Nintendo announces compact NES with 30 classic retro games

[rage2]

Originally posted by HiTempguy1
Then you don't know how Nintendo really got started in America. You might not associate those with NES specifically, but Nintendo was all about arcades before the NES was even a thing in America.

That doesn't even make sense. Nintendo did do arcade games before the Famicom but they were all failures with the exception of Donkey Kong.

Really, Galaga and Pac-Man were there probably included because they were the first golden-era arcade games to get ported into a home console, with the exception of Donkey Kong which was a launch title for the Famicom. Both those games sold well on NES/Famicom.

[BigShow]

^ I have a Nintendo R-Type arcade machine which was released '88 or 89' I believe, must of been one of their last arcade releases, great game!

[sputnik]

The problem with a lot of the iconic NES games is that the rights are owned by companies unwilling to give the rights to have on the NES Classic.

Or Nintendo was unwilling to pay the higher prices for the rights. Which is probably the reason it has Super C instead of Contra.

That said I was surprised they didn't just put all of the "black box" titles on the Classic NES

[Thaco]

Originally posted by sputnik
The problem with a lot of the iconic NES games is that the rights are owned by companies unwilling to give the rights to have on the NES Classic.

Or Nintendo was unwilling to pay the higher prices for the rights. Which is probably the reason it has Super C instead of Contra.

That said I was surprised they didn't just put all of the "black box" titles on the Classic NES

thats probably why they made it offline only and easily hackable, now they can just wash their hands of it, customers get what they want, and nintendo doesn't have any legal obligations as far as licensing, also they have no way of preventing it from happening, so now they get more hardware sales from it.

[BensonTT]

Speaking of retro pi, do you guys know who has the best price?

[Thaco]

Originally posted by BensonTT
Speaking of retro pi, do you guys know who has the best price?

for a raspberry pi3b you're best to just grab one from memex, they're pretty reasonable at $60, i have been looking to get a few more but can only find them for a few bucks cheaper than that anyway so its not really worth the headache.

[rage2]

I picked mine up at MemEx as well. Always nice to see Vagabond142 when I go to the Dalhousie location.

[BensonTT]

Ok thanks guys

[drtoohotty1]

Originally posted by BensonTT
Speaking of retro pi, do you guys know who has the best price?

https://www.microsoftstore.com/store...tID.5069318200

This one I found to be cheapest

[D'z Nutz]

Originally posted by drtoohotty1


https://www.microsoftstore.com/store...tID.5069318200

This one I found to be cheapest

Yeah, I got that bundle around Christmas. It comes with the official Raspberry Pi PSU and a memory card that's guaranteed to work with it.

This one sells out fast so if you're gonna get one, jump on it quick. In fact, it just came back in stock today and I bought another one.

[BensonTT]

^^ thanks man! Just placed an order

[drtoohotty1]

I made this

[drtoohotty1]

Originally posted by BensonTT
^^ thanks man! Just placed an order

No problem

[BensonTT]

I have never used a pi before.. would I be able to use it as a game emulater and kodi?

[jltabot]

Originally posted by BensonTT
I have never used a pi before.. would I be able to use it as a game emulater and kodi?

yes. with all the tutorials and programs already built to make you a retropi, its literally plug and play. no coding needed either when installing kodi.

[BensonTT]

^^ ok thanks brother

[Thaco]

Originally posted by jltabot


yes. with all the tutorials and programs already built to make you a retropi, its literally plug and play. no coding needed either when installing kodi.

i am gonna have to disagree, there's still a bit of work involved, far from plug and play, i haven't done kodi on my retropie build, i know its possible, but even the retropie side is not plug and play. there's a lot of configuration required which is above the head of a lot of people.

[BokCh0y]

Originally posted by drtoohotty1
I made this

That's super cool

What are your plans with that? Reftrofit a raspberry Pi into it? I've seen it done with a nes and the guy even made cartridges for it.

[drtoohotty1]

That's what I did with it.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

Originally posted by Thaco
i am gonna have to disagree, there's still a bit of work involved, far from plug and play, i haven't done kodi on my retropie build, i know its possible, but even the retropie side is not plug and play. there's a lot of configuration required which is above the head of a lot of people.

I'm super proud of my setup. I used berryboot to do a dual kodi/retropie setup.

I then configured retropie to launch moonlight (steam/nvidia streaming) and virtual USB, so I can plug my logitech g25 into the retropie and play steam racing games on any TV in my house (on top of any of the emulators)

I've set it up to use different resolution and FPS as well if it's feeling laggy or what not. Super convenient.

I found that installing the Kodi client within Retropie never worked for me, but now there's a Retropie client within Kodi as well.

Dual-boot FTW. I bought the Canakit for $100 off Amazon, since it came with the beefier 2.5A power supply (which is recommended for overclocking).

Edit: This one was $99 when I bought it.
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01...?ie=UTF8&psc=1