as the title says, I have all the carts that i use on my retron but i was wondering if the Retron 5 console is fine to use for games or would i have to use the actual console, i prefer my retron since I do stream and its HDMI...better for my cap card, but I am now getting into speedrunning... thx <3
Hello. Things like this are generally handled on a game by game basis. It would be classified as emulation for sure. Whether a run would be accepted would come down to whether or not the community for a given game is willing to accept it, and if there is any indication that the console plays the game anyway differently, then it would be subject to being banned.
My personal suggestion would be to use emulators for computer that are already known and accepted as accurate emulations, as there are accurate emulators for all of those consoles. That, or use original consoles to run into these issues. In general, on SDA, Retron 5 would be banned form use, as basically famiclones are in general. Like I said, it's come down to the game, but I'm doing some casual searches on google and finding claims that Retron 5 doesn't run lots of games accurately. exp: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/2flnqz/retro_consoles_are_they_legal_in_any_runs/
Apparently it's running Andriod hardware, and there is no clone hardware involved.
