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Nintendo Classic Mini: Snes appeared on sale – including in Russia. For those who do not know, I will explain that this is such an external plastic emulator of classic Nintendo classic games from the 90s and their then partners-publishers (for example, Squaresoft , now known as Square Enix ).
The main joke of the gadget is that you do not need to install all sorts of glow software emulators on the computer, and then break your fingers, trying to cope with the mouse and keyboard with what was once hidden under the joysticks: instead, the “box” is connected to the TV in the living room and used as a home console. In fact, this is it.
Official localized trailer of the prefix.
Classics of the genre
Nintendo seems to have found a gold core in the niche of retrogying and re -release of its own classic consoles in miniature. There are not so many games in the kit, but the craftsmen have already got a good job to reflash the console and upload hundreds of other projects to the system.
Nintendo Classic Mini: Snes continues the undertakings of its predecessor Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System. Recall that “Big N” re -released the classic prefix NES with a limited circulation last year, and in this has already stopped production. Today, the device is in a terrible deficit (there are rumors that the machines will work again), and this is no coincidence: at the price of one “large” game (about 5000 rubles), the player receives a galaxy, albeit old, but still such exciting classic toys!
If the Nintendo Classic Mini: Nes recorded thirty projects – cult "Mario", The Legend of Zelda , PAC-Man , – then on the reborn SNES You will find twenty -one game. However, it makes no sense to complain about the reduction in the list: you can play existing games much longer and more meaningful, because there are much closer to the modern player – 16 bits, whatever one may say, this is not a joke Orion Spins Casino! Here you and the action-platformer Contra 3: The Alien Wars , And the adventure The Legend of Zelda: A Link To the Past , And fighting Street Fighter 2 Turbo , and three -dimensional rail shooter Star Fox. Moreover, Nintendo finally released Star Fox 2 (not even twenty -two years have passed!), who at one time was canceled due to the impending launch of the Nintendo 64 prefix.
By default, Star Fox 2 on Nintendo Classic Mini: Snes is blocked, and first you need to defeat the first level in the original Star Fox if you want to see the continuation of the saga. A kind of hardcore tutorial.
Full list of games Nintendo Classic Mini: Snes
Super Mario World
And how does it all work?
The prefix of almost the same size with the iPhone 7 Plus, and weighs even less. And at all – in general – does not bask. What is curious, the compartment for cartridges this time is just a props.
Many in childhood and youth had the original 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and its reduced copy for the willy-nilly forces us to recall the very sensations and emotions.
At the first opening of the box with a novelty, approximately the following flashes: “Father, and it also looks one in one like the Japanese version of the same console from the 90s!"In the USA, the prefix could boast, by the way, by another corps, and now the baby also has a different design for the American market.
All the menu is completely in Russian.
But there are no technical differences between them: in the box you will find the prefix itself, two (and this is important!) Super Nes Classic Controller (for Nintendo Classic Mini: Nes the second one had to buy separately)-this time many games are designed for joint passage-HDMI cable for connecting to the USB-Mini-USB power supply.
Like last time, a fork designed for a 220 volt socket, you will not find in the box. And this is not a bug, but quite a feature: the prefix consumes so little power that with a bang eats from the USB port of the TV itself. Although in a socket, if you really want to, you can stick the device too: for this, a USB driver from any mobile phone is suitable for this. I am sure now each house has several of these gathering dust in the closet. However, there is also an official power supply from Nintendo for finished perfectionists on sale.
Nintendo Classic Mini: Snes supports the image of the image and the screen update frequency of 60 Hz.
Now let's load a little. For the authenticity of sensations, the main drawback (or, at least, the nuance that many complained of in the case of Nintendo Classic Mini: Nes) decided to save: already mentioned joysticks do not support wireless data transfer technologies. We will have to sit on the TV, as in the good old ones: the wires of the gamepads are very short, and in ninety percent of cases they will not reach the sofa. So, for example, I had to put a chair in the center of the room (although a little behind the chair and the sofa) and sit at a distance of two meters from the TV: not very pleasant, admit. The back is getting tired, and the eyes tenses.
Connection of the gamepads is made not without creativity. The original ports of the classic prefix of the 90s looked completely different than on the rested version, and their appearance was preserved on a rubberized plug. It needs to be hung up with a fingernail to get to two modern ports. By the way, Nintendo Classic Mini: SNES Suitable Standard and Pro-Controllers WII.
The ergonomics of the controllers became a little more perfect, when compared with the square brick Nintendo Classic Mini: Nes. However, everything is extremely authentic: it was precisely by that that they were at one time.
A couple of words about the interface
But what is really done in mind and conscience is the internal interface of the prefix and the logic of choosing the desired game. The menu has almost not changed (if you again compare with the Nintendo Classic Mini: Nes) and looks still ascetic, but functional. Before us again two strips of scrolling: one with large games of games that help in details to consider the desired, and the second with tiny; it is needed to understand its position in the general tape of games. The “Select” button on the joystick helps to sort projects by the number of supported players, as long as the launch of a particular game and a number of other characteristics is convenient!
The screen settings have not disappeared. The Retro mode is the most cool, as for me,-simulates the picture from the original prefix of the 90s: with all the twitches, occasionally running "stripes" and other artifacts. The “4: 3” mode allows you to slightly stretch the game picture, making it wider on modern TVs. Finally, the “original resolution” displays the games “as”: in this mode the game screen is the narrowest and most inconvenient, but the most authentic.
In the same menu, you can choose the so -called frame that will frame the game picture. Setting up will allow you to paint a black screen on the sides of the gameplay "window", for example, with colorful cubes.
I moved to the console and the fast conservation function at any time, even if it was impossible in the original game. You no longer need to wash your fingers to blood, trying to overcome the level or boss: just press one button on the body of the prefix itself. The game will turn off, and the system will offer to record the conservation of one of the four available slots. If you use the prefix not in splendid isolation, the preservation can be blocked so that the other households do not accidentally overwrite it or not delete it.
Stop frame from playing wings is just a quick conservation.
Finally, the last thing I want to note: if you leave the prefix for some time turned on, the mustachioed plumber will still begin to entertain you with demoles of different projects. Retroheiming, confess, fascinates even when you look at him in the record!
And the rewinding function of up to five minutes of the gameplay from the moment of last conservation has also appeared. Visually, it looks like you are shaving an old VHS cassette on Vidak.
For me personally, Nintendo Classic Mini: Snes became, no matter how advertising it may sound, buying a month. Forza Motorsport 7 , Middle-Earth: Shadow of War And others Elex – This, of course, is great. But for some reason, the classic gave more emotions. Fucking?
We are waiting for the continuation of the series – Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo 64!
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