snes ahoy

or the first release of it at all, apparently. neat

as much as i love ff6 on nostalgia i think chrono trigger has aged a lot better

star fox 2

!

buyin it

h8 you nintendo

I'm actually buying this one, not like thinking i can buy it shortly after it's released but it's already sold out

yeh i want one dangit

buyin it

omg this box art
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/qb0NkMQQ-ll7J-kJMFZ_5xMKV78=/0x0:1200x885/920x613/filters:focal(504x347:696x539):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/55450119/DDQlaDAVwAEleYg.0.jpg

The guy who developed the Analogue NT Mini (currently the $500 holy grail of 8-bit gaming) is providing jailbreak support for every 8 bit and prior system. He plans on making a 16 bit console - I'm waiting on that. I love early gaming enough to pay a premium price.

Lately I'm playing the major Zelda game I missed, Majora's Mask, using Dolphin emulator, HD texture pack, and a wireless xbox360 controller (lol). This last week I also played Mario 64 for the first time in 20 years. I love emulating because of the up-scaling and widescreen code support etc..

However, NES and SNES don't need any upscaling. It's great of Nintendo to shell out new, old consoles; however it's kinda mean of them to stop production on the NES Classic.

how to pre-order?

It's up on Game for £80 but seems to have broken the website

Nintendo confirms to Kotaku that there will be more SNES Classics, but only this year https://t.co/TDVE7FEmHj pic.twitter.com/uaOqszTMVC

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) June 26, 2017

japanese boxart so pretty

http://i.imgur.com/5KYaS5a.jpg

It was apparently up on Amazon UK but now is "unavailable"

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/6/26/15875482/nintendo-snes-classic-mini-console-amazon-uk-preorder-pricing

buyin it

It's on Nintendo Store UK for £70 now https://store.nintendo.co.uk/nintendo-classic-mini-hardware/nintendo-classic-mini-super-nintendo-entertainment-system/11495711.html

bought one

*yoink* cheers stet

And gone again, heh.

I got an order in with amazon last night before they ran out.

I've still got my bootleg combo NES/SNES with Street Fighter and Mario, I think Chrono Trigger is the only thing that would have made me really want this (and FF II/IV).

if anyone sees a US place taking preorders please lmk

Are the pre-installed games the only ones that will ever be available for it?

https://gizmodo.com/without-chrono-trigger-the-snes-classic-is-just-a-fanc-1796434315

lol... they should of completed the headline in the link address. stupid click-bait
meanwhile I raise you:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/6jtle0/the_creators_of_starfox_2_throw_a_longbelated/

auto-generated links aren't intentional clickbait but sure can end up that way

the creators of starfox 2 throw a longbelated brick

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/scalpers-already-reselling-snes-classic-pre-orders-at-150-average-markup/

no official us sellers yet but you can set up a notification from best buy at http://www.bestbuy.com/site/nintendo-entertainment-system-snes-classic-edition/5919830.p?skuId=5919830&ref=199&loc=HiuZOO%2F9InU&acampID=1&siteID=HiuZOO_9InU-vxnSEqRusRMXjDKxHh32Bg

amazon's doing it too. but i suspect i'll actually have to get my ass out of bed and wait on line for one this year, when i didn't bother for the nes classic. at least it'll be in september instead of november, making it a little bit less of a holiday rush purchase

I wonder if a single nes classic actually was purchased as a gift and not in a scramble to grab one

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/08/super-nes-classic-pre-orders-start-later-this-month/

i bought a rasp pi for the vintage games instead of waiting for one of these things.... it's dope

i priced out at $130 delivered with a 64 gig memory chip and a bluetooth controller; kinda leaning that direction

do y'all still have wii? those can emulate SNES etc...

y'all have computers?

it doesn't have terranigma so IDGAF

I kinda want to buy one and turn it for a quick $30 profit. But there's no way I'll be quick enough to get one. Too much forethought.

i priced out at $130 delivered with a 64 gig memory chip and a bluetooth controller; kinda leaning that direction

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, August 2, 2017 4:12 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

about what it cost me, i went: 32gb card (heard things about larger cards sometimes not working), 2 wired snes-ripoff controllers that are p great, and a preorder copy of this book lol https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2146199819/the-unofficial-snes-super-famicom-a-visual-compend

y'all have computers?

― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, August 2, 2017 7:40 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

computer into tv w/hdmi cable and picking games w/desktop + mouse ?? classless

I have managed to secure two pre-orders (UK).A friend of mine donated me his childhood video games collection before he moved to the USA a number of years ago, so I'm planning on sending him one of the SNES mini's when I get them (being from the UK he doesn't want the USA's gross boxy one, and would prefer the smooth beauty that is the UK one).

until a few months ago I'd gone my entire life without knowing that the US SNES had a different (hideous) design to the Japanese/European one

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