NES Classic

[Tanooki]

Maybe I'm overly cynical but I'm honestly surprised at the inclusion of so many 3rd party games. If you'd told me Nintendo were doing something like this, I'd expect it to be the usual Mario Zelda 1st party Nintendo fare.

In addition, when I first read about this today I wasn't thinking of getting it, but damn, dat controller...

Nah, realist. Nintendo has been complained about since the NES for unfair practices between their early contracts to them stuffing holidays and other hot periods with their titles so others wouldn't sell anywhere near as well which caused decades long bad blood. I was stunned when I started rolling down the list that I stopped, went back up and started counting and 13 of the 30 are not theirs which is 43% of the games. I'd call that pretty big of them. Even the Classic NES library we got on the GBA back in the day was mostly stacked with their titles, 4 of the 12 were 3rd party (33%) though 8 of the 18 they got we didn't on their side were 3rd party.

I don't see people complaining about this one or the price like the old GBA stuff at $20 a pop that got a lot of howling over it.



Something just crossed my mind -- StarTropics. THE CODE, the printed one in the letter included in the box. What will be the solution on that one? Code in a box? They hack it so you can just have it put in for you? Hmm

[Forlorn Drifter]

Stuff like this excites me. I'm not sure where Nintendo is going with its future, but things like this make me think that Nintendo has their head in the right place for at least a portion of the market.

Though, I wish we could see more games. And if they do one for N64, Sin and Punishment needs to be on there. I fear that's wishful thinking though.

[Anapan]

Nifty! That's a decent shortlist. The Super-C over Contra thing is a good choice tho I still prefer the original. The lack of CV3 worries me due to it probably meaning a slightly crappy NES-on-a-chip or incapable emulator vs true hardware clone. If that's the case it doesn't deserve a .

I'll reserve further speculation until the hardware's been exposed. I hope the NES controllers are as good as the clone Atari 2600 ones that came with the Flashback II.

[noiseredux]

Didn't read the entire thread; Can I use a flash cart with it, and are those cheap?

it is a plug-n-play. It comes w/ 30 games on it. There is no way to add any other game to it.

[isiolia]

Something just crossed my mind -- StarTropics. THE CODE, the printed one in the letter included in the box. What will be the solution on that one? Code in a box? They hack it so you can just have it put in for you? Hmm

I assume it'll have at least a launcher, and most likely system OS of some kind that can be pulled up at any time to adjust options, save the game state, and so on. So it'll probably just be like other current Nintendo consoles, and able to pull up a digital manual.

[Exhuminator]

Oh ok. Then I don't get why every forum is talking about it.

Because the NES Classic could be a very convenient conduit for classic NES gaming in a cute package. For people who don't know how to emulate properly, or feel emulation is morally questionable, and can't afford the actual real hardware and cartridges, this is a great deal.

And who knows there may eventually be a way to crack this thing and load it up with ROMs.

I just want to see how this thing looks on an HDTV over HDMI. As far as scaling goes.

[noiseredux]

Because the NES Classic could be a very convenient conduit for classic NES gaming in a cute package. For people who don't know how to emulate properly, or feel emulation is morally questionable, and can't afford the actual real hardware and cartridges, this is a great deal.

I agree w/ the piracy part. I think that's good. And good on Ninty for figuring out that people are happy to buy their stuff.

My personal gripe is more that you can grab a Wii for like $20 and buy more than these 30 games on the VC.

I think they should have made this thing a Wii VC Player - that is a device that came w/ 30 or whatever games, but also had access to the VC store so that people could buy more games for it. Who knows, maybe this is testing the water for some such future device.

And who knows there may eventually be a way to crack this thing and load it up with ROMs.

I don't know - there's no SD card slot or anything.

[Exhuminator]

I don't know - there's no SD card slot or anything.

But the NES Classic takes power over USB, which means there may be a back door there.

[arcadifvid]

like i mentioned in reddit...
as long as they dont do something like make the contrast darker "to emulate the scanline effect" or adding some stupid filter, im a day1 buyer.

also just a gripe though, too few 2 player co-op games. the could have added shadow of the ninja and life force i'm sure (given theye also available in VC as do the rest of the included games)

[samsonlonghair]

I don't know - there's no SD card slot or anything.

But the NES Classic takes power over USB, which means there may be a back door there.

It's entirely possible to wire up a USB port that only draws power and cannot transfer data.

Don't get me wrong, though. I want to see this cracked just as badly as anyone. That's probably why Nintendo isn't taking Noise's suggestion.

I think they should have made this thing a Wii VC Player - that is a device that came w/ 30 or whatever games, but also had access to the VC store so that people could buy more games for it. Who knows, maybe this is testing the water for some such future device.

Cool idea, but the wii has been wide open for hacks, modders, and pirates for years. Nintendo hates that.

If it was a wii in a tiny case that was shaped like an NES, geeks like us would start hacking this toy on day one.