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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: 8BitMonk on November 11, 2016, 12:04:20 pm
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I swung by Best Buy to pick one up at 10, apparently there were 29 units and people had been lined up since 8:30!!?
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That is crazy awesome.
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Give it a few months they will all be sitting unplayed with no demand.
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Give it a few months they will all be sitting unplayed with no demand.
I agree, it'll die down fairly quick. I wasn't super bummed, I only have a passing interest in one, I definitely wouldn't be standing in line. Amazon is going to start selling them at 2pm pacific, I might hop on and see if I can snag one. I know Target and Toys R Us sold out of their online pre-orders.
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I swung by Best Buy to pick one up at 10, apparently there were 29 units and people had been lined up since 8:30!!?
And of the 29 probably 25 went to employees before the doors opened that listed them for resale on Ebay auctions ! there's tons of them listed already !
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resale on Ebay auctions ! there's tons of them listed already !
Some of those people are smoking crack. One is listed for like $2,000
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resale on Ebay auctions ! there's tons of them listed already !
Some of those people are smoking crack. One is listed for like $2,000
$2,000 is one of the cheaper ones now ! (they're up to $10,000 now) - But they include shipping :laugh2:
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And of the 29 probably 25 went to employees before the doors opened that listed them for resale on Ebay auctions ! there's tons of them listed already !
Yeah I'm a bit suspicious, I was there right at 10am when they open and there was one guy walking out with one and 2 people being rung up with one each. I would've expected to see 20 or so people checking out.
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Yeah I just dont see the point of pricing something just released that replaces something old, costing significantly more than all the old stuff combined many times over.
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Below is a good article attempting to describe the desirability. $60 is a fair price but why someone would pay a ridiculous marked up price on ebay etc. is beyond me.
http://www.polygon.com/2016/11/11/13598104/nes-classic-lines-christmas-sales-why-people-want-one (http://www.polygon.com/2016/11/11/13598104/nes-classic-lines-christmas-sales-why-people-want-one)
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I might pick one up from a bargain bin one day for my Nintendo collection. But I got a nes for 10 bucks and an everdrive for 60.
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These are going to be sitting in closets for six weeks, and then be given out as Christmas presents. I'm really starting to get annoyed with a Nintendo fanboys the longer I stay in this Hobby. And this is coming from somebody who owns dedicated Nintendo cabinet and has like two Wiis in this house.
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Never underestimate the power of nostalgia. It's one of the major reasons we are all here after all.
Nostalgia can make a grown man pay thousands of dollars just to own a game he loved as a kid. It's cray-cray...
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These are going to be sitting in closets for six weeks, and then be given out as Christmas presents. I'm really starting to get annoyed with a Nintendo fanboys the longer I stay in this Hobby. And this is coming from somebody who owns dedicated Nintendo cabinet and has like two Wiis in this house.
Definitely not a fan of fanboys but I'm not sure how that plays into this. If they're being bought as Christmas gifts then it isn't fanboys buying them right? Are you saying their value is inflated solely because of fanboys? Trying to think of a time when a fanboy affected this hobby for me or when I've even encountered one and nothing comes to mind.
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they drive up prices and are easily fooled into thinking that a machine being inspected by "insert name here" is desireable from a "collectors" stand point.
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they drive up prices and are easily fooled into thinking that a machine being inspected by "insert name here" is desireable from a "collectors" stand point.
Yeah, it's not just this particular instance, more of an observation made over time. But you pretty much nailed it.
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Just tried to pick one up on Amazon to flip... sold out in under a minute.
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I gave it a shot to, no go. I actually did get the add to cart and one-click buy buttons but they didn't work. Oh well, no biggie, they'll make more.
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This one at $750 seems pretty reasonable though, compared to those other prices. >:D
https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/vgm/5871399554.html
DeL
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I love how he says it's "going for" $1000. People can ask whatever they want, doesn't mean it's "going" anywhere.
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Just tried to pick one up on Amazon to flip... sold out in under a minute.
Yep, that's the problem.
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Like anyone will pay 10k
Next week al the stores have them again, everybody knows that, its not a limited edition
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Nintendo fanboys are everywhere and most of them were too young to have actually had the Nes during its prime time. Nintendo fanboys have turned Nintendo VS. arcade games from trash to treasure. Have turned red tents from scrap metal to $800 "grails". They have turned Playchoice 10s from also ran to easy 4 digit values. They are driving the prices of common nes carts so high that it is pushing up the prices of Jamma boards. Contra was the most obvious one, but there have been others.
Most of the people in my local console collecting group are under 30, they all concentrate on Nes.
These are going to be sitting in closets for six weeks, and then be given out as Christmas presents. I'm really starting to get annoyed with a Nintendo fanboys the longer I stay in this Hobby. And this is coming from somebody who owns dedicated Nintendo cabinet and has like two Wiis in this house.
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Dont worry. The nes classic is junk. It has a hella short controller cord (yes, no bluetooth), limited to 30 preinstalled games, and is hdmi only. I cant even connect this unit to my families tv! Its a sony trinitron, which is the type of tv these games were made for!
Buy a raspberry pi. Im so disapointed.
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Dont worry. The nes classic is junk. It has a hella short controller cord (yes, no bluetooth), limited to 30 preinstalled games, and is hdmi only. I cant even connect this unit to my families tv! Its a sony trinitron, which is the type of tv these games were made for!
This was all pretty common knowledge before this thing was released.
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There is a craze over here in Europe (Sweden) as well. By some reason the hipster generation has turned in to retro gaming and are holding everything Nintendo 8-bit branded as hostages in their desire to be unique (which they seldom are since they are doing exactly the same as everyone else also trying to be a unique hipster).
There was a lot of retailers here that took pre-orders, without any idea of how many units they would get, and now a lot of people are wining about it whereever they can (online).
Me, well I built my own unit months ago. Eventually the official stuff turned out to be a Linux computer also - but less configurable...
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Dont worry. The nes classic is junk. It has a hella short controller cord (yes, no bluetooth), limited to 30 preinstalled games, and is hdmi only. I cant even connect this unit to my families tv! Its a sony trinitron, which is the type of tv these games were made for!
Buy a raspberry pi. Im so disapointed.
I wouldn't say it's junk, there's a lot to be said for it's design, form factor and ease of use. Defaulting to CRT connections would've been silly from a business standpoint, the majority of consumers have devices with HDMI they want to connect to and the niche audience that doesn't will buy an adapter.
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Dont worry. The nes classic is junk. It has a hella short controller cord (yes, no bluetooth), limited to 30 preinstalled games, and is hdmi only. I cant even connect this unit to my families tv! Its a sony trinitron, which is the type of tv these games were made for!
Buy a raspberry pi. Im so disapointed.
I wouldn't say it's junk, there's a lot to be said for it's design, form factor and ease of use. Defaulting to CRT connections would've been silly from a business standpoint, the majority of consumers have devices with HDMI they want to connect to and the niche audience that doesn't will buy an adapter.
Cant connect to my tv. I say its junk. While most people have hdmi lcds, lots of people still have crt tvs. There is a reason why the rpi has that type of connection.
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lots of people still have crt tvs.
lol, no they don't.
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Cant connect to my tv. I say its junk. While most people have hdmi lcds, lots of people still have crt tvs. There is a reason why the rpi has that type of connection.
The market disagrees with you, saying it's junk based on it's appeal to a niche audience isn't really a fair assessment. Personally I'm happy Nintendo made something like this, for me the case alone to mod something cooler into is worth $60. There's also a chance some smart people are able to hack the hardware opening up all kinds of possibilities. I think off-handedly classifying it as junk is a little short sighted. That's just my ¢2.
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If you have a CRT just a get Famiclone and a multicart and be done with it.
That would have set you back all of $25 shipped on 11/11 from your favorite Chinese importers.
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they're basically fashion statements, nothing more.
what's really sad is that the sound emulation on them isn't even correct, emulation authors 15 years ago would have been ashamed of it.
(yes, I know MAME's emulation of NES based platforms is still pretty awful too as it's rather old now, but for an official Nintendo product you'd expect better especially when people have been getting it right for so long)
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they're basically fashion statements, nothing more.
what's really sad is that the sound emulation on them isn't even correct, emulation authors 15 years ago would have been ashamed of it.
Mixed emotions. Its neat, I wouldnt mind having one. Im not a stickler so as long as the game is playable without any issues I personally wouldnt care if the emulation is 100% accurate or not (I know, different horses for different courses). $60 is the max I would spend and Im not in a rush to get one and I'd never spend what some of these eBay auctions are ending at. Cheaper to get a real NES and an everdrive.
To some it might be a fashion statement, for others, like me, its an easy device to put in my desk at work and kill some time during lunch replaying some childhood memories.
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well you know how against things like the Pi I am, but in this case the Pi does a job many, many times better than this official product...
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$60 is the max I would spend and Im not in a rush to get one and I'd never spend what some of these eBay auctions are ending at. Cheaper to get a real NES and an everdrive.
Completely agree with you on this -- It's amazing that people are in such a rush to get one that they would spend $200+ on a $60 product that will probably be being sold for $30 in six months to a year, when those that get them for Xmas find they never play the thing. I'd probably pick one up if I found it at a local store for the $60 but it's more of an impulse buy than a must have right now product.
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Anyone else remember when we paid $75 for SNES games 20 years ago?
All this bitching over $60 is comical.
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Anyone else remember when we paid $75 for SNES games 20 years ago?
All this bitching over $60 is comical.
:applaud:
And I am not so sure these will be in the bargain bin anytime soon. You will still have a SNES one I am sure, plus copy cats such as Sega and even Sony. This is just the beginning folks. 98% of the population are unaware of rasberry pi AND if they were would not care to learn how to program the thing. This is the best option available for that 98%
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I use my Surface Pro with a wireless XBOX One controller (or two sometimes), HDMI out to TV and every game through emulation. I don't see the point in getting a system with 30 games and no way to add more. The ChatPad works as a keyboard too.
To be honest, I find myself using the XBOX One controller for just about every emulator these days. MAME, SNES, Genesis, Atari 2600, you name it.
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The point is that it's a) an official Nintendo product and B) legal. Those things do carry a lot of weight for some people.
I probably would've bought one of these myself, but I already have all of the games I'm interested in as original Famicom carts. At the office we did talk about getting one for the break room, that could be fun, even if there aren't terribly many 2-player games on it. Blades of Steel or something would've been great.
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Looks like Nintendo uploaded all of the original manuals for the 30 games for download in pdf format
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/index.html (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/index.html)
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Anyone else remember when we paid $75 for SNES games 20 years ago?
All this bitching over $60 is comical.
I never bought a $75 cart. Most expensive SNES game I bought was FFIII for $65, if memory serves. I don't recall any game being $75 at retail but prices in maryland/delaware may have differed from texas. I remember Street Fighter Alpha 2 costing more than I wanted to spend, but I also remember getting Star Fox, NBA Jam TE and MKII for $50 each new at launch.
And I'm not bitching over $60, hell, not even bitching. I think someone spending $200+ on one of those things is hilarious.
EDIT: I think Chrono Trigger might have had a $75 price point. But 1 cart doesnt mean the common new game price was that high. Virtua Racing for Genesis was like $99 but no one says genesis carts were $99
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I bought my brother Jurassic Park for Christmas from KayBee's Toy Store for $75. ---my bottom--- is still sore from that one.
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Anyone here got one already?
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Kind of wondering where he was in the 90s, to be honest..... I hope that planet was a happy place. :lol
SEGA brought that nonsense back under control when they price locked Saturn games at $49.99.
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I bought my brother Jurassic Park for Christmas from KayBee's Toy Store for $75. ---my bottom--- is still sore from that one.
SNES game blew, the genesis version was pretty great. PLAY AS A RAPTOR!
wondering where who was jimmy? prices just werent that high round here. Of course I'd never buy games from KayBee either. Remember when Sears was the best place to get videogames?
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I got one on release day thanks to my Best Buy having 50 of them, currently ripping it apart and mounting a raspberry pi in it. Perfect sized case and USB ports fit right where the Wii plugs are
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Can I have the NES PCB?
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I got one on release day thanks to my Best Buy having 50 of them, currently ripping it apart and mounting a raspberry pi in it. Perfect sized case and USB ports fit right where the Wii plugs are
So you paid $60 for a NES plastic shell is what you are telling us?
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I got one on release day thanks to my Best Buy having 50 of them, currently ripping it apart and mounting a raspberry pi in it. Perfect sized case and USB ports fit right where the Wii plugs are
So you paid $60 for a NES plastic shell is what you are telling us?
Sure, I can still play the games with the pcb out of the case so nothing really lost.
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jim sux, sell me the PCB and a controller.
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I got one on release day thanks to my Best Buy having 50 of them, currently ripping it apart and mounting a raspberry pi in it. Perfect sized case and USB ports fit right where the Wii plugs are
So you paid $60 for a NES plastic shell is what you are telling us?
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161116/ad858067ed357dc611420bdde41a704e.jpg)
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It's just 60 bucks plus tax, I had to work all of 2 hours to pay for it. I think I'll be ok ;)
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It's just 60 bucks plus tax, I had to work all of 2 hours to pay for it. I think I'll be ok ;)
Especially when you trade that PCB for some Outback Steakhouse gift cards. ;)
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I'll just order one of these and some NES usb controllers and jam an RPI or C.H.I.P. into it.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/212989839/3d-printed-nes-inspired-raspberry-pi (https://www.etsy.com/listing/212989839/3d-printed-nes-inspired-raspberry-pi)
(https://img0.etsystatic.com/057/0/9103003/il_570xN.689652600_71kx.jpg)
also have a dirty non-working SNES i got off ebay dirt cheap and some SNES controllers.
Plan to stick one of the above single boards in it also.
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$32 shipped for an empty case? Dude, c'mon.
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$32 shipped for an empty case? Dude, c'mon.
LOL!
didn't go far enough to check shipping.
there are at least half a dozen of these out there.
some on ebay.
some you can 3d print or through thingverse find people to 3d print.
Hell even a broke NES you put your own pc in would be more desirable to me than these NES consoles with only 30 games and no indication you can add more.
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Yeah, but I bet the NES Classic doesn't take a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- if you unplug it.
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Yeah, but I bet the NES Classic doesn't take a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- if you unplug it.
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161116/00627ffa09e6f85e6bfa203d8d974ea9.gif)
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Can someone give a short review? Want to see one from the community I trust. I watched a video.of a guy trying to beat punch out but couldn't because of the lag. However, they also tried w composite cables on same.tv and real nes and could not beat it. I want to know how bag lag is and how it plays. I already have a PC stuffed inside a nes case that has real controller and I do not use it but for some.reason I also think need a nes mini. A honest review might save me $60
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Can someone give a short review? Want to see one from the community I trust. I watched a video.of a guy trying to beat punch out but couldn't because of the lag. However, they also tried w composite cables on same.tv and real nes and could not beat it. I want to know how bag lag is and how it plays. I already have a PC stuffed inside a nes case that has real controller and I do not use it but for some.reason I also think need a nes mini. A honest review might save me $60
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Going to be 2 frames per second lag minimum, at least one from the emulation and one from the LCD.
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Going to be 2 frames per second lag minimum, at least one from the emulation and one from the LCD.
.. for super mario brothers, that's gonna totally suck. that game already has noticeable lag going on it. a couple of frames more and u might as well rename it to 'super mario brothers go ice skating' :banghead:
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I think someone spending $200+ on one of those things is hilarious.
The price police aren't laughing.
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/vgm/5872564130.html
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Finally got through on the Walmart site to get one today ( they are selling a few each day through tomorrow at 2PM pacific - and sell ot within a minute or 2 ) suppose to be ready for pickup at my local store by the 23rd. Tried to get through yesterday but it timed out until after they were out of stock but it left it in the cart so was already almost processed today when they opened it up all I had to do was hit checkout - so it got through! ;D
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Damn, the ---uvula--- from El Paso got one before I did. :(
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Damn, the ---uvula--- from El Paso got one before I did. :(
:cheers: I'm just surprised it actually got through before all the BOTs had purchased them all.
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Going to be 2 frames per second lag minimum, at least one from the emulation and one from the LCD.
I would hope Nintendo fixed lag w emulation tricks. Well I just hope emulation isn't as bad as haze says it is. If it is bad, Nintendo could have hired an emulation programmer who jumped into the biz to write the code in short fashion. Does sardu still work in the electronic arts?
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You pretty much can't any better than 1 frame per second of input lag with the way we currently write emulators. I am not a programmer, but from what I understand the emulator processes the game one frame at a time, and to reduce that input lag we would have to process the emulation in smaller chunks. Almost no one can detect 1 frame per second input lag. This only really became a problem with the advent of modern flat panel television sets the average of which will add a full 3 more frames to that lag. Modern games tend to be written with this in mind, old ones aren't.
Other graphical options in the emulator can increase this lag even further.
Going to be 2 frames per second lag minimum, at least one from the emulation and one from the LCD.
I would hope Nintendo fixed lag w emulation tricks. Well I just hope emulation isn't as bad as haze says it is. If it is bad, Nintendo could have hired an emulation programmer who jumped into the biz to write the code in short fashion. Does sardu still work in the electronic arts?
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You pretty much can't any better than 1 frame per second of input lag with the way we currently write emulators. I am not a programmer, but from what I understand the emulator processes the game one frame at a time, and to reduce that input lag we would have to process the emulation in smaller chunks. Almost no one can detect 1 frame per second input lag. This only really became a problem with the advent of modern flat panel television sets the average of which will add a full 3 more frames to that lag. Modern games tend to be written with this in mind, old ones aren't.
Other graphical options in the emulator can increase this lag even further.
Going to be 2 frames per second lag minimum, at least one from the emulation and one from the LCD.
I would hope Nintendo fixed lag w emulation tricks. Well I just hope emulation isn't as bad as haze says it is. If it is bad, Nintendo could have hired an emulation programmer who jumped into the biz to write the code in short fashion. Does sardu still work in the electronic arts?
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yeah, byuu wrote a nice piece on it, but you're always going to get a bit of unavoidable lag these days simply because there are so many layers of abstraction involved, nothing is really directly driving anything anymore whereas back in the day the moment you read an input port you were pretty much reading a direct line to the button on the pad, and the moment you wrote a register you could change the output of the console to the TV in that very instance and the TV would respond immediately (which is why mid-frame tricks were common etc.)
these days there are buffers and polling rates to consider at almost every step of the way.
there aren't really any magic tricks you can do to avoid it, only minimize it, and even if you use the original systems with modern displays it isn't perfect (and some of the replica pads you can use with the original systems aren't perfect either, as they contain less direct logic than the originals too, a friend had a Genesis replica pad, for use with the Genesis, that clearly only polled the actual buttons at around 20 times per second)
input lag is hardly a new problem tho, just certain groups of people seem to have become very sensitive to it as of late*, some of the 32-bit consoles, and even earlier arcade machines actually have some quite bad lag as they were already starting to use sub-cpus / mcus to read inputs so you were already starting to get the layers of abstraction whereby one cpu needed to talk to another cpu to get the actual input state, likewise many arcade platforms would buffer spriteram because it made it easier to avoid graphical issues caused by rewriting ram mid-frame (meaning it was safe to rewrite ram mid-frame, allowing for better performance as they didn't have to cram all the video code in the vsync period)
of course those cases now feel worse because on top of the original lag there is the extra lag of modern hardware ;-)
* as opposed to people who have grown up with it, and don't even seem to realise it's a problem at all, there are plenty who don't even put their TV in 'game mode' for games, and sometimes that can add so much lag I wonder how they play the games at all. I actually switched a TV to game mode when I was playing at a friends place only for them to phone me a few days later asking how to turn 'easy mode' off in the game, because they didn't understand what I'd done but had become so used to playing the game with horrible input lag that it now presented no challenge at all without it so wanted things back to how they were, with lag. (they couldn't really grasp the concept at all tho, that it was the TV, not a game setting I'd changed)
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Anyone else remember when we paid $75 for SNES games 20 years ago?
All this bitching over $60 is comical.
I never bought a $75 cart. Most expensive SNES game I bought was FFIII for $65, if memory serves. I don't recall any game being $75 at retail but prices in maryland/delaware may have differed from texas. I remember Street Fighter Alpha 2 costing more than I wanted to spend, but I also remember getting Star Fox, NBA Jam TE and MKII for $50 each new at launch.
And I'm not bitching over $60, hell, not even bitching. I think someone spending $200+ on one of those things is hilarious.
EDIT: I think Chrono Trigger might have had a $75 price point. But 1 cart doesnt mean the common new game price was that high. Virtua Racing for Genesis was like $99 but no one says genesis carts were $99
I distinctly remember paying about 70 bucks at the local K-mart for WWF RAW on SNES right after it came out. 3 or 4 years later, you could get brand new Playstation games on occasion for 30 bucks.
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One of our vendors sent me this package as a promo. If you listen to their spiel for 30 minutes you get a chance to win a Nintendo Classic. It did the job of getting my attention anyway.
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$70 for a cart!?
Dang you guys must of had it worse than us!
Most carts I remember from that era were £20-30 new!
Unless we were really strong against the $ back then I dont know heh.
The most expensive game I brought up to the last few generations was Perfect Dark on the N64.
That cost me £50 brand new and I had to buy a £30 expansion pack on top!!
I felt pretty butt hurt till I played it then felt much better after spending allot of time playing it lol
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I paid 60 for chrono trigger 3 different times over the years and it's only gotten more expensive. Also I currently don't own a copy, wish I still had them.
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Americans complaining about software prices always amuses me. Witness the PAL tax.
Here's my original Starwing (PAL version of Starfox) cartridge bought new in 1993. $135 price tag still attached.
FWIW, we also pay 25% more for the NES Mini than you guys. Why? Because screw PAL gamers, that's why.
(http://i.imgur.com/b2GQPrs.jpg)
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$70 for a cart!?
Dang you guys must of had it worse than us!
Most carts I remember from that era were £20-30 new!
Unless we were really strong against the $ back then I dont know heh.
The most expensive game I brought up to the last few generations was Perfect Dark on the N64.
That cost me £50 brand new and I had to buy a £30 expansion pack on top!!
I felt pretty butt hurt till I played it then felt much better after spending allot of time playing it lol
£39.99 - £49.99 are the prices I remember for Genesis games (I still have one with a £39.99 sticker on)
£20-£30 were the 'used - like new' ones, that a lot of stores pushed rather than selling you an actual new copy (the practice was no different than today there, those would be pushed at you first because the store made much more profit on them)
VR (the only Genesis one with a special chip) I remember being closer to £70, didn't buy it at the time
The SNES ones with extra chips were about double the usual price of SNES games too, and there were a lot of them. (It's kinda understandable really, there was an entire processor in the cartridges)
They were always a rip-off, unfortunately when you have a market with artificial prices like that due to only certain manufacturers being allowed to produce games that is what happens. People can talk about video game crashes all they want, but it was a much fairer market before all the locked down stuff.
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$70 for a cart!?
Dang you guys must of had it worse than us!
Most carts I remember from that era were £20-30 new!
Unless we were really strong against the $ back then I dont know heh.
The most expensive game I brought up to the last few generations was Perfect Dark on the N64.
That cost me £50 brand new and I had to buy a £30 expansion pack on top!!
I felt pretty butt hurt till I played it then felt much better after spending allot of time playing it lol
£39.99 - £49.99 are the prices I remember for Genesis games (I still have one with a £39.99 sticker on)
£20-£30 were the 'used - like new' ones, that a lot of stores pushed rather than selling you an actual new copy (the practice was no different than today there, those would be pushed at you first because the store made much more profit on them)
VR (the only Genesis one with a special chip) I remember being closer to £70, didn't buy it at the time
The SNES ones with extra chips were about double the usual price of SNES games too, and there were a lot of them. (It's kinda understandable really, there was an entire processor in the cartridges)
They were always a rip-off, unfortunately when you have a market with artificial prices like that due to only certain manufacturers being allowed to produce games that is what happens. People can talk about video game crashes all they want, but it was a much fairer market before all the locked down stuff.
Really? where the hell did you Shop? LOL
I dont have any original carts with prices left on but I remember paying £19.99 for Streets or Rage 2 new, Think I paid £30 for Sonic 3 new and dont really remember many others I brought new except Earthworm Jim which I think was £23 or some odd number like that.
Got most of my games 2nd hand at around £10-15 each off the guy on the market LOL
I remember SNES being more expensive but never brought any from New.
I traded my Genesis and all games for a friends SNES with all games lol
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Americans complaining about software prices always amuses me. Witness the PAL tax.
Here's my original Starwing (PAL version of Starfox) cartridge bought new in 1993. $135 price tag still attached.
FWIW, we also pay 25% more for the NES Mini than you guys. Why? Because screw PAL gamers, that's why.
(http://i.imgur.com/b2GQPrs.jpg)
Ouch!!
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I paid 60 for chrono trigger 3 different times over the years and it's only gotten more expensive. Also I currently don't own a copy, wish I still had them.
You're doing it wrong.
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I paid 60 for chrono trigger 3 different times over the years and it's only gotten more expensive. Also I currently don't own a copy, wish I still had them.
You're doing it wrong.
Don't I know it. The things we used to do for stroke credit. I remember once trading in my n64 and all my games at gamestop and leaving with a couple of ps2 games.
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I dont see what the hype is on these classic remake systems, I have an original NES system that doesn't get played, I couldn't imagine paying a premium for one of these things
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Get a 151 in 1 cartridge. They're fun as hell and $15 shipped. They cover a huge portion of the worth playing library.
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Meh... doesn't interest me. If I wanna play Zelda, I'll just power up the 50" flat screen in the basement, then fire up the HTPC and play it wireless with my Logitech F710.
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Meh... doesn't interest me. If I wanna play Zelda, I'll just power up the 50" flat screen in the basement, then fire up the HTPC and play it wireless with my Logitech F710.
Meh, Playchoice hardware is the ONLY way to play Zelda these days.
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The BSZelda games are pretty great on SNES. Side note, the mini Nintendo is sold out in Taiwan too
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Side note, the mini Nintendo is sold out in Taiwan too
Yep. I was hoping to score a famicom edition too... :banghead:
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Picked mine up at the local Walmart today ;D
They had me a bit worried when it was still saying processing on Monday, when it was supposed to arrive Wednesday - but they shipped it overnight to the store by Fedex Tuesday and it arrived on time.
The thing is smaller than I thought it would be - the box it came in is 6.5" x 9".
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They had me a bit worried when it was still saying processing on Monday, when it was supposed to arrive Wednesday - but they shipped it overnight to the store by Fedex Tuesday and it arrived on time.
Damn bro. Channel that inner Wimpy.
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They had me a bit worried when it was still saying processing on Monday, when it was supposed to arrive Wednesday - but they shipped it overnight to the store by Fedex Tuesday and it arrived on time.
Damn bro. Channel that inner Wimpy.
Looks like there was good reason to be a bit worried -- https://www.yahoo.com/news/walmart-having-trouble-delivering-those-nes-classic-editions-194224541.html (https://www.yahoo.com/news/walmart-having-trouble-delivering-those-nes-classic-editions-194224541.html)
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By some reason the hipster generation has turned in to retro gaming and are holding everything Nintendo 8-bit branded as hostages in their desire to be unique (which they seldom are since they are doing exactly the same as everyone else also trying to be a unique hipster).
The other thing I've noticed about the hipster scene is how lazy they are. None of them are willing (or perhaps even capable?) of doing anything remotely difficult. If they can't buy their "culture" off the shelf and ready to go, they certainly won't put the effort in to restoring something old, or making it from scratch. That goes for anything, not just retro video games.
Ironic that their whole shtick is about uniqueness and authenticity, yet they go about it in the same hyper-consumeristic way as everyone else who they criticise for buying everything mass-produced.
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And they love chatter in the place of exercise.
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Yea, I ordered one for the hell of it about 2 weeks ago, was supposed to receive it on the first. Still hasn't shipped... Chatted with them and got the regular hoopla...
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Nice. no Rampart though?! I looked twice through the list and didn't see it.
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No hdmi either. The round plug is a mini jack to av outlet. The usb plug is for power.
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Went hunting for one of these the other day. No dice. Best price I found for one that was in stock was £190. Nah for that kind of money I'll do something else entirely. I understand the rules of supply and demand, but 3 x RRP for a 2nd hand model.
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Nice. no Rampart though?! I looked twice through the list and didn't see it.
no Tetris, Ghosts'n Goblins, or Zelda either... I'll still buy one, I guess. Put it next to the TV in my mate's old room in the place where we grew up, so whenever we meet up we'll have something to play... I'll report back when I get it.
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Buy a Raspberry Pi 3 for $35, load it with 5000 games from Atari 2600 to Dreamcast and you are done...
Limited editions = a way to pay much more than it is actually worth... No, thanks!
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Buy a Raspberry Pi 3 for $35, load it with 5000 games from Atari 2600 to Dreamcast and you are done...
Limited editions = a way to pay much more than it is actually worth... No, thanks!
Yeah, you're done except you still need a SD card, and the controllers, and build/configure the OS, and be cautious how you power it down. It's not a real apples to apples comparison. I have a Pi configured, but I'm still attracted to a $20 NES mini clone. :)
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These discussions are nothing but a countdown to see how long it takes some rando to show up and brag about his Pi. Congrats, nobody cares.
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These discussions are nothing but a countdown to see how long it takes some rando to show up and brag about his Pi. Congrats, nobody cares.
I actually tried the 3d printed mini nes pi kit. Lots of misc expense to get all the pieces.
I got it all done without the nfc reader but it is by no means a project for anyone without detailed mechanical aptitude.
A mini nes pi with the arduino nfc card reader. That is pretty darned cool compilation of technology.
It is weird that nintendo didnt realize how much they could sell in cartridge packs if they incorporated the technology on the retro releases.
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Well currently they sell these games for 5 bucks a pop with zero physical media. I'm pretty sure they were aware of the demand, they just want to sell games for 5 bucks a pop with next to no overhead rather than 2 bucks a pop on the NES Classic minus the costs involved with the manufacturing and distribution.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty mad that they stopped production as well, but one thing I've learned over the years is that Nintendo usually knows what they are doing. A year or two from now it'll make perfect sense as to why they ceased production.