Nintendo Classic Mini

Potential Underachiever

Eggonyerface wrote: »

I ordered from Amazon the first day of pre orders and I got an email 4 days ago to say Estimated arrival date November 12th. I cancelled a bit prematurely when I saw the length of the controller lead but may pick one up again in the new year since seeing the solutions on here, no rush

Apt username!:D

Amalgam

I can't wait to see the hacks for these, I'm sure microsd support and other expansions are in the minds of some very talented people.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Amalgam wrote: »

I can't wait to see the hacks for these, I'm sure microsd support and other expansions are in the minds of some very talented people.

I'm hoping for that but I want the famicom mini instead.

Xenji

No e-mail from Amazon today about a delay and it is still set to be dispatched on Thursday, possibly Amazon favouring Prime users again.

Synode

Ace Attorney wrote: »

Amazon open again for pre orders, delivery is December might be useful for Christmas presents guarantee.

Where you seeing that. All I'm seeing is item unavailable, want us to email you

Star_Nupa

^ Same not seeing it on Amazon.

Ace Attorney

They must have hit their pre order limit again, sign up for email notification and they will mail you when they are in stock again.

Synode

Ace Attorney wrote: »

They must have hit their pre order limit again, sign up for email notification and they will mail you when they are in stock again.

I did about 3 weeks ago. Didn't get a mail from them today

gavinmcg20

I saw it on Amazon earlier today and pre-ordered. Estimated to arrive Dec. 5th

Ace Attorney

http://imgur.com/a/VHWRc
Ive no idea so, it was available eariler on. did any boardsie manage to get one at least?

Star_Nupa

Not me anyway. Still planning to head to Argos first thing Friday morning after reserving one during the night. Handing it over then as it's my Christmas present!!

OwaynOTT

I've it preordered from Zavvi with a discount code bringing it down to €51 or summit but it will be ages before I get it and I've a few days off next week and wouldn't mind playing it.
Should I cancel and chance Argos? Or am I mad and impatient?

MilesMorales1

OwaynOTT wrote: »

I've it preordered from Zavvi with a discount code bringing it down to €51 or summit but it will be ages before I get it and I've a few days off next week and wouldn't mind playing it.
Should I cancel and chance Argos? Or am I mad and impatient?

I dunno man. You might not get one from argos, and it'll 99% be more expensive than the zavvi one.

sligeach

OwaynOTT wrote: »

I've it preordered from Zavvi with a discount code bringing it down to €51 or summit but it will be ages before I get it and I've a few days off next week and wouldn't mind playing it.
Should I cancel and chance Argos? Or am I mad and impatient?

Mad and impatient! I'm in the same Zavvi boat. It won't be as cheap in Argos and there's no guarantee that you'll get one. They could have very limited stock.

Corholio

No email here about any change and not a Prime member either. Maybe just one of the lucky early ones.

sligeach

Here's what's inside Nintendo's mini NES Classic Edition

Nintendo's NES Classic Edition may look like an old-school Nintendo Entertainment System (if it had an encounter with the "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" laser), but what's it packing under that miniature hood?

With a few machines now out in the wild ahead of the NES Classic Edition's 11 November release date, a few daring souls have started to peel back the chassis for a peek at what Nintendo's popped inside.

And, considering it's replicating a 33 year old machine, you might consider the mini NES's internals a little like overkill.

Quad-core for koopas

Gamespot's Peter Brown went inside first of all, and tweeted the following image:

https://twitter.com/PCBrown/status/793933537867022336

Though he revealed that soldered-on flash storage would make it near impossible to update the machine with your own games, he didn't identify the components in use specifically.

But Reddit's gaming community was more than a match for the task, examining the image to break it down component by component.

It found an Allwinner R16 (4x Cortex A7, Mali400MP2 GPU) system on a chip, SKHynix (256MB DDR3) RAM and Spansion 512MB SLC NAND TSOP48 flash storage.

With a quad-core chipset, it's far more power than the 8-bit NES ever made use of. But with the NES Classic Edition outp utting over HDMI to 1080p resolutions, and also making use of processor intensive filters, it's got good reason to have a little extra headspace.

It's worth remembering too that, though more powerful than the original NES hardware, it's far more economical to use current-gen, off-the-shelf components than it is to rebuild era-specific 80s hardware, which production lines will no longer be set up to create.

http://www.techradar.com/news/heres-whats-inside-nintendos-mini-nes-classic-edition

https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/5avo9m/nes_classic_hardware_if_this_picture_is_true/

OwaynOTT

If anyone is stick for one of these, their available on adverts for only 200 squid.

sligeach

OwaynOTT wrote: »

If anyone is stick for one of these, their available on adverts for only 200 squid.

But...but...but...it comes with a second controller. Bargain!


Really though it's disgusting. :mad: I feel like saying something on their ad. They clearly only bought it to scalp people. I hope nobody buys it and the shops are teeming with them in time for Christmas. Their username is quite apt.

Potential Underachiever

What a hard neck that guy has! Will we set up a sting operation and go and rough him up!

MilesMorales1

Remember when adverts had a rule on profiteering. Good times.

sligeach

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Remember when adverts had a rule on profiteering. Good times.

I'd like to see its return. They now say that while they don't encourage profiteering they also won't remove any listing doing so. That to me is encouraging profiteering. They make an exception for tickets though.

Star_Nupa

Absolute scumbag. :mad:

Andrew76

Looks like he's knocked €40 off the asking price already. How generous. :pac:

RobbingBandit

Ninty militia assemble, time we all made a collective offer on one of these bargains and tar and feather the bastids. It'll be fun and who ever gets the most tar and feathers on the rats gets to keep the item in question after tarring the cost price in 5c coins to the seller of course as they have to be paid and all that.

mrcheez

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Ninty militia assemble, time we all made a collective offer on one of these bargains and tar and feather the bastids.

Surely a "tar and Mariofication" would be more in-keeping with the forum ethos?

"Have fun taking off the floppy red hat lad!"

Ace Attorney

for the day thats in it, Lets build a wall around wexford and make the seller pay for it!

764dak

It seems like a waste of money.

Manning3000

Hi All, just having a read through this thread, Do we think it is going to be very hard to get your hands on one be it through argos or Gamestop or wherever?

MilesMorales1

Manning3000 wrote: »

Hi All, just having a read through this thread, Do we think it is going to be very hard to get your hands on one be it through argos or Gamestop or wherever?

If you want one for launch day, argos will be your only bet pretty much.

Star_Nupa

The NES is probably the most iconic video game console in history. 65e for a miniature version in original style casing loaded with 30 classic games. Bargain if you ask me. And a nice piece of popular culture to have.

sligeach

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

If you want one for launch day, argos will be your only bet pretty much.

I don't know, I think Smyths and maybe Gamestop might have some stock set aside for the general public. But ya Argos might be the best bet. I'm surprised their UK link hasn't gone live yet.

RobbingBandit

Jervis street smyths won't have any spare from what I was told today, blanchardstown swords and carrickmines might, Get In At 9 Am if you can on Friday.

RobbingBandit

Elephant in the room for me is no one seems to know anything about extra controllers they aren't even on smyths site only game seem to have them listed. They will be gold dust IMO.

MilesMorales1

sligeach wrote: »

I don't know, I think Smyths and maybe Gamestop might have some stock set aside for the general public. But ya Argos might be the best bet. I'm surprised their UK link hasn't gone live yet.

I haven't heard this.

cena

sligeach wrote: »

This will be Argos' UK NES Classic Mini webpage. It's not up at the moment though.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4608305.htm

And this should also be its product code in Ireland, 460/8305.

So check their Stock Checker website early on Friday morning for where and numbers available and of course price. They're normally fair.

http://checkargos.com/product/4608305

Argos uk are offline till 8am tomorrow

MilesMorales1

cena wrote: »

Argos uk are offline till 8am tomorrow

Good thing it doesn't go on sale till Friday

Lemming

Mine arrived in the post today. Alas also it's my christmas present from the missus so I shall have to live in torment for the next several weeks

gerrybbadd

Something that's really put me off is the controller cable length, which is meant to be 3 feet or less. Seems a strange design choice by Nintendo.

sligeach

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Something that's really put me off is the controller cable length, which is meant to be 3 feet or less. Seems a strange design choice by Nintendo.

It's 2 and a half foot and yes it's a peculiar decision, as is accessing the reset button(they could have come up with a handier alternative). It's going to create some very awkward setups.

ninja 12

sligeach wrote: »

It's 2 and a half foot and yes it's a peculiar decision, as is accessing the reset button(they could have come up with a handier alternative). It's going to create some very awkward setups.

2 and a half feet ? That's a bit stupid .

In hoping to get one of these ,and was going to leave it on my TV stand , now it looks like that's not an option unless I want to go blind being so close to the TV.

Looks like an extension cable for the controller or a long HDMI cable is needed.

cena

ninja 12 wrote: »

2 and a half feet ? That's a bit stupid .

In hoping to get one of these ,and was going to leave it on my TV stand , now it looks like that's not an option unless I want to go blind being so close to the TV.

Looks like an extension cable for the controller or a long HDMI cable is needed.

I was going to a longer HDMI cable would be needed

http://www.maplin.ie/p/maplin-hdmi-extension-cable-5m-a00nu#

basskebab

For anyone worried about the length of the controller cable, there's a host of 3rd party controllers coming on the market with longer cables. Nyko has just released a wireless one -
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/03/nyko-nes/

McLoughlin

The short cable is something to do with Nintendo wanting to replicate the closeness people had to the TV back in the old days

Pac1Man

McLoughlin wrote: »

The short cable is something to do with Nintendo wanting to replicate the closeness people had to the TV back in the old days

They could do that by sitting close to the TV by choice.

sligeach

DIY Miniature Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy3cQwW5Ry4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy3cQwW5Ry4

Oafley Jones

McLoughlin wrote: »

The short cable is something to do with Nintendo wanting to replicate the closeness people had to the TV back in the old days

That's a bit odd: 9ft cables for when we had the luxury of 21" tvs, 5 foot cables for our 55" today.

MilesMorales1

What time does Argos update its site? Around 7am?

CiDeRmAn

Can I just mention that an RP3 with a suitably designed case would be a far better device than this mini NES.... Still want a NES Mini Classic anyway!
I'll be checking the Argos site in the am!

sligeach

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

What time does Argos update its site? Around 7am?

Somewhere around that time usually. Sometimes even 9AM iiirc.

RobbingBandit

Click and collect on Smyths is worth a go from 5am onwards, Argos about the same time too