Nintendo announces its "Flashback" NES Console The NES Classic Edition

[Electric Grave]

That's great news! Well worth the 25 bucks I say. I'll definitely be in the hunt for 2, thanks for sharing!

 

[CORY]

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.
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That stick looks like a Sanwa JLF clone.

 

[Jon]

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).

Gimmick was basically unplayable before adding the sound map. There wasn't a sound effect for jumping, making a star, or, collecting an item. There was no expansion audio, at all.

Now, the only real issue is the expansion audio isn't as loud as a legit cart. The other sound effects are all there, though. Once they fix that, people should (hopefully) start unloading their real carts.

Jon

 

[aoiddr]

My copy of the book Playing With Power: NES Classics came yesterday and it's an utter disappointment. The book was hyped like it was going to be this history of the NES type deal...and it's basically a half-assed strategy guide for the mini's selection of games that reads like it was culled from old Nintendo Power articles, complete with the usual, "Hey, you've got X number of levels left, we'll leave them as a surprise" crap. A reprint of the awesome NES Game Atlas would've been far more useful.

As for actual new content, there are maybe two dozen pages of historical content about the NES and its games scattered around the book. There are two pages about the NES's major motherboard parts and how the various chips used worked, two pages on how games were programmed, two pages of some of the peripherals, and then there are 2 to 4 page sections that list of important Nintendo-released games that came out during whichever years. This content is not worth buying this book for as there is so little of it.

 

[daskrabs]

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.
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I bought one of these sticks and a mini, and it straight up doesn't work on the mini. Others I've read reporting the same thing. I'm returning it today. Buyer beware.

 

[Electric Grave]

Oh man this sucks, could still do for a decent mod. I dunno, this is discouraging.

 

[fenikso]

I bought one of these sticks and a mini, and it straight up doesn't work on the mini. Others I've read reporting the same thing. I'm returning it today. Buyer beware.

I was reading this in reviews on Amazon. I wasn't sure if it was just people being annoyed at not being able to get the NES Classic lashing out, or if it didn't actually work. Thanks for the review, I guess I'll steer clear of that. Shame really, that the Big N didn't think to release something like that as well.

 

[GohanX]

Weak, that thing looks like it could be pretty cool, especially modded.

 

[-SD-]

My copy of the book Playing With Power: NES Classics came yesterday and it's an utter disappointment. The book was hyped like it was going to be this history of the NES type deal...and it's basically a half-assed strategy guide for the mini's selection of games that reads like it was culled from old Nintendo Power articles.....

Thanks for posting your thoughts on the book.... just cancelled my pre-order on Amazon.

 

[Yodd]

This makes me sad:

http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/vgm/5871927566.html

 

[uiengineer]

This makes me sad:

http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/vgm/5871927566.html

great deal.

wtf? i hope people aren't buying them second hand for that much.

 

[Mendel]

79 euros is the listed price over here.
not getting one though.

 

[HDRchampion]

This makes me sad:

http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/vgm/5871927566.html

If i wasn't so busy, i would actually e-mail guys like these & make a counter offer like $500. Then tell them to meet a safe area like a mall. Waste the guys time.

 

[Gyrian]

I've been messing around with the Famicom mini, which really hasn't been too bad at all for the price.

Following up from chat earlier, here is a comparison for the tiny controller (NES Classic ones are identical to the original). Somehow, it's still fairly playable like this. Reminds of the GameBoy Advance Micro.

One more specifically for us folks here.

 

[RAZO]

I've been messing around with the Famicom mini, which really hasn't been too bad at all for the price.

Following up from chat earlier, here is a comparison for the tiny controller (NES Classic ones are identical to the original). Somehow, it's still fairly playable like this. Reminds of the GameBoy Advance Micro.

One more specifically for us folks here.

That's way too small for my hands.

 

[GhostSeed]

I've been messing around with the Famicom mini, which really hasn't been too bad at all for the price.

Following up from chat earlier, here is a comparison for the tiny controller (NES Classic ones are identical to the original). Somehow, it's still fairly playable like this. Reminds of the GameBoy Advance Micro.

One more specifically for us folks here.

That's comically tiny.

 

[Caliburn89]

I mean at 1000 bucks, you could easily find an NES console, controllers, and the games included.

Even at 500 you're pushing your luck. I saw a CL ad for about 500 here.

I just don't get scalpers doing this. Nintendo has said they're doing multiple shipments so these guys are just going to be left high and dry. I'm probably over estimating the intelligence of the Nintendo fanboy though.

 

[Poison Sama]

These things aren't going to be worth buying until they're fully hacked anyway. Supposedly they have 256mb of internal flash memory, which is more than enough to store the entire NES+Famicom library.

 

[Jibbajaba]

Are the NES Classic controllers also smaller than the originals, or just the Fami ones?

 

[CORY]

Are the NES Classic controllers also smaller than the originals, or just the Fami ones?

They had to make the Famicom Mini ones smaller so they could fit on the system. The NES mini controllers are regular size.

 

[blakeb8111]

I bought one of these sticks and a mini, and it straight up doesn't work on the mini. Others I've read reporting the same thing. I'm returning it today. Buyer beware.

That sucks. I read the same all over the place but I saw that it works with the wii/wii u virtual console. I'll have to try it out and see.

 

[fake]

Have any tech people opened this up to see what chips it uses?

 

[aoiddr]

They had to make the Famicom Mini ones smaller so they could fit on the system. The NES mini controllers are regular size.

It shouldn't be that hard to install a pair of extension cable ports in place of the mini controllers, right? Seems like the obvious mod to use a normal sized controller.

Also curious when someone will install the Famicom board inside the NES shell...and vice versa.

 

[NeoSneth]

 

[aoiddr]

Where are you going to find a Ouya for $60 now? Even they go for some silly after market prices on ebay. >_>