The Ultra-Slim GamerCard Isn’t Ready to Play
Once loaded, games do look fantastic. Pixel art titles in particular really pop on GamerCard’s bright, colorful, 60-frames-per-second display—classic SNES RPG Secret of Mana and platformer Super Adventure Island looked especially lovely. The only hitch is that the GamerCard stretches games to fit its square screen, regardless of aspect ratio display settings in RetroPie. (Finding these is another chore—you can access an emulation menu by holding Select and the “north” face button, although this is never explained anywhere.) Hopefully this is corrected in the future, allowing players to enjoy games in their original dimensions.
The problem with emulation in general, on any platform, is that performance and compatibility can vary wildly. How well the core mimics original hardware, the ROM file, and the hardware it’s running on can all impact how well a game plays. RetroPie wouldn’t load any Game Boy ROMs I tried, and although it launched SNES games,...
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