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Gemma Chan will turn 45yo in 2027

whats the point of this? Is Mario 3 not fun enough already

@Erigen everyone over 40 maybe and in the USA. In the UK no one gave a thought to the NES.

always liked the original colours of the PAL SF2 (world warrior)

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SMK by a mile - its the fastest and has the best handling. Mario Kart 64 was missing something and the rest just feel slow

Arent fan translations from Japanese massively open to interpretation and because certain jokes, puns and phrases don’t translate you have to change quite a lot? Therefore an official translation is essential.

Also very very few people will have played the fan translation. emulation is still a niche area - The SNES mini sold 5 million units, way more than would ever consider a Raspberry Pi or PC emulation.

R2 and Targa are technically different games - Targa had hand drawn sprites and were changed to pre rendered type sprites. I think theres a ROM of Targa you can get..

There's something about viewing, touching and curating the cartridges and looking at the artwork which is addictive.

Over the past 5 years I have gone through several bouts of collecting for a system, get to a certain point and then liquidate when I realise i’m deep in a pointless exercise because the truth is i barely play any of them. Even spend money getting the right RGB cable and an ideal CRT.

i enjoy getting a dirty system and disassembling and refurbing it, and cleaning up the carts and boards.

I have now settled on Gameboy, mainly because it was my system as a kid and i love the artwork. Collecting original grey Nintendo carts and other notable games.

But the collecting sickness still has me fully; I regularly look on ebay for Kid Dracula and other high value games. The only reason I want them is because they’re collectible.

@Abes3 agreed.

The end credit from Super Mario Land as well, truly amazing. The composer to Mario Land is the same guy who did Tetris!

I personally think the worst thing about mario 64 is the lack of iconic melodies.

Cant believe the Mario Bros 1-1 these isn’t included - the most iconic and famous video game music ever made

@Rockman Yes I have bought and sold RAD2Xs in the past (I am in the UK).

So what you’re saying is that you are using an RGB modded clone console (The Snes 2 is that - system on a chip). Plus a cable that only gives you 480p over HDMI.

and all of this will have cost you more than a Super NT?

@FargusPelagius The VAT is on the delivery charge as well i think

@FargusPelagius don’t think so - Analogue massively take the p1ss on their shipping charges, have been criticised for it even in the US, although it would cost you a lot more than £6 to ship insured to the US, trust me ive done it. When i bought the Mega SG 2 years ago it was $50 for shipping back then, dont think they’ve changed it

@FargusPelagius Under the old rules VAT and other customs duties would be charged on import. I bought a Mega SG in the past and got hit by Fedex with a bill plus their own admin fee which had to be paid or they wouldn't deliver it. In total it was £41.15 which would have been their calculation of the total cost including delivery , converted to GBP, apply VAT, and then add on an admin fee.

Technically Analogue now should be charging VAT at the point of sale but may not be aware of the new rules and/or not registered for VAT in the UK.

Online marketplaces like Amazon and Ebay are now required to make sure sellers are VAT registered and charging at the point of sale (ie when you buy it).

so…..i dont know what will happen.

If you’ve bought from other sellers then maybe you already paid the VAT in the price you paid, but Analogues prices have not changed to uk sellers so i dont think thats the case there.

Do let me know what happens, would be interested to know.

One thing people used to do on ebay purchases from Japan was get the seller to write like £5 on the customs slip so it was below the de minimis of £15 (which no longer applies since Brexit anyway). But that was one way around it (fraudulently of course )

@Rockman Each to their own, but in sure people feel power cable and hdmi + one box is more elegant than your console + retrotink or other upscaler plus link cables etc

maybe the hype is over , they’re still for sale on the website

@Rockman sounds like a lot of cables and a big old mess next to the telly.

@FargusPelagius FYI you’ll have import VAT of 20% to pay on top of that..so another £35 and perhaps an admin fee from dhl as well

fortunately customs duty is 0% at the moment on imported consoles from usa - it was going to be 25% imposed before the VAT is calculated so you would have had a fee of more like £90 had things stayed as they were!!

NES Mario Originals better than Super Mario All Stars? I cant agree with that

@Ghostchip this is what i’m talking about. Gaming didnt begin with NES, it just began for you americans with that. In europe no one cared about the NES

@jaglufc Agreed. Should be no1 - its aged brilliantly compared to the Zeldas and certainly shouldn’t be behind Banjo, I was tired of collecting crap after 10 mins of that one

Hands up if you’re from the UK and think the majority of the NES’s ‘best’ games are overrated, hyped up by the 40 year old man children from the USA that dominate the retro community and/or youtube

@TheRedComet You’re missing my point. Yes there are far more accurate arcade conversions up to to that point (summer 1992) about the best we’d had were home megadrive ports of things like ghouls n ghosts, which werent really that close. Mostly people were used to 8 bit ports of vastly more powerful 80s arcade games.

SF2 on super nes was an absolute game changer and an amazing conversion of the most popular video game in the world at the time. It looked, to the layman, just like the arcade game and played the same & it sold the SNES. especially in the UK

“it's possible that word of mouth just spread from a handful of people playing the SNES version as genuine matchup advice without the understanding of how bad these ports are.”

WTF this clown just dissed the greatest arcade conversion in gaming history

yeah they do look ridiculously stupid. idiots

didnt a whole bunch of technicians on youtube already call out the build quality on these adapters?

I want an easy solution to play all game boy games on a crt and this appears to fit the bill - can anyone confirm it outputs composite by the looks of it?

As an aside the Analogue Pocket plus dock plus DAC plus shipping plus VAT+import fees to the UK will be around (drum roll)

$200+$80+$100+$50+$86+$107.50 = $623.50

So about £450. brilliant.

Is there going to be a segment where they explain how no one in the UK gave 2 ***** and yet I have to spend the rest of eternity hearing about the garishly coloured, super ugly, super hard and super average games like contra, castlevania and megaman

wtf is crackle. Im in the UK never heard of it

i used to be 100% a mario world guy, but finally played through mario bros 3 on GBA a few years ago. It was just more satisfying because it was tougher. Mario World is just slightly too easy

go back and brick the c**ts windows

VAT has to be charged otherwise it’s unfairly disadvantaging uk sellers of similar products.

If its true that Analogue completely manufacture the product in China then surely it would be a better idea to setup distribution from there as well for non-US customers

they didnt show the yellow european box. pretty sure this came out in the uk as well as the red one

Meh. without the nes keychain thing and the ‘power’ this would be a kinda cool nod to the 8bit, and maybe you could get away with it as a grown man.

But with those things you’re just gonna look like a man child who plays with toys

Bring back the Game Boy brand!

erm. do i rate 1 star to be my favourite game or the 10 star?

If you want your house to look like the 40year old virgin’s did in that film then crack on spending £500. Just do not get the appeal of all this crap - limited edition statues/amiibos all of it. For total nerds who want to dry up and/or lose their girlfriends. what sort of woman wants to be with a manchild that idolises such a waste of money

is this website taking the p*ss with this article. 30-odd year old man legally smokes in 1990s Japanese office

@TG16_IS_BAE i will continue to sabotage ebay listings where scalpers buy products with the only intention of illegally reselling them.

@roadrunner343 i suppose my issue is why do they take all money up front. and its probably a little naive to think they might not go under in the current economic climate, its not beyond the realm of possibility at all that they could have issues from their supply chain.

@roadrunner343 i agree. its just too much money to had over to a small company for a year nearly. If they go under you aint getting anything back

@Hordak I have a fake ebay account and enjoy blowing scalpers out of the water and bidding ridiculous amounts and never paying....suggest everyone does the same

@Jokerwolf I’m not sure about that; Analogue havent released the SNES, Megadrive or NES cores to be used on their other systems, unless native to that Super Nt, Mega Sg or NT mini.

The cores that have been released on the unofficial jailbreaks were for lesser systems like master system and gameboy, plus older stuff.

So it will be down to the fpga community to port over cores from Mister (for example) for snes, MD, NES, PC engine, and maybe some of the other cores that have been developed for Mister like neo geo, CPS1, Sega CD. At this point we have no idea how powerful the available core is (its a cyclone V like Mister uses) but im sure theres a lot more to it than that.

We also dont know if this thing will again be unofficially jailbroken by Analaogue themseves straugjt away like their other systems have been, which i assume would make both fpgas available.

If it can do GBA which is a 32 bit system, you’d think it would be able to handle the rest of the 8 and 16-bit systems as well. So in that sense this could be the last retro system you’d ever need....

@syrupdash Came here to say that exactly! Definitely should lean into the All Stars brand. 64 + Sunshine + Galaxy 1&2.

does it really matter indeed? Wouldnt you rather get physical rereleases of classic series (like a mario all stars) or maybe all the donkey kongs for example. or even (unlikely) a £50 snes mini classic release featuring all 21 games on that system.

N64 Mini would be a step backwards IMO after the success and coverage in the mainstream of the SNES mini. The n64 is not as well loved at all. A Gameboy Mini/Rerelease would be huge news and appeal to a much wider demographic as it is an iconic brand - the n64 is not and the games look dated. Most of the games on the Gameboy are Nintendo published & you have Tetris

I.......don't believe him

I don't want a Mini console - just want it to look like a full size Super Nintendo. Also I don't understand why they dont have a virtual console with these machines - maybe release it with 20 nintendo games built in and then have 3rd parties come on board with titles for £4.99 or whatever.

People say to protect against hacking but the vast majority of buyers are casual and have no interest in hacking the machine or going outside legal means of obtaining the games.

A game? Doesnt sound like it.

I was hoping the whole wii/mii cross eyed b*stards were gonna be jettisoned for NX but it looks like they'll never let it go now.

@xtndedPlay

Listen i understand that NES was the second coming of the digital jesus for you good old boys in the US of A but over here no one gave a snitch and still dont!

NES by the time it was released in Europe was really old hat tech wise and people were knee deep in 16bit computers and consoles.

My grievance is that even the UK centred (r then e yes its called english) retro press like retrogamer magazine especially like to tell us uk readers that Nintendo saved the day from the video game crash with their grey block and tha Megaman / Contra/Zelda/Mario/Metroid et al were what UK gamers remember with fondness.

However the truth is that there was never a video game crash in Europe (mainly because we didnt buy the poopopoptypoo Atari 2600 either) and very few people had a NES later in the decade.

The popular talked about games of the time were on Sega and Amiga. SNES came later and then was also popular. The way the retro press hype up the nostalgia for the NES classics is just a fabrication of reality.