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> the pirated cartridges didn't have a persistent writable memory Wait so you had to beat every game in a single sitting?
IIRC it was the same with many NES games, e.g. Super Mario Bros.
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> the pirated cartridges didn't have a persistent writable memory Wait so you had to beat every game in a single sitting?
Surprisingly few Genesis games had any kind of save game feature - off the top of my head, there was Sonic 3, RPGs (which were few and far between), and...that's about it?
Wuldn't a Raspberry Pi 1 (with emulators) work much better? It's just $25, runs 1-4th generation console games as well as MAME games. Raspberry Pi 2 can do even more for $35 http://blog.petrockblock.com/retropie/
A Raspberry Pi costs about R$200 in Brazil, or US$60. And the majority of these consoles are bought by poor people (income of equal or less than a minimum wage in Brazil, that is R$788 or about US$235), that in the majority of cases don't have too many familiarity with technology. So imagine that you have a low income like I said above, you have a teenage child that wants to play games. You probably don't even know t…
Even if you order it online? It's hard to believe that shipping to Brazil costs 35USD, more than the device itself (25USD).
There is also C.H.I.P., a 9 USD computer, which is comparable to Raspberry Pi 1.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-wor... I hope you won't tell me that it costs more than 50 USD in Brazil.
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A Raspberry Pi costs about R$200 in Brazil, or US$60. And the majority of these consoles are bought by poor people (income of equal or less than a minimum wage in Brazil, that is R$788 or about US$235), that in the majority of cases don't have too many familiarity with technology. So imagine that you have a low income like I said above, you have a teenage child that wants to play games. You probably don't even know t…
> A Raspberry Pi costs about R$200 in Brazil, or US$60. Even if you order it online? It's hard to believe that shipping to Brazil costs 35USD, more than the device itself (25USD). There is also C.H.I.P., a 9 USD computer, which is comparable to Raspberry Pi 1. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-wor... I hope you won't tell me that it costs more than 50 USD in Brazil.
However, this is counting that you don't pay the abusive taxes that the brazillian government asks for imported goods. If I had to pay those taxes for my RPi I would pay 60% of the price of the product in taxes, more 12% for IOF.
I didn't buy CHIP because I would need to pay US$15 for the delivery cost.
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Link?
I would love a link too for a SNES hardware clone in Brazil. I know lots of brazillian NES clones (including the infamous PolyStation), but I don't know any SNES clones in Brazil.
Sometimes you see people selling them on Mercado Livre
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> A Raspberry Pi costs about R$200 in Brazil, or US$60. Even if you order it online? It's hard to believe that shipping to Brazil costs 35USD, more than the device itself (25USD). There is also C.H.I.P., a 9 USD computer, which is comparable to Raspberry Pi 1. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-wor... I hope you won't tell me that it costs more than 50 USD in Brazil.
If I remember right you can't buy a Raspberry Pi from the traditional online stores that sell them (they don't send to Brazil), so you need to buy from a reseller. I ordered a Raspberry Pi online from eBay, had to pay US$50,00 that wasn't exactly so bad (and it was a kit instead of only the RPi, including memory heatsinks, USB charger and a case). So yeah, it is possible to save a bit of money, yeah. However, this is…
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If I remember right you can't buy a Raspberry Pi from the traditional online stores that sell them (they don't send to Brazil), so you need to buy from a reseller. I ordered a Raspberry Pi online from eBay, had to pay US$50,00 that wasn't exactly so bad (and it was a kit instead of only the RPi, including memory heatsinks, USB charger and a case). So yeah, it is possible to save a bit of money, yeah. However, this is…
OK, so even with terrible delivery cost, CHIP makes sense for the general public in Brazil: 24USD for lots of systems & games.