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SNES Classic announced for 9/29, $80, 21 games, has Star Fox 2 [more units than NESC]
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JohnSpartanLee
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Does the European SNES Classic play the games at 60Hz?
Monkeyball
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I hope my preorder from UK Amazon will go through. I live in Europe, so should be fine hopefully.
Daffy Duck
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Seems as though those lucky to get it from Smyths are in for a little bargain, price on their site is now £79.99 so obviosuly was a pricing error to start with.
JohnSpartanLee
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Yay! I'll refresh amazon.de every 5 seconds now.
Could be but not as famous.
The other Super FX games that got cancelled in 1995 (Comanches, FX Fighter) may have been close to completion.
If I had to guess Albert Odyssey Gaiden was close to completion before being moved to Saturn (Albert Odyssey Legend of Eldean) since there was already printed ad.
I also think Virtua Fighter 3 really exists for Sega Saturn.
the androgyne
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Someone should quote this to Nintendo regarding them releasing a Metroid on 3DS this year.
Yes, still buying it of course!
ArtificialIntelligence
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Same here, I hope we can get it without problem
Amazon UK, GAME and Smyths Toys have taken some pre-orders so far (which are sold out for now). Nintendo UK Store hasn't yet, though. Keep an eye out today and over the next few days. You can sign up for email alerts here:
https://store.nintendo.co.uk/ninten...mini-super-nintendo-entertainment-system.list
FYI as someone who pre-orders frequently from them, they seem to usually put up pre-orders between 2-4pm.
You are so late for pre ordering. It's gone.
ShinoguTakeruKoeru
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Hold on a moment! The controller cables are short again?
Not when StarFox 64 became the best selling game in the series (and therefore the best selling shmups ever made) just two years later.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Placed two seperate orders on Webhallen. I'm a sucker so I'll pay whatever price they demand. I want my child to grow up with the SNES classics.
Was really lucky getting a hold of the NES Mini from Webhallen. Was picking up a new pair of headphones and they got a surprise shipment the same day. Not even going to try to imagine that the same kind of luck happens twice.
Team Filler
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This thread has been quite the roller coaster ride and it's been a real treat, but I simply have to get some sleep before work. Good luck all! I'm sure US preorders will begin shortly after I log out and be gone in under ten minutes, after all it wouldn't be a limited item from NoA if it wasn't all botted out by scalpers in the same amount of time it takes to boil an egg. Reggie and his family gonna eat well this season.
Surely not. I don't understand the logic. I guess we'll be able to get extenders.
ShinoguTakeruKoeru
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Minor thought: It would probably be unreasonable, but it would be cute if the Cartridge-Eject lever/button functioned as a button to go from a game back to the game-select menu of the device OS, with the same proportionate give as the original system's eject button had, but that would probably be too toy-like for the device so they'll keep it to the reset button like NES Classic Mini.
or just bust out a wii mote
ScaryShark
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5"? Do you mean 5 feet?
OrangeGrayBlue
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3 feet last time, 5 feet this time.
I am a very big fan of Terranigma and Quintet in general but I understand why these games weren't included (Quintet simply isn't as known as SquareSoft and these kind of products are all about popularity).2 Star Fox games but no Chrono Trigger or Terranigma?
The lack of Chrono Trigger which many consider the best JRPG ever made (Terranigma is better IMO), Pilotwings (icon game that used Mode-7) and Donkey Kong Country 2 which sold less than DKC1 (roughly 9M vs 5M) but it's a much better game is more baffling.
Bucket-o-roadkill
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They were all gone within a couple of hours, literally.
MrCunningham
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FX Fighter was released on MS-DOS in 1995. I would be curious to know how far along the SNES version was in comparison to that.
Here's some video footage of Comanche: Maximum Overkill running on the SNES from E3 1995: https://youtu.be/Op5EkC7GbxQ?t=8283
Courtesy of aparisi2274 from this thread.
This game used the SuperFX2 chip to create voxel environments with 2D scaling sprites. It looked really impressive for an SNES game.
Thanks for the link, when I try searching on Amazon can't find it. I'm away from home so wasn't able to give this time to preorder. I'm hopeful there will be loads more stock...
Schucky Ducky
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Just woke up. It looks like I didn't miss US pre-orders so that's good. Will continue to refresh Best Buy and Amazon.
Daffy Duck
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Keep an eye on Amazon US.
NekoFever
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There might be a handful, but I doubt there are many we don't know about since most games don't get as far as completion without an announcement. You're more likely to find unknown stuff in the NES heyday simply because there was so much software from so many tiny developers being created.
There are a lot of finished or near-finished unreleased games that were known, of course, some of which have leaked.
Golden_Pigeon
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I will finally be able to play to FF VI
MisterHero
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I've already got the 8bitdo SNES pad, so think I'm just going to get the receiver for that.
http://www.8bitdo.com/retro-receiver-nes-classic/
Just checked there and nearly got a heart attack when I saw their 9999kr price: https://www.webhallen.com/se-sv/spe...et-snes_classic_mini_edition&atcl=search:live
I don't read Swedish so maybe I'm missing something about a placeholder price or something? Otherwise I'd be happy to import one from Sweden if that guarantees me one.
Alter_Fridge
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So, how was everyone's restful night's sleep?
Aww yiss!! *Hugs preorder*
ScaryShark
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It's not even 6 am on the east coast yet?
JohnSpartanLee
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That was a terrific VF clone. Cyben, Siren, Ashraf, Venam, Sheba - great characters with very diverse movesets. Also top-notch music.
EU pre-orders were up within hours of the announcement yesterday. It's been almost a day at this point.
Yes, it's a placeholder. Bergsala, the Scandinavian distributor hasn't announced anything yet, so shops have no idea what the price or availability will be yet. In other words, preordering doesn't guarantee anything.
They said they've allocated more UK stock for this than the entire run of the NES and are hoping to get more out again.
Just keep your eye on this thread as many retailers like Nintendo, Argos and others haven't started pre-orders yet.
ScaryShark
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Didn't realize. That's annoying.
Don't worry. No need to not buy this. Nintendo got you covered
On a side note, I really hope it's easy to hack like the NES Mini. Unless Nintendo wised up and removed the data transferring capabilities from the USB, I guess it's just a matter of time.
I honestly think they aren't too bothered, especially since both the NES Mini and the SNES Mini are products produced in limited quantities.
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