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Nintendo Is Launching a New, Tiny NES For $60 With 30 Games (engadget.com)
Nintendo, which has been in the news a lot lately thanks to Pokemon Go, has announced a new console. It's called the Nintendo Classic Mini, and it will ship pre-loaded with 30 games. The upcoming Nintendo Classic Mini will be priced at $60, and an extra NES controller will set you back by $10. The controller can be attached to a Wii remote for use and the Virtual Console on the Wii or Wii U. The console, which comes with an HDMI and USB cable (for power) will ship on November 11. Engadget reports about the titles: The full list includes Balloon Fight, Bubble Bobble, Castlevania, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Double Dragon II: The Revenge, Dr. Mario, Excitebike, Final Fantasy, Galaga, Ghosts' N Ghoblins, Gradius, Ice Climber, Kid Icarus, Kirby's Adventure, Mario Bros., Mega Man 2, Metroid, Ninja Gaiden, Pac-Man, Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream, StarTropics, SUPER C, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Tecmo Bowl, The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.HotHardware has more details.
You can buy a NES for $20 pretty much everywhere go do that ya whiny ass bitch
I'm sorry that all the joy got sucked out of your life. I hope someday you find it again.
The wife is going to hate me for it but I am definitely buying this for my kids... yeah, yeah, you got me, it's really for me.
They went too far back...why didn't they just make this a SNES too and include some Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter!?
Those ports are the same as the accessory ports on Wiimotes; you can use the existing Wii Classic Controller Pro with the mini-NES, and you can use the new NES controllers (which, as the article says, looks like the original NES controller) with a Wiimote to play Virtual Console games. You should also be able to connect the Wiimote to a PC and use the NES controller that way, too.
You can see what the controllers look like on the images of the boxes, and it's been reported elsewhere that the controllers will cost $9.99.
My sig can beat up your sig.
So Nintendo is doing officially what the Chinese have been doing for more than a decade illegally.
They go by the name "Power Player" or "Super Joy" and contain dozens of NES games preloaded. The entire system is typically contained within the controller and the quality is very poor.
There's noticable lag on the gamepad display for NES VC games at least. It's weird that Mario Kart 8 seems to stream flawlessly in realtime to the gamepad, but in Super Mario Bros. or Ninja Gaiden I can always feel the delay between button presses and the game reacting.
Of course, since this is going via direct HDMI, there should be zero lag at all.
Shut the fuck up. Running Linux used to not be a given, asshole. It used to be a true accomplishment, and pardon us old guys for appreciating that.
Shitty ass emulation.
You kidding me? The hardware for the NES was so minimal to start with, they probably put it all, with the exception of one big EPROM for the game software, onto one FPGA, including the 6502 processor (which was, as I recall, labeled '2A03', a 40-pin DIP IC). Remember, NES was only 8-bit.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Needs to run fucking like a normal console.
Why? The Nintendo back catalogue plays through just fine on Wii Virtual Console. About the only thing you can't do is exploit timing bugs in the hardware to e.g. make Mario move through a wall. Otherwise their existing emulator works really well and there's no reason to believe that another effort of emulating won't either.
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is also a much more complicated game to emulate because it uses the MMC5 mapper to expand the NES's graphical capability. (I'll admit that CV3 underuses the MMC5 compared to some other games though. It was originally designed for the somewhat less complex VRC6 mapper, but Konami probably found it cheaper to use the MMC5 than to get the VRC6 certified.)
Powered by standard USB: Win
Controllers are usable with Wii and Wii U: Win
Controllers are dirt cheap: Win
Games are automatically saved at certain points allowing resuming after power off: Win
NES styling: Win
HDMI: Win
Two player support: Win
Ability to play additional games via cartridge or download: ???
Better known as 318230.
The Zapper relies on the 15.7 kHz horizontal scan rate of a CRT SDTV to detect light. The vast majority of HDMI displays are LCD, not CRT, and thus lack anything remotely similar for the Zapper to pick up. To work on an HDTV, the system would need to use a system similar to the Wii Remote and Sensor Bar to determine where the barrel is pointed.
One of my favorite quotes, from C.S. Lewis
“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
It isn't the hardware you're paying for, it is the software licensing rights to the 3rd party companies that made several of the games on this system.
Blowing isn't the answer; cleaning the contacts is. Nintendo once sold a Cleaning Kit that could be used for NES, Game Boy, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Advance Game Paks. Nowadays, you can just buy a small bottle of isopropyl rubbing alcohol and a box of cotton swabs. Wet one end and move it back and forth across both sides of the Game Pak's edge connector. Notice how much dust you picked up. Then do the same with the dry side of the swab.
You can even tell which part of the connector is dirty by how the NES misbehaves:
To clean GameCube, Wii, and Wii U Game Discs, wet a washcloth and wipe in and out between the center and edge, never around.