AVS, for the money ($185), is the clear winner for me. All I needed was for my NES carts to look and play great on my 55" HDTV. Mission accomplished ! and I took the extra $300 I saved from not buying an Nt Mini and bought a brand new Nintendo Switch with the money. :)
It doesn't really matter when you upload in regards to retro game reviews, as the laws of analytics don't apply. Subscribers and social media followers will catch up within a few days, and nobody expects two, ten minute videos a day of fast edit vlogs and annoying screaming let's plays with arrows to boobs in a thumbnail and whatever other bullshit cheap tactics others use. It's old Nintendo, not Five Nights of Freddy Got Fingered by PewCowPie.
AlucardsQuest No RU-vidr is immune to the fact that people who work and/or go to school are usually not up at this time and are too lazy or constantly forgetting to scroll far back enough in their feeds to see videos like this alot of the time. No youtuber is immune to losing viewership due to long periods between uploads either. People like us are dedicated as fuk but we don't represent the majority of people that quickly move on in a blink of an eye. There used to be lots of ppl I loved watching but when they came back after long periods without uploads, I just wasn't interested anymore.
Everybody always says that for the good channels. Listen. The most popular channels like pewdepie have way more subs. But that doesn't mean it's a better channel. Mass appeal does not make for cool channels, it makes for super lame mainstream channels. Having a smaller sub count is a sign of a good channel unfortunately. Blame the mainstream mouthbreathers.
I partly agree with you, and him(her?). I do believe that a vast majority of channels with high user subs tend to pander toward the fans, and they pump out more videos to appease them, which makes the quality of each video suffer. That being said, there's nothing wrong with having a high user sub count as long as the producers of the content stick to their guns and keep doing what THEY want to do, rather than what the fans want. A good example that is video game related would be AVGN. His user sub count went through the roof, but he felt pressured to do more and more episodes faster and faster. While that's nice to have a steady stream of content, he made some pretty terrible reviews/videos because of it. I believe he noticed that and slowed his production schedule way down, and did some more easily accessible content (James and Mike Play, etc.) that is a lot easier to create to hold people over for the next video showcasing the main appeal of the channel.
Yet another in depth and helpful review of a piece of pretty darn cool hardware. Thank you guys for taking the time to make videos like these! They're fun and just so happen to be informative!
Sure... they have to make benefit of it... nowadays it's not uncommon to loose money by selling consoles and trying to recapture it with game sales... I think Microsoft lost approximately 100 USD every time a Xbox was sold... For that reason that's not the best comparison.
The loss leader era was back when they all had proprietary architectures. Ever since they standardized on X86 (really X64) they're no longer losing money on every console sold.
I bought the NT Mini and absolutely love it. I also think it's not for everyone but if you really want the best way of experiencing NES/Famicom, this is it. I also have an AVS and Hi-def NES, because I wanted to compare them, and the NT mini really just blows the others out of the water, in my opinion. The hi-def NES has sound accuracy problems and some very popular games trigger a bug in the NES PPU that causes random corrupt scanlines, but is otherwise good. The AVS has very limited picture options and I had compatibility issues that were fixed with beta firmwares, but then in the betas my Everdrive had issues with it and the menu randomly corrupts itself.. krikzz just told someone who asked about it to use a real NES. And now I have no problems running anything straight off the sd card or cartridge slots in the NT mini on any of my tvs. No corrupt scanlines, no incorrect sound, no compatibility issues I've found.. the resolution and scaling options are great for any tv/monitor, and there are tons of other consoles kevtris is adding every week with no signs of stopping soon. the mapper support of the NES core blows the Everdrive out of the water, even supporting weird bootleg games like Mortal Kombat 3 or Pokemon Yellow for NES!
Loved the review! A couple of extra details if I may. Kevtris is not only the person who jailbroke the device, he's also the main engineer for it. So you could argue the jailbroken firmware is actually more official than the one provided by Analogue (which is also made by Kevtris). He also added SMS lightgun functionality to his To Do list during a stream with RetroRGB. Expansion sound chips are automatically detected and enabled when playing roms with headers from the SD slot. He's putting a lot of work on the cores since he will reuse them for his Zimba 3000 console which is another FPGA system he's planning to release soon, that one will be capable of 16-bit stuff and possibly even more. Finally, his nickname comes from a puzzle game he created, that's why it sounds like Kevin and Tetris.
Still the only real review for the Nt Mini that I have seen. Liked the parody at the end, too. 22:22-22:42. After ten seconds, I couldn't help but shout "Stop making that hand gesture!"
Great video guys! Glad to see these older consoles getting the much needed love they *deserve*. If I ever have kids, you better believe they'll start out with the classics *first* if only to give them prospective.
I have been a sub for quite some time and I love the content and channel , but I have got to say I have never laughed so hard until I saw joe ranting into that mic! Comedy gold , keep up the great work
Wow I LOVE the music you guys used for the credits, I assumed it was "Xevious - Xevious Hurry" from the ending titles but I couldn't find info about it anywhere. Anyone know where is it from? Or who did the arrangement? Anyway, I love your reviews of consoles like this one, I didn't even know it existed.
waiting for a Game Sack episode for 2 weeks is just like skipping time. watch a few dozen epidoes after the new one comes out and its already time for another new episode ( this is not rly muchof a hate comment coz I and others know how hard living in youtube's middle tier and to produce episodes ranging from 25 mins to 45 mins must be exhausting) and to Joe, Dave and Jen of Game Sack, keep up the gud work!!! =D
jarrod Campbell coz everyone loves Joe!! not Dave..... yeah Dave....who has less followers than myself.... ok I'm just being mean now love you too Dave.
That spinning triangular aperture effect with focus transition is like eye candy. and that fish-eye to normal cam shot of the board is pretty neat. Some requests if you cover more GBA games: V-Rally 3, Ekks vs. Sever, and hot wheels stunt track challenge.
It's currently cheaper than the NES Classic Mini (judging what I saw for pricing), plus has more functionality (and play a lot more games legally). Definitely a better option for the money.
FYI, Kevtris' custom firmware is allowed by Analogue because Kevtris is the developer of Analogue's official firmware as well :P If i'm not mistaken, he's the one that programmed the FPGA to begin with.
FinalBaton well... if he used that on the official firmware, Analogue would be looking at some legal grey to say the least. If the firmware that allows emulation is an "aftermarket" option of sorts, it doesnt legally bind Analogue anymore. Pretty smart if you ask me :p
Hey Game Sack, another great episode. Always good to see you guys add stuff like hardware reviews to your repertoire. Do you plan to release any more Blu-rays? Thanks for all your great videos.
You guys make the best reviews of the world in my opinion, I love retro, it would also be very cool to see you guys making reviews for newer titles, like Breath of the Wild? :)
Very Great Video!!! I found out they were making this thing shortly after getting my AVS. Really wish i could have got the Nt manly for the Analog out, but the other features like playing roms from an SD card is pretty awesome
Thank you so much for this great review! I got it at launch and threw it in the corner after I had problems getting RGB to work. Monoprice wants 60 USD to ship stuff and the Analogue manual has errors in the pin out section of the manual. Now I have the energy to try again =) Thanks, you two guys! =)
hey Ben! i was scrolling through the comments to find the answer to a question you might have actually: is it possible to play( for instance) SMS light gun games on the analogue NT using the NES zapper?
the heavy sensitive of how clean the cartridge has to be in kinda turn off. I remember how hard it use to be to get a game to work on my original NES this seems more of a hassle
I love your videos. You guys are smart and also very funny, i have to laugh out loud several times almost every episode. And i allways know a little more about gaming after watching your content. Great work!!
Ordinarily I would never buy something this expensive just to play NES games, but I was kinda put on the spot at Thanksgiving by my parents about Christmas and it was the first thing that came to mind for some reason. They agreed to pay for half of it and gave me the money at Christmas and I felt awkward not buying it at that point so I did. Honestly I love the thing. Let me reduce two systems to one, both the games and the system itself look fantastic, I don't have to worry about emulation issues like with clone consoles, and I can play ROM hacks through the SD slot which is nice. Much like you guys I also prefer to use an actual NES pad with the thing, and the fact that I can is awesome.
Open it up and adjust every prong on the cartridge port and you will have no connection problems. I did this with every Nes I owned and I never blow into the game. Connected properly 100% after that.
