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Day 1 purchase for me as well. Nintendo always manages to grab my money.
Really awesome! But how can they not have Contra or Castlevania 3???
Unfortunately I am sure this will go up for preorder and sold out within minutes and I will miss out like I usually do...
Maybe because Konami didn't want it to have those 2?
a retron 5 still does this and more. Just saying.....
The system uses the same port the Wii uses for classic controls for the pads. Dollars to donuts that thing is housing a Wii motherboard without the disc drive and a new front end.
Looks great. I'll pick one up if I can. It play Original NES games too, right?
This is Nintendo...that thing will be fort-fucking-knox.
If it has no I/O..."hacking" won't be as easy as it seems. I strongly doubt it will have any ports at all besides a HDMI, power cord and the two controller ports, especially not a "gimmie" like a SD card slot. Now, I guess some whiz can crack into the thing and start soldering shit on it, but I'm guessing that what it will take.
It's probably they have left over connectors from their wii production so just used those. It doesn't seem cost effective to box a wii up like that for classic emulation.
The Wii mini sells for $99. With a Wii remote that retails for $35 and a nunchuck that retails for $20. Minus the disc drive...yeah they're making money stuffing a Wii in a new case and charging $60.
Might buy two. One to flip a few years down the road and one to modify with a Raspberry PI. Why settle for 30 games?
The one I bought was cheaply made and felt like total junk. Not to mention that the games it had were mostly bad ports.
Maybe like mentioned by Deceptionzero I just had the late ones... but still.