I bet Nintendo are the scalpers
secretly reselling at a higher cost
[QUOTE=gk99;52099855]I mean I guess I'll just emulate the games then, shouldn't be hard to find a Bluetooth NES controller lookalike so that I don't have to worry about the shitty small cable[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.nes30.com/[/URL]
[URL]http://www.8bitdo.com/retro-receiver-nes/[/URL]
[url]http://www.8bitdo.com/retro-receiver-nes-classic/[/url] [I](And for you NES Classic owners)[/I]
Let me guess: Someone is sad that he won't be able to get one, so he makes one himself, but Nintendo will send a cease and desist letter, declaring that he should destruct the device because in this timeline we are not simply allowed to have nice things.
[QUOTE=1/4 Life;52099881][URL]http://www.nes30.com/[/URL]
[URL]http://www.8bitdo.com/retro-receiver-nes/[/URL]
[url]http://www.8bitdo.com/retro-receiver-nes-classic/[/url] [I](And for you NES Classic owners)[/I][/QUOTE]
There's a SNES version as well. These are all supposed to be pretty damn good.
Ok people, please don't buy a NES Classic from scalper. At that point your better off buying a Raspberry Pi 3 and can play every system that's older than the N64, even arcade games.
[media]https://youtu.be/kw1pKbYRZBU[/media]
Just get this
[editline]13th April 2017[/editline]
You can use an SD card if you don't have classic cartridges to use with it, it even plays Gameboy cartridges and has slots for original controllers.
[QUOTE=Arc Nova;52100098][media]https://youtu.be/kw1pKbYRZBU[/media]
Just get this
[editline]13th April 2017[/editline]
You can use an SD card if you don't have classic cartridges to use with it, it even plays Gameboy cartridges and has slots for original controllers.[/QUOTE]
I think thats not the point, the point is that this is a official Nintendo product and they are always being scalped no matter what.
Yeah true that, just throwing it out there if anyone was looking for an alternative retro gaming console. I keep seeing this one pop-up.
At the end of the day though aren't they just grey market consoles using shady emulation loopholes and (for the ones that don't have slots for official cartridges) pirated games?
[QUOTE=simkas;52099694]That was the entire point of it.
[editline]13th April 2017[/editline]
Get a used NES?[/QUOTE]
old nintendo games can be pretty expensive
get a pi zero amd 3dprint a mini case or use a cart for some shitty game
[editline]13th April 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Arc Nova;52100098][media]https://youtu.be/kw1pKbYRZBU[/media]
Just get this
[editline]13th April 2017[/editline]
You can use an SD card if you don't have classic cartridges to use with it, it even plays Gameboy cartridges and has slots for original controllers.[/QUOTE]
thats pretty overpriced for an unlicensed product, you can run upto a ps1 saturn maybe even n64 on a pi3
[QUOTE=waylander;52100181]old nintendo games can be pretty expensive
get a pi zero amd 3dprint a mini case or use a cart for some shitty game
[editline]13th April 2017[/editline]
thats pretty overpriced for an unlicensed product, you can run upto a ps1 saturn maybe even n64 on a pi3[/QUOTE]
Saturn is definitely out of the question.
Nintendo was really, really damn stupid to do this. Why kill a product that's profiting? The only reasons I can think of is there being enough made that future production would cause it to become worthless, or because it's harming people somehow. And this is neither, so what the hell?
Well, for the disgruntled person who's had their time wasted wondering if they'll ever get one of these, here are your options as far as I'm aware;
1.Get an actual NES. These range in price between $20-$100, but I'm sure you'll be able to get a good deal. You can find these on ebay and whatnot, but you can also get them in thrift stores and garage sales. Garage sales and thrift stores are great too because you can often get them as well as rare games dirt cheap because the seller doesn't know what they're selling. There's also retro game stores but you have to sacrifice the idea of 'getting a bargain' because they [I]will[/I] know what they're worth.
Price depends on the game but as long as you stay in the 'classic' sphere of the NES, you probably won't be spending too much money. $5-$30 seems to be a average range. Keep in mind you're [I]still[/I] getting a better deal than you will on an NES Mini, and you can get as many games as you want.
The NES holds up well, and besides some discoloration a lot of them work just fine. Including the controllers. Cartridges glitch out often but they always did that.
2.Emulate the NES. I don't think I'm allowed to provide links, or tell you how to do this, because warez, but it is an option. You can use controllers with emulators, and there are controllers like the 8bitdo ones that recreate the NES pretty great and can be used wirelessly or wired.
The downside to this option is that everything will appear sharp. Due to the nature of the NES the image was actually anything but sharp, making it very blurry in general in a way that a lot of people actually like. It makes Link look more like a cartoon guy standing there instead of a mass of pixels, for instance. You [I]can[/I] recreate it in the emulator by changing some video settings, enough that I think you could probably fool someone in to thinking it was real NES, but I don't think you can really get it perfect.
3.Set up a raspberry pi box. I don't know how expensive this is, or how well it works, cause I'm not super familiar with raspberry pis. I'm sure it really doesn't require programming knowledge and that plenty of people have already done the work for you. This is a way of getting it on your tv if you really want it there.
4.Nintendo's virtual console shit. I'm leaving this second to last because it's one of the worst options. The upside is this is actually for real your [I]only option[/I] that gives Nintendo money for their game. The downside is that I hear this thing sucks because it displays the games weirdly dark. Also someone proved that Nintendo's version of Mario on the Wii virtual console was literally just downloaded from like emuparadise or something, so they lose points for that.
5.Plug and plays/third party consoles. These usually let you play like 4 consoles in one but I hear that a lot of them are garbage and I frankly don't trust them. A lot of plug and plays are also bootleg shit from china with '80,000' rip-off shit games on them.
[QUOTE=Dantz Bolrew;52100207]Saturn is definitely out of the question.[/QUOTE]
i think retropie has a not very good saturn emulator, i only ever used mine for mame
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;52100239]3.Set up a raspberry pi box. I don't know how expensive this is, or how well it works, cause I'm not super familiar with raspberry pis. I'm sure it really doesn't require programming knowledge and that plenty of people have already done the work for you. This is a way of getting it on your tv if you really want it there.[/QUOTE]
It's a bit tricky to set-up but once your good it runs it flawlessly.
[QUOTE=KnightRider25;52100286]It's a bit tricky to set-up but once your good it runs it flawlessly.[/QUOTE]
Eh, retropi is pretty easy to set up.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;52100239]Nintendo was really, really damn stupid to do this. Why kill a product that's profiting? The only reasons I can think of is there being enough made that future production would cause it to become worthless, or because it's harming people somehow. And this is neither, so what the hell?[/QUOTE]
On the hardware front, Nintendo doesn't care about providing its consumers with product. All they care about is making just enough so that the scalpers swoop up and guarantee none of those units are getting shipped back unsold.
[QUOTE=Arc Nova;52100098][media]https://youtu.be/kw1pKbYRZBU[/media]
Just get this
[editline]13th April 2017[/editline]
You can use an SD card if you don't have classic cartridges to use with it, it even plays Gameboy cartridges and has slots for original controllers.[/QUOTE]
This is great for people that want to play those games on a console but the reason so many people go after old consoles, old computers etc is because of the novelty of it being true and legitimate of the experience you'd get from one.
then again those people would get a real nes over the nes classic so what am I saying, that's a pretty niche group
The only difference is the 'official' licensing but really its the same product just more specialized
So much for getting this later. Oh well, at least it isn't that good of a product.
I don't understand why they would make something that has a huge demand, and then discontinue it just like that
[QUOTE=TheTalon;52103042]I don't understand why they would make something that has a huge demand, and then discontinue it just like that[/QUOTE]
Nintendo has never been the brightest when it comes to...well pretty much anything.
[QUOTE=Oizen;52103059]Nintendo has never been the brightest when it comes to...well pretty much anything.[/QUOTE]
Nintendo personally strike me as extremely competent in some areas (Games, hardware durability) but extremely incompetent in others (Listening to third party devs, power of hardware, stupid stock "issues")
I tried to get an NES Classic for my cousin this past Christmas, but was unsuccessful in finding one. Guess I'll never find one then. :v:
[QUOTE=J!NX;52101302]This is great for people that want to play those games on a console but the reason so many people go after old consoles, old computers etc is because of the novelty of it being true and legitimate of the experience you'd get from one.
then again those people would get a real nes over the nes classic so what am I saying, that's a pretty niche group
The only difference is the 'official' licensing but really its the same product just more specialized[/QUOTE]
Those tend to have issues too, like every Megadrive clone out there has its sound fucked beyond belief, and this is probably no exception.
Also, doesn't Raspberry Pi suffer from massive input lag from what I gather or that's just RetroPie?
Doesn't nintendo have somewhat frequent supply issues with almost every product?
[QUOTE=KnightRider25;52100286]It's a bit tricky to set-up but once your good it runs it flawlessly.[/QUOTE]
Plus the raspberry pi can output composite video. Run that to a CRT tv and you really cannot tell the difference. I even use genuine nes controllers with a USB adapter
Well fuck you then Nintendo, I guess you don't want my money. Guess it's time to buy another Raspberry Pi and resort to piracy.
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[QUOTE=Wormy;52104007]Where can you get USB adapters for the controllers?[/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.amazon.com/Tomee-NES-Retro-Controller-Adapter-Converter/dp/B00HM3QCN2[/url]
you can get adapters for pretty much any controller ever made
When it comes to clone consoles, the Retro Trio is the best I've used, it's pretty much on-point with the SNES and Genesis. IIRC the NES is a bit off, but it's still far better than even RetroBit's own standalone NES.
There is the Retron 5 but IIRC it's literally an Android box running RetroArch. At that point you might as well use a Raspberry Pi and ROMs
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;52103232]Nintendo personally strike me as extremely competent in some areas (Games, hardware durability) but extremely incompetent in others (Listening to third party devs, power of hardware, stupid stock "issues")[/QUOTE]
That's, of course, because different sections of the company are run by different people. Some of it has other reasons, for example, Nintendo has never had good history with third parties, like since the day nintendo made consoles that can play more than what's hardwired. The hardware stems from the fact that they believe that there is simply no point in competing with too many other companies, without kicking bucket.
How long till some rando with a factory in China starts filling in the very large demand for these units with $30 knockoffs?
Seriously nintendo gj throwing away free money, as you always fucking do.
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