Nintendo announces its "Flashback" NES Console The NES Classic Edition
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Well preorder now, goy!
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Everyone paypal me $10 and I'll pull up to a line of these suckers and smash one in front of them. I'm surprised there's no videos on YT doing that yet. Nintendo fanatics would have my head...
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Amazon's listing now has over 1,400 one star rating reviews. That's 91% of the reviews posted.
https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Ent...By=helpful&filterByStar=one_star&pageNumber=1
https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Ent...By=helpful&filterByStar=one_star&pageNumber=1
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Quick impressions...
Picture quality is amazing. Presentation is nice. 4 save states per game is nice. Selection is nice. Hardware is well-built. This thing includes both the HDMI and USB cables, which is a fucking miracle these days. Having only played Super Mario Bros so far, my only problem is the input lag. It's a fraction of a second, but it's there. And I don't know why. This is a digital signal. It's not being converted to analog like an actual NES would be.
Picture quality is amazing. Presentation is nice. 4 save states per game is nice. Selection is nice. Hardware is well-built. This thing includes both the HDMI and USB cables, which is a fucking miracle these days. Having only played Super Mario Bros so far, my only problem is the input lag. It's a fraction of a second, but it's there. And I don't know why. This is a digital signal. It's not being converted to analog like an actual NES would be.
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Maybe it's your TV? I'd hate to find out this thing has input lag on it's own.
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It might be, but I heard of other people complaining about this as well.
For a $60 toy, how could you really go wrong though.
Just don't play punch out.
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Also forgot to mention two other things...
The audio is great. You can really hear more of the top end of the spectrum.
But did anyone else notice that the fireballs are missing their orange layer in Super Mario Bros when they're on a dark background (e.g. castle level)?
The audio is great. You can really hear more of the top end of the spectrum.
But did anyone else notice that the fireballs are missing their orange layer in Super Mario Bros when they're on a dark background (e.g. castle level)?
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Gutted people who missed out on the product venting their rage.
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Ebay is predictably flooded with these. Lots of predictable ones with like $2000 buy it now's too. Nintendo will make more of these. Even if you can't buy it until after the holidays I say who cares? Do you really need to play Kid Icarus and Mega Man 2 immediately?
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Unless they're getting REALLY tricky with the video hardware, it's going to be at least 16ms behind the real thing, because it's frame-buffered instead of composited in real time. Plus, there's probably some more polling delay on the controllers because they've got an operating system (of some kind) feeding it into the emulator.
Latency is srs bznz.
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Ah, makes sense. So yeah, it's a fun product, but if you actually want to play these games, I'd say hacked Wii for HDTVs or OG hardware for CRTs.
Quick question for those with the Famicom Everdrive... The Famicom carts had a bunch of different hardware configurations. Are all the chips used in Famicom carts present in the Everdrive cart? Or are there some games that either don't run or don't run as well as others?
There are a few games that don't play perfectly, Gimmick!, for one. Someone had to make a custom sound map to get it running right...it's still not perfect.
There are some games that won't play at all like Lagrange Point and a few shooters, too.
It's not perfect but, definitely worth the price.
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I managed to get 2 extensions for the controllers. No luck finding the joysticks, I hope I can manage to find a couple somewhere along the line. I personally couldn't find any issues on delay, maybe it's there but I was fine enough to get to level 22 on Galaga scoring over 200K, Made it all the way to Mr. Dream and got my ass kicked as usual, lol. Megaman 2 was a flurry. I just played the easy clears, haven't played SMB yet but I'm going to soon, also gonna gun for a Super C 1CC. Maybe Gradius as well.
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Gotcha. That's a bummer about Gimmick! I can't think of many high ticket Fami games other than that which are $100+. Avoiding paying for those would be my main objective in buying the Everdrive. But I'd still use one for games I wanted to try out but not spend the money and shelf space on (I've got 52 Fami carts at the moment).
My TV doesn't have a "gaming mode". I have a 1080p 26" Vizio. I think because it's so small, they figured they didn't need to put many features into it. This was the only small TV I could find that was 1080p, which I wanted in the event that I bought a PS4.
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For anyone curious about the edge stick, I decided to open it up. The a and b buttons are pretty terrible, joystick is ok. But I opened the case and the buttons look like a perfect swap to seimitsu or sanwa snap ins and already have the interconnects so it should be a straight swap. And the joystick can definitely be modded as well. For $25 I think it's worth it.
