hi my name is Luke I'm addicted to Retro games it all
started when I was about 10 my brother and I did chores around the house for
cash until we saved up enough money for mom to buy us a Super Nintendo off some
creepy dude that I was scared of at the time ever since then I've been hooked
and I don't just play the games I read
books about them I collect the figurines of the
characters I just can't
stop I even brought my obsession to work
fortunately for me my job's really cool and that's okay here so today I get to
check out the analog NT mini Beyond being the most beautifully crafted piece
of console Hardware that I have ever laid my hands on it's got amazing under
the hood capabilities too with a 1080p capable HDMI out and an RGB all-in-one
output for NES and famicom games and it can be yours for
$4.49 that's uh
$449
Zotac Magnus en10 mini gaming PC is VR
and AAA gaming ready check it out at the link in the video
description everything about this is the Cadillac experience this is the most
comprehensive IO setup I could imagine for a NES or a famicom you've got all
the obvious stuff power button power input whatever but most so the rest of
this is going to look pretty exotic there are two thoughtfully padded
cartridge slots on the top that allow both the nests and famicom games from
any region to be played natively without any form of adapters on the front you'll
find a whopping four console inputs for the handful of games that can take
advantage of this and moving around to the back there's a USB charging port for
the included low latency wireless controller that can be used to power
this system on for a surprisingly modern feeling experience the SD card slot can
be used for all kinds of fun more on that later then moving back around the
back we find a famicom expansion Port helpfully labeled in Japanese for
compatibility with obscure accessories like the famicom disc system and what it
even has a mic Jack for the tiny number
of famicom games that could actually use a microphone fun fact Wind Waker was not
the first Zelda game to pull this off
audio outputs are standard but video is another story you get this analog output
Port that can be adapted with a breakout cable to pretty much anything you could
want and it has native HDMI which is much more challenging to do properly
than you might think more on that later which leads us finally to the internals
conveniently enjoyable through the window in the bottom of the unit an odd
choice but nerds will like it I like it it's actually on the other other side of
this PCB where you find the heart and soul of the system the Altera Cyclone 5
fpga Hardware which has been custom configured by an electrical engineer
with over 5,000 hours of experience
re-engineering fpga systems for absolute
Ness accuracy this is incredibly
important and this is what you are paying for the Tim mini is not some
random emulation box in fact it's not an
emulation box at all instead of writing a bunch of software code to fake the
functionality of Nintendo's original Hardware everything is done in HDL or
Hardware definition language This Is How They achieved an identical experience to
the original Ness 100% compatibility 100% accuracy zero additional lag but is
it actually solid I threw everything that I had at it and experienced no
issues whatsoever that weren't caused by my Dusty old carts this is not the
experience that I've had with other off off brand retro systems that I've tried
and I do acknowledge that I don't have every game on Earth but I couldn't find
a single instance of anyone online having any issues either there's even a
new game that came out like not that long ago why people are still making
games for nest I don't know but it works it uses all four controller ports it's
all fine but back to the NT mini how can an HDMI output claimed to be faithful to
the original experience well this is not your dad's HDMI output or if your dad
had one I guess it would have been but anyways if you experience lag it's your
TV or monitor there is no external converter to add latency the HDMI
transmitter is topnotch and the settings menu has extensive color audio and scan
line tweaks for nerds and I know you
could save a buck by running the majority of these games on something
like a Raspberry p but if you're a purist this is reference quality which
is hard to achieve without lugging it a CRT around your house like I do the
anti- mini is objectively better than emulation and functionally better than
even the original console which brings us back to that SD card slot the entt
mini has been jailbroken their words not mine this
allows you to dump cartridges you own into ROM files directly on that SD card
and even play ROMs right off of it without using emulation you can use save
states and run save files though I will
judge you just a little you should even be able to use it to load additional
fpga cores then with controller and
cartridge adapters play other retro games on a similar Hardware level like
Sega Master System games Game Gear Kika Vision Game Boy Game Boy Color Atari
2600 Atari 7800 Intel Vision Odyssey 2 Adventure Vision supervision RCA Studio
2 and more there's like 20 plus of them
and then on top of that you've got an NSF player for Tunes a built-in Game
Genie if you want to screw around and an extensive settings menu that would have
merited its own entire video If I had my way but this video is near ending and it
is conclusion time there are many other
Solutions most of them cheaper some of them I've mentioned already others like
the frame Meister low latency analog to digital converter and upscaler that I
haven't and there are pros and cons to
all I don't plan to sell my frame Meister because it's still useful for
other consoles like the snash PS1 or even Xbox 360 and I also don't own this
this is Works frame meister's mind but this NT mini in my humble opinion is the
best way to play games that will be supported by kev's fpga core releases it
delivers everything from a reference to a highly customizable experience and
does it in a compact beautiful package that will look great in your man cave
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which is the link to the analog and 8bit controller video which is like this
thing literally right here it comes in the box when you buy the NT mini you get
it so if you're interested in buy the NTV you might as well watch that video so you see the other thing that you get
in the box that a lot of words to explain that you should watch a
controller video see you next time