DVDTalker76

Calling it a surprise is blatantly wrong, whether one finds it important or not.

You're right, though - I have a huge problem with Polygon. It's not acceptable for the most self-important site in gaming to be uninformed regarding a major product... particularly when it's a safe bet they ran the page - accuracy be damned - simply because they wanted content to post.

fumanstan

Maybe I haven't paid as much attention to Nintendo news, but as a mainstream gaming press and forum reader it was news to me, and really I've only seen the initial tweet from Nintendo announcing the return of the NES Classic as "expected to be available through the end of the year" and hadn't heard anything substantial since then.

And like I said earlier, just about all major tech publications are reporting on the story as though its new news, so I simply don't think it was as clearly communicated previously as you have or necessarily click-baity with regards to Polygon specifically.

To each their own, I hate Polygon's "opinion" pieces and find them dreadful so i'm not necessarily trying to defend them in general, I just didn't think the wording here is that problematic. Oh well

Jay G.

Well, I looked back over this thread and the SNES Classic thread, and you're right that there hasn't been any posts about when they'd end production since last May.

That said, the post last May was this tweet from Nintendo:
What did you think "through the end of the year" meant?

And of course, the exact same author reported on that tweet for Polygon back in May, with the subheading "Nintendo expects the system to last through the year":
https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/13/17...-2018-for-sale

Polygon repeated the "end of the year" note in this later article:
https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/28/17...mazon-best-buy

So, again, not really a "surprise" to those who were paying attention.

But they're reporting on it differently

Seaching for other articles reveals these headlines:

• Nintendo pulls the plug on making more SNES Classic, NES Classic... - Digital Trends-Dec 14, 2018
• The NES Classic and SNES Classic Will Be Gone After The Holidays - Fatherly- 20 hours ago
• Nintendo SNES and NES Classic: 'Once they sell out, they're gone' - CNET-Dec 14, 2018
• Nintendo warns it won't make more retro NES and SNES consoles -Engadget-19 hours ago
• Super Nintendo Classic and NES Classic being discontinued after ... -The Sun-Dec 13, 2018
• Nintendo NES and SNES Classic Mini consoles won't be restocked ... VG247-Dec 13, 2018
• The NES and SNES Classic consoles won't last long after the holidays -iMore (press release) (blog)-Dec 13, 2018
• This Christmas May Be Your Last Chance to Get a NES or SNES Classic -Yahoo News-today
• Nintendo’s NES Classic and SNES Classic are going out of production - The Verge yesterday

There's a mix of accurate and inaccurate headlines there.

It's fine to post a reminder/confirmation that Nintendo is only planning on shipping these through the end of the year, but Polygon made some mistakes/inaccuracies in its article.

Sonny Corinthos

I would like to get an SNES Classic before they are all gone, but it's no big loss if I don't. Right now, I see them everywhere.

fumanstan

Seems nitpicky. I wouldn't call any of those mistakes/inaccuracies worth calling out, but I won't argue since you always take things so literally.

milo bloom

We don’t play ours that often but I’m still glad we have them. When I want to feel the classic vibe when playing, I want that classic styled system and not just some ROM and a 3rd party controllers.

DVDTalker76

The replica NES controllers indeed make all the difference when playing those games. Man, they did a great job on those.

RichC2

I mean, this is still a ROM, but the controller does make a big difference. I still do most of my old school gaming on emulators with 3rd party controllers, but I own most of these classic systems for when nostalgia hits hard (and added a couple games that I grew up with).

Paff

With the announcement that they were ceasing production, I bought one over the weekend. Hoping to get a SNES Classic soon too, although I never owned a regular one so it's less of a concern for me.

I actually have a working NES and a nice compact 4x3 13" flat screen monitor but this is a lot more convenient. Wish they had some favorites like RC Pro-Am, Ice Hockey and/or Blades of Steel, and Pro Wrestling ("A Winner is You"), but I have those on my regular NES anyway.

I'm definitely rusty in my game play; got knocked down by Glass Joe.

Obi-Wanma

^It's really easy to add whatever games you want to it. I have the entire NES Library on mine.

story

Is there a way to do Game Genie codes, that sort of thing, on a NES Classic?

RichC2

with Hackchi yeah.

Paff

An extremely quick Google search proves that to be quite true. Thanks!

I thought this thing was sort of like the (in)famous Asian "Zii Eagle", a similar device with nearly 1000 classic Shaw Bros movies that absolutely no one has been able to crack yet.

RichC2

Naw, these are all legitimately the most easily hacked devices in the world. People even figured out how to use the USB Power Port w/ an OTG adapter (like used on Android phones) to connect a hard drive to it for Playstation Games.

Jay G.

If you hack it, yes.

You have to enable the cheats mod in Hakchi2 CE, and make sure the game is run using RetroArch instead of Nintendo's emulator (clover).

Here's guides on how to do it for the SNES Classic, but it should work for the NES Classic as well
https://snesclassicmods.com/how-to-a...ith-retroarch/
https://snesclassicmods.com/how-to-r...-classic-mini/

Paff

Even without hacking it to add more games, the NES Classic is a great little device at an outstanding price. Like most of you oldies here, I remember paying $100 for an NES with ZERO games (I think it was $129 to get one with Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt).

tonyc3742

I bought both the NES and SNES. I never had a SNES and my brother had a NES late in its lifecycle so I only got to use it occasionally. Last year at a video gaming con my son was into the SNES they had set up so I have been aiming to get one.
I had to do some finagling on my TV to free up an HDMI port.

Mike86

I wasn’t rushing to get one of these, but with the announcement production is being stopped I’ll probably grab one soon. Even though I’ve got a lot of the games on cartridge format and have my Switch with the online NES library it’s still a nice little unit to have around. Works well for traveling or for going to a friend’s place. Plus just as a little collectible.

In some ways it surprises me Nintendo doesn’t just keep these going a while longer as they still seem to sell fairly well, but I suppose most people that really wanted them probably have them by now.

LorenzoL

My daughter ended up getting me the SNES Classic for Christmas. Now to use the previous links and add some NES and SNES library to it.

Thanks for the links guys!

tonyc3742

Connected mine. Wow those are short controller cables. I'm going to order the extended cables.
The instructions say to unplug it when not in use. Anyone actually do that?

Michael Corvin

I do, but only because I'm short on HDMI ports on the tv and have to swap them out.

LorenzoL

I have a question for those that have both the NES Classic and the SNES Classic and modded them to add their respective libraries. Did you mod both of them or just one? Which one would you recommend to add both the NES and SNES libraries into it if you had to choose one?

Jay G.

I don't disconnect the power, but I do turn it off. I think it's just Nintendo covering their ass, since technically the device is never "off," and the power is just a soft switch.

With hakchi, I think there's a good chance any "corruption" could be recovered from, especially if you made a backup ahead of time.

I haven't taken my NES Classic out of the box (got it as a gift). I might open it to use the controllers. I had the SNES Classic first, so that was how I decided, although I think the SNES Classic firmware is technically a little more advanced. There's some extra features on the SNES Classic:
https://www.polygon.com/features/201...sic-star-fox-2

As for games, I'm not sure what you mean by "library," however, keep in mind that while you can fit all NES games on the NES Classic, you can't fit all SNES games on the SNES Classic, and you certainly can't fit all games from both consoles on one of the Classics, at least not without adding external storage to the Classic.

Obi-Wanma

I've modded both. They're basically the same inside,but if I had to mod just 1, it would be the SNES, simply because the controllers for the SNES classic can easily accommodate both systems and the NES controllers cannot. Also the controller cables are longer, though still probably not as long as you would like. If you have your own third party controller solution in mind, it really doesn't matter at all which console you mod, but just note that SNES games take up much more space than NES games, and while you can easily fit the entire NES library (700+ games) on one of these, you can only fit in the neighborhood of 200 games SNES games on one of them, and that's without putting on any NES games or other stuff on it.

Paff

I got a Super Nintendo Chalmers over the weekend. The NES was more a priority, since I actually had one (and it's still functional today) back in the day; never had an SNES. But with the SNES starting to get scarce I pulled the trigger. Yep, I'm now addicted to Super Metroid. God I love 2-D gaming.