BLACK RetroDuo Portable System [RETROBIT]

by Retro-Bit

• Plays SNES and NES cartridges
• Stand-up Dock, Dual Capacity Lithium-ion Battery
• RetroPort Adapter for NES games
• Two SuperRetro Controller
• Users manual

Product Details

• ASIN: B0071NNPOW
• Item Weight: 13.2 pounds
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,906 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Relive your childhood game play with this RetroDuoPortable console.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars GOOD snes clone, nes port sucks March 13, 2012

By undeadbobop

Amazon Verified Purchase

Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   

Length: 5:34 Mins

If you want a snes clone that can play all your games, (or close to all), look no further.
If you want it to play all your nes games the nes port it comes with shadily can only play about half your titles(at least 1/2 of what I have tested so far which is about 8 games). Its nice to have but it will make you wish it played like the original retro duo.(only issue I had with 75 nes games was battletoads crash 2nd level and paperboy can't play cause can't register 1st players controls.) want dragon warrior Nope can't have it. want castlevania 3 again nope. Retrobit got lazy on the Retroport with this system. Maybe the snes version they did is better. Can't tell till someone tests paperboy, battletoads after 2nd level, castlevania 3,Dragon warrior, Afterburner, Rad Racer II on the RetroPort for the snes. The one that comes with the system does not allow you to put it in any snes devices other than Retroduo portable.

Speakers suck, get headphones plug them in.

features : allows any snes controllers / accessories
Neglected features: no nes controller port for nes games accessories, no genesis controller port for genesis games accessories.

Recommend getting retrogen addon, compatibility is amazing with the two devices
can play sonic 3 & knuckles on game genie enough said.

Screen colors badish(depends on game and retrogen addon less noticable but retroport its very noticeable with), size bigger than competitors though.Snes games for the most part are ok for display.
has controls for contrast.

AV out have not tried yet.

built in controller sucks, luckly comes with 2 snes clone controllers that kick snes controllers off their high horses.
multitap works also with it.

over all:
good snes clone
meh nes clone
with retrogen add-on amazing genesis clone
really bad speakers
meh screen
built-in controller sucks
2 other controllers, amazing

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Supaboy Vs. Retro Duo Portable June 28, 2012

By MarioMan70

Fun: 2.0 out of 5 stars   

Okay... I;m here to give you the scoop upon both system and tell you which one I prefer over what. it should help those upon what system to buy so I'll go through the basics like in my Supaboy Review [...]

The Units: You can see my Review of the unit itself at the link but I'm going to compare each one instead of telling you about each one. Much like the Supaboy, the Retro Duo Portable was nice and sturdy and was a lot smaller and easier to hold so point for the Retro Duo Portable for that. The AC adapter off the top of my head I cannot remember where it goes since I sent my unit back but I didn't think it was that much of a problem. The D-Pad AND button on the Retro Duo Portable are both terrible. The D-Pad is slightly worse in my opinion on the RDP because I found mine to be very lose and had that feeling that my thumb would slip off. The Buttons are FAR to spaced apart so good luck playing Mega Man X because the Y and the A button are like 9 years apart from each other. As for the battery life the RDP gets about 8 hours compared to the Supaboy with only about 3 so point again for RDP for longer battery life.

Verdict: While the RDP may have longer life and an easier to hold surface, it's button layout makes the unit unsatisfying to use for long periods of time not to mention the D-Pad as well. Supaboy has much better buttons and a D-Pad that becomes better after a long use.

The Games: I had no trouble with any games on the systems however I ran into the same problem on the Supaboy. Super Mario RPG claimed to work but didn't. HOWEVER, I found a HUGE solution and something to try for people who are having trouble with running Super Mario RPG. Basically (I found the best way to do this is with Mega Man X but any game would work fine I just use Mega Man X for this trick.) take Super Mario RPG and put it in the Supaboy and you'll probably get a black screen as I do 90% of the time. Take Super Mario RPG out and then put in Mega Man X (Or whatever game you're using.) and make sure it loads properly. As long as you can see that it's working turn it off and take the game out and then make sure your next game is Super Mario RPG and bam. Super Mario RPG (At least for me) works almost every time. Now the Retro Duo has 2 ways to play games as such you can play NES games as well. I found the NES games to work fine on the unit however I didn't get to play very many of them and why is that? Because after about 8 or so game swaps the pin connecter in the adapter BENT INSIDE the unit and I was unable to put ANY game in so the adapter just broke on very little use.

Verdict: Both units have no trouble playing either games and i'm not going to count the NES side of the RDP so. Both win.

The Performance: The sound on both systems were fine for the most part however the RDP had more trouble playing some music. An easy way to test which system can handle more advanced music is U.N. Squadron. U.N. Squadron had some of the most advanced music of the time and it's an easy way to tell if your unit can handle it's superior sounds. Supaboy was able to run the music at a slightly screechy-scratchy sounds but overall it was bearable. The RDP BUTCHERED the music to no end and you HAD to play with the sound OFF. The picture quality of the RDP is slightly lacking as well compared to the Supaboy. The Supaboy is bright and colorful as for the RDP seems a little washed out and kind of blah. But I'm not done with the RDP yet. My unit eventually kept becoming more and more and more screechy-scratchy and some games that sounded fine started getting that. It became progressively worse with each game to the point where every time Mario JUMPED in Super Mario World gave off a horrible screech. So I'm not if my unit was defective or what but the speakers shot themselves with my unit.

Verdict: Supaboy's sounds and picture quality is far superior to the RDP.

The Uses: The RDP can do everything I mentioned in the Supaboy so there really isn't much to say however... The RDP is superior in one more way. The RDP comes with an adapter that you can put controllers into AND you can play with a controller in the first port in portable mode where as with the Supaboy you can't. You have to use the Supaboy's buttons all the time for player 1 however there's always that time where I don't feel like turning on my TV and I just want to prop up my unit and play and you CAN do that with the RDP.

Verdict: Both can do what I want them to do but the RDP can do that one extra thing that would of been really nice to have.

Final Verdict: My RDP was okay for the most part but it's performance issues and bad sound made the Supaboy all the better to have. Like I said, I could of got a defective unit but I just was not satisfied with my RDP at all. But there were some pluses to the RDP such as the controllers it came with. I never did mention the controller, but the Retro Duo Portable's controller were FANTASTIC and as close to a real SNES controller as could be. However the smaller things can't save it from me saying,

I choose the Supaboy over the Retro Duo Portable for my SNES experience.

Hope this review helps those who are in need of another opinion on both systems.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Tested May 7, 2012

By Iris

Amazon Verified Purchase

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

I was skeptical of this product. But I ran it through and it still works great. No pixel issues at all. But at times it does get hot.