snes ahoy

you think it's hideous? you should see what happens when they get old and yellow

I have an original old snes too (courtesy of said friend) but thankfully it's avoided going yellow - it's still got a 'healthy' grey blandness to it. And, aye, I'm not a fan of the blocky USA snes, but it's probably more down to familiarity with the rounded eu ones (plus we have multi-coloured buttons on the controller, which I don't think the USA one does?)

nope, sadly we did not get the colored buttons

I read somewhere that the SNES re-design thinking was that Americans would break the eject mechanism on the original design.

i read that it's because the american soul is vulgar

there's an eject button on the SFC?
and tbf just about everybody busted the springs on their NES consoles, it was a poor design

hot tip- this rules (if you have a mac)

http://openemu.org/

I got one of these to go with it:

http://www.8bitdo.com/snes30-sfc30/

preorders live on best buy website right now, I assume theyll be gone fast

yeah gone already

I got a preorder by going into an ebgames. not sure if i'll keep the system or give it as a gift.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-08-snes-mini-already-hacked-to-play-downloaded-games

So what else should I put on this thing?

Chrono Trigger obv

Super Tennis

Pilotwings

Donkey Kong Country 2

Super Mario All Stars

damnnn if I'd known it wd be susceptible to such hacking I mighta jumped on the bandwagon for this thing

I put on mine so far
Chrono Trigger
FF 4 & 5
Shin Megami Tensei 1 & 2
Umihara Kawase
Sailor Moon Another Story (a SM RPG with english fansub!)
Axelay
Darius Twin
UN Squadron

compatibility list
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12HKfz4ZQBy6Ip5awvh8t2aV5cVswYlnsdKxn9xoIW2Y/htmlview?sle=true#gid=2014317767

I snagged one of these today and it rules! I was in college during the SNES heyday so I don’t know most of these games, just Donkey Kong Country and Street Fighter, both of which I played about a million hours along w NBA Jam Tournament Édition. Might hack it eventually for the latter.

Where are people buying these, UK or us?

there's a french site tracking availability that I'd been monitoring & one store popped up the other day as having some in stock (at retail price, not marked up duh) & I jumped on it.

www.stockinformer.com is handy for this kind of thing.

(there's also a .co.uk version)

thanks!

smash tennis
turtles in time
NBA jam
smash TV
chrono trigger

don't think terranigma works :?

you can now hack this thing so it‘s a dual boot NES/SNES classic machine. neat.

any way to hack it on mac (natively) yet?

Forget about the SNES Classic. Get the Analogue Super Nt. http://time.com/4981296/super-nt-release-date-preview/90 plus shipping.

This is the console I've been waiting for. It's the follow up to the Analogue Nt Mini which is an all-in-one console (8-bit generation and prior) for the hardcore gamer/collector/person that wants to stick a million roms on an SD Card. I'm going to wait and see if the Super Nt has a jailbreak for the entire 16-bit generation (and prior) before I order it.

The core designer, Kevtris, is an one-man powerhouse plowing through all the work on his own. Plus he's a perfectionist and all around nice guy. His thread is here on atariage.com.

fixed
*Forget about the SNES Classic. Get the Analogue Super Nt. $190 plus shipping

**oops wrong link, fuck go here---> http://time.com/4981296/super-nt-release-date-preview/

lol the writing in that time.com thing is aneurysm inducing

There's another Super Nintendo on the block, and this one means business.

Not the lucrative sort Nintendo's sold out Super NES Classic seems to be doing as availability bulletins circulate like whispers of a ghost. Nor the steady sort Nintendo's handheld 3DS has been up to for years, dishing up choice SNES downloads by way of its Virtual Console. But business the way an audio engineer means when retooling decades-old tunes for playback on modern audio hardware. Or as a film preservationist does when cleaning and converting acetate film to digital ones and zeroes.

It's called the Super Nt, plays some of the medium's most treasured games (like Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past), and judging from the literature its Seattle-based boutique hardware-maker sent over, it's poised to be a Super Nintendo nonpareil

I browsed through 6 or 7 articles and that was the only one with expressive language that matched my excitement. I couldn't read it in one go but in bits between looking up at the tv.

> that wants to stick a million roms on an SD Card.

Oh, do these things do that? I always got the impression they were just designed to play the original physical carts rather than roms.

“The Super NT also includes an SD card slot, ostensibly for firmware updates; however, shortly after releasing the NT mini, Horton released a jailbroken firmware unofficially, which supports ROM playback and, most notably, new “core” support. After 12 releases, culminating in the 2.0 firmware, the NT mini simulates everything from the Atari 7800, the Sega Master System, and the original Game Boy to lesser-known consoles like the Channel F and Adventurevision. Horton’s decades spent decoding the intricacies of video game hardware found a readily available home in the NT mini, and the Super NT should be similar.“

judging from the literature its Seattle-based boutique hardware-maker sent over

luv2breathlessly recycle marketing materials as copy

Oh wow, yeah these are much more tempting then than the way they're marketed would suggest.

Yeah a pinnacle 16-bit system that is $260 less than the pinnacle 8-bit system

lol at the way they described a FPGA in the press release, though

flowery, but good to know. i didn't realize myself this was hardware simulation vs. software emulation

I mean the reason you'd ship it with a FPGA is to simulate different processors, but their marketing only mentions the one

The other reason would be that you don't think you'd sell enough, or actually having chips manufactured would run afoul of actually licensing. Generally a FPGA is used when you're designing a chip. If your intention was to make it run exactly like one specific processor, then... use your FPGA instructions to have someone manufacture that processor

The marketing only mentioned NES for the 8-bit Analogue NT Mini but all the other early systems were casually dumped on the internet via jailbreak firmware from Analogue’s coder himself (Kevtris). As for licensing on things like the super fx chip there might be workarounds in writing code differently and providing the same result. I fully expect the Super Nt to get jailbreak firmware for Genesis, Turbografx 16, and Neo Geo. I hope it includes all the 8-bit and prior cores as well.

Nevertheless, I can wait til Febuary to find out more.

just got one from amazon.fr via stockinformer, thanks jimd

they always alert me just in time for me to miss it

Ha you’re welcome. Been playing Micro Machines on mine this week, and enjoying it more than mariokart.

Oh man I forgot about Micro Machines, that's a definite reason to hack. Are there any drawbacks? Was it easy enough?

It was astoundingly easy, to the extent that it's ridiculous to even call it a hack. It was easier than adding songs to my second gen ipod was! Hackchi is pretty lovely, it'll even do things like auto-googling box art for the menus.

Drawbacks I guess are that a) not everything works (but hackchi warns you which games won't and lets you decide not to add them), b) the interface isn't designed for huge lists of games, which forces you to use subfolders, which is just slightly clunky. Not a massive deal at all though.

It's also possible to install other emulators so that the games which otherwise don't work become playable, the software also offers to do this for you, haven't tried that yet though.

mentioned elsewhere (even on this thread i think!) but:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/one-upping-the-nes-classic-edition-with-the-raspberry-pi-3-and-retropie/

I probably mentioned it? I've got one with a custom interface skin that resembles the NES Classic. Was very fun to curate.

any update on hacking this for people using a mac (without parallels etc)?

I got one! A little Christmas gift to myself. Never heard of Earthbound in all my time as a console enthusiast. What's the deal with that?

Are you from Earth?

Between the poor sales and the phasing out of the Super NES, the game did not receive a European release.

I came across it 15/20 years later via the internet