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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 Karunamon »

I'm curious to see how accurate the emulation is. If you grew up on these systems, even small variations in things like timing and sound will stick out like a sore thumb.

Normally you'd expect Nintendo of all people to get it right, but from what I've seen of the Wii virtual console titles, they frequently don't.

Re: Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

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Post by peatmoss »

davb wrote: post #49

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…

15 years ago at a dodgy trade show booth in Vegas, I bought a $25 Nintendo clone controller that had been retrofitted to contain the guts needed to play a few dozen classic NES games that were pre-loaded.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't emulation, but actual miniaturized Nintendo-clone hardware running the original (pirated) ROMs. I have a hunch this isn't emulating, but is instead playing "on the metal." The hardware (as the article mentions) is easy to clone, and as such should be insanely cheap to produce in volume.

The profit margins on these consoles is going to be great.

Re: Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

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Post by 83457 »

_b8r0 wrote: post #59

I'm amazed noone here has mentioned RetroPie[1]. A model B Raspberry Pi or even a Zero (if you can get one) should play NES games perfectly fine. You can get USB NES controller adapters pretty cheap or some knock-off USB NES controllers instead. I have a SNES-USB adapter for my setup that takes two SNES controllers. [1] - https://retropie.org.uk/

Is there anything particularly special about this? There are hundreds of different ways to play emulated games for free. I burned a disk with an NES emulator and roms for my Dreamcast 15 years ago and it was great. However the big deal about this is that Nintendo is finally making a legitiment way to buy/play the old games at a reasonable price which they have never done before.

Re: Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

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Post by grandalf »

ythl wrote: post #72
_b8r0 wrote: post #59

I'm amazed noone here has mentioned RetroPie[1]. A model B Raspberry Pi or even a Zero (if you can get one) should play NES games perfectly fine. You can get USB NES controller adapters pretty cheap or some knock-off USB NES controllers instead. I have a SNES-USB adapter for my setup that takes two SNES controllers. [1] - https://retropie.org.uk/

> A model B Raspberry Pi or even a Zero (if you can get one) should play NES games perfectly fine Last time I tried this, some of my favorite games were super laggy (Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG) presumably due to having to emulate additional processors (Super FX, SA-1, etc.) edit: Oh wait, this is NES we are talking about. Nevermind, I'm sure NES runs fine. I'll leave my comment up for anyone wanting to talk abou…

I tried it on my pi 2 and it feels the smallest bit laggy. Going to try it in a pi 3 to see if that improves things.

Retropie is amazing, but there are a lot of emulator options available, and some don't seem to work out of the box.

Re: Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

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Post by ethagnawl »

mathgeek wrote: post #58
sur5r wrote: post #21

Am I the only one to miss Tetris from the list of games?

You should look up the history of Tetris on the NES. It's an interesting story and probably still why it can't be included here.

This article gives a nice 10,000' history. The Rights to Tetris Were Originally Owned by the Soviet Union - http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/02/the-rights-t...

Re: Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

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Post by Jyaif »

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.

Re: Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

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Post by ekianjo »

ythl wrote: post #72
_b8r0 wrote: post #59

I'm amazed noone here has mentioned RetroPie[1]. A model B Raspberry Pi or even a Zero (if you can get one) should play NES games perfectly fine. You can get USB NES controller adapters pretty cheap or some knock-off USB NES controllers instead. I have a SNES-USB adapter for my setup that takes two SNES controllers. [1] - https://retropie.org.uk/

> A model B Raspberry Pi or even a Zero (if you can get one) should play NES games perfectly fine Last time I tried this, some of my favorite games were super laggy (Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG) presumably due to having to emulate additional processors (Super FX, SA-1, etc.) edit: Oh wait, this is NES we are talking about. Nevermind, I'm sure NES runs fine. I'll leave my comment up for anyone wanting to talk abou…

Those games you mentioned are SNES games.
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