nintendo nes mini game console classic edition 500 games

It would be interesting to know whether that little CPU board could be cracked wide open and used for other purposes, though it looks a bit doubtful. I'll leave it to the reader to decide whether shelling out for a knock-off is better than buying the real thing, or running an emulator on a Raspberry Pi. It's unlikely that the knock-off would pass the EMC and similar tests that the genuine console would have done, for example. The board is much smaller and it's evident there is less computing power in play probably due to the lack of need to support HDMI, plus there is no metal shield. It is interesting to look at this fake console and compare it with a genuine NES Classic Edition. There is no clue as to the CPU architecture employed. It is fairly obvious that this is a general purpose CPU board, as it has a mostly unpopulated header for I/O, of which the populated lines serve the two controller sockets. On the fake board is a CPU under an epoxy blob, and a large ROM chip presumably holding all those games. Compare with the large board in the genuine device, which you'll find in the link listed on the left. Inside are small PCBs for connectors and switches, and a matchbox-size PCB containing the console electronics themselves. We'd expect this to have been copied directly from the original moulding.įour screws hold the unit together, hidden under the rubber feet. On the bottom of the unit is the full safety and regulatory info you'd expect on the Nintendo original, less of course a Nintendo logo. Plug it all in, connect a TV, and you are presented with a menu allowing you to select a game and start playing. None of the HDMI you'd find on the genuine console. On the rear is a mini-USB for power and a 3.5mm jack for AV. It comes with a cheap knock-off NES controller, which connects to the one of the pair of correct WII-style sockets on the front of the unit.

There is a white power LED in contrast to the red original.

No Nintendo logo or fake thereof in sight.īelow the writing are power and reset buttons as per the original, though they are much more flimsy and irregular. On the front is 'Entertainment System' in red, in a font that hints at a Chinese origin for the device. The fake NES Classic Edition console has a plastic case so close to the original on the outside that it must have been moulded from a genuine console.

Nintendo nes mini game console classic edition 500 games