Looks great, but I won't be able to get very far without a Game Genie...
Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console
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#142It seems to be missing some critical features of the original. - 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.
Towards the end of its life, my NES wouldn't work if I pushed the cartridge all the way in. I had to push it just the right depth in, such that the top of the cartridge (the part facing you when you inserted it) would lightly scrape the edge of the slot as I pushed it down into the machine. It was an art. Fun times!
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#144Part of me wants to say cool, thanks for paying tribute and making accessible.
Part of me wants me to say ugh, for being unoriginal and milking old products, while using incompatible controllers, especially considering Nintendo used to sue people in the emulator/ROM/clone community, who are the real heroes for keeping the magic alive.
I'd rather people just spend $30 for a raspberry pi and a USB NES controller.
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#145Please have Super Sprint, please have Super Sprint......nooooooooooooooo! Oh well, I'll probably buy one to play games with my kids, most mainstream games today are too complicated to learn and I don't really find them fun despite how technically amazing they are.
Used to play Super Sprint with a friend for hours and hours. To keep racing, only one player had to come in first, so we'd take turns, with one player trying to win the race, and the other running interference. Fun times.
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#146If they had lowered the price and networked it, could have allowed us to buy new games online... weird that they didn't go that route
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#147I'm amazed at the ridiculous pricing for these games. On Wii U, all of these classic games would cost $5 each . $60 for a physical device and 30 games is extremely generous by Nintendo standards. Edit: if only it had River City Ransom...
Weird. I thought it was ridiculously high. But I also think $5 per game is crazy high. Especially considering how easy/cheap it is to make something like a retro-pi
Maybe digital-as-the-status-quo has made me think that creating physical items is so extraordinary that they command a premium price. I'm not even one of those people who cares about owning a physical copy of a game (in the sense of how Kickstarter projects will promise physical media as a stretch goal). And apparently, Nintendo has made a killing with their Amiibo toys, which is even more bizarre to me than the recent Pokemon Go craze.
But a cute little Nintendo replica? I would never buy one just as a nostalgic paperweight. But if it plays games, even if it may not have much expandability or interoperability with Internet systems? That's very appealing to the kid in me, even though my Wii U has been collecting dust for the past year now.
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#148It seems to be missing some critical features of the original. - 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.
That's for the Special Edition. The console will be wind powered.
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#149I'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…
Get yourself a Pi3[0] + nes30 controller[1]. If you're really going for an authentic look you can get a NES-style case for the Pi too[2]. Pi3 even has built in-bluetooth so it should work wirelessly with the Nes30 controller out of the box. [0] https://www.pi-supply.com/product/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-new... [1] http://www.nes30.com/ [2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/lego-nespi-case/
Good idea.
Im also thinking might be able to use authentic controller but cut of the connector and instead wire directly to the Pi's GPIO.
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#150The title and even the image made this sound like a re-release of the NES hardware (2A03/6502 and all) with a slot to put in actual carts. That would have been a neat way to address limited functioning NES supply. Instead this is just a novelty item like so many other "Plug and Play" arcade packs that have been coming out for the past 10 years. A used Wii costs under $30, but of course people value these things differently. There are emulators that accept SNES and NES carts and plug into a TV, reading the cart data into memory. There are also emulators that try to fully emulate the hardware timings correctly such as puNES and BNES.