SNES Classic Revealed

[Arseen]

Does Quebec still require those 2 games to be in French -> if yes -> Will all US and Canadian releases have language option or will this French Canadian version be super rare collector's version?

[monjici]

Does Quebec still require those 2 games to be in French -> if yes -> Will all US and Canadian releases have language option or will this French Canadian version be super rare collector's version?

Unless I missed something, there were zero detail or reason officially provided by Nintendo at the time they blocked that market. They didn't even officially mentionned it wasn't, retailers did.
Exactly the same thing hapenned yesterday. Retailers announced it one by one, dead silence from Nintendo.

My guess is that it will be the exact same version as anybody else. The box itself is already trilingual.
I'll let you know once I get my hand on one on the launch date

[Arseen]

From your previous post I got the idea that it was unlawfull to sell it due to the 2 games being in french but not in french on SNES mini.

So was it Nintendo or the Quebec language police (or what it's called) saying that it can't be sold?

[wiggy]

I'm sure it was Quebec. Nintendo surely wouldn't have any reason to NOT sell it there.

[Arseen]

I'm sure it was Quebec. Nintendo surely wouldn't have any reason to NOT sell it there.

So either Quebec backed down, Nintendo added French language option, or Nintendo or sellers just said fuck the police.

Well we'll see is it English only, dual language in Quebec only (which woukld make that version highly collectablle) or dual language in whole North America or dual (or multi) language in whole world.

[monjici]

Initially, everybody was pointing the finger at the local "language cop" if we can call it so, but they got fed up and responded that they had nothing to do with this, they won't react or investigate unless there are complaints (and there were none). The plainly mentionned that it's a manufacturer decision to sell or not in a market (kinda pointing the finger at Nintendo).

I don't think we'll even know publicly anything from Nintendo, so we can only speculate.

[Arseen]

Initially, everybody was pointing the finger at the local "language cop" if we can call it so, but they got fed up and responded that they had nothing to do with this, they won't react or investigate unless there are complaints (and there were none). The plainly mentionned that it's a manufacturer decision to sell or not in a market (kinda pointing the finger at Nintendo).

I don't think we'll even know publicly anything from Nintendo, so we can only speculate.

Oooh OK, now I understand.
Thanks.

[TDIRunner]

Initially, everybody was pointing the finger at the local "language cop" if we can call it so, but they got fed up and responded that they had nothing to do with this, they won't react or investigate unless there are complaints (and there were none). The plainly mentionned that it's a manufacturer decision to sell or not in a market (kinda pointing the finger at Nintendo).

I don't think we'll even know publicly anything from Nintendo, so we can only speculate.

That's kind of funny that that got enough shit to actually respond to the issue.  Do you have any link? 

[tylerbgood]

That's kind of funny that that got enough shit to actually respond to the issue.  Do you have any link? 

I know the OQLF (language police) twitter responded to the issue a few times saying it had nothing to do with the restrictions. Check the tweets from August 23 here: https://twitter.com/oqlf?lang=en

[marioxb]

So I think I see how this French issue was "fixed". Here are all the online (pdf) manuals: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clvs/manuals/

The following is only true for the 20 "classic" games, not counting Star Fox 2, which had a brand new online manual created in every language. So you can select a language here, and if you choose Japanese, you get the Super Famicom manuals, with five alternate games from the otherwise worldwide versions. However, if you choose ANY other language, you get Star Fox 2 and the system manuals in that language. However, with the other 20 games, no matter what language you choose (besides Japanese), you get the a pdf of the English USA manual. Unlike the NES/ Famicom classic, there isn't a "Wii Virtual Console-like" electronic manual, only a pdf version if the original printed USA manual. That is, unless you choose French. Then you can either get that same USA manual OR an electronic manual in French.

Here are the NES/ Famicom manuals for comparison:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/ (choose language in top right corner). Pretty much the same on these NES manuals EXCEPT you have the option of an electronic manual in any language except Japanese.

[ShoothimNow]

Got one =)

[breakmanexe]

Mucho congrats. I'll be picking mine up after work (no worry about lines; I got a pre-order in during the Best Buy window). Enjoy that kickass new toy.

[marioxb]

Wow, so Nintendo was really true to their word this time! I'm at Walmart in Orlando, and they just got a shipment of SNES Classic in. I was like, "Wow you guys actually have those?" as I watched them unpack at the site to store area. "Yeah, you want one?" "No thanks, I got one Friday." Never thought I'd see the day!

[Hesch]

Still haven't gotten my american release yet, but my EU console just made it through customs and is in UPS' hands now. Part of me is considering just opening and using my EU version. I like the look of it so much more. Originally, I was thinking about getting 1 from all 3 regions to keep boxed and on the shelf. Not sure what I'm going to do now

Oh, and a detailed look at the emulation accuracy on the SNES Classic by Digital Foundry:
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/10/digital_foundry_does_a_deep_dive_on_the_super_nes_classic_snes_mini_emulation

[Hesch]

https://github.com/ClusterM/hakchi2/releases

Hakchi2's been updated to support the SNES Classic.

• SNES Classic Mini support.
• Automatic ROM conversion to special SNES Classic Mini's format. ~75% of games are working fine. You can use RetroArch mod for problem games.
• For expert users: you can select SNES game and press Ctrl+Alt+E to show hidden Preset ID editor.
• Individual profiles for different consoles, so you can use the same hakchi2 for both NES, SNES, Famicom and Super Famicom. You can select console type using "Settings menu".
• 7-Zip compression support for all platforms and emulators. You can compress or decompress any game using only one checkbox.
• Group operations. Now you can select multiple games in the main window, right click on them and do mass compression or mass cover downloading only for selected games. Hold control to select individual games.
• For expert users: NAND dump, NAND-B dump and memboot features. Don't use it if you don't known what is it.
• Some bugfixes and refactoring.