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Hyperkin figuring out how they'll fix up display issues with N64 games on their Retron Ult

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by rawmeatcowboy
14 June 2019
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Hyperkin is working on the Retron Ult, an N64 clone system that will let you play your N64 games in 720p via HDMI. While the idea sounds lovely at first, there's a bit of an issue. As things stand right now, games played on the system are dealing with emulation issues, which means certain in-game elements aren't displayed properly. According to an interview with Nintendo Life, Hyperkin is currently considering the best way to move ahead and handle these issues.

We have two different road maps we can go - we can do maybe emulation route, or we can do maybe sort of a cloned-console route. Right now, it's so early in development, that we don't we know what the final solution might be, it could be anything. For right now, we just want to get the best possible output picture at a good price point - basically, just something that people can plug and play, and play their N64 games without having to go back and find their old N64.

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