{"id":95062,"date":"2019-06-14T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/hyperkin_isnt_quite_sure_what_route_to_take_with_its_n64_clone_console_yet"},"modified":"2019-06-14T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T07:30:00","slug":"hyperkin-isnt-quite-sure-what-route-to-take-with-its-n64-clone-console-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/14\/hyperkin-isnt-quite-sure-what-route-to-take-with-its-n64-clone-console-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperkin Isn&#8217;t Quite Sure What Route To Take With Its N64 Clone Console Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/58dda729bf1ac\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/58dda729bf1ac\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/hyperkin_isnt_quite_sure_what_route_to_take_with_its_n64_clone_console_yet\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pTJTtXqvDPw?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>At E3 2019 this week, our video producer Zion Grassl had the chance to catch up with Terence Calacsan from Hyperkin and have a chat about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/hyperkins_next_party_trick_is_a_nintendo_64_clone\">Retron Ult<\/a> &#8211; an N64 clone that is &#8220;super early&#8221; in development.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s compatible with Nintendo 64 cartridges, controllers, targeting 720p HD output and will include a wired controller. Hyperkin&#8217;s Admiral &#8211; a wireless controller, will also be compatible with the system, and there&#8217;s a dongle that will allow you to transfer saves from your Memory Pak.<\/p>\n<p>When we broke the story a while back, many of you spotted that the video footage was plagued by emulation issues that are common in a lot of N64 emulators for PCs and smart devices, such as the billboards in Mario Kart 64 not displaying properly.<\/p>\n<p>When quizzed on what kind of tech the console will be using, Calacsan replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have two different road maps we can go &#8211; we can do maybe emulation route, or we can do maybe sort of a cloned-console route. Right now, it&#8217;s so early in development, that we don&#8217;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 &#8211; basically, just something that people can plug and play, and play their N64 games without having to go back and find their old N64.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Find out more about this system in the video above and tell us what you think in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pTJTtXqvDPw?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] At E3 2019 this week, our video producer Zion Grassl had the chance to catch up with Terence Calacsan from Hyperkin and have a chat about the Retron Ult &#8211; an N64 clone that is &#8220;super early&#8221; in development. It&#8217;s compatible with Nintendo 64 cartridges, controllers, targeting 720p HD output and will include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}