SNES Mini

K.O.Kiki

I'm seriously considering hacking my SNES mini too.
So many games I want to play on my TV with a real pad!

Deep Thought

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Hakchi has been updated to support adding roms to the SNES Mini now as well, still in beta with limitations but working.

Hakchi?

The Last Bandit

TechnoFreek

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

It's undoubtedly why the games on the SNES Mini are all US editions.
No Probotector or Starwing.

Very good point. Obvious in hindsight

CiDeRmAn

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Very good point. Obvious in hindsight

That's what Mrs Ciderman says about the state of our marriage

Inviere

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I prefer the scifi styling of the Probotector theme rather than the politically dodgy Contra, brings back all those American adventurism overseas crap that nation used to enjoy so much

Hey now, Bill & Lance are only protecting America's oil interests, spreading peace and democracy, and being all round good guys....

TechnoFreek

Deep Thought wrote: »

Hakchi?

Watch out for auto correct on this one.

Chris_Heilong

CathalDublin wrote: »

I take it it’ll also play NES ROMs too?

Yeah, and megadrive roms also from what I have heard.

Retr0gamer

The Contra name is kind of bizarre as the games have absolutely nothing to do with the Contra controversy and all to do with ripping off Aliens and HR Gieger.

K.O.Kiki

Found this gem:

As a nice surprise, it looks like Nintendo fully anticipated this, and left a note for tinkerers within the NAND! Hidden within the /etc directory is a file simply named "nineties", which contains:

Enjoy this Mini,
Disconnect from the present, and
Go back to the nineties.

brianregan09

Mod Edit:

No buying and selling on the main forum.

Deep Thought

This

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Watch out for auto correct on this one.

is much better than this

The Last Bandit wrote: »

K.O.Kiki

Update; the SNES mini modding tools are amazingly simple to use.

I even got it to run Fan-translated games (e.g. Front Mission) without problem.

Gamer Bhoy 89

What display setting does everyone play this on? I think I've fairly settled on the pixel-perfect setting (8:7) as it's the sharpest and less "stretchy-looking" of the three. It was while I was playing Super Metroid where I started to really see the difference as one of the orbs (can't remember the name of them) looked very oval in 4:3.

Since I also heard that this was the intended aspect ratio the developers were making their games on, it just felt right.

I would've also liked to have used the CRT mode regardless of it being 4:3 because I just love the scanline effect in general but the scanlines on the SNES Mini, I believe, are nasty lookin'. They seemed to add a heavy amount of smoothing to accompany it and it just looked odd.

accensi0n

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

What display setting does everyone play this on? I think I've fairly settled on the pixel-perfect setting (8:7) as it's the sharpest and less "stretchy-looking" of the three. It was while I was playing Super Metroid where I started to really see the difference as one of the orbs (can't remember the name of them) looked very oval in 4:3.

Since I also heard that this was the intended aspect ratio the developers were making their games on, it just felt right.

I would've also liked to have used the CRT mode regardless of it being 4:3 because I just love the scanline effect in general but the scanlines on the SNES Mini, I believe, are nasty lookin'. They seemed to add a heavy amount of smoothing to accompany it and it just looked odd.

But the orb on the right there is more oval... ?

Gamer Bhoy 89

accensi0n wrote: »

But the orb on the right there is more oval... ?

It's not, that's a perfect circle on the right

o1s1n

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

It's not, that's a perfect circle on the right

It's really weird, I had a look at this yesterday and the right one looked like an oval and I was wondering wtf you were on about. :pac:

This morning the left one now looks like an oval and the right one looks like a circle.

Gamer Bhoy 89

o1s1n wrote: »

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

It's not, that's a perfect circle on the right

It's really weird, I had a look at this yesterday and the right one looked like an oval and I was wondering wtf you were on about. :pac:

This morning the left one now looks like an oval and the right one looks like a circle.

Lol it was fairly late last night. I do meticulous things when I'm tired

Jack burton

Right looks like a perfect circle to myself. Playing it on pixel perfect too.

Really enjoying it too, only waiting to get stuck into Earthbound for the first time ever now

CiDeRmAn

Hmmm

All this Snes Mini business...

Taking ownership of maintaining the light of 16 bit gaming from us here without a by or leave!

Suddenly everyone is into Super Nintendo games, as if they are discovering the Americas for the first time, despite the fact there's been people living there all along!

Gamer Bhoy 89

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Hmmm

All this Snes Mini business...

Taking ownership of maintaining the light of 16 bit gaming from us here without a by or leave!

Suddenly everyone is into Super Nintendo games, as if they are discovering the Americas for the first time, despite the fact there's been people living there all along!

What do you mean? Who are you targeting?

CiDeRmAn

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

What do you mean? Who are you targeting?

Targeting?

Ah now, only a laugh.

It's great to see so many people playing Snes games for the first time in 20 years or, in some cases, for the first time ever.

But people here have been flying the Super Nintendo flag during the dark times, when the Nintendo and retro gaming areas were niche and the focus was all on whatever Sony, MS and Steam were doing next.

It's refreshing tbh, as long as it's not simply a novelty, which would be a pity.

Classic games of any period are still worth playing, not as a red tinted nostalgia experience but for the games themselves as offering good value and good times to those playing them still.

Gamer Bhoy 89

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

What do you mean? Who are you targeting?

Targeting?

Ah now, only a laugh.

It's great to see so many people playing Snes games for the first time in 20 years or, in some cases, for the first time ever.

But people here have been flying the Super Nintendo flag during the dark times, when the Nintendo and retro gaming areas were niche and the focus was all on whatever Sony, MS and Steam were doing next.

It's refreshing tbh, as long as it's not simply a novelty, which would be a pity.

Classic games of any period are still worth playing, not as a red tinted nostalgia experience but for the games themselves as offering good value and good times to those playing them still.

Sorry haha i couldnt find another word for "targeting" lol sounded worse than intended.

I was a Sega lad as a child and I never really got my chance to own a nintendo platform properly until i left school and had my own money.
I experienced a lot of Snes games via emulators but it just doesnt feel right that way.

I got a S. Famicom as well for the novelty of owning a Japanese system but I couldnt touch an RPG on it.

So yeah this is the best, quickest and cheapest its gonna get for me to experience these games in an authentic manner.

Im a retro junkie anyway ^_^

brianregan09

Finally got my SNES mini today,

I missed out on a lot, Played Star Fox for the 1st time and failed miserably lol , but in saying that I love how it plays and really want to put more time into it , Briefly dipped into Mario World and Donkey Kong , they never age either great games,

and man Contra 3 is HAAAARD as is hSuper Ghosts and Goblins(to be expected) but man games really were made of sterner stuff back then

Gonna wait till Sunday when I have a proper day off to start Zelda and Metroid

CiDeRmAn

I can barely get to the end of the first level in Contra, my gods it's too hard!

o1s1n

brianregan09 wrote: »

Finally got my SNES mini today,

I missed out on a lot, Played Star Fox for the 1st time and failed miserably lol , but in saying that I love how it plays and really want to put more time into it , Briefly dipped into Mario World and Donkey Kong , they never age either great games,

and man Contra 3 is HAAAARD as is hSuper Ghosts and Goblins(to be expected) but man games really were made of sterner stuff back then

Gonna wait till Sunday when I have a proper day off to start Zelda and Metroid

I'd recommend not playing Zelda ALTTP and Super Metroid at the same time. They're both so good that they're the kind of game you should get stuck into one and play it through, start to finish.

Once one is done, be happy in the knowledge that you still have the other one to get through

Noxin

fyi - few back in stock as of this morning in various shops. Just got mine out of Smyths Blanch in Dublin.

moonlighting

i guess it was only a matter of time before this kind of service popped up

http://www.adverts.ie/arcade-retro/snes-mini-game-service/14042673

MackMack

Argos in Mahon Point had 1 in stock today.

They now have 0 in stock

super_furry

moonlighting wrote: »

i guess it was only a matter of time before this kind of service popped up

http://www.adverts.ie/arcade-retro/snes-mini-game-service/14042673

"Nearly all super nintendo games are no longer copyright." :eek: