Retro Gaming Gains A Savior?

1up.com has a look at a new slimline NES console made by a company named Messiah. They hope the console, named Generation NEX, will be able to reach consumers in retail stores. From the article: "We think our products can be mainstream, it's just a matter of finding and reaching those people. Everyone loves the NES, and grew up playing it...We're hoping to get Generation NEX into mainstream retailers. We think that'll help out a lot. It's kind of like one of those impulse buys, people aren't searching for it but when they come across it they'll be like 'whoa, I want that!'...The greatest challenge was incorporating all of the extra features into the hardware...It's quite easy just to make a clone that works with the existing stuff, but then when you incorporate the built-in wireless and all the other stuff that went into this hardware ... That was the biggest challenge, getting everything to work together."

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Re:10NES and the hardware patent

[Megane]

Nope, you only need it for cartridges. A homebrewer would have to start buying Super Mario cartridges in bulk, but otherwise it's not necessary.

And it's well known that if you cut pin 4 of the chip inside the console and ground it, ***THIS POST HAS BEEN CENSORED BY THE DMCA POLICE ***

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