Gaming Forums => General Gaming => Topic started by: Shredder on April 13, 2004, 11:15:24 AM
Title: Portable NES?
Post by: Shredder on April 13, 2004, 11:15:24 AM
Anyone think that with the release of this NES themed GBA and classic games coming out, that Nintendo will re-release a limited number of Top Loaders for the NES's 20th anniversary? It would be great for those of us who's NES's have developed problems far beyond the blinking light and bendable cartridge syndrome...
Title: RE:Portable NES?
Post by: the_zombie_luke on April 13, 2004, 07:44:08 PM
No. They make much more money from forcing people to buy NES ports and SNES ports, instead of releasing new hardware. I have dreamed of a portable SNES, but it's an impossible dream.
Title: RE: Portable NES?
Post by: Evan_G on April 13, 2004, 08:17:07 PM
Someone did make a homebrew snes portable. I think it was someone on classicgaming.com. Anyways, NES and SNES carts are massive and would not be very good for portable gaming, in my opinion.
Title: RE: Portable NES?
Post by: KDR_11k on April 14, 2004, 12:14:35 AM
Lik-Sang sells a hardware NES emulator for the GBA. Looks ugly, needs extra batteries and probably has bugs, but seems to work if you really want to subject yourself to that. The legality is questionable (though I'm not sure if there really is a law against it), but at least you need to feed it with real NES cartridges, so it doesn't unnecessarily promote piracy (or violate Nintendo's patent on handheld emulation, yes, they really did patent that).
Title: RE:Portable NES?
Post by: Evan_G on April 14, 2004, 08:33:36 AM
I believe their patent only applies to Game Boy emulators on other handheld devices. (ie the GBA emulator for the Zodiac was quickly shut down).
Anyways, Nintendo doesn't really seem to be bothering people making NES emulators for GBA, as the amount of people who actually use them is insignificant. Playing copyrighted games on them is illegal, unless you have dumped the rom image yourself. The concept is pretty neat, though.
Title: RE: Portable NES?
Post by: KDR_11k on April 14, 2004, 12:31:36 PM
It's emulators on a handheld platform. I'm not sure whether the emulated platform has to be a handheld as well, though.
Title: RE: Portable NES?
Post by: ruby_onix on April 14, 2004, 12:52:24 PM
Title: RE: Portable NES?
Post by: Shredder on April 14, 2004, 01:42:47 PM
Actually, after I posted this, I found a copmnay that made a Famicom Adapter for the GBA. It sold for about $10's if I recall correctly, and they have plans to make a NES version. However, there's no release date for it yet.
While it will look extremly silly to see a Giant NES cartridge sticking out of the GBA, this may be the only way to go in the near future..
Title: RE: Portable NES?
Post by: jasonditz on April 14, 2004, 08:32:32 PM
Really only $10? Couldn't one stick a NES Adaptor into a Famicom Adaptor? There was no country lockout IIRC.
