Retron 77 Review - HDMI Output w/ Built In Disappointment
10Subscribe to Mistah MegaManFan for new content daily! Shout out to Stone Age Gamer for putting the Retron 77 on sale for Black Friday. I've been hesitant to try it until now since I didn't really need the solution it was offering. I have a CRT with an AV modded Atari 7800, and I have a vintage Atari 2600 hooked up to a Commodore 1702 monitor, so I was already well set for ways to play my old Atari carts. The idea of a device to play Atari VCS games on that has HDMI output intrigued me though, but I was fully aware going in that the Retron 77 is emulator based as opposed to being either real hardware or a FPGA recreation of the original circuitry and TIA. I can't say I regret my purchase, but given that it can't play either homebrew carts or games with enhancement chips (like Pitfall II) through the physical port, expect disappointment. You'll have to dump the roms and play them via the memory card, and if you're already doing emulation at that point, why not do it a less cumbersome way? Thanks for watching.
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