Nintendo Classic Mini Console Hacked- Load Your Own ROMs!

[Tasty]

Don't really care, but I'll be nervous if they haven't fixed the supply problem by the time the far superior SNES Classic Mini happens.

[tiesto]

Wonder if NPD will track this? Can't wait to see the faces on the Sony-ponies when this thing outsells the PS4 Pro (or the Scorpio, for that matter).

[bork]

Wonder if NPD will track this? Can't wait to see the faces on the Sony-ponies when this thing outsells the PS4 Pro (or the Scorpio, for that matter).

But it's $59.99 versus $399.99 for a Pro. 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Id like a GameBoy classic with a backlit screen

[zomgee]

Amazon had some at 5pm eastern and they crashed the site. Immediately scalpers had some *iN Hand!* at prices around $500 for a unit and $500 for the controller. Which would could probably buy the original the the carts for.

[demi]

My TRU order got cancelled, but my daddy slime happened to come across two of them, so I'll be getting one

[tiesto]

Looks like this is a pretty accurate representation of the real NES era, what with product shortages and all.

[Tasty]

Just bought a SNES30 and Retro Retriever for the SNES I got over the summer. Wireless gaming on a 25-year old system.

Short 2.5-feet controllers

8bitdo

[bork]

Id like a GameBoy classic with a backlit screen

Nintendo already did this back in like 1998.


And then followed it up with the non-backlight Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance models.

Just bought a SNES30 and Retro Retriever for the SNES I got over the summer. Wireless gaming on a 25-year old system.

Short 2.5-feet controllers

8bitdo

Bruh, they had wireless controllers on the original NES. Back in the day.   Check out this TOTALLY RAD COMMERCIAL!

[bork]

Anyway, don't expect an SNES Mini...parents will be too upset! 

[Tasty]

Wasn't Game Boy Light only available in Japan?

[AdmiralViscen]

I think it's also a Pocket and not a brick GB

[Cerveza mas fina]

Ive never seen or heard about the gameboy light. Nice one.

[a slime appears]

My TRU order got cancelled, but my daddy slime happened to come across two of them, so I'll be getting one

THUMBS UP BRO

 

[bork]

Wasn't Game Boy Light only available in Japan?

I think it's also a Pocket and not a brick GB

Ive never seen or heard about the gameboy light. Nice one.

Yessir, yessir, yessir-- the Gameboy Light was only available in Japan and was a slightly-larger Gameboy Pocket-sized system.  It used two AA batteries instead of the Pocket's two AAA batteries, IIRC.  The light was similar to those indiglo watches that were popular back then-- it was the return of the green Gameboy screen when used, only more of a watermelon green as opposed to the spinach green/yellow from the original brick GB.  I eagerly-imported one back then (I think it was '98?) and played the hell out of it, but sold it off once the Gameboy Color was released and proceeded to import one of those instead.

Then I got the Neo-Geo Pocket (the non-color version!) and proceeded to toss Gameboy aside, following up with the Neo-Geo Pocket Color a short time later, until the GBA came out.

Neo-Geo Pocket

[Tasty]

Neo-Geo Pocket

[demi]

Lyte is one of those hipsters who was like yo wonderswan is legit nintendo who?

fat nerd

[bork]

Match Of The Millennium > *

Lyte is one of those hipsters who was like yo wonderswan is legit nintendo who?

fat nerd

Nah, the Wonderswan was straight garbage.  The only thing kinda cool about it was the smaller size.

[bork]

On the other side of the pond, the Famicom Mini seems to be easier to find (online) and isn't selling for as much of a mark-up...but like the original, the controllers are permanently-attached to the console and it doesn't even come with an AC adapter.  Why do you keep fucking doing this, Nintendo?

[Great Rumbler]

Kadokawa's game news source Famitsu reported on Tuesday that Nintendo has sold 262,961 units of its Nintendo Classic Mini Family Computer (Famicom) system in four days in Japan.

[demi]

Walmart online is going to put them up at 5PM EST and make everyone fight for it like the hunger games.

[Joe Molotov]

On the other side of the pond, the Famicom Mini seems to be easier to find (online) and isn't selling for as much of a mark-up...but like the original, the controllers are permanently-attached to the console and it doesn't even come with an AC adapter.  Why do you keep fucking doing this, Nintendo?

Does it also have the 2ft controller cords?

[bork]

Already hacked.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/11/nes-classic-mini-runs-linux/

Does it also have the 2ft controller cords?

Yup, just like the original.

[Tasty]

Just freed myself from the shackles of controller cords entirely (for SNES anyways.)

[bork]

Well, I guess now we know your YT channel, full name, and what you look like. 

[demi]

None of that was hidden, fatboy. What's your excuse?

[Rufus]

Well, I guess now we know your YT channel, full name, and what you look like. 

You say that as if his post was an accident.

[bork]

 

[Tasty]

Well, I guess now we know your YT channel, full name, and what you look like. 

Posted my Bore-con vids to the same account.

Also I was at Bore-con.

[bork]

 

[Joe Molotov]

Self-Doxxing FAIL, riiiiiiiiiiiiip

[bork]

I'm just trying to protect him in Trump's America.

[a slime appears]

I can also vouch for the 8bitdo controllers and wireless receivers. I have those for my NES and SNES, same quality as the originals, and the input lag is not noticeable with wireless.

Must buys if you retro pretty regularly.

[demi]

Got mine in the mail today. My darling is too good to me

http://imgur.com/a/niYle

[Brehvolution]

my boss brought one in. This thing is great. Powered off of USB, you can run it off a laptop.

Who needs long controller chords when you have long HDMI chords? 

[benjipwns]

Got mine in the mail today. My darling is too good to me

http://imgur.com/a/niYle

[a slime appears]

It's a real shame these things have become impossible to find. Instead of something to be celebrated all I see are "journalists" and whiny manchildren on Youtube complaining that they can't find one.

Aside from the hilariously short controller cord the rest of this device is A+ and definitely a great Christmas gift.

[bork]

Amazon Prime Now (and only the Prime Now site...not the regular site) has them in stock right now for $59.99!  Just ordered one. 

EDIT: Dey gone

[Valkyrie]

Nice, congrats!

Kinda bugging me I couldn't get a second one, to gift someone for Christmas. They're still being sold second-hand only, to twice the price. Oh well. At least I have one, so I shouldn't complain.

[bork]

This is probably the only video game thing that people were actually interested in when I mentioned it.  Had someone offer to buy it and we hooked it up to a monitor to mess around with it for a bit.  Weird how people are all over it even though it's just a little rom box.

[Ichirou]

I always thought this was super-dumb.

[Valkyrie]

It's super cool.

[Tasty]

It'd be cooler if it had Wi-Fi and a built-in store.

[bork]

It'd be cooler if it had Wi-Fi and a built-in store.

Or at least a "cartridge" port available for them to sell more games on SD cards or whatever.

[Valkyrie]

It'd be cooler if it had Wi-Fi and a built-in store.

For the original price, I thought it was fine. But more options are always welcome. It kind of comes off as "toy-like", I guess.

I can't imagine how people with very big hands can use the controllers comfortably though.
And the weight of the cable attached to the controller seems to be much heavier than the controller itself, which feels a bit weird.
All in all I really like it! But I wouldn't mind if I had paid more for more options/features.

[demi]

GETTING BUTTHURT OVER A $60 PIECE OF PLASTIC BREHS

GET A JOB

[Sho Nuff]

xmas is over does anyone care anymore

[demi]

Yup, still being scalped and hard to find

[a slime appears]

This is still the number one asked about product, even after Christmas. It's nuts.

Oh and don't be dumb by getting a long HDMI cable. Just pick up an $8 Hyperkin extension cable, works great.

[tiesto]

My best friend got one for Christmas. He says the lag is shit, very noticeable when playing Punch Out (he beats that game like once a week on his CRT). That sucks to hear, I'll stick with my original NES carts and my CRT for now.

[demi]

Lag has nothing to do with the machine btw. Its not 1:1 but your friend is grossly exaggerating.

[bork]

Yup.  Tell your friend to use game mode on his TV.

[a slime appears]

My best friend got one for Christmas. He says the lag is shit, very noticeable when playing Punch Out (he beats that game like once a week on his CRT). That sucks to hear, I'll stick with my original NES carts and my CRT for now.

Not to pile on but yeah I'm not getting noticeable lag and don't have trouble playing Punch Out. The NES Classic actually has less input lag than my Raspberry Pi 0.

[Lucretius]

I splurged and got the Japanese mini Famicom for the bf for Christmas. We've been loving it. Beat Zelda last night. It's the Famicom Disk System version, but the second controller doesn't have the mic so you have to just kill the Pols Voices with the sword (arrows don't work on them). I'd still like to get the NES mini though.

[bork]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nesclassicmods/

NES Mini Pimp v2.0 beta - all in one tool for easy adding, deleting roms, etc by Cluster. Reqs: Windows 7+, .NET Framework 3.5. Have Russian and English interface. http://i.imgur.com/LREOWeZ.png http://clusterrr.com/soft/hakchi2.zip

That was quick!    The system has a limit of 60 games.  You can also replace the included games with your own.  Time for some Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!...

[demi]

Yup, its finally happening. Seems like the limit is 60 games at the moment. I'm hoping for a more "distinguished mentally-challenged fellow proof" method, seems like you could still fuck up the machine.

Now I can put StarTropics 2 in there

[bork]

I currently have a total of 68 games on mine (counting the original 30), so it looks like you can go beyond the limit.

If you use the tool from http://clusterrr.com/soft/hakchi2.zip, it's extremely easy.  No save states or any of that other crap needed.  Just run the application, add games/boxart (it even searches google for you), then follow the on-screen instructions to flash the system and then you can dump games with ease.  I'm not even sure if this is needed every time, but I turn the system on in dev mode (hold reset for a few seconds, then power it on) when I'm adding games.

The only issues I've run into are:

-Some games are titled incorrectly on the game selection menu
-Some games are out of alphabetical order
-A few games would not add themselves to Hakchi when I tried.  Could be the ROM dumps.  One of the games that wouldn't add was a translated rom of Kid Dracula.

Since Nintendo can't do anything to stop this, watch them re-release the Mini with a different power port something done to stop this kind of hack from happening.  Then the price of the original units will skyrocket. 

[demi]

Is it possible to brick the system?

[demi]

Lyte can you try and run Star Tropics 2? It doesnt seem to work for me. No audio, and I can't get past the save screen. If I hit reset, the Classic freezes up.

[demi]

The process is super easythough.

Tested:

- Batman
- Gremlins 2
- Ice Hockey
- Crystalis
- Monster Party

all work just fine. Just StarTropics 2 gives me issues. Havent tried rom translations or japanese games etc.