Nintendo classic mini SNES

[NewNameNeeded]

Silverbullet767 said:

Heads up, ToysRus have them, just bagged one.

Cheers! Ordered one (finally)

[Arklight]

awesome me too, thanks!!

[ambuletz]

from what I've heard the Toys R Us stores only get allocated 8 each. Whats the point in that? not going to make much profit off of that. tons of people want to buy it.

[CupraRob]

Silverbullet767 said:

Heads up, ToysRus have them, just bagged one.

Cheers for the Toys Rus heads-up - I've just hopefully bagged one too. We'll soon see come September 29th when I get the email saying that it's out of stock until forever...

[Sheetmaself]

Ive pre ordered one too, little bit wary of the fact that its still showing as available for pre order!

Ten minutes before that i bought a raspberry pi as well, bleedin' typical aint it!

[Sheetmaself]

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[Silverbullet767]

Sheetmaself said:

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That's reassuring to the people who pre-ordered, no unlimited supply means we'll be more likely to receive one.

[Silverbullet767]

Keep an eye here, they seem to be on the ball.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/misc/snes-classic-launch...

Apparently, very.co.uk have them in now.

ETA: http://www.very.co.uk/nintendo-classic-mini-super-...

Chase the geese!!

Edited by Silverbullet767 on Thursday 29th June 15:38

[Sheetmaself]

Silverbullet767 said:

Sheetmaself said:

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That's reassuring to the people who pre-ordered, no unlimited supply means we'll be more likely to receive one.

That was my thinking, feel sorry for those on here still trying but happy that it looks likely i will recieve mine, the im alright jack approach to life!

[wiggy001]

NewNameNeeded said:

wiggy001 said:

As soon as my loft conversion is done and I get my man cave sorted, my original SNES will be coming out of storage. Rose tinted glasses are being cleaned as we speak...

The 16-bit graphics have stood the test of time pretty damn well (more so SNES than Megadrive given the larger colour palette). Compare that to PS1 or 2 games which look truly god-damn awful, by comparison.

I've had my SNES out for some time and whilst it only gets occasional use Mario Kart, Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Bomberman, Super Mario World, Secret of Mana, Legend of Zelda ... they are all just as playable today as they ever were.

I plan to have all my old machines out and easily accessible:

Commodore Amiga A600
SNES
PS1
PS2 Slimline
PS3

It's mainly the SNES I'm looking forward to getting back out (it's been untouched for many many years), but I need to purchase Mario Kart and a second controller if memory serves me correctly.

[Sheetmaself]

I have a snes but i cant get it to work on my tv.
Plug it into a crt and its fine plug it into plasma have had sound but no picture. May of been the other way round but definitely only one not the other!
Same with N64 i have.

[Hoink]

Sheetmaself said:

I have a snes but i cant get it to work on my tv.
Plug it into a crt and its fine plug it into plasma have had sound but no picture. May of been the other way round but definitely only one not the other!
Same with N64 i have.

Try this site. I bought a cable from here for my snes and it's perfect;
https://www.retrogamingcables.co.uk

[Sheetmaself]

Thanks, will try one.

[p1stonhead]

This is why people cant get them... wkers.

[Hoink]

p1stonhead said:

This is why people cant get them... wkers.

That really annoys me as I missed out on the mini nes.

[moustachebandit]

Apparently Nintendo has produced significantly more units than the NES classic, so the scalpers might be left with stock they cant sell. Also whilst these units are for sale on ebay at comedy pricing, are they actually selling? You would need you head checked if you are willing to drop £300 on a SNES / NES Classic.

I admit I was mildly tempted to buy a SNES classic, but just downloaded OpenEMU and some roms and got my fix of SNES gaming / nostalgia for free. After about 1 hour the rose tinted glasses came off and I realised I had just saved myself £80.

[JB!]

Lord Marylebone said:

Just to add to the Raspberry Pi comments questions in this thread:

I recently bought a 'fully loaded' and preconfigured RetroPi system.

It was £100 and came with everything including 2 x PS3 controllers, HDMI cable, power supply etc.

No faffing whatsoever.

Just turn it on and you are taken straight to very smart looking menus where you can select from about 15 different consoles and then around 5500 games. You can either scroll or search through the games and they all have a description and box art as you click through them.

It's got pretty much every console and handheld game system you can think of, plus thousand or so Arcade/Coin Op games.

I'm blown away by it to be honest.

I've mostly been playing Arcade, SNES, Gameboy and PS2 stuff on it.

Where from?

[Zoon]

moustachebandit said:

After about 1 hour the rose tinted glasses came off and I realised I had just saved myself £80.

That's not even long enough to get out of the first castle on Zelda ALTTP.

[KingNothing]

moustachebandit said:

Apparently Nintendo has produced significantly more units than the NES classic, so the scalpers might be left with stock they cant sell. Also whilst these units are for sale on ebay at comedy pricing, are they actually selling? You would need you head checked if you are willing to drop £300 on a SNES / NES Classic.

I admit I was mildly tempted to buy a SNES classic, but just downloaded OpenEMU and some roms and got my fix of SNES gaming / nostalgia for free. After about 1 hour the rose tinted glasses came off and I realised I had just saved myself £80.

They'll still sell, but maybe not at higher prices.

Some knob on a facebook group paid someone £100 for a SNES pre-order, before the Nintendo store had even had their pre-orders open.

[anonymous-user]

JB! said:

Lord Marylebone said:

Just to add to the Raspberry Pi comments questions in this thread:

I recently bought a 'fully loaded' and preconfigured RetroPi system.

It was £100 and came with everything including 2 x PS3 controllers, HDMI cable, power supply etc.

No faffing whatsoever.

Just turn it on and you are taken straight to very smart looking menus where you can select from about 15 different consoles and then around 5500 games. You can either scroll or search through the games and they all have a description and box art as you click through them.

It's got pretty much every console and handheld game system you can think of, plus thousand or so Arcade/Coin Op games.

I'm blown away by it to be honest.

I've mostly been playing Arcade, SNES, Gameboy and PS2 stuff on it.

Where from?

This seller here:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222486737110

Highly recommended.

Best £100 I've spent in ages. Over 5000 games!