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1- Sega went for a "clone" rather than emulation (even accepts Genesis cartridges)
2- Nintendo's IP in the classic gaming space is unmatched
[1] http://www.gamestop.com/genesis/consoles/sega-genesis-classi...
I was pretty exited but huge disappointment. Huge You can pretty much buy a raspberry pi and rest of the equipments to play NES games for same price. No cartridge slot or ways of playing other games? They obviously didn't try to make a good equipment.
I own an NES and quite a few games but this seems like an instabuy for me. Solid list of games. Metroid, Castlevania 1+2 and both Zeldas. Tecomo, the Mario games, and Ghost 'n' Goblins to keep you frustrated. Pretty cool actually that they chose to go with the small form factor.
I'm really interested in the architecture of this thing. I'm guessing ARM running a NES emulator (rather than ports of the games), since they've got such great experience doing that on the 3DS. If it's hackable, this would be a fantastic gadget. As a project box alone, it looks really pretty. HDMI out, USB power, and controller inputs make it really appealing. Depending on headers and connectivity inside, hacking a U…
[0]https://www.pi-supply.com/product/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-new...
I hope they didn't just bundle the games and called it a day. They have such a big catalog of games they could do things like "Complete game X and Y, and unlock game Z". Things like that are super cheap to do, but add a lot of value to the product.
HDMI out? I wonder if they're going to simulate NTSC TV artifacts such as colour bleed and dot crawl. These artifacts are important for correctly rendering NES games according to their original design [0]. [0] http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/C...
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> I'm guessing ARM running a NES emulator Really surprised people expect it's anything more than one of these but with official licensing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_...
Because the hardware clones are not sufficient. You need to make a sort of menu system + deal with hardware connections. Simple ARM chip + software emulator means you could just do everything one one chip without headaches. Plus it'll likely be cheaper.
It could be software emulation, but that's slightly less reliable, and has a boot time which may not be negligible.
Good luck playing StarTropics without the submersible letter! :P