These days, emulation makes having old school consoles hooked up to your TV pretty unnecessary. But if you must play Chrono Trigger from the original cartridge, the RetroN 3 is a pretty great way to do it.
In addition to having three cartridge slots for NES, SNES and Genesis games, respectively, it also has ports for all three systems’ original controllers. If you don’t have any kicking around, it comes with two generic wireless controllers.
But really, if you’ve got stacks of old cartridges and want to have one system plugged into your TV instead of three, this is a pretty sweet solution. It’s available now for a mere $US70. [HyperKin via Oh Gizmo! via Gadget Lab]
Chris
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 1:50 PMMy NES and Megadrive are both broken. I want this. NOW.
Adam
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 5:50 PMIt’s an awesome idea, but aren’t these only available in NTSC at the moment?
Peter Simpson
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 11:19 PMMost TVs here in Aus support NTSC nowadays, no need to worry too much unless you wanted radiation box fun.
Kenny
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 2:56 PMYour TV might be able to accept NTSC signals but the system is essentially a US NTSC SNES and but pal games which check the speed of the machine and will refuse to run when it detects it is not running at the appropriate speed.
Chris
Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 12:40 AMI was just about to ask that as well. If it does PAL, would Amazon be the best place to get it shipped to Aus?
MrTaco
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 7:45 PMHoly shit, want.
But yeah, needs a PAL version. Maybe with a PAL60 option :P
I wonder if it has any compatibility issues.
Offres d'emploi au Cameroun
Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 11:35 PMI prefer to use the traditional game system like nes, super nes, genesis, i don’t like mutant video games…
Robert Cameron
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 10:03 PMWe got the retroN 3, but when we connected it to an original NES Advantage it did not work. Are they compatible? love to know.