a friend does and I had some experience with it and my main points of contention...

It's an emulator box: Like okay, it has cartridge slots and it emulates games. Okay, like most people have a piece of hardware in their home that without being able to 'read' carts (more like dump the carts and load the roms it's dumped) it can emulate just as good as the Retron 5, if not better. Actually if you don't care much about 'reading' your own carts the Raspberry Pi is cheaper, and superior, and plays PS1 games too.

Since it dumps carts, it doesn't read the save properly on the actual cart: For me, the only reason you'd ever use an emulator box that read carts is because maybe you have that old Pokemon or Super Metroid with a save file on? It will copy over just fine and you can continue where you left off. Can you then copy that save back over to the cartridge? No. You cannot. Some people even said it completely wiped their carts so you'd probably have a mini anxiety attack playing a game with battery backup either way (although I can't recall a single Game Gear game that uses battery backup, and apparently this was fixed but in my old experience it did not copy saves)

The controller sucks: It's just shit. You can use controllers from actual consoles that's cool, but the pack-in controller is just terrible.

It feels cheap: The controller feels cheap. The console itself feels like cheap plastic. The cartridge ports seem to be cut a bit too small and it's always a tight fit. Nothing feels like any sort of care was put into it and it's just not really a joy to use or look at. For some people this will be a total non-issue but I can't stand cheap looking and feeling electronics. I certainly wouldn't want to risk damaging my carts yanking on them to get them out the cartridge ports.

[QuickSciFi]

Thanks. That pretty much sums up how I feel about it and my experience with it as well (short of having a friend, and more about using it multiple times at retro gaming stores to test out games and such.

I wouldn't be using it for anything other than to play my Game Gear games, though. And since I don't own one, I was wondering what folks were saying regarding cartridges being "damaged" with it. I don't know why I thought it was more than just tight pin connectors. I really don't like emulation at all. But the quality of too many GG games simply call for a better screen than the OG Game Gear provided. I haven't decided anything yet anyways. But thank you. I will keep you all posted.

[Guntz]

That you infer that wanting to play using my own cartridges is the same as "thinking" it's "better" just accentuates just how much of an imbecile you are. It's. A. Fucking. Choice.

Again, like I told you first, grow the fuck up, and learn not to be intolerant of other's choices. You have yours. I have mine. Deal with it.

Yes, and ordering a well done steak at a fancy steak house is a choice too. A dumb choice, but a choice nonetheless.

Not that you care about what I know, but I post a lot at NintendoAge and everyone there has said the same thing about the RetroN5, it is junk and it will die on you sooner or later. Often the cartridge slots stop working, or a firmware update causes games to no longer load, or it straight up stops turning on.

But don't take my word for it, read this thread (disappointment happens during page 3):

http://vintage.nintendoage.com/forum...hreadid=173110

[QuickSciFi]

Yes, and ordering a well done steak at a fancy steak house is a choice too. A dumb choice, but a choice nonetheless.

Yes. It's a choice. That you call it dumb, just makes you intolerant of that choice.

Not that you care about what I know, but I post a lot at NintendoAge and everyone there has said the same thing about the RetroN5, it is junk and it will die on you sooner or later. Often the cartridge slots stop working, or a firmware update causes games to no longer load, or it straight up stops turning on.

But don't take my word for it, read this thread (disappointment happens during page 3):

http://vintage.nintendoage.com/forum...hreadid=173110

As long as you can manage to distinguish criticism of the product from resorting to insults, I do care.

I've never been a fan of the Retron 5, or any sort of hardware emulation for that matter.
The thread title and OG Post says it all. And that's really what I'm looking for. A way to play my Game Gear games on my TV.

@Gogo:
I'm thinking another compromise for me would be to do an LCD screen mod. But that would only be temporary.

Here's that product I'm really looking to get; now at $600 Buy it Now http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sega-Game-Ge...kAAOSw~y9ZCS3j

[cleeg]

That Game Gear looks amazing! Really tempting... Although not played much latterly I regret selling my old one.

[Gogogadget]

I would like to upgrade my Game Gear to have a fancy new LCD screen...

but i'm European, where the SMS didn't die for a few more years following the US so most of the best games are on that too, except for GG Shinobi and the likes.

And RetroArch takes care of that

[Rustybolts]

I own a retron 5 and also original hardware megadrive, gameboy, gba etc. I use. My retron in another room, I have no issues with build quality I have owned a couple of years now with no issue, and my retron certainly does not have any issues with tight cart ports, perhaps this was a first batch problem. I can use original control pads with it, so although original pad is ok and usable, I can also use superior original pads. I can also back up my save games using the retron from cartridge to sd cart and can also restore at a later date, which is cool if I need to replace any batteries in my carts. You can apply patches to your games for example playing megadrive streetfighter with sound patch. People love to moan about the Retron 5 jumping on the bandwagon with "ahh but it uses other peoples emulators without authors permissions etc" heard from the same peoples mouths that are advocates for playing roms on emulators, pot calling the kettle black springs to mind.
Anyways rant over the retron 5 has its uses

[QuickSciFi]

^thanks for the imput.

Have u tried the GG adapter yet?

[Rustybolts]

Unfortunately I have not, but I have used a master system adapter in the megadrive cart slot which works perfectly. If I had a gamegear collection I'd be all over it in a shot, it looks like its currently the nicest way to play your gamegear carts without modding or paying someone to mod original hardware. Coupled with a master system controller or even a megadrive pad, I think it would be pretty sweet.

[QuickSciFi]

Those are nice, but the Power Base Converters don't play Game Gear carts, unfortunately. So that leaves out the GG exclusives.