Why not just buy the shell, specifically made for the Pi then?If it's cheap enough I might consider one just for the shell, and put a Raspberry Pi inside. But I wouldn't want to pay more than $20 for a glorified RPi shell.
(I already have 2 genuine NES Classic Minis, so I don't need a bootleg one.)
No, as standard Nintendo don't seal any of their hardware in Europe. That's likely just a retailer specific security seal.Hey, did any of the European versions of the NES Classic come with transparent tape seals on each end that said "If this seal is broken, DO NOT BUY"? Because it seems like some of these newer listings have those seals and I don't remember seeing them before.
Aside from colours the front of the box appears to be identical, so it seems you can no longer trust listings with just the front of the box shown. The back however does have at least have some problems, specifically with the text list of games. The spacing between the large + sign and all the bullet points are wrong, they should be perfectly spaced. Compare these two images:
I'd imagine these guys will have snes classics available to buy before Nintendo even launches them. Good luck to anyone buying either of them on ebay.
imagine if china releases the SNES mini knockoff before it even officially releases
they are going to make so much money
I wouldn't be surprised if SNES classic clones beat the official ones to market. Especially if the SNES Classic uses the same hardware as the NES Classic.
Given the awful sound emulation errors the official version may as well be the "peasant" edition!
News to me i have played mine a crapload and not noticed anything of the sort, then again not noticed any lag either & people were making out like it had a crapload of lag too.
The amount of hoops you have to jump through at this point to setup a raspberry pi are far, far fewer than the effort it takes to find a genuine NES Classic.This seems pretty good.
For the people saying "buy a Raspberry", can you plug and play in a raspberry out of the box?
For the people saying this doesnt have "collector" value: 99% of the people only care about playing the games.
Check out how beat-up the box is on the US-box clone:
This seems pretty good.
For the people saying "buy a Raspberry", can you plug and play in a raspberry out of the box?
For the people saying this doesnt have "collector" value: 99% of the people only care about playing the games.
Just bought a Famicom Classic Mini off eBay for what seemed like a not-too-unreasonable price just thinking those weren't that scalped, but now I'm fearing fake.... Hmm.. Guess I'll know soon enough.
I appreciate that the shell has the right openings for a RPi board, but its NES-likeness is rather lacking.
BTW has anyone opened up this clone? I'd like to know how its innards differ from the legit version.
I wonder if, given time, knock offs would be able to just copy the OS off of the actual NES Mini? Like is that possible?
I mean, if it works, it works.
Sucks for Nintendo, but not collectors won't really care
Well if Nintendo doesn't want to give us one...
If the software actually runs close to as well as Nintendo's then this is exactly what I was hoping for.
Would really like to see a review of one of these. See if they do save states, etc. like the official ones.
I suspect that whatever product this ends up being will be the only one we'll get. Look at the NES hardware clones out there. They're basically all using identical NES-on-a-chip configurations, some with extra tricks to get them a bit better. But the existing chip is "good enough" so no one has made an accurate new one in the past decade-plus. The Minis will get this "good enough" clone with whatever issues it has like the wonky load screen, and that'll be all they'll ever make going forward.
Cmon, guys, dont feed the bootleggers. If youre gonna pirate, do it yourself and get whatever benefits you get from piracy. Giving these people money for selling stolen software in a hardware package that masquerades as the real deal isnt right.
Its not just a case of since Nintendos not making money then its fair game though. These people are profiting off stolen software. Those product shots showing the printing on the controller really bad by the way.All blame goes to Nintendo for making the product rare on purpose. They came up with the idea of making these small classic versions of old consoles and could have made plenty of money by selling genuine versions, but they didn't. Nintendo isn't actually losing any sales over this, they already sold out their real NES classics.
One thing that makes these clones interesting to me is getting to play the NES games with a NES controller clone. Are there any NES or SNES controller clones available for cheap, that have a USB plug for PC use? If there are, I won't need these classics.
Its not just a case of since Nintendos not making money then its fair game though. These people are profiting off stolen software. Those product shots showing the printing on the controller really bad by the way.
It's really not about feeling bad for Nintendo, they could just produce more if they were hurting. It's about feeling bad for supporting an illegal business that steals IP for profit. Not liking Nintendo is not a justification for that.Even through these people are illegally selling software I can't find it in myself to feel bad for Nintendo when there's still high demand for this product and they refuse to make more.
If they cared, they'd still be selling it.
That also isn't the same box. That has the Australian release box. The bootleg in the OP has the PEGI and (massive) German rating board icons in the corner.I saw this listing on eBay yesterday. It has a couple of pics of the insides,. Supposedly a Raspberry PI hooked up to Wii Classic controller ports? Also lots of glue to hold it in place 😧
Edit: Actually, is this listing full of crap? Sure doesn't look like a Raspberry PI...
It's really not about feeling bad for Nintendo, they could just produce more if they were hurting. It's about feeling bad for supporting an illegal business that steals IP for profit. Not liking Nintendo is not a justification for that.
Or to buy this "collectible" that in the end is not more than a "PolyStation" kind of fake. If you're not going to have the real thing, might as well get a Raspberry Pi.
The Spanish forum I linked earlier has a lot of discussion. Apparently the AliExpress reseller delisted because they sold out of stock already (someone on that forum said they had sold about 230 units before delisting).
Also the shipping on them is taking forever. Several people in that thread said they ordered one back in mid-June when they were first listed. Only person I've heard of actually getting one so far is a guy with family in China who bought directly from a Taobao listing. Who knows if this device will ever even be widely available? Haha it might be like the legit NES Classic in ways we didn't expect.
Not the same as in OP. Those don't have HDMI and controller connector is different. Also those have 500 games not 30.
99%This seems pretty good.
For the people saying "buy a Raspberry", can you plug and play in a raspberry out of the box?
For the people saying this doesnt have "collector" value: 99% of the people only care about playing the games.