SNES Mini

Alter Egotist

Smyths have these up for order today for delivery by 2pm tomorrow if anyone is still looking.

https://www.smythstoys.com/ie/en-ie/video-games-and-tablets/retro-gaming/nintendo-classic-mini-super-nintendo-entertainment-system/p/161624

CiDeRmAn

Alter Egotist wrote: »

Smyths have these up for order today for delivery by 2pm tomorrow if anyone is still looking.

https://www.smythstoys.com/ie/en-ie/video-games-and-tablets/retro-gaming/nintendo-classic-mini-super-nintendo-entertainment-system/p/161624

And they're gone

DinoRex

Not to worry. There's one up on adverts.ie for €600.

smurf492

DinoRex wrote:

Not to worry. There's one up on adverts.ie for €600.

And because he's a decent guy he only wants swops for immaculate old consoles and games!!! Clown

KeRbDoG

...awaiting the StarFox 2 ROM to get dumped

Alter Egotist

It was dumped last night as far as I know

KeRbDoG

I see a CRC/reference to it but no luck yet finding...the search continues! ...and ends

Alter Egotist

KeRbDoG wrote: »

I see a CRC/reference to it but no luck yet finding...the search continues! ...and ends

throw me a pm and ill send it to you if you want

KeRbDoG

Alter Egotist wrote: »

throw me a pm and ill send it to you if you want

Thanks for the offer Alter but I'm sorted...now I'm looking for the EEPROM, programmer etc. that I will need to create a repro. Ah, another project!

Alter Egotist

KeRbDoG wrote: »

Thanks for the offer Alter but I'm sorted...now I'm looking for the EEPROM, programmer etc. that I will need to create a repro. Ah, another project!

let me know exactly what you need. ive a ball of stuff from way back. will hook you up if you need. out at the moment. will reply when i can

o1s1n

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Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

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ZSNES scrub!

Begone with your lack of cycle accurate emulation!

Thou hasn't been given the moniker of an emulation casual.

Jack burton

Have my one in GameStop paid for and all. Can't wait to get a few games over the weekend...

...sorry I mean scalp someone 2 weeks before Christmas for $$$$

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

ZSNES scrub!

Begone with your lack of cycle accurate emulation!

Thou hasn't been given the moniker of an emulation casual.

Check the modified date on ZSnes in that screengrab, 2007 - that's the last time I installed a snes emulator :pac:

Retr0gamer

Had a quick go on the SNES mini. It's a dinky little thing

Third_Echelon

sugarman wrote: »

Smyths have loads of stock for click & collect now!

Was going to hold off given what Nintendo has said about replenishing stock but wasnt taking my chances this time after missing out on the NES.

Yeah loads up there. Each store has 15+ at the moment...

Third_Echelon

Just went ahead and ordered from Smyths and get my Dad to pick it up. Was going to try and get one in the States, but the US version looks damn ugly! I'll have to wait until Christmas when I'm home for the Euro version, but it looks much better! Worth the wait I think. Should be a fun Christmas

CiDeRmAn

Looks like the console is going to be as receptive to custom game libraries as it's predecessor, so that'll make them even more interesting.

CathalDublin

Got my notice to collect from Smyths, roll on 5PM

phily2002

CathalDublin wrote: »

Got my notice to collect from Smyths, roll on 5PM

Same, gonna be a long work day!

Scottish

You 2 are lucky - my order got cancelled!

Shambles, they said that their head office left the online ordering open when it should have been closed.

Why are these things so bloody difficult.

acrmorris

Same here Scottish. Ordered from Ennis Road Limerick at about 2 this morning with 15+ available and got cancellation email just before 9 this morning. Pretty frustrating

Jack burton

Just picked up mine. There was maybe 6 left in GameStop. Wouldn't say many of them came in.

It really is mini!

The Last Bandit

Still waiting for my preorder to be delivered...

DinoRex

I think my pre-order is okay. They sent me a very garbled email with no subject line that went straight to my spam box.

I pre-ordered back in June.

smurf492

DinoRex wrote:

I think my pre-order is okay. They sent me a very garbled email with no subject line that went straight to my spam box.

I got the same email so I'd say you're grand

o1s1n

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Still waiting for my preorder to be delivered...

Same! Amazon says it's waiting to be dispatched... ordered it back when orders first went live (Think that was June?)

CathalDublin

DinoRex wrote: »

I think my pre-order is okay. They sent me a very garbled email with no subject line that went straight to my spam box.

I pre-ordered back in June.

got same but also a text last night at 11:30

eddhorse

Damn should have ordered, those scalpers make me sick

DinoRex

Picked mine up over lunch with no problems.

Sheesh... those queues for FIFA 18 are insane, luckily I could skip it as they had a section of the sales counter just for click and collect.

Retr0gamer

I was getting jeered by the FIFA crowd when I picked up mine last night

God I just don't get FIFA. I'm not a fan of sports games but any soccer game that attempts to be realistic is just awful. Stuff like NFL, NHL and basketball translate well but unless football is arcadey like with sensi or ISS deluxe (which I lament when it turned into pro evo) it just doesn't work as a game.

I should have preached to them the virtues of super metroid.

FGR

Or the quality that is Super Mario Kart.

....I think you'd lose them on Final Fantasy 6 though. There's an element of society that will never appreciate the quality of an excellent engine combined with great story telling.

I can't seem to find a mini anywhere. Sigh.

Retr0gamer

I wouldn't call the ff6 engine quality. It's incredibly buggy and broken. Sure you use sketch at your own risk as it can totally break your game!

Still pure quality though.

DinoRex

Only football game for me was Sensible Soccer on the Amiga. Put so many hours into that game.

Corholio

FIFA has had some good iterations down the gears, FIFA Road to the World Cup is probably my favourite football game ever. The problem with a lot of the modern ones is a lot of the tech hasn't taken big enough jumps to distinguish it from a previous version, like it used to do often throughout the 90's and 2000's.

Jack burton

Yeah I don't like FIFA but sure whatever floats your boat, I hate soccer in general. WWF games are the same but I was a big fan back in my youth so I understand the yearly updates.

Third_Echelon

My order was cancelled too

mttk

Mine got cancelled....went in anyways and picked one up :-)

CathalDublin

Emulation in super ghouls n ghosts is shocking, I haven’t played the original in years but can’t believe it was this slow and laggy

Retr0gamer

CathalDublin wrote: »

Emulation in super ghouls n ghosts is shocking, I haven’t played the original in years but can’t believe it was this slow and laggy

Lol its not an emulation issue. If it was you would get frame tearing. Slowdown is coded in to the game. The snes had a shockingly awful cpu which was crap for action games. Gradius 3 is a good example. Take it from a gng expert, the lag was in the original game.

direstraits

If anyone knows where I can get one or if you selling a second snes mini can you pm please
. thanks, im in Dublin

Retr0gamer

Jack burton wrote: »

Yeah I don't like FIFA but sure whatever floats your boat, I hate soccer in general. WWF games are the same but I was a big fan back in my youth so I understand the yearly updates.

There's some pretty good old wrestling games. Fire pro and the better n64 games were great. It's just the modern ones are utter crap.

CathalDublin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Lol its not an emulation issue. If it was you would get frame tearing. Slowdown is coded in to the game. The snes had a shockingly awful cpu which was crap for action games. Gradius 3 is a good example. Take it from a gng expert, the lag was in the original game.

Really? it’s almost unplayable, I had it bitd (US Cart) and don’t remember it being that bad, I thought it was quite good, it’s real jerky as well as the slow down

CathalDublin

CathalDublin wrote: »

Really? it’s almost unplayable, I had it bitd (US Cart) and don’t remember it being that bad, I thought it was quite good, it’s real jerky as well as the slow down

Once you get a handful of sprites on the screen it plays its sooooo slow, you actually fall when you die in slow motion lol
Doesn’t look like that on the AVGN videos which are original hardware
I play a lot of gng and ghouls but only really on arcade, maybe I’m spoiled

Third_Echelon

sugarman wrote: »

Walked in and picked up one no bother. She said their system went tits up over night and everyone's order was cancelled but they'd plenty of stock.

mttk wrote: »

Mine got cancelled....went in anyways and picked one up :-)

Cool! Will get my Dad and Brother to get on to it! Hopefully one of them can pick one up

CathalDublin

They told me the same thing, they’ve tonnes of stock, much more than last year, they said their systems were down all morning

Jack burton

Won't get a chance to fire it up tonight. I'll wait till after work tomorrow and beat the crap out of the girlfriend on SSF2

The controller cables are a bit naff, really thought they would have went wireless

M7roadrunner

direstraits wrote: »

If anyone knows where I can get one or if you selling a second snes mini can you pm please
. thanks, im in Dublin

I dropped into Smyths in Tallaght about 6.30 this evening and they had loads in stock.

CathalDublin

M7roadrunner wrote: »

I dropped into Smyths in Tallaght about 6.30 this evening and they had loads in stock.

Early tomorrow smyths should have wasn’t busy when I was in at 6

direstraits

CathalDublin wrote: »

Early tomorrow smyths should have wasn’t busy when I was in at 6

Thanks guys, I'm in Dublin 7 I'll try blanch if not I'll drive to tallaght or wherever if you happen be passing I'd appreciate someone pm me , thanks again

Retr0gamer

CathalDublin wrote: »

Once you get a handful of sprites on the screen it plays its sooooo slow, you actually fall when you die in slow motion lol
Doesn’t look like that on the AVGN videos which are original hardware
I play a lot of gng and ghouls but only really on arcade, maybe I’m spoiled

It's plagued with slowdown on SNES. The arcade game is a different game and also uses a juicier 68000 processor like the megadrive.