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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…
> Sadly you can't use your original NES carts with the console - something even the most basic "Famiclone" offers - and there doesn't seem to be any means of getting new games onto it. Would it really have been that much extra effort to make the console backwards compatible?
Yeah, I was hoping this tiny emulator would play SNES and N64 carts as well as GameCube discs. I mean seriously how much extra effort would it have been?
Launches Nov 11. This should be some nice competition for those knock offs you see at the mall around Christmas time.
Emulators/knock-offs is probably a large reason why Nintendo is releasing this. Just wished they had went a little step further and released a version that came preloaded with every NES/SNES game. They probably could have gotten away with charging $150+ for something like that while simultaneously killing the knock off market.
- Can't start a game and have the game loading screen distorted until the 7-8th attempt.
- Can't blow in the cartridge until it whistles before playing
- Can't stick 2 games in on top of each other
Getting the game to work was half of the fun.
I understand the aesthetic value but to be really useful/fun a wireless controller would be better.
It says you can use the wii Classic controller, which is wireless
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Was Bo in the original or just Tecmo Super Bowl?
Most definitely the original.
Shame they used Tecmo Bowl - is far inferior to Super Bowl.
No duck hunt!? What gives?
Light guns aren't super great on modern TVs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5128407
It won't work for retro-gaming, but it's a possible path forward for gun games on modern consoles.
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.
Personally I think Bomberman is missing, we had tons of fun with it (although we used to play super bomberman 5 on SNES)
Well NeoGeo released a new handheld portable a few years back running a bunch of classic NeoGeo games, and it failed miserably on the market.
The NeoGeo was always much more of a niche system than the NES. The sales method (collections of games on memory cards) and initial piracy holes (you could load up all the ROMs onto an SD card and never have to buy any collections. Also, the hardware was crap. Even though the games were made for 4:3 monitors, the system shipped with a 16:9 phone screen (likely because 4:3 screens are harder to source cheaply nowadays…
Typical Nintendo "75% right" and "25% how did they screw this up"