Re路tro路de f [re藞tro藧d蓹]. Kofferwort aus lat. retro- (zur眉ckgewandt), altgr. 畏位蔚魏蟿蟻蠈谓 elektron (Bernstein) und 峤佄聪屜 hod贸s (Weg). Vgl. 鈫抮etro-, 鈫扙lektrode. Die Retrode ist ein technisches Hilfsmittel, das der Herstellung einer elektrischen Verbindung zu Objekten und Gef眉hlszust盲nden vergangener Zeiten dient.
Actually I wanted to make a front page news posting about this. But it's not not really our topic here, that's the sad thing.
What I like about this is the "branding" of this Retrode. This guy is a scientist, but he made a piece of art out of this product that is actually a dumping tool for retro carts.
I wish we had such a cool branding for our hardware, too. Retrode, Atmel microcontroller, and so fourth. But all we got was R4, spam and thousands of retards. Bad karma, obviously.
We've seen several flash carts with different stickers now. lol. That's a nice idea, but I think it's not cool enough. It would be still cheap crap, just with a cool sticker. Better than nothing, but still not cool enough.
Maybe I'm expecting too much. I have everything, and right now everything works. But I miss a bit of this "magic" these weird Cyclops guys obviously gave to their even weirder custumers, for example.
If there would be a DS Scene flash cart, that would need to be the very best flash cart of the world. And right now we have several flash carts that work somehow, but none of them is the best one. Maybe that needs some time.