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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 kalleboo »

delecti wrote: post #20
hoodoof wrote: post #15

God I hate being nickle and dimed. It should include everything needed - two controllers and a power supply FFS.

The power supply is USB. I'm more than okay with not getting yet another USB brick with every new device. Not getting the controllers to me is a separate issue, but it does include one, and as far as I can tell, only the original NES, 30 years ago, ever came with more than one controller.

Especially if this thing is going to sit under your TV - I think most TVs these days have a few spare USB ports you can steal some power from.

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Post by avar »

chongli wrote: post #19

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...

They're releasing with 30 games, and although they don't say it explicitly reading between the lines there's no mention of being able to install more, so they don't need a generic emulation for the 700-ish NES games that were released.

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Post by stephankoelle »

chongli wrote: post #19

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...

pal never had them

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Post by jawilson2 »

mistermann wrote: post #7

Please 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.

I have an NES and SNES emulator on my PC, and a wireless XBox controller. My kids have been mainlining Mega Man 2 (my 5 year old beat it last week), SMB, and they are strangely hooked on Pac Man and Galaga, which my 3 year old loves now!

The 3 and 5 year old also love newer games like Minecraft (the 5 Y/O is finally starting to enjoy building, instead of just flying around with a diamond sword and a bucket of lava f'in shit up), and my 7 year old plays a lot of NBA 2k16, but they are in love with the classics right now.

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Post by weego »

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?

Anyone who has cartridges that they would care to play has a console already. What possible business benefit is there to adding that in?

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Post by davb »

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 USB port or SD slot for expansion would be a fun project.

There are already Wii controller accessory to USB adapters available. And at $9.99 for the controllers, those could be fun too (to be used separately on other platforms, like the RPi).

That's not to say I won't be getting one purely to play as intended, but I would be interested in picking one up to hack.

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