Random: Should The Rumoured SNES Classic Be In Short Supply, This Modder Could Help

I wonder if he's loaded it up with all of the SNES games too.

This method falls at the first hurdle by using the North American SNES design and not the nicer looking design the rest of the world was clever enough to use.

Its like the Sky Crawlers cover, just do what the Japanese do they usually seem to do it right first time round.

I want virtual console on switch so i can play everywhere lol.......i love my gpd xd that is the best retro portable console.

SupaBoy or PolyMega, everyone ?

@FX102A How they turned the fantastic Japanese design into a breeze block with purple bits I don't know!

The American case just isn't attractive, so he should have chosen the better looking European one. Besides that, I don't like these "multiple systems in a [enter name] console case" things.

A NES/SNES Mini should just play the games that belong to it, not anything else. Playing Megadrive/Genesis games on it, or in some cases even N64 and PSX games, just feels wrong.

That's the nice thing about an official product: much higher quality, a better and elaborate menu and options, and official hardware and controllers.

Meh, it's another Pi inside a shell, nothing new here. The more I hear about the Pi, the more it became less interesting.

Stupid Nintendo.

It really baffles the mind how Nintendo can get some things so right and then others so so wrong...

I don't think there is any possible way that Nintendo could meet the demand for a SNES Mini. Even if they made 10M units, which they won't, scalpers would still go crazy scooping up as many batches as they could. The NES Mini proved much too profitable for them, so a bigger batch would simply mean even more profit for them.

I can't think of a system that scalpers couldn't game. The only way they could possibly meet demand would be to sell to consumers directly and allow backorders. (Nintendo has never, to my knowledge, allowed consumers to buy backordered products in their online store.)

I don't see it happening. What happened with the NES Classic Mini WILL happen with the SNES Classic Mini. There is even greater demand for it than its predecessor.

P.S. This system is no different than any other clone. For those of us who want LEGAL copies of games with 100% perfect emulation, this is a non-starter.

I've considered doing this, problem for me is that the UI is clunky and garbage, if I made my own snes mini I'd want it to be like my nes mini, not a bunch of text that I scroll through

The PI is great I have one and I also have a nes mini as well, I probably played the Nes Mini once or twice before it going into storage. Now I have a switch I haven't touched the raspberry since but its a great alternative option and is really easy to set up.

I probably got banned from Nintendo's Twitch chat for saying they were only going to make 10 Switches.

@FX102A while I like the non North American design better I live in the US and for me this design is the most authentic. Hindsight is 20/20 but man do I wish I had kept all my 8 and 16 bit games and consoles. Looking forward to this coming out, just really hope I don't have to pay a scalper to get one.

I must admit that a Raspberry Pi with RetroPie works like a charm. The only thing that I found to be really buggy is Nintendo 64 emulation, but thing like NES, SNES, the Game Boy series, Mega Drive and even PlayStation 1, among many others, work beautifully. Even if you are a collector of old video games, but don't have enough room to hook up all your systems, this emulation-based setup is a good way to keep backups of your entire collection in one place. It's very convenient. Off course the legality of all this may be an issue for many, but if you stick to games you actually have I don't think there's any moral objection to be had.

I don't think they want to compete with the switch virtual console Netflix like app so I would not hold your breath.

Yeah, I made myself an Pi 3 console. Works great with Recalbox.

love my pi3, would love a case this beautiful to put it in

@foobarbaz agreed the Pi is amazing and I love mine, I wish I was creative like some folks with the different builds

even though mine it the generic clear case can do everything its pretty plain looking siting on my desk compared to the possibilities

@dizzy_boy Every US release SNES game and also fan translated Japanese only games. Complete sets for most systems aside from N64, PS1 and other modern disc based consoles.

Pretty cool.

I am having problems with my pi 3 I can't get my save states to work right. Anyone know of a solution?

12 NES classics is about right, and four of them are in the window of CEX Walsall at £135 a pop.

@ThanosReXXX The modder is probably American, so the European case has no meaning or relevance to him. This thing is about nostalgia, and North Americans have no nostalgia for the model that was released outside of North America. I like the version he used because it's the one I had growing up. The case for Europe and the rest of the world means nothing to me.

@Ferkner FYI: I am an American, I just live in Europe, but that is not the reason why I like the European design better. It simply is a better design. Less bulky, and a nice and sleek case mold.

And the color scheme is also better, especially on the controllers: having two sets of the same color buttons isn't as handy as having four easily distinguishable buttons.

In-game prompts for most games also used those colors, so it's actually weird for the American systems to not have them. And what's with all the purple anyway?

Far as I'm concerned, the only benefit that the American systems had, was NTSC, allowing games to run smoother/faster than their PAL counterparts.