NT Mini Noir V2 and some NES goodies!

[@voorheesretro8129]

That's a seriously nice piece of kit. Sounds like it does the job just right for you too as your main concern was cart damage so having a bit of breathing room for your carts is probably a blessing in disguise. Sucks about getting punched in the goods so hard by Customs though, jeez. As per last week, I hear you once more about 'less buying, more playing' my dude. Finally ticked off all of my 'ideal games library' list for my systems so will now be heavy duty play and just the odd 'can't pass that at that price' pickup going into 2021 for me too. Happy new year guy!

[@Lorfarius]

Yeah quite pleased with it in the end, the cartridge slot is just fantastic and I'm not terrified to swap the games anymore. They just slot in and out perfectly. Glad we've had all this time off for Xmas cos its really let me sink sometime into older stuff. And happy new year to you too :) Thanks for watching all this time!

[@voorheesretro8129]

@@Lorfarius I've mainly been sinking time into God Eater 2 Rage Burst this Xmas. Glad it's working out for you :D Nice to have a Famicom slot too so if the mood takes you and you notice one at a sane price you can scoop it up no worries :D

[@Lorfarius]

@@voorheesretro8129 I did try looking for some Fami games but such a pain because its so hard to work out what's what with the Japanese text.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

That is seriously cool how the put the expansion port (disk drive etc.) on the back. A playstation (prior to psone) clone should come out with both the parallel port (ieee1284) and the asia VCD expansion. The amount of things that would be a able to be driven via parallel port is astounding, including CDRW drives or HDD or a bluetooth dongle _(which thereby can connect to a network via 'PAN' to attach mass-storage or internet or joypads/keyboard/mouse/a2dp-soundcard)._ The damage on your book is fine.

[@Lorfarius]

Analogue are doing a PC Engine clone with a CD drive so its possible. Only problem with their stuff is the price so will be mega expensive.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

@@Lorfarius Well at least it is getting done. Even if it is pricey, there will be two camps of people interested in it. Those who are flush with money and those who are homebrew developers. Trouble is that homebrew developers are often brassic. The flush people could purchase consoles for a developer when they get their own _(but probably won't and that is a pity since they'd otherwise have benefitted from homebrew new games)._ Linux is in the n64 now. That is cool since it'd make humble indie hombrew games far easier to code, even if a person merely has some old dos experience from win98. Many a nice game can be had on console without fancy graphics being mandatory. I'd like to see themepark style games _(like from the amiga a1200 and your cool video on it)_ on the n64 as it is rare to see that genre on it. A PC (with a vcd decoder) can play VCD on a pentium 90MHz, so I reckon the (circa 100MHz) n64 could do it, even without using the graphics processor hardware (all in software). A homebrew hardware raspberrypi3bplus gpio gadget jerryrigged to the n64dd port under the n64 could allow for the CDRW to be attached. Even an amiga a500 with no cpu upgrade can write a cdrw. A n64 can (in theory) have 16meg RAM, and no just that 4meg to 8meg upgrade. That needs to be done. A raspberrypi3b gpio has the bandwith to mimic that 12meg extra ram. A linux n64 with a cdrw/hdd in the n64dd port mimicked by pi3b would be nice. Games need to be on both cdrw and a cartridge stuffed full on ram (like maybe some cheap £1 stick of 256meg ddr) so as to cache cdrw game data to stream of the cartridge.

[@Lorfarius]

@@obsoletepowercorrupts Homebrew developers just develop for the systems so will run on anything. This can play roms or constructed carts so best of both worlds I think. For people struggling there's always the clones. I wouldn't have bothered with this or the price but was just so unhappy with the clones I'd bought it was the next best thing. Really happy with it so far.

[@yllib2012]

PLEASE let us know if you find a 6 button controller solution for the Genesis core.

[@Larry]

Pat Contri's book was mostly written by Joey Roo, Pat only added the shitty Dad jokes in the corner.

[@Lorfarius]

That explains a lot!