Thanks, Note!
pilgrimteeth wrote:Do your repro carts play well on a Retron 5? I've found that donor carts tend to work but non-donor carts don't always, so just curious if you've done any testing!
It has more to do with software than hardware. The Retron5 dumps the cart then runs the ROM in an emulator. So if it can't dump the cart or understand the ROM, or if it's just generally unsupported by the emulator, then it wont work. That's why multi carts and flash carts don't work, but it's also why some homebrew carts don't work.
I call it "repro" because that's what the internet has used as a blanket name for a while now. But really I'm just advertising a cart mod service, and that can be whatever you want (aside from blatant piracy). I can take a SFC cart and patch it with a fan translation, which as far as the Retron5 is concerned would be the same as using a donor cart (but I think pointless since the Retron5 can soft patch games IIRC). Or I could put a homebrew game on a non-donor cart, which probably wouldn't be compatible with the Retron5. But again, not because of the cart, it's because the Retron emulator doesn't know how to run the homebrew game. If the Retron5 supports game X, and you put game X on a non-donor cart, then the Retron5 should be able to run it.
But no, I have not done any testing. I don't own a Retron5.