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Super Nintendo Classic Coming in September (hollywoodreporter.com)
Rumors are true. Nintendo is gearing up to launch the SNES Classic, a miniaturized version of the glorious original Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The console will include 21 games when it launches September 29. A report adds: Among the big surprises: a never-before released Star Fox 2 is in the mix. Here's the full list of games: Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, F-Zero, Super Metroid, Super Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Super Punch Out, Super Castlevania IV, Donkey Kong Country, Mega Man X, Kirby Super Star, Final Fantasy III, Kirby's Dream Course, Star Fox, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Contra III: The Alien Wars, Secret of Mana, EarthBound, and Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts. It will retail at a price point of $80.
Nintendo should be manufacturing additional NES Classic units instead of shutting their production down (Which has already occurred) and then announcing a Super Nintendo Classic. They haven't remotely met demand for the first retro console yet. Many of us were looking forward to it from the second it was announced, but there were no pre-orders available online, so we waited, and tried to buy it release day, and it sold out instantly. Several "click-a-thons" were announced by Amazon, Walmart.com, etc. that involved everyone getting online at, say, 5pm on a Tuesday and trying to buy a limited supply, which crashed their severs and left people hitting reload for a half hour in a row a half dozen or a dozen days of this, and not getting the product.
Some people who were trying to get it from the beginning STILL don't have the product like a year after it was announced and 8 months or so after it came out. Ebay prices are sky-high for a $60 retail console.
Nintendo should meet demand and make sure all the people who were ready to buy an NES Classic before or on release day get the opportunity to buy a new one at the retail price before moving on to the next thing.
I've pretty much vowed not to consider getting a Nintendo Switch, a Super Nintendo Classic, pay for the Mario smartphone game, or in any way contribute to funding anything Nintendo until they provide what they hyped up and then never made available to me in the most annoying way possible- a way that took a ton of time and was very frustrating. No NES Classic, no me buying Nintendo products going forward. I don't like the way they do business.
Yeah will be nice to finally get the completed version of StarFox 2, but there has been a leaked mostly complete beta of StarFox 2 out there for a while.
The fun part about RetroPie is it automagically detects controllers on startup. Check out the Controllers section of their docs to see common examples.
I tend to leave my Pi on, so I have a few wired 360 controllers attached to it (power-a xbox 360 controllers, if you're curious). I find they work pretty well for NES, SNES, PS1, and Genesis (with minor remapping) games, and they are ergonomic enough that I don't get X-Box claw or any other hand cramps. They don't have quite the same feel as original controllers, but I find I'm able to do stuff like the Mock Ball and other timing-dependent tricks just fine. Of course, you could also just find some original controllers and get a USB adapter.