SNES Classic Revealed

[Megatron]

I will not be giving Walmart money again in the future. For anything. This is the last straw with regards to their absolute shit customer service (or lack thereof).

What's the matter?

^^^  Oy. this guy  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2-nS5tm6yg

[wiggy]

I will not be giving Walmart money again in the future. For anything. This is the last straw with regards to their absolute shit customer service (or lack thereof).

What's the matter?

Get a clue, man. Google Walmart and it'll be the first thing that pops up (besides their website).

[ShoothimNow]

2 day shipping!

[P-chan]

No me interesa para nada,
viendo a nintendo  y el historial con Nes mini, esta claro que volverán a lanzar una cantidad limitada y mucha gente se quedará sin consola. No les quedará otra que comprarla a precios abusivos en el mercado de la especulación o quedarse sin ella.
Todo esto es culpa de nintendo, es la que crea que luego ocurran estas cosas.

[tylerbgood]

I'm not interested at all,
Watching nintendo and the history with Nes mini, it is clear that they will release a limited amount and many people will be left without console. They will have no choice but to buy it at abusive prices in the speculation market or go without it.
All this is the fault of Nintendo, is the one who believes that then these things happen.

While I agree with you to some extent, I think it's become clear that Nintendo considers these as collector's items and as such makes them in limited runs. It's comparable to these new boutique companies that have popped up like LRG which make small batch releases of PS4 and Vita games. If nothing else, it gets people talking about their brand and keeps them in the news cycle.

[FritzWhite]

I'd rather just play my sd2snes that has way more games than this hyped up crap.

[ShoothimNow]

Hack it, and it virtually becomes an SD2SNES.  I'm in for like 3, no joke.  

Hacking the NES Mini took like... 5 minutes...

[breakmanexe]

What is the difference in performance between the "official" emulator and Retroarch? Will Retroarch support more roms or something?

[ShoothimNow]

Retroarch will allow you to play other emulators on the NES Mini (SNES / Genesis / etc).  You can (without changing the emulator) easily put all the NES games onto the Mini.  Retroarch just allows you to save some space so you can put moar games on it.  Lightgun games obviously wont work, and Hakchi2 lets you know before a game is transferred if there is an error.  But I have about 500 hacked NES roms and most to all loaded just fine.  Enjoying my NES Mini with over 1300 NES games.

Sure, $80 for 30 or so games sounds terrible, but so did $60 for the 30 NES mini games.  After hacking the NES Mini, my god, best $100 and $75 (2nd mini - for storage / backup - couldn't say no to $75 brand new in box with controller extension) ever spent (due to me not wanting to buy the system when it came out and waited until the freaking day that it was cancelled to buy it before people realized and jacked up the prices to todays prices)

[breakmanexe]

Hm, interesting. I own an NES Classic myself and did successfully load my own up with hundreds of extra games using Hakchi2, but some of the hacked/patched games either did not transfer over at all or transferred over in a screwed-up fashion. For example, the FF7 NES game (english patch applied) did not transfer over, but The Legend of Link did, although it has some severe tiling errors when displaying the intro (which, if I understand correctly, means that I am going to also see some severe tiling errors in the later dungeons, which sucks). Most discussion I've seen on the NES Classic seems to only cover how to load it up with extra games in general; niche examples like mine don't come up often so I'm unsure how/if it can be corrected at all.

I had considered adding additional emulators, but thematically  (to me) it felt "wrong". To each their own. But this is also why I really want to secure myself an SNES Classic (and depending on reviews of the Genesis Mini's audio/video quality, one of those eventually): so I can load it up with its own respective library and hope that all of the games with special chips emulate properly.

[ShoothimNow]

I had considered adding additional emulators, but thematically  (to me) it felt "wrong". To each their own. But this is also why I really want to secure myself an SNES Classic (and depending on reviews of the Genesis Mini's audio/video quality, one of those eventually): so I can load it up with its own respective library and hope that all of the games with special chips emulate properly.

^ ^ exactly how I feel. 

[Hesch]

I read a review of the Genesis that says it's pretty terrible. At least very least, the wireless controller that comes with it is attrocious.

http://gizmodo.com/i-tested-two-retro-consoles-one-good-one-hot-garbage-1797304161

[ShoothimNow]

It does make a great "shell" for a raspberry pi though  .  Especially seeing that the Mini Genesis is RCA out...

[wiggy]

Oh yeah, those things are garbage.  Nintendo doesn't produce crap like that.  Even their "budget" products like the New 2DS XL are extremely well built.

[TDIRunner]

Oh yeah, those things are garbage.  Nintendo doesn't produce crap like that.  Even their "budget" products like the New 2DS XL are extremely well built.

I saw on Facebook that you picked up a 2DS XL.  Any chance of getting a picture of one opened up next to a New 3DS (non XL)?  I'm curious how much bigger it looks in comparison.  I'm also curious about picture quality compared to a New 3DS (non XL).  I saw the 2DS XL at Target today and I'm just trying to decide if it's worth it to me.