How can you even say 'most' unless you know everyone in the retro scene?! Equally, how can you say i don't know enough people or they aren't being honest. Utter ridiculousness 
Nintendo to release the NES Mini !
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Originally Posted by Chris_Wilson:
“or a proper megadrive one”
“or a proper megadrive one”
I'd love a SNES one
Or was thinking of getting a Retron but is there a way to play the games through HDMI without them looking terrible? Lack of original resolution was one thing about the Wii VC that annoyed me.
Originally Posted by grimtales1:
“I'd love a SNES one
Or was thinking of getting a Retron but is there a way to play the games through HDMI without them looking terrible? Lack of original resolution was one thing about the Wii VC that annoyed me.”
“I'd love a SNES one
Or was thinking of getting a Retron but is there a way to play the games through HDMI without them looking terrible? Lack of original resolution was one thing about the Wii VC that annoyed me.”
Retron upscales them so they shouldn't look terrible... I don't think it would've reviewed so well if the video output was poor.
Over the weekend it looked like Amazon's initial batch of pre-order stock had been bought up but they must've increased the numbers as more are available this morning...
I hope they get the emulation right, and is better than the Virtual Console versions which are dull and colours aren't as vibrant as the original.
Given that this is an official Nintendo product it should hopefully be an accurate emulation of the original and at least it will be legal and not have the problems of consoles like the Retron with it's use of other people's code without permission and ignoring the GPL.
Originally Posted by Nostlagic:
“I hope they get the emulation right, and is better than the Virtual Console versions which are dull and colours aren't as vibrant as the original.”
“I hope they get the emulation right, and is better than the Virtual Console versions which are dull and colours aren't as vibrant as the original.”
I put a lot of that down the the screens we were using with the original gear, years ago. Old CRT monsters could be pretty saturated on the colour front.
Originally Posted by Lumstorm:
“... and not have the problems of consoles like the Retron with it's use of other people's code without permission and ignoring the GPL.”
“... and not have the problems of consoles like the Retron with it's use of other people's code without permission and ignoring the GPL.”
Is that why stock of the Retron 5 is vanishing? They didn't have rights to the code they used in the OS/Emu?
Originally Posted by mred2000:
“I put a lot of that down the the screens we were using with the original gear, years ago. Old CRT monsters could be pretty saturated on the colour front.”
“I put a lot of that down the the screens we were using with the original gear, years ago. Old CRT monsters could be pretty saturated on the colour front.”
Here's a comparison video, directly from the source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJkN6fvvJk
Originally Posted by Nostlagic:
“Here's a comparison video, directly from the source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJkN6fvvJk”
“Here's a comparison video, directly from the source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJkN6fvvJk”
Yup, like i said, the original is being played via RGB on an old CRT screen. Different monster at play altogether, there, compared to modern screens.
Originally Posted by mred2000:
“Yup, like i said, the original is being played via RGB on an old CRT screen. Different monster at play altogether, there, compared to modern screens.”
“Yup, like i said, the original is being played via RGB on an old CRT screen. Different monster at play altogether, there, compared to modern screens.”
Oh i see now. In Super Mario, the greens are way off! I've since came across a comment saying the Wii U virtual console version of SMB is the most faithful port of the original game he has ever seen.
One thing that put me off buying the UK VC releases is a few of the games still run at 50Hz and not the original 60Hz versions, so video and sound is sped up and has black borders. The only way to get around this is to buy a NTSC Wii U. But i'm hoping the games on this Mini NES will be the 60Hz versions.
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