SNES Classic vs. Original SNES Tear-Down 

Link to the iFixit toolkit?

@@tldrMac Its in the description.

The metal thing on the mini is not a heatsink it's an RF can for EMI regulation that doubles as a cheap heatsink.

6:50 You're gonna want to make sure you don't loose those so you can reinstall them after. If not it could short like a PSU in a case without them facing down! #ILerntItFromTehVerge

Gamers Nexus Steve can you please confirm if the two player performance on the newer model got worse than the original? While playing Contra two player, every time we jumped while firing the game stuttered badly. I do not remember this happening on the classic. Please!

That's sort of awesome!

LOL, well I'm almost ashamed to say that I called them up a couple of times to help me with (of all games) Space Ace . Fortunately, I only racked up about $15 for those calls. What a tough game that was, but at least I managed to complete it.

You aren't alone. 1-206-885-7529 i called it soooo many times

@@williamjenkins6132 haha, man I still remember that number too! 🤜🤛

Almost made my drink come out of my nose when I saw that. 🤣

Hope he doesn't have that problem with the ladies. Or maybe he doesn't like ladies, which lead to the problem?????

My super nes still works still use and I have the box for it also

Yup! I was gonna say the same thing. My first job was at age 16 at Toys R Us for the 1986 Christmas season. NES Base models were being sold with Super Mario Brothers for $79.99 and the Deluxe NES had the Zapper gun, robot, Duck Hunt and another game for $139.99. We couldn't keep them in stock. At the same time, the original SEGA system was being sold as well as the Commodore 64 (and later Commodore 128) which already had a significant foothold in the home computer market.

​@@MrV1NC3N7V3G4 Wow, that's pretty neat to hear; I didn't think that NES consoles were flying off shelves literally that early in its lifespan. I'm from Canada, and although it'd be hard to confirm this, I'm pretty sure I didn't start seeing commercials for this system until sometime in 1987. I didn't pick one up until 1989 and found it to be a challenge as the console as well as most 1st party games were pretty hard to find.

@@MrV1NC3N7V3G4 The other game was Gyromite.

Here is a bit of knowledge for you, the NES wasnt discontinued (in Japan) until Sept 2003

Your point is meaningless, he is talking about the console development time, which WAS a 7 year gap between the Japanese release of the NES and the SNES. When it was released in the US is irrelevant to the gap between consoles, it is only relevant to the gap between US releases.

Ya, they're supposed to do tech news. Without a guide, I tore apart my first PC and put it back together when I was around 8, and it still worked. There are dozens of PC build guides available now and they didn't think to check a single one? It isn't hard, and when they made mistakes they just edited the video. What the fuck were they thinking

Nathan Hamman Not cool at all I will agree. uh, no video editing was done, youtube does not work that way. Once a vid is posted it can not be changed and a new vid must be posted with the changes in it (and de-listing or deleting the old vid is optional). The Verge deleted comments suggesting corrections and pretended they did no wrong, until it became a PR problem for them, and then they just yanked the vid. And some involved with the Verge vid insisted for some time after the vid was yanked that they did no wrong by misleading people by fixing the mistakes off camera and not acknowledging any corrections they made in the vid they posted. it was bad. I am still curious how much stuff had to be replaced off camera, because the radiator was skewered by using the wrong screws, lol.

@@Zarcondeegrissom No that's not entirely true. You can change a video in retrospect (for some time now). I don't know to what extent exactly, but you can *at least* cut out / remove specific parts. In case you have to remove something because of copyright problems or because it's misinformation or problematic somehow.

rrr, the YT editor, and that feature had been removed for some time now. And the editor does not alter the original video, it creates a new vid with the changes. The original vid with the comments to it still exists as it was. I have used that very thing to coble together a vid from my dash-cam my self. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QYsne5G8N68.html I simply never made the original vid public, and it still exists as its own vid as it was.

We also have the SNES classic too

XD I bet more than half the people here don't know what movie that's from, unless it was also quoted elsewhere.

@@benbaer3525 come on, don't do that, name the movie

@@kokosnh1170 Brink!

Ah yes the classic 'this controller sucks' glitch that has lead to so many terrible defeats that would surely have been glorious victories if only it weren't for the 'unresponsive buttons on this terrible controller'. Truly a tragedy.

Dibs on the good controller

On the other side of this joke is the friend who always got stuck with the Madcatz controllers

Your model looks much cooler IMHO.

@@johnmadison3472 Gonna have to go with the NA one for that. The Famicom design used in Oceanic region and Japan, was less sleak, the issue however, was in the durability. The NA version was seen as the most durable creation ever conceived by Nintendo. Both my old Famicoms broke in 1993 and 1999, my SNES from 1992 still works today. It most definitely flouted convention with regard to how modifications for a region tend to create a worse iteration.

Yours is the PAL version, which took the design from the Japanese Super Famicom.

oh... i thought it was a common ritual to pee on it... on an unrelated matter, i have to go now... *runs to buy cleaning supplies

its not from smoking, it is just the aging of the flame retardant they used in plastics.

Richard Greer it depends. If the yellowing is everywhere and kind of greasy it's nicotine. If it's only on the top/side and not internal it's the natural ABS yellowing from UV sunlight or CRT display. If it's on certain parts and internal it's the flame retardant.

Perhaps you have the same version as I have. It is known as SHVC-CPU-01. This version has an APU unit (sound unit) module.

Have you tried retrobrightening on it? Google "retrobright" seems to do the trick

Legend of the Seven Stars is damn good.

@@GamersNexus It was definitely good but some RPG purists at the time (can't believe I'm calling them that today) felt it was too much like a Disney iteration of a genre. Personally I felt it was a solid product that worked well for those new to RPGs as well as those who had originally played them. The list (RPGs since it's off of Super Mario RPG) for SNES really comes down to Final Fantasy 2, Mystic Quest and 3 (4, MQ and 6 in Japan), Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Breath of Fire series, Robotrek, Lufia, Dragon Quest series, Earthbound, Bahamut Lagoon and of course the underrated Arcana and The 7th Saga were typically the prime few. Then on top of that you had console iterations of PC games like Drakkhen, Dungeon Master, Might & Magic 3, and a few Ultima games. Ports that in that era were actually better than the PC versions (due to that lagging effect of PC and Console disparity that changes hands every generation), especially in the case of M&M3. This of course lends to the connection in how RPGs like Final Fantasy and others were based off the original three for computer RPGs, Wizardry, Ultima and Might & Magic. The first two being the basis for Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. Then you had Adventure RPGs like Brain Lord, Lagoon, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (The guy who thought that name up deserved a raise), Dragon View and strategy RPGs like Ogre Battle. Suffice to say, SNES was probably the best console for RPGs on the market and thinking back, LotSS was smart to develop it as an homage to the genre. In that sense, right-on with that assessment, Steve.

You forgot one thing. The 1Chip had the white levels too high and there are minor glitches in a few certain games.

I saw it too, was funny ahah!

omegaorgun >tinker board mah nigga

@YTCensorsMe Poop theres a prototype nintendo play station that was originally thought to be lost to time and was only known of originally due to patent filings. Go look it up. There IS a nintendo play station console prototype

@@m4xwellmurd3r I belive its in a museum now

That guy you're talking about is Ken Kutaragi. Playstation hasn't been itself since he was forced to retire.

@TWIN TUBE GAMERS probably a disassembly of a super Nintendo

It wasn't 8 years. The 1983 release was only the Famicom in Japan. NES was first presented in 85, but main release in the West was in 1986. So 5 years before SNES, or 6 if you count the limited New York release. In Japan FC to SFC was 7 years.

Actually, on the Classic it is a heatspreader, but also functions as a RF shield. It even has a thermal pad between it and the processor. On the original, they are just RF shields.

It is absolutely a heat spreader. That's what the thermal pad is for. 🤦🏼‍♂️

mjc0961 on the mini right?

I want to see "9900k at 100mhz, can it game?"

Multi 1 ftw 🙌🙌

Look at the analogue systems. They are FPGAs based systems and they are the next best thing to original hardware.

i laughed a little too hard at this.

ahah me too!

Look so great

Intel gave it to them at a trade show I believe

Where it belonged.

@@nickpickerwi7787 I thought it was cool at the time, but the lack of games just made it fade into oblivion. I remember playing Mario Tennis, Red Alarm, and Wario Land... I got it for Christmas. I only played it for a few months...