Originally posted by: stardust4ever
Originally posted by: Oddzball
On my Gaming LCD my scores were consistently lower with a 12x2 13x5 15x2 and a single 16 for an average of 13.5. So there was a considerable difference on the 5ms screen versus the TV.
All in all though, I can honestly say that if the Retron 5 adds input lag, at least at my age and reflexes, I cannot notice it. The only thing about the Retron 5 that I could perceivable test and see a consistently increase of lag was the controller, although I hesitate to say I could actually "feel" the lag Im sure its enough to make things like the kirby minigames and Punchout unbeatable. I would test punchout, but Ive honestly never been very good at it, and have never actually beat it anyway.
My friend and I played Mike Tyson's Punchout using my NES and bedroom CRT. There were 9 Game Genie codes in the manual. I own 3 Genies, but it made the graphics go FUBAR when I daisy-chained all three together so I could only do two Genies max. My friend tried varying combinations of 6 codes each to beat the Mike Tyson stage and couldn't do it, even with cheats. And he can regularly beat lesser bosses like Soda Popinski and King Hippo without the cheating. I can't play the game worth shit.
My reaction speed hasn't changed much in the past ten plus years since my early 20s since I started collecting NES. .13 seconds when I was 22, about the same in my 30s. I imagine it doesn't change too much although it may decrease as we age. Think old people driving. There's a lot more involved in gaming besides reaction time, namely memorizing patterns and such, which I suck at (Megaman series, grumble grumble...). If you can predict a boss'es movements before he stikes, you can dodge attacks every time, even without ninja reflexes.
Still, it would be interesting to see how ledgends like Thor or really anyone with world record Twin Galaxy high scores or Speed Demos Archive run times would perform on pure reaction speed tests.
The Kirby games are a bad judge though, since oyu can cheat and just press the button early, eventually you get lucky. I tried it later, and even on my slow TV i was able to get a 6 when i was cheating (IE just randomly pressing the button and happening to press it right after the !!! goes off)
Anyway, for what its worth, Im pretty impressed with the Retron 5 for what it is. If it played my everdrive it would be perfect, but since you can technically play roms, I suppose it isnt needed.
One other weird thing though, one of my SNES controllers it didnt recognize, and wouldnt work. The same controller works fine in my SNES, and is a actual SNES nintendo brand name one. I wonder why it doesnt work in the retron? SOme kind of weird hardware revision on that specific controller?
