A somewhat awkward thing about the Retrode has always been how huge its case is — particularly when compared to the little amount of electronics contained in it. Well, I guess this just comes naturally, given the size of the vintage cartridges the Retrode has to accommodate. On the other hand, I always wondered what [...]
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Final Funding Status:129.3%(EUR 7757)128 units preordered. Last updated:2011-07-1 0:22 UTC Preordering has closed. Wow, what a success! My sincere thanks go out to everyone who contributed either by ordering, or by spreading the word. I am looking forward to sending out these units as soon as they are finished. Want to know when and [...] Only a few envelopes left to send out, then there are 250 Retrodes out there in the wild, along with roughly 13,500 painstakingly handmade solder joints worth of plug-ins. I’ll keep some parts for warranty replacements and the occasional contest. All in all, the project meant lots more work than I had been anticipating, but [...] Dear friends in the Greater Boston area, I’ll be coming to Cambridge in a little bit, and figured this might be a nice opportunity to meet local Retrode users and chat about this and that over a beer. I will bring my Retrode, a bunch of SNES gamepads and a laptop, so if you have any [...] The good news: the plug-in adapters look gorgeous. See: The PCB and connector manufacturers really did a great job, I am more than pleased with the quality. Even better, they also work as they should :-) Here are the final specs: Plug-in adapter for A2600 carts I am currently investigating a case where the Retrode doesn’t seem to work the way it should. In particular, it appears as if under MacOS, write accesses to the Retrode (config file, SRAM) are sometimes ignored and the files are not written correctly. For instance, after saving the config file from a text editor and [...] I told you that our first mini-contest was going to be a hard nut, and it certainly took some odd technical thinking to crack it. Amazingly enough, 8 folks found out the solution, which is (drum roll)… |
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