Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Hands-on with Hyperkin's Retron 5: emulating nine classic consoles with help from Android




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Hands-on with Hyperkin's Retron 5: emulating nine classic consoles with help from Android



Hands-on with Hyperkin's Retron 5: emulating nine classic consoles with help from Android



This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo might be all about the next generation of gaming hardware, but not in Hyperkin's E3 booth: these guys are looking backwards. We dropped by to check out the Retron 5, the outfit's latest machine to traverse the library of older gaming titles. All told, this iteration strolls through half a dozen hardware cycles, offering compatibility for a full nine video game systems. It's more than a simple hardware emulator, however -- this machine offers save states, cheats and visual filters too.



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