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[–] Wahaha 1 point 7 points (+8|-1) ago 

What's the point, though? Just install an Emulator and add classic controllers and you are good to go and can play every game for the system instead of just the few that come with the mini.

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[–] RobertTSturgeon 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It's not for you and me, it's for people too dumb to recognize an inferior product being sold for way WAY more than it's real value would dictate; the same demographic that spends exorbitant amounts of barista bucks money on iPhones and vinyl records. These hipster millennials are literally too stupid to use any computer that's more complicated to operate than an iPhone, so it can be argued the NES mini actually holds some value for them since they would be too retarded to put an emulator+ROMs on their phone anyway.

And like the poster above me said it's "collectible." Now when I see that word I think 'kitschy overpriced junk', but the target market has a knee-jerk reaction to that word except it's more like wallet-jerk reaction. I blame Pokemon.

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[–] Totenglocke 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

If you don't want to mess with emulation and actually want those 30 games, spending $60 on the NES mini is cheaper than buying those same games on the Wii / Wii U / 3DS virtual console.

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[–] drunknasshole 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

You can play nes games on a toaster

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[–] OneTrueCube 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Ever see the video of the guy playing Doom with a toaster?

Edit: Note I said "with", and not "on"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7tWd7B3iI

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[–] Mew-Two [S] ago 

Emulators don't run games flawlessly like this does, but you're right and I've been using emulators with USB controllers for years.

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[–] Wahaha ago 

At least the SNES emulator higan does a flawless job. I'm not really into NES, but it should be possible to flawlessly emulate, too. Not sure if someone put that much work into a NES emulator, though.

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[–] 7366383? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

That girlfriend (or Santa) is a keeper

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[–] BeauDacious 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Nice present, even considering emulators, its still a very thoughtful gift.

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[–] Mew-Two [S] ago 

The games run great and there are absolutely no bugs or glitches regardless of how rare or minor. That's my problem with emulation. The games never run flawlessly.

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[–] zoop ago 

A cool gift dude ! Beats socks every day of the week.... Lick back this evening with some nice nibbles, single malt and and blitz some old gen games. Perfect Christmas :)

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[–] Mew-Two [S] ago 

Had a good time. Been playing it the last 4 days and it's better than typical emulation because the games run absolutely perfect.

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[–] zoop ago 

Out of interest did the stretch the screen or keep the original aspect ratio? I read this week that Nintendo have filed a patent which seems to suggest the SNES mini is en-route shortly so maybe that one for next Christmas :)

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[–] Mew-Two [S] ago 

Awesome else get one?

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[–] 7365767? ago 

Yep. I bought a cable extension for now until the wireless controllers are available. Tried playing it on a family TV but the input lag ruined everything but Final Fantasy.