Topic: Portable NES?

[Shredder]

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...

[the_zombie_luke]

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.  

[Evan_G]

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.

[KDR_11k]

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).

[Evan_G]

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.

[KDR_11k]

It's emulators on a handheld platform. I'm not sure whether the emulated platform has to be a handheld as well, though.

[ruby_onix]

Game Axe

[Shredder]

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..

[jasonditz]

Really only $10? Couldn't one stick a NES Adaptor into a Famicom Adaptor? There was no country lockout IIRC.