We just got one of these…well, actually, it's our second, it's just that the first one we got wouldn't boot, so we had to return the thing. Fortunately, the store just simply exchanged it.
http://www.retron5.com
I think it's a pretty neat piece of tech. The idea is that it plays retro games (it can play NES, SNES/Super Famicom, Genesis, Famicom and Game Boy) in HD, as it goes through HDMI output. The company behind it, Hyperkin (the same company that made the SupaBoy, which I've talked about a few times) seemed to create it with the idea of making it possible to play retro games on more modern technology, considering that old TVs that work are hard to come by (and will only get harder to find) and old systems to play cartridges are not the easiest things to acquire either. So they made the Retron 5, which is the fifth iteration of their Retron consoles. It has its own controller, but also has controller inputs for Genesis, NES, and SNES.
We tried it out last night. I don't think I've ever seen Super Mario Brothers 3 look so clean, and so crisp, with such great sound quality. It auto-save states when you exit a game, and even remembers the save state when you put a cartridge back in. It can save files to its own memory, and pulls the game data off the cartridge, but it can't upload save file onto the cartridges. It seems that's glitchy, but something that can probably be patched in future updates.
Has anyone heard of this, or Hyperkin in general?