Anyone purchase from RetroUSB before?

[DejahThoris]

Ordered an SNES PowerPak last Wednesday morning.  Their site says "In Stock".  Yesterday I realized I hadn't gotten a tracking number so I looked at my order and it's still in processing.  Seems curious, so I delve into their FAQ to find out that they ship in 1-6 business days and that it's just an estimate not a guarantee.  I have to wonder, do they actually not have anything in stock and just make it as orders are made?  Maybe they just have the parts in stock?  Anyhow, I'm at 8 business days now with no contact at all from them outside of the initial copy of my order sent to my e-mail.

Are they normally this slow?  I'm slightly tempted to just cancel my order and find one on a forum...

[Arjak]

RetroUSB can be painfully slow sometimes, but in my opinion, the wait is worth it. It took them about half a month to produce my Tales of Phantasia cart for SNES, but it was worth it. Their quality is top notch, and I feel better about buying from them because they use brand new parts, instead of gutting used cartridges.

[djcouchycouch]

I've bought NES and SNES powerpaks. Shipping speed was fine. I've heard that support isn't that great, though. I've had no problems so I don't know first hand.

[KingDrool]

I agree with Arjak. Stuff takes a long time to come, but it's worth it. Quality shit.

[sirhcman]

I got my SNES Power Pak from them.. It took 9 days from order to delivery, it was a little on the slow side but it was well worth the wait!

[GohanX]

I ordered a NES Powerpak from them, same thing. It took a good couple of weeks to get it if I remember correctly.

Totally worth it.

[DejahThoris]

I'm not questioning the quality of the product, just the amount of time it takes to ship an in stock item.  It's looking like I'm buying one from a nintendoage member for $30 less in the meantime and canceling my retrousb order.  I wouldn't have minded paying full price if they were even just a little quicker with the shipping.  I really dislike them putting "In stock" on items that take over a week to ship.

[meka]

I also got a NES Powerpak and shipping took only a week to Australia and they packaged it very well.

[SNKNostalgia]

Man, I've been putting off on buying one for the NES and SNES for soooo long now. I really need to just go ahead and get one for both consoles. I mainly want them to play FDS FM sound games and translated NES/SNES games.

Also, being able to play some protos and homebrew sounds like a lot of fun. It is nice to be able to play Rom Hacks of some games like Ninja Gaiden 3 US with all the Japanese features (less damage, unlimited continues and a password system). Stuff like that, really makes a difference to enjoy games that shouldn't have never been change for the US release.

[TheClash603]

I picked up the Nintendo World Championship repro from that place for a gaming tournament I held once.  Was a quality product and I recall mine was shipped quite quickly.

[meka]

Hopefully retrousb are going to release BattleKid 2 soon, the release date keeps getting pushed back.

[DejahThoris]

Man, I've been putting off on buying one for the NES and SNES for soooo long now. I really need to just go ahead and get one for both consoles. I mainly want them to play FDS FM sound games and translated NES/SNES games.

Also, being able to play some protos and homebrew sounds like a lot of fun. It is nice to be able to play Rom Hacks of some games like Ninja Gaiden 3 US with all the Japanese features (less damage, unlimited continues and a password system). Stuff like that, really makes a difference to enjoy games that shouldn't have never been change for the US release.

I'm eager to play Nightmare Busters on it!  And Star Ocean if I can find a properly patched version.

I'd be interested in a NES one if I could find a good compatibility list for it.

[Joe Redifer]

What's the difference/advantage between a SNES Powerpak and a Super Everdrive?

[DejahThoris]

What's the difference/advantage between a SNES Powerpak and a Super Everdrive?

Differences I know of:

Super Everdrive can't play Star Ocean, patched or not.  PowerPak can play Star Ocean if patched correctly.

Super Everdrive can't play DSP-1 games unless you cannibalize a cartridge for the DSP-1 chip.  PowerPak can play DSP-1 games as-is.

Super Everdrive uses SD cards.  PowerPak uses CF cards.

[Joe Redifer]

So basically the Super Everdrive uses cheaper flash cards and can't play Pilotwings, Super Mario Kart and Star Ocean.

Why is the SD2SNES so hard to come by?

There's a ton of games that the NES Powerpak can't run, right?