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Alex Smith

The Retron SQ is SUPERB!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 11 January 2023

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For a tiny console for Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Advance Games, this console can be able to play all the games; Compatibility from what I heard was fair: no repos or custom games.

For a tiny console, it does a great job playing all the games at the right speed.

Tom D.

Wireless Controller Support Finally

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 1 September 2021

Verified Purchase

Hyperkin seems to be their own worst enemy. I finally found the solution for wireless controllers - their own bluetooth adapter, the AlphaStar BT adapter. I first found a picture of a bluetooth adapter in the usb port of the Retron Sq on Hyperkin's web site. After some research I discovered (on their site and Amazon) that now they have listed the AlphaStar BT adapter as compatible with the Retron Sq with their own Scout and other bluetooth controllers. I finally tried the AlphaStar BT adapter and immediatly was able to connect a 8bitDo controller. I have ordered the Scout controller and it should work as well. Unfortunately most of these product are sold out or hard to find. I bought the AlphaStar adapter on Amazon for cheaper than the retail price of $19.99. Hope this helps some people out there whe wanted this info as I could not find any coverage on Youtube or the internet. Overall, the device does what it is supposed to do. Making it bluetooth compatible or giving buyers the info on the Alphastar would have been nice (from the get-go).

5 people found this helpful

Flash Rodman

Buyer beware!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 22 January 2023

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I was interested in this console as a nice way to play GBA carts on a modern TV. I like the small form factor of this unit but held off because I heard it had an issue playing GBA games properly, but I hear this updated version fixed alot of the issues so I took a chance and got it. I was very disappointed to learn it still has many issues playing GBA games. I ran into game freezes and not booting up properly. It also dumps the rom to play which leads to long load times and no way to use your saved files from the orginal cart. The controller is actually nice, but if you want to play GBA games on this unit...LOOK OUT!!

OnFyre

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Won't Load

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 8 April 2021

Verified Purchase

I understand that Gameboy Advance support is beta, and I ordered this unit after seeing some beta videos on YouTube showing the bad framerates on Gameboy Advance games, so I was expecting at least some slowdown, but not outright failure to load games. This unit failed to load Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (a game that would not be unplayable with a framerate drop) and Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. These were the only two carts I have, and I'm afraid to buy more carts out of fear they won't work as well. After applying the Day 1 firmware update (1.1) Lord of the Rings Two Towers loaded, but performed with frame skipping. It is my hope that a firmware update will solve these problems, but I have to say it's a bit rough right out of the gate.

8 people found this helpful

Blane fritz

Cool little system

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 29 January 2022

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Love the little thing just wish it would save to the actual games so I can continue to play them on my gameboy and I wish it would some gameboy advance games

One person found this helpful

jonathan

They was close making a good gba gb gbc console

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 27 February 2022

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Plays gba better now but cant not save reproduction cart games or rom hacks need used keyboard to used save state to save

2 people found this helpful

Alan McCallister

Works with OBS

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 10 June 2021

Verified Purchase

Bought this with the full understanding that the GBA aspect is a work-in-progress. Works with OBS, albeit with just-barely-noticeable latency, perhaps this has to do with piping through elgato. After unpackaging, I removed the included 512 MB SD card and updated it on PC using online directions to v1.2, and put it back in the slot. Hooked it up to Elgato PCIe card and started it up. Startup and loading is kind of pokey, but nothing I found too terrible. As a product, everything feels solid and well made. I don't mind if it takes another 6 months to get the software going. It's nice to be able to use GBA cartridges again, as I no longer have a GBA or DSLite

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Trevor G

Cool in concept. Little bumpy in practice.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 11 April 2021

Verified Purchase

I’m a little frustrated. For “starters” the start up time is horrendous. I can watch a whole cringe compilation on YouTube while I wait for my game to start. Some games won’t play. Some games will crash as soon as you push a button. And my games are just fine. I was really happy to see that I could play my copy of minish cap. But then almost smashed the controller when I tried to save and the game crashed. Obviously the device is new but these are some serious issues that I hope get fixed.

7 people found this helpful

tbone1982

Does what it says it will do.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 24 April 2021

Verified Purchase

I knew that this system would not play GameBoy Advance games. It was very clear that this was in beta mode. So I am not reviewing this on those merits. This plays all my GB and GB Color games. I wanted to have something to play all my old games on and it does the trick. I am looking forward to play those old video games again. There are improvements that need to be made but this uses basic starter software. If you want to play GameBoy Advance games, don’t buy until proper updates are made. If you want to play some basic GameBoy games this is perfect.

5 people found this helpful

SCOUT228

Remember GBA is in beta!!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 31 May 2021

Verified Purchase

Works great gba is still in beta but original gameboy and color work fantastically! Some gba games work alright but sometimes they crash. Keep in mind I have not updated the bios since I got it so mine is an outdated build for gba.

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