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Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

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Re: Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

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Post by krapp »

apozem wrote: post #187
Tiktaalik wrote: post #180

This is a bit of a desperation move from Nintendo as they have pretty much nothing for the holidays for the Wii U with the NX still in development on the horizon. That said, at that impulse buy price point, I'll definitely pick it up and I'm sure it'll be incredibly popular with those that grew up with the system. This isn't the sort of product that really grows Nintendo's market with a new generation. I wouldn't be…

This is what worries me about Nintendo. With the possible exception of Pokemon Go, they aren't capturing new users. They make money off of loyal fans who grew up with Mario and Zelda. Do kids today care about Nintendo?

I'm pretty sure kids today like Splatoon and Super Smash Bros, at least. Mario Maker seems to be popular, and I would bet most of the people who play it weren't even born when the original Mario games were out. Nostalgia alone doesn't seem to be enough to justify the mountain of cash they're sitting on, so they must be doing something right.

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Post by carrier_lost »

nsxwolf wrote: post #8
smaili wrote: post #4

> 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?

It would have been much larger. As in, the exact size of the original.

There was a later version of the NES console that was smaller than the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_...

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Post by VonGuard »

writeslowly wrote: post #179
fredoralive wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slight rant, but I wish these CRT simulators could simulate decent CRTs, they always seem to emulate really shit ones with huge curvature and really exaggerated scanlines etc, can't they emulate a nice Trinitron TV or something. They always just look fake to me. (Yeah, I know there is possibly a bit of memory cheating, plus I used RGB SCART for the later period of CRT use that avoided the composite problems).

The ones I've seen included with MAME (or maybe it was a MAME front end) are pretty easy to configure to get the look of a nice CRT display. Maybe because of the focus on emulating high-end arcade hardware instead of the sort of television set that the typical NES was plugged into.

Shovel Knight is the only game that actually gets down and does CRT emulation correctly is this one: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/C...

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Post by rconti »

CaptSpify wrote: post #121
danso wrote: post #37

I'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

Huh. I think many of us just consider $60 to be "impulse buy, plug into my display at work in case I need a break" territory, where the last thing I need is another PROJECT. I'd never even consider building an emulator.

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Post by Flow »

fredoralive wrote: post #178
acomjean wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So was there an Nintendo in PAL format? (PAL tvs had 100 more lines and refreshed a little lower 25, vs NTSC's 30 frames per second) Seems like it would be a pain to make that work. Knowing the pain of PAL NTSC tv conversion.

The traditional game console solution for PAL consoles was to just have letterboxing with the extra 100 lines blank, with everything vertically squashed a little. Games usually didn't compensate for the lower framerate, so just ran slower. PAL console gaming was a GREAT experience, as you can imagine. Things got better from the Dreamcast onwards as they could software switch to 525 line / 60Hz modes (usually with PAL…

Here's a comparision of Super Mario Bros 1 NTSC vs PAL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUI5xFEW_tg

They show more graphics at the top and bottom, probably nothing that affects actual gameplay, but it's nice it's not just black regions.

Re: Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

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Post by bsharitt »

apozem wrote: post #187
Tiktaalik wrote: post #180

This is a bit of a desperation move from Nintendo as they have pretty much nothing for the holidays for the Wii U with the NX still in development on the horizon. That said, at that impulse buy price point, I'll definitely pick it up and I'm sure it'll be incredibly popular with those that grew up with the system. This isn't the sort of product that really grows Nintendo's market with a new generation. I wouldn't be…

This is what worries me about Nintendo. With the possible exception of Pokemon Go, they aren't capturing new users. They make money off of loyal fans who grew up with Mario and Zelda. Do kids today care about Nintendo?

My kids(8 and 6) each have a 2DS and we have Wii and Mario and Zelda are among their favorites. Many of these are re-releases of old Nintendo games on either the virtual console or things like Mario 64 DS or Ocarina of Time for the 3DS, but also newer games like New Super Marios Bros and LoZ Twilight Princess. They enjoy these games right up there along size Minecraft and what ever that bear game my daughter plays.

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Post by danielweber »

strictnein wrote: post #143
throwaway2048 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Super C is Contra II

Slightly different Konami code for that one too: Right, Left, Down, Up, A, B Gets ten guys, if I remember correctly.

And "Fire" changes from the weakest weapon to the OP weapon.

Re: Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

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Post by baby »

spilk wrote: post #104
kriro wrote: post #13

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.

It's almost as if they priced it so every 35-ish year old in the USA would buy one instantly. I know I'm in that camp.

27 here and that would be an insta buy for me if only I owned a TV :(
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