/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.11183782]

are mini consoles memes?

[Anonymous No.11183787]

Yes
>pay us 100 dollars for a generic ARM device that we put an emulator and 10 games on, goyjin!
Literally the definition of artificial soul.

[Anonymous No.11183791]

>>11183787
fpbp
/thread

[Anonymous No.11183795]

>>11183782
I have a load of them and they absolutely are. That’s not to say they’re bad (except the PS1 which sucked unless you hack it) they’re just expensive novelties but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. If you can get a nes/snes and jailbreak it then the functionality goes through the roof, but a Wii will do the same job. What’s cute is, if I remember correctly, the guys who hacked the nes found a text file saying something like, “please don’t hack this but if you do? Have fun” heavily implying the programmers knew rightly what would happen even if the Nintendo suits didn’t.

[Anonymous No.11183797]

Kys OP

[Anonymous No.11183805]

>>11183782
no. banana stripper is a meme. your dole dippers maddam is a meme. all your base are belong to us is a meme.

miniconsoles are just over priced knicknacks for the shelves of low T reddit enthusiasts.

[Anonymous No.11183806]

>>11183795
the ps1 one was the only one worth buying because it dropped to $20 and came with two decent usb ps1 controllers for use on better emulation devices

[Anonymous No.11183807]

There's something nice about having your the device that plays your Nintendo or Sony or Genesis games being shaped like the actual console, having themed menus and the proper controller. It's not a meme, it's a novelty and that isn't always a bad thing. If all you want is the most efficient way to play games, by all means pick up an android box and any ol controller.

[Anonymous No.11183808]

>>11183787
All this hyperbole is anti-soul

>>11183791
You’re even worse. You could only be a bigger faggot if you samefagged.

They’re just novelty toys you joyless faggots. The fact you can use the controllers on wiimotes/as usb controllers for emulators is as much evidence of knowing winks to coomsumers as much as it is using cheapest connections available to skim even more money. I’m as cynical as the next man but sometimes you can just relax a little, it’s not like you were locked out of games or some shit. They were money spinners based on nostalgia and never painted as much else.

[Anonymous No.11183814]

>>11183808
fun is NOT allowed on /vr/ anon, unacceptable

[Anonymous No.11183815]

>>11183806
Haha, you know what? That’s a fair argument - I paid full price too; what a cock. It was self evident 20 games- and some of those utter shite - AND the controller not having sticks was a real red flag. At 20 bongbucks it makes a cute emulation station

[Anonymous No.11183817]

>>11183782
they are the Reddit of consoles

[Anonymous No.11183818]

>>11183808
What I said is exactly what they did, no hyperbole at all.
>the point is nostalgia
Yes, you just made my point for me.
>wiimotes
Playing NES games on anything other than a real NES is a soulless experience. Imagine playing purple sky mario and believing that you're actually playing the game.
It's a fine way to experience SNES games though.

[Anonymous No.11183819]

>>11183814
Sorry, I’ve had too much wine at my parents who i convinced to keep their CRT “because it’ll be worth something some day, look at star wars toys” so I’m feeling merry and less cynical that usual.

[Anonymous No.11183820]

>>11183818
Which had only 10 games on it Mr-totally-not-exaggerating? And fuck your purple sky. Our first tv I was allowed to plug anything into had a dial to tune it and was black and white. You had blue sky? You don’t even know you were BORN, you rich cunt.

[Anonymous No.11183829]

>>11183782
Actually, no. A Genesis with both add-ons is easily over $200, while the Genesis Mini plays Genesis, SEGA CD, 32X, Game Gear, and SMS for around half of that price with two OEM controllers. For NES however, pic related is better.

[Anonymous No.11183861]

>>11183829
It’s instantly NOT better by being a chink knockoff. Why not just by a PI? You may not approve but if you’re not getting a licensed product then what’s the point? There’re always cheaper alternatives of practicality is all you’re after.

[Anonymous No.11183883]

Not at all. The fit and finish on them is excellent. They are a good 1st party product and they really look like mini versions of those old consoles. Normal people love them and as such, these mini consoles become great conversation starters. They are perfect to have hooked up to a modern TV in a guest bedroom or a den or something for when friends and family visit or for some reason you have kids in your house and need something to occupy their attention. Nintendo actually published each official manual for every game on their minis as PDFs and put them online so you can print them off and actually use the manual as you play the games too (which as we all know, the manual was important for those old games). You can even add more games to them if you really wanted to. Of course you can find a cheaper way to emulate old games by doing it yourself, yet that's the case for basically everything else in life. Plus, you're not going to get a cute little mini console if you do it that way. In my area they are commonly priced at $70 or so, which could certainly be a lot worse. I realize that only a tiny percentage of this board can actually relate to living in a house, having friends and family visit or are ever near children, so most of you would probably never think of any of that ever.

[Anonymous No.11183884]

>>11183782
I like them because it scams retarditterinos out of money

[Anonymous No.11183889]

>>11183861
Famiclones are and always have been the cheapest systems you can buy. There's no reason to ever pay more than like $20 for one, especially when it's missing games like Mega Man 3

Pic related has more games than the Mario Game & Watch and you can play it on a CRT

[Anonymous No.11183897]

nah I have one of each of the NES/SNES/mini Megadrive and PSX Classic. I like having the OEM controllers for each system and a mini replica of them as the actual system itself to play the respect games on. You just replace the stock emulators on them with something better, load them up with tons more games and away you go. I also have the PSX classic modded to play Dreamcast and N64 and even some PSP games it can handle.

[Anonymous No.11183930]

mini console:
>plug and play
>10 minutes to mod and transfer custom games over
pi
>50+ days for the parts to come from the various sellers both stateside and in china
>if you order in late november it's not coming until the next year
>sd card compatibility issues, too many writes cooks the thing

[Anonymous No.11183980]

>>11183795
They couldn't pack it with all the games everyone might want, so hacking it is alluded to as being ok by them. I like the idea of getting a mini nes and snes and then hooking up the entire library in them, but I got lazy and never even bought one. It's still a tempting idea but I'm worried about how manchild it'd make me look

[Anonymous No.11183987]

id buy a mini saturn. shame sega won't make one.

[Anonymous No.11184159]

>>11183987
cos there's 0 organic market demand for one.
Hell it'd make more business sense to release a mini-Dreamcast than a Saturn. Far greater nostalgia market demand there for that.

[Anonymous No.11184197]

They are glorified accessories to decorate the house i doubt that anyone really plays on those mini consoles i have heard that you can put more games in them but the majority want to play on the original consoles

[Anonymous No.11184279]

>>11183987
Buy the Astro City Mini, it has Virtua Fighter on it

>>11184159
Basically yeah, I feel like the same people who ask for one would never actually buy one

[Anonymous No.11184474]

>>11184197
I like to play mine. Every once in awhile I get an itch to play something. Last time I beat Donkey Kong Country. Before that it was Super Mario World. I have a Final Fantasy save going that I still need to beat.

[Anonymous No.11184479]

They must be seeing as how Nintendo stopped making them. Even the G&W ones were strange.

[Anonymous No.11184528]

Yes. They're the same thing as those "flashback" consoles in that they're literally just emulators that cost money. They're perfectly fine for normies who won't notice the differences, but if you know how to google search for roms and emulators, there's really no point in buying them.

[Anonymous No.11184531]

>>11184479
Just like with Amiibos, artificial scarcity was part of the draw; they intentionally made a small amount of them to drive up demand and make them "collectors items"

[Anonymous No.11184540]

>>11183818
>purple sky
Literally only a problem if you pay to emulate like a cuck instead of using superior 3rd party free emulation

[Anonymous No.11184672]

>>11183782
I guess, but i honestly enjoy the ease of them. The ps mini is just my whatever emulator box but you can add games via usb on the nintendo minis as well. The pc engine mini is dependent on a specific charger spec i cant recall, so that sucks but its a fantastic mini console. The genesis mini is pretty great too but maybe the game selection is everywhere already so why buy i?

[Anonymous No.11184708]

>>11183782
Only SNES one was good, all killer no filler

[Anonymous No.11184709]

>>11183818
>>11184540
purple sky was always intended, cope about it in whatever way you like

[Anonymous No.11184718]

>>11184709
>the theme of "super mario bros" was the "blue sky"
Disproven in your own image LMAO
get fucked purplefag

[Anonymous No.11184810]

>>11183782
>are mini consoles memes?
They're not if you want brand new official 1st party controllers that are USB compatible. I brought a PS Mini just for a pair of them. Absolute fucking bargain of a price.

[Anonymous No.11184814]

>>11183782
>controllers use wiimote plugs instead of usb

[Anonymous No.11185219]

>>11183782
Just buy a half decent bootleg and you'll get pretty much every game you'd ever want plus a few surprises. I personally never played Kick Master until I bought a Chinese bootleg and now it's one of my favorite games.

[Anonymous No.11185240]

>>11183782
Memes? Its like buying a prebuilt pc, or a bmw. Youre wasting money but itll probably be good for a solid amount of time

[Anonymous No.11185258]

They’re not for people who post on /vr/ that play all their retro games on a laptop with an Xbox controller. They’re a novelty for normie lapsed gamers and hardcore collectors. Make your piece with it

[Anonymous No.11185392]

>>11183782
I use them when I have to sleep in a hotel for a few days. Genesis mini is small enough to tuck into my cloak so it basically takes up no luggage space

[Anonymous No.11185517]

It's a meme for anyone even remotely willing to set up their own box but for someone just wanting a toy they can throw into their office tv or whatever, sure.

[Anonymous No.11186108]

mini consoles were like the ultimate christmas present for normalfags that haven't played videogames in 20 years and want a nostalgia trip. I bought like 3 SNES minis just to give to my sister and some cousins.

[Anonymous No.11186208]

>>11183861
Why get a pi when you can pay slightly more for a mini pc?

[Anonymous No.11186213]

>>11186208
Not that anon, less bloat probably, also you can build it yourself

[Anonymous No.11186696]

>>11183782
I have the NES, SNES and a Japanese Mega Drive with the tower of power accessories. They're neat and hacking them and filling them with games was fun, but I don't really use them anymore.

[Anonymous No.11187310]

>>11184197
the fuck is this reddit-tier "im just guessing but will speak with the conviction as if i know" post

[Anonymous No.11187464]

>>11183782
I like mine, but I was one of the lucky guys who got both NES and SNES mini for cheap during the scalper meltdown.
Dunno who would want to get one in 2024, the few local stores ask for an arm and a leg for them, I guess it is the same on eBay, and anyone can buy either a chinkheld or a mini PC for emulation. Maybe those retard collectors?

[Anonymous No.11188047]

>>11187310
>"im just guessing but will speak with the conviction as if i know"
my man that is minimum 80% of the posts on this website. you'd know that if you didn't get here last week

[Anonymous No.11188084]

>>11188047
nt

[Anonymous No.11188129]

>>11183782
Short answer: yes
Long answer: no if you pirate them to hell and back

[Anonymous No.11188153]

>>11188129

[Anonymous No.11188164]

>>11183782
Yes, but now I kinda wish I got one of the PS1 Classics when they tanked in price. I can't believe they had Mega Man Legends on it and took it out for mediocre outdated titles like Battle Arena Toshinden and Super Puzzle Fighter

[Anonymous No.11189178]

>>11183782
I mean, they have their charm, the form factor or controller can both be pretty nice... but still, they really are just overpriced emulationboxes with a few selected ROMs. If you get a mini PC with few 3rd party controllers, you essentially get what a mini console is, with less charm, but 10x power and control over the thing... it's up to you what you happen to value most from this experience.

[Anonymous No.11189873]

>>11183829
>For NES however, pic related is better.
I remember seeing consoles like that at the mall all the time 20 years ago, basically you're lucky if they last a year before completely breaking down. I want to believe things are better now since the Anbernic I got on AliExpress has been excellent so far (especially after I modded it), but if you're talking strictly about NES clones I doubt it. You can still find third world "brick game" handhelds at flea markets whose design hasn't changed in 30 years, so I wouldn't be surprised if newly built hardware made from the same guts as picrelated is still being peddled somewhere.

>>11186208
>Why get a pi when you can pay slightly more for a mini pc?
This is unironically the correct move these days if you're going the DIY route. The graphics that modern Intel chips are capable of are nuts compared to a decade ago.

[Anonymous No.11189883]

>>11189873
Ive got two super joys but id love this set. I saw a famicom playing penguin once, i wanted to buy it but didnt

[Anonymous No.11190843]

>>11184479
>They must be seeing as how Nintendo stopped making them. Even the G&W ones were strange.

At this point, the only two mini consoles that they can produce are the NES and SNES classics, and both systems use the same basic chipsets but have different sizes in flash storage. The only company that even attempted a fifth generation mini console was Sony with the Playstation Classic. The Playstation Classic was almost 'there' too. But it was still botched in the emulation and miss-match of Pal and NTSC ROM's. I still have my Playstation classic on display, as I do like the look of it. Also, It gives me ownership of Metal Gear Solid, Ridge Racer Type 4, FFVII, and a few other solid titles. I think the N64 classic might be out of Nintendo's grasp. The Sega Saturn mini is still too expensive for Sega to produce. There is a limit to how far these can be produced at the moment.

[Anonymous No.11190857]

>>11184709
I feel like the Mario maker one in that picture is most likely what he meant. It’s blue but with a purplish hue, not straight up purple….

[Anonymous No.11190859]

>>11183787
fpbp

[Anonymous No.11190860]

>>11183782
Yes. They are for collectors. Having the controllers available is kind of nice though.
Just softmod a Wii or get a controller for your pc and you can play everything anyway.

[Anonymous No.11190861]

>>11186696
Ill buy them off you bro

[Anonymous No.11190862]

>>11190860
>Just softmod a Wii
Just emulate

[Anonymous No.11190873]

>>11183782
It has its advantages
-HDMI input with filters on and backgrounds
-Legit controllers
-You can hack it and put any game in there
If you will record games with a capture card it becomes an essential if you're one of those streamers or YT ppl.
Sure the Wii does the same thing but it isn't HDMI or HD and you constantly have to have batteries for it.

[Anonymous No.11190889]

>>11183808
>They're just novelty toys
Yes, exactly. Waste of money for someone who wants to actually play the full catalogue of one of these "minis". Every single mini cheaps out hard when you can fit the nes, snes, Megadrive, and all the other mini's (except PS1) libraries on a single usb stick or sd card. Snes library is less than 2gb ffs there's no excuse. PS1 mini is utterly shit with weak hardware, shit library, and piss-poor controller and not even worth the time it took for me to write those criticisms.
>you can use the controllers on wiimotes/as usb controllers for emulator
You can use practically any usb controller with an emulator. What's your point exactly?
>Rest of argument is nonsensical waffle
Not surprised.

[Anonymous No.11190905]

>>11188129
>Short answer: yes
>Long answer: no if you pirate them to hell and back

I feel like if Nintendo decided to release new versions of the NES and SNES mini, they should add a wifi connection and the ability to download additional games that were purchased from the NSO . If Sony took another stab at a mini console (doubtful after how bad they were burned with the PS Classic) , they could just add PSN support so additional PS1 games could be added from your PSN account.

[Anonymous No.11190925]

>>11183782
someone made a vid on this a while ago that was pretty funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7quaMMLHCFw

[Anonymous No.11191040]

>>11190861
I did try to sell them before, but couldn't find a buyer and decided to hang on to them.

[Anonymous No.11191815]

I've heard accusations that these mini consoles have horrible input delay, at least the SNES one. is this true?

[Anonymous No.11192175]

>>11191815
I've heard the opposite for the SNES one, supposedly it had very low input delay. The Sega one too, but people claimed that one had audio delay instead, I dunno.
The one people complained about in terms of input delay was the NES Mini, which I like to believe in, because it gives me an excuse for why I couldn't beat Punch Out. But I've got no idea, really.

[Anonymous No.11192215]

>>11191815
other anon is right, the SNES Classic has the lowest input lag of any SNES software emulator I've aware of (with the possible exception of stuff with runahead)

the nes mini blows by comparison, input lag, audio lag, fucked up 4:3 interpolation, barely any mappers supported. I guess after it sold so well the SNES team got a bigger budget. haven't played any other mini consoles so can't speak to them

[Anonymous No.11192332]

>>11189873
theres one that has the light gun built into the conrtroller.

[Anonymous No.11192751]

I had the NES mini as a kid, got it when I was 11 when it came out and got it for christmas. That's how I became a retro gamer so it wasn't a meme. I enjoyed playing every game in it.

[Anonymous No.11192763]

>>11192751
>there are "people" born in 2005 posting on this board

[Anonymous No.11192774]

>>11183782
mogged by chinese famiclones sadly

[Anonymous No.11192813]

>>11192751
wow you had it as a kid back in 2017? take care of your knees gramps

[Anonymous No.11194606]

>>11192763
I don't see the issue, it's the experience and the discussion that matters, not the age. I was born in 1999, but I grew up with a Mega Drive, I only got a PS1 when the PS3 came out, and between my Mega Drive and PS1 I had a Famicom clone. I qualify as a zoomer despite growing up with old consoles, does that mean I shouldn't post in here regardless? That makes no sense to me, anon.

[Anonymous No.11194627]

>>11194606
just ghost the retard you responded to. they become white noise eventually

[Anonymous No.11194651]

>>11194606
>>11192751
Go the fuck back, zoomer retard. You do not belong here.

[Anonymous No.11194795]

>>11183980
>I'm worried about how manchild it'd make me look
Trust your instincts

[Anonymous No.11194881]

>>11190889
> Yes, exactly.
>agrees with me right at the start; undermines himself after
Not the brightest bulb, are you?

[Anonymous No.11196910]

>>11194627
I guess, but I like to reply with my arguments just in case the other person's being genuine.

>>11194651
I engage in discussions about retro video games, which are my main hobby. I do belong here.

[Anonymous No.11197738]

>>11192763
>people were born... after me??
I'm assuming you're like 24, you'll move past this once you hit your thirties

[Anonymous No.11197742]

>>11190905
a bit off topic, but if playstation offered all the old games from PS1 + 2+ 3 PSP + VITA free to play with their playstation plus it would increase value massively from any of their newer systems and it would also add great value for the average consumer.

[Anonymous No.11197746]

They're a great gift to get somebody into retro games, but if you're already on /vr/, chances are you don't need one.

[Anonymous No.11197969]

>>11186696
Show me what the Tower of Power looks like as a Mini, with something next to it for scale.

[Anonymous No.11197976]

>>11197746
If you're giving one to someone as a gift, you should do the right thing and pre-mod it for them, and write a little guide on how to upload new games.

[Anonymous No.11197990]

>>11197976
You know what, if they're old enough to understand that, that's not a bad idea. I dunno about a child, but an older relative, definitely.

[Anonymous No.11197996]

>>11192763
If you're in your 30s in a decade you'll be old enough to be the father of an adult posting on this board

[Anonymous No.11198586]

>>11183782
I've got the snes classic. I like It's front-end but I don't play it often compared to my snes/flashcart. The controllers are quality if you don't mind buying extension cables since they're like 3 feet long without them.

>>11183806
I missed the boat on the ps1 deals. I haven't seen one at that price for years.

>>11183980
You can't fit the entire library on the snes classic's storage, but imo this is a good thing because it forces you to curate your list of games and not have like 50 versions of mahjong and casino games that you will never play on it.

>>11185392
Haha this guy wears a cloak.

[Anonymous No.11199709]

>>11197969
Here you go.

[Anonymous No.11199720]

>>11199709
Hard smash

[Anonymous No.11199741]

>>11197976
Depends on the person. Some of us would find that tasteless. Kind of like giving us your sloppy seconds.

[Anonymous No.11199880]

I just bought the new SNES controller to use with my Wii. I can see the appeal of these to normalfags if they want to relive their childhood for an hour, but it's only a glimpse of each library.