Thoughts on NES and SNES Mini Consoles

DeusVolt

Are they s**** in a bucket or worth it? Saw one of the reviews from the video quality geeks at My Life in Gaming where they hammered the NES mini. Those guys are kind of pedantic though.

NES Mini for someone who wants to play in decent picture quality, with fairly accurate sound and the ability to swap games on the device. Yay or nay?

Retr0gamer

It's not exactly framemeister but it's a massive step up in quality from the other garbage retro consoles available.

What you are getting is a plain clean HDMI signal and fairly accurate emulation. No fancy bells and whistles on picture quality but it's good.

Steve X2

If you hack either the SNES or NES mini you can also clean up the screen filters they have by default. Turning off gaussian blur in the CRT filter is an improvement. Nothing amazing but for your average person it's a step up.

You can of course do other hacky things with it, but a google search will help you there.

DeusVolt

Thanks to both of you.

2 Scoops

Highly recommend the snes mini, I've mine hooked up to my PC monitor via hdmi. The emulation is great and with the controllers provided it feels like playing a real system with no noticeable input lag. You can save state and rewind which is great for practicing shmups.

Once you hack it to play more games you'll not be bothered going back to digging for carts and lumping around big CRT monitors. My only complaint is the leads for the controllers are too short, it's worth buying some extensions.

o1s1n

2 Scoops wrote: »

Once you hack it to play more games you'll not be bothered going back to digging for carts and lumping around big CRT monitors. .

Woah there

The Snes mini is a great little unit but personally if I want to play snes games emulated on an LCD I'll just use an emulator on a PC. It can never replace an actual snes via a CRT firing electrons at phosphors. You just can't emulate that.

Tom Mann Centuria

Unless you're Inviere in which case, you can.

Inviere

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Unless you're Inviere in which case, you can.

I've always said original hardware, on a crt, via RGB, is the definitive way to play old games. My quest is to dispel the notion that emulation hasn't come along since the days of Zsnes

Tom Mann Centuria

Inviere wrote: »

I've always said original hardware, on a crt, via RGB, is the definitive way to play old games. My quest is to dispel the notion that emulation hasn't come along since the days of Zsnes

Apologies, I know you have often said that before, sorry couldn't resist. Promise it was tongue in cheek, just didn't put a smiley on the post, in my drunken haze.

CiDeRmAn

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Apologies, I know you have often said that before, sorry couldn't resist. Promise it was tongue in cheek, just didn't put a smiley on the post, in my drunken haze.

Don't worry!
He is now an unrepentant emulation apologist and is trying to undermine retro gaming!
Burn him!
Burn him!
He's a witch!

Inviere

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Don't worry!
He is now an unrepentant emulation apologist and is trying to undermine retro gaming!
Burn him!
Burn him!
He's a witch!

Quiet there SD slot boy

CiDeRmAn

Inviere wrote: »

Quiet there SD slot boy

Beetch!

2 Scoops

o1s1n wrote: »

Woah there

The Snes mini is a great little unit but personally if I want to play snes games emulated on an LCD I'll just use an emulator on a PC. It can never replace an actual snes via a CRT firing electrons at phosphors. You just can't emulate that.

Ahhh I agree man, I might be a bit biased since I've had a tonne of CRT's die on me in the last few years.

I had a lovely 27" square trinitron that did me for ages but since it died I haven't been able to find one that I could offer the same affection

CiDeRmAn

I must be very lucky because I've never had a crt kick the bucket, flat panel displays on the other hand....

o1s1n

Only CRT I've ever had crap out on me was the one in my Vectrex

The Last Bandit

o1s1n wrote: »

Only CRT I've ever had crap out on me was the one in my Vectrex

You mean 'my Vectrex' :D:D

<on topic> NES & SNES mini are great little yoke, sure you can build a Pi based one but these are just that bit 'nicer' for what ever reason.

readyletsgo

Hack it and get a couple 8bitdo controllers and you have a beast of a mini system.