The Retrode 2 in good company
Welcome to retrode.org! On this website, we will collect all things useful and fun around the Retrode, the world’s bestest USB adapter for vintage video games. Expect the following and more to show up in the near future:
- User Stories. We have a growing team of editors who will take care of user-provided content. Do you have a retro-gaming project that you want to share? Tutorials, other useful bits of information? We’ll do our best to feature them on this website. Just drop a line to editors@retrode.org, and make sure to include as much information as possible. If you have pictures and/or a video, don’t forget to include them!
- Documentation Repository. We keep on extending our collection of documentation about the Retrode, including troubleshooting hints, how-tos and lots of useful information about your Retrode.
- Community Forum. Once again, [lulemurfan] built us a nice forum. Meet your fellow Retrode enthusiasts in here!
- Development Blog / General Announcements. As always, we will blog about the latest news and behind-the-scenes stuff.
If you have never heard of the Retrode, or are interested in buying one, make sure to check out the new product site, retrode.COM!
Note: As of December 2011, some information provided on this website still refers to the original Retrode and may no longer be valid for the current model. Please give us some time to get everything up to date.
The USB part of the Retrode firmware is based on the LUFA library by Dean Camera (license). Thanks Dean for this fine piece of code!
Have you/ever thought about a retrode community forum? Would be quite cool to discuss things and learn about other peoples projects.
Great, a volunteer! :D
I imagine this would make sense as a subforum somewhere else. Any ideas?
I could have a look at my web service, its got unlimited bandwidth.
That would be awesome. Or, we could see if we can get a category in some existing retro gaming forum (where there would be some participants to begin with). Anyway, if you get something done, make sure to send me a link!
Would the Retrode work with the Famicom Disk System?
No way :)
Is there any particular reason, wouldn’t it just be like any normal game?
No, completely different business technically. Plus, I’d rather focus on relevant things :)
Although it seems that non-SA1 carts will generally work, here’s another batch of compatible SNES and Super Famicom games:
Alien³ (PAL/E/8)
Contra Spirits (NTSC/J/8)
Earthworm Jim (PAL/E/32/HiROM)
International Superstar Soccer Deluxe (PAL/E/16)
Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour (PAL/D/4)
Mickey Mania (PAL/E/16)
Space Megaforce (NTSC/U/8)
Super R-Type (NTSC/J/8)
Super Street Fighter II (PAL/E/32/HiROM)
The Lost Vikings II (PAL/E/8)
Theme Park (PAL/E/8)
I think testing the following SNES/SFC cartridges would be more interesting since they own chips for data decompression/conversion:
Dungeon Master (DSP-2)
SD Gundam GX (DSP-3)
Star Ocean (SDD-1)
Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 2 (SDD-1)
Far East of Eden Zero (SPC7110)
Momotaro Dentetsu Happy (SPC7110)
Super Power League 4 (SPC7110)
More compatible games:
SUPER NES
Actraiser 2 (E)
Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball (U)
Demon’s Crest (E)
Super Castlevania IV (U)
Weapon Lord (E)
MEGA DRIVE/GENESIS
Aero Blasters (J) (kein Header)
Atomic Runner (E)
Comix Zone (E)
Contra: The Hard Corps (J)
Dynamite Headdy (J)
Ecco: The Tides of Time (E)
Elemental Master (J)
Flink (E)
Gaiares (JU)
Gunstar Heroes (E)
Gynoug (E)
Mega Turrican (E)
Rocket Knight Adventures (E)
Steel Empire (UE)
The Revenge of Shinobi (W)
Thunder Force III (JU)
ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron (U)
Sadly also more incompatible games:
MEGA DRIVE/GENESIS
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (U) (emulator only shows black screen/ColdFace already posted this one)
Darius II (J) (does not fit into slot/normal japanese cartridges barely fit)
Sadly also more incompatible games:Resolved, thank you for your help!
I see the new poll on the left Matthias, and i really want a GB/C interface screw the gba for now, that can wait! I want to dump some undumped games which I have! All of GBA has been dumped but GB/C hasn’t we need to help the rom world grow strong my friend! STRONGER THAN EVER!! Mwahaha.
> All of GBA has been dumped
Really? Where? Do I hear illegal? :)
Nah I’m just archiving. ;-)
But to complete said archive, such a device is required for my
GB/C games as it has already been completed with GBA :-D
Hey
I just got my retrode over the weekend. It is great!!!!. I have a little over 100 gen and snes games to test. I spot checked about 20 games and all but 2 worked. I think those will work after I clean the carts better.
Once I finish testing I will pop a list up if people are interested
I went through all 127 games (50 SNES and 77 GEN). (All USA games)
Great news all of them worked except for 3 games. The 3 games work in their respective systems but I could never get the retrode to read them. The games that would not work are the following
Gen -> Sonic 3 and Virtual Racing (We already knew Virtual racing would not work)
SNES -> Kirby’s Dreamland 3
I did have a few other issues with a few games (9 games) were the emulator always returned an incorrect checksum but I played the games through the retrode for several hours and they work fine. The following are the games with the checksum errors. These games do work fine though
Snes -> Super Metroid
GEN -> Blaster Master 2, Gain Ground, Sagaia, Quack shot staring Donald Duck, Splatter house 2, Splatter house 3, Zombies Ate my Neighbors, Lightening Force
next post will have list of all games that work
Game that work
Gen
After Burner 2
Aladdin
Alien 3
Alter Beast
Arrow Flash
Atomic Runner
Batman
Batman Revenge of the Joker
Bio Hazard Battle
Blaster Master 2
Bonanza Bros
Botukon
Castlevania Bloodlines
Chakan
Two crude dudes
Comix Zone
Contra Harcorps
Earth worm jim
Earthworm jim 2
Ecco the tides of time
Fatal Fury
Flashback
Gain Ground
Ghost busters
Ghouls and Ghosts
Greendog the beached surfer dude
Gunstar Heros
Hard Drivin
Haunting
Heavy Nova
Hellfire
Jurasic Park Rampage edition
Kid Chameleon
Landstalker
Light Crusader
Ligtening Force
Mercs
Michael Jackson Moonwalkers
Mickey Mouse
Quack Shot staring donald duck
Raiden Trad
Rambo 3
Ranger X
Robocop versus Termniator
Rocket Knight adventures
Sagaia
Samurai Shodown
Shadowrun
Shinobi 3 return of the
Skeleton Krew
Sonic and Knuckles
Sonic 1
Sonic 2
Sparkster
Splatterhouse 2
Splatterhouse 3
Star trek the next generation
Street fighter championship edition
Streets of rage 1
Streets of rage 2
Streets of rage 3
Sub terrania
Sword of Sodan
T2 the arcade game
Teenage mutant ninja turtles the hyperstone case
The adventures of batman and robin
Tods adventure in slimeworld
Tyrants
vectorman
World of illusion
X-men
X-men 2
Zero Tolerance
Snes
Actrasier
Axelay
Batman Returns
contra 3
Cybernator
Donkey kong country 1
Donkey kong country 2
Donkey kong country 3
Final fantasy Mystic quest
Final Fantasy 3
Final fight 1
Final fight 2
Flashback
Indiana Jones greatest Adventures
Jurasic Park
Killer Instinct
Spider Man Maximum carnage
Mystic Ninja
Nosferatu
Out of this world
Secret of evermore
secret of mana
Shadow run
smash TV
star Fox
Star Trek Starfleet Aca
Street fighter 2
Street fighter 2 turbo
stunt race FX
Super Castlevanina 4
Super Double dragon
Super Empire Strikes back
Super Ghouls and Ghost
Super Return of the jedi
Super Mario allstars
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Super Star Wars
The ignition factor
The legend of zelda
TMNT 4 Turtles in time
Ultraman
UNSquadron
Wanders from Ys 3
Wild Guns
X-men mutant acp
Yoshi’s Island
System for Testing
Brand New Alienware M11x with windows 7 64 bit 8 gigs of, 256 gig solid State drive (had to do something with it :) )
Emulators
Fusion 3.6 for Genesis
zsnes 1.5.1 for snes
Excellent, thank you!
Just got Sonic 3 to work. It requires the Sonic2+Knuckles mod and a firmware update. Kirby 3 has the SA-1 chip and hence won’t work, sadly.
Hey just a quick question, I missed the pre-order period but I would still like to buy a retrode. The thing is I cant seem to find anywhere to order one. Where would I be able to order one?
Thanks
The first production run of Retrodes is currently being made, and in a few weeks I will start taking regular orders. Since you’re already on the mailing list, you will be notified.
I’m building an oldtime console pc case mod and this would work perfect for it. Let me know as soon as it’s available or how to build one myself, I’ll pay for the specs and files. Please get NES games working too.
Hae,
This stuff is rather nice :D Beats the hell out of my LPT driven CartDisk inspired MultiPurposeComuterPeripheral which typical use is dumping MD games and wiriting various memory chips ;)
I won’t be getting one of your devices since I already have something that will do the job, but things like that are always great and I wish you best of luck getting this available to as many people as possible :D
Hi
really nifty thing you put thogheter there mate , i am living in sweden and i would really love to have your homemade thing to play snes games , is it possible to buy it from you.
please contact me either tru mail or my homepage
best regards Andreaz “kungsfiskaren” Sjoberg
Say I have a Super Game Boy. Would it work with this (once made)?
BJ
Probably not, since the Super Game Boy is not a ROM cartridge but a coprocessor (mind you that it has a full Game Boy inside and only outputs the video/audio data to the SNES). However, reading Game Boy cartridges directly is of course technically possible. Naturally, the snega2usb won’t include connectors for all game cartridges in existence, but I imagine it should be no big deal to add support for other systems later, using mechanical adapters and firmware updates.
How about GeneSNES?