You may remember Analogue from their premium-priced, aluminum-chassis NES reproduction console, the 'Nt' (and later 'Nt Mini') that used real NES CPUs and PPUs on a redesigned board. Technology: FPGA-based hardware reproduction.Hyperkin also offer the older Retron 2 (NES/SNES) and the Retron 3 (NES/SNES/Genesis), however from what I've been able to gather they use either S-Video or AV output, not HDMI. I wrote more about the pros and cons of the Retron 5 on this post. HDMI only, no analog video output options built in.As a workaround you can use any original (or reproduction) wired controller. The 'RetroN' branded wireless controllers have some severe input lag.Plays most, if not all the SNES games you have.Supports a wide variety of consoles, SNES, NES, Sega Genesis (Mega Drive), Game Boy/GBC/GBA, and the Japanese Famicom and Super Famicom (basically the Japanese NES and SNES, but they have different cartridge widths).Controller ports for original controllers.Save states, Region switching, graphics filters and other functionality.Output: 720p HDMI (3x scale of 240p content).Technology: Custom Android-based OS, Cartridges are ROM-dumped upon insert and played via software emulation. ![]() What follows are two examples of consoles that take different approaches to the problem at hand: If you're looking to buy a SNES in order to just 'plug and play', my advice would be to skip buying an old SNES entirely, and instead get a more modern console that supports your SNES cartridges with more modern conveniences such as digital video output, save state functionality and so on. You might find that original hardware will be harder to wrangle, especially 30 years later when we're talking about second-hand consoles in unknown states of disrepair, analog AV inputs disappearing off modern displays, and proper upscaling solutions such as the OSSC or Framemeister being on the expensive side. ![]() The original SNES, while certainly one of the pinnacles of the 16-bit era, doesn't come without it's issues.
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