I'm talking stuff like retroduo. And are the sound chips the same?
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Milwaukee, WI
Nope! At least not usually. It's generally some form of emulation of the sound chip that misses finer details. Things like samples, etc.
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which could of course be interesting, if you are into that whole distorted sound.
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ad-hell-aide
The sound is quite often horrible.
At least that's my experience with SEGA clones
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Joliette, QC, Canada
the yobo I tested was horrible !!! The second squarewavw was totally bullcrap ! The color palette was kinda screwed with some stuffs and my Powerpak didn' worked on it !!!
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sweden
All NES/Famicom clones I've tried have sounded quite bad.
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Brunswick, GA USA
I would respect someone who made something good from an inaccurate chip on purpose, if you want to consider that a challenge. Wouldn't spend money on purpose though.
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chunter, i once wrote this release called dynasty (www.iimusic.net/catalog/2009/07/little-scale-dynasty), using a clone of a YM2413 that was a terribly noisy and distorted. Good fun times. Though I only learned later on that it was a broken clone haha!
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Texas
I remember playing Zelda II on a retron3 sounding bad, but wanted to make sure it wasn't just the console specifically, ahaha. Thanks guys.
@little-scale, I am in love with Dynasty. It's such a trip. 
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Brunswick, GA USA
@little-scale: World class tones, exactly my point, well done!
Last edited by chunter (Mar 3, 2013 12:31 pm)
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Austin, TX
I have a Yobo FC Twin, and it sucks ass when using a super gameboy... haven't tried the midiNES on it but I'm sure it's just as bad.
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The clones are made up of just 1 chip, the whole chip is basically the whole console emulated on it. They are called consoles on a chip basically.