I saw a thread on the Time Extension site about Hyperkin's new prototype RetronGX console plays both PC Engine Hu-Cards and TurboGrafx-16 Turbo Chip games on it + it was shown at the 2022 Tokyo Game Show. Has it been released yet?
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Hyperkin will release it's RetronGX PCE-clone console on 8/20/2025.....
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Hyperkin will release it's RetronGX PCE-clone console on 8/20/2025.....
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Re: Has Hyperkin released it's RetronGX PCE-clone console?
No. But... you could have just checked their website to get that answer too.
Re: Has Hyperkin released it's RetronGX PCE-clone console?
A lot of their stuff never seems to come out. Remember the DOS based gaming system that they announced years ago (Retron x86), for instance? Or for a more recent example, their N64 system.
Probably for the best. While I want to love their Retron 77 (my lone experience with their products), even with the community build installed to have an almost up to date version of Stella and ignoring the cartridge slot and just using roms, it just aggravates me. For instance it decided to just forget all my button mapping that I spent a lot of time setting up in order to be able to use an arcade stick with everything important for me mapped to a controller button.
It was almost there thanks mostly to the Stella team rather than Hyperkin themselves, but it instead just lives in its box. And with anything else that they push out, I highly doubt that a group of talented hobbyists will be coming to the rescue in order to finish Hyperkin's job for them.
Probably for the best. While I want to love their Retron 77 (my lone experience with their products), even with the community build installed to have an almost up to date version of Stella and ignoring the cartridge slot and just using roms, it just aggravates me. For instance it decided to just forget all my button mapping that I spent a lot of time setting up in order to be able to use an arcade stick with everything important for me mapped to a controller button.
It was almost there thanks mostly to the Stella team rather than Hyperkin themselves, but it instead just lives in its box. And with anything else that they push out, I highly doubt that a group of talented hobbyists will be coming to the rescue in order to finish Hyperkin's job for them.
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Re: Has Hyperkin released it's RetronGX PCE-clone console?
The long delayed Hyperkin "Retron GX" console will be released on August 20, 2025 with the newest & latest firmware through Hyperkin's site & through Amazon as well.
MSRP is $89.99 (it was priced at $89.99 through Castlemania Games back in May of 2025 as a pre-order and still is listed as such). If you want to use the PC Engine based controllers and arcade sticks, a PCE to TG-16 controller adapter will be necessary as the Retron GX uses two on-board TG-16 controller ports on the front-side portion of the console itself. There are two usb ports available for using other usb-based gaming controllers if so desired. I've pre-ordered one through Amazon and will review it here in this particular thread.
Time Extension did an article on the Hyperkin Retron GX console dated 8/5/25 with the latest info on it -- it's quite informative indeed.
Output is via HDMI at 720p either in 16:9 or 4:3 screen aspect ratio (selectible on the backside).
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MSRP is $89.99 (it was priced at $89.99 through Castlemania Games back in May of 2025 as a pre-order and still is listed as such). If you want to use the PC Engine based controllers and arcade sticks, a PCE to TG-16 controller adapter will be necessary as the Retron GX uses two on-board TG-16 controller ports on the front-side portion of the console itself. There are two usb ports available for using other usb-based gaming controllers if so desired. I've pre-ordered one through Amazon and will review it here in this particular thread.
Time Extension did an article on the Hyperkin Retron GX console dated 8/5/25 with the latest info on it -- it's quite informative indeed.
Output is via HDMI at 720p either in 16:9 or 4:3 screen aspect ratio (selectible on the backside).
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Re: Hyperkin will release it's RetronGX PCE-clone console on 8/20/2025.....
Looks like a typical ARM emulation box, so little value over running a TG16/PCE emulator on anything else. Though there aren't really any cheap USB cart dumpers out there, so if you want to play using original carts, you wouldn't be saving much money from doing so.
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Re: Hyperkin will release it's RetronGX PCE-clone console on 8/20/2025.....
Hyperkin has such a poor track record that I’d worry this does more harm than good for the reputation of this great system.
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Re: Hyperkin will release it's RetronGX PCE-clone console on 8/20/2025.....
Here's YoutuberJohnny Grafx with his take on the eve of Hyperkin's release of the RetronGX console: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duo4ud7-mC0
If it gets "jailbroken" to support Krikzz's Turbo Everdrive Pro, it'd truly have the ability to play the CD-Rom2, Super CD-Rom2 & Arcade CD-Rom2 based games as well. We'll see what happens.
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If it gets "jailbroken" to support Krikzz's Turbo Everdrive Pro, it'd truly have the ability to play the CD-Rom2, Super CD-Rom2 & Arcade CD-Rom2 based games as well. We'll see what happens.
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