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unpurposed said:
My tiny review here: This is a cool little console - but at the end of the day, it's a SNES.

Don't get me wrong! That's awesome - the SNES was my first console and playing this thing brings back a ton of memories. The console itself looks great, although the controller port cover feels kind of janky - I'm afraid to remove and replace it because it feels like it'll break.

The games are amazing, as you would expect. But the thing I couldn't get out of the back of my mind was that I've played all these games before and there's nothing really new about this release (aside from Star Fox 2). I ended up selling mine on Craigslist and will stick to other means of playing these games for now.

I wouldn't suggest paying more than retail for this. Every indication is that they'll be widely available after today.
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I can kind of understand this for someone who has played a SNES before. For me though I've never touched any of these games so it's a nice collection.
 
Kinda weird to see SNES Mini and Xbox One S + Forza Horizon 3 Bundle being the same price here (159€). Bergsala is really ripping the nords off.
 
My Walmart.com preorder arrived at my door today. Even when they were sending me shipping information I was worried it could still get pulled out from under me.

But it's real. The war is over. I can hang up my sword.
 
So I've searched some of this thread trying to figure out the best mode/setting to play these on (Pixel Perfect, 4:3, CRT). Is there any consensus as to what is best? Or will it vary game to game or person to person?
 
Walter White said:
So I've searched some of this thread trying to figure out the best mode/setting to play these on (Pixel Perfect, 4:3, CRT). Is there any consensus as to what is best? Or will it vary game to game or person to person?
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I personally prefer pixel perfect. Squares and circles will actually be squares and circles.
 
Got mine. Stock seems good here in Australia.

Just playing Starfox. Also, the CRT filter looks a lot better than the one on the NES. Seems the toned down emulating a composite signal.
 
It hasn’t been that long since I played through Super Metroid...but I can’t rememebr which controller settings I prefer.
Shit. None of them feel right.
 
Brickseek says my Walmart has 6 left, but when I go there a lady at the electronics tells me they sold them all this morning.

I'm not meant to have one on launch day? Fine, I'm waiting on my Amazon pre-order.
 
unpurposed said:
My tiny review here: This is a cool little console - but at the end of the day, it's a SNES.

Don't get me wrong! That's awesome - the SNES was my first console and playing this thing brings back a ton of memories. The console itself looks great, although the controller port cover feels kind of janky - I'm afraid to remove and replace it because it feels like it'll break.

The games are amazing, as you would expect. But the thing I couldn't get out of the back of my mind was that I've played all these games before and there's nothing really new about this release (aside from Star Fox 2). I ended up selling mine on Craigslist and will stick to other means of playing these games for now.

I wouldn't suggest paying more than retail for this. Every indication is that they'll be widely available after today.
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What are these indications of availability you speak of? I want some hope since I didn’t get one today.
 
just got one from the amazon treasure truck in austin. i didn't even realize they were selling it until wario64's twitter post. decided to check the app and ordered one at 11:00 am, no fuss at all. pretty hyped!
 
These stories remind me of waiting at Toys r Us for the Wii. What a lighthearted crowd that was. We played Mario Kart wirelessly on our DSes.

Those were simpler times.
 
aj_hix36 said:
I personally prefer pixel perfect. Squares and circles will actually be squares and circles.
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Except they're not. Chrono Trigger is a great example of the moon being made very specifically for the wider aspect ratio. It would be oval in Pixel Perfect mode.
If it were actually on the damn mini!
 
We got a total 23 with 2 persons at Walmart midnight launch andand then 3 Walmart 7am launch and Best Buy.

Could be more but we didnt preorder and don't ask me why I need 23.
 
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Except they're not. Chrono Trigger is a great example of the moon being made very specifically for the wider aspect ratio. It would be oval in Pixel Perfect mode.
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This. Nintendo didn't enforce any standards on their or third party art assets. So it can be all over the place.
 
BluePigGanon said:
Isn't that incorrect? The designers factored in the fact that pixels weren't perfect squares in their art. I thought circles in "pixel perfect" would look squashed horizontally.
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No, they didn't factor it in for 99% of them. Just test it yourself. Very easy to see that Samus ball is an oval in 4:3, and mario ? blocks are rectangles.

-shadow- said:
Except they're not. Chrono Trigger is a great example of the moon being made very specifically for the wider aspect ratio. It would be oval in Pixel Perfect mode.
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Congrats you found the one game in the snes library it doesn't apply to, but it is not on the snes classic.
 
I didn’t preorder so I went to stores trying to get one.
Ended up with a Switch and BOTW instead.
I didn’t want to go home empty-handed.

What is wrong with me?
 
Mine got to my parent´s house. It´s going to sit there until I go to Japan and try and get a Super Famicom mini. Not in a hurry to try Star Fox 2 TBH.
 
Well it's almost 9 and still no shipment. I am living in a world of darkness.
 
aj_hix36 said:
No, they didn't factor it in for 99% of them. Just test it yourself. Very easy to see that Samus ball is an oval in 4:3, and mario ? blocks are rectangles.


Congrats you found the one game in the snes library it doesn't apply to, but it is not on the snes classic.
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I'm skeptical. All I know is pixel perfect was "wrong" on the NES Classic and looks weird on my emulators.
 
Anyone here speedrun DKC at all? It seems the SNES Classic version is v1.2 and fixes the warp glitch, or else the input lag on my monitor is such that I can't get it. Can anyone else confirm? The game still softlocks if you do the Kong Storage but I can't get the warp to activate.
 
BluePigGanon said:
I'm skeptical. All I know is pixel perfect was "wrong" on the NES Classic and looks weird on my emulators.
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They have made it very easy to test for yourself. Just swap back and forth, heck take a picture of each with your phone. And if you can't eyeball just put a ruler up to your TV and measure the sides of square objects.
 
Happy to found in my mailbox the snes classic because this day was awful at work.

The first game was Mario Rpg. Good thing i still remember to this day the missable hidden chest in Mushroom Kingdom. I'm in Nimbus land right now.

Never played Earthbound before. I know the characters because Smash. Want to try this next.

Not really into Star Fox 2. I'm going to leave that game for the last.

Even with the Fuzzy issue, Yoshi Island is one of the best looked games. I forgot how much i loved fooling around monkeys in world 3.

Any gaffer have pictures how stuff are packed inside the box? Found a bit hard pack things back to the box.
 
aj_hix36 said:
Congrats you found the one game in the snes library it doesn't apply to, but it is not on the snes classic.
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Maybe if we ignore stuff like Mortal Kombat and some of the artwork in Super Metroid. Nintendo themselves were inconsistent with this. Either mode is just fine from an aspect ratio speaking.
 
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