Mini Snes: first impressions

UDb23

@ranma played Star fox and contra, image quality is great. Used default 4:3 screen option.

UDb23

@used2berx to access Starfox 2 you must complete Starfox (1) first stage. Had no time yet. Will let you know.

lilbud

Do you think you could get a screengrab of all of the borders? I want to make a pack for overlays for retropie/retroarch

Stuart2773

@used2berx

the Starfox 2 rom has already been dumped from the SNES Mini, i was playing the new version last night on RPi and theres a slight bit of slowdown on the intro cut scene that was not present in the hacked versions, other than that it plays really well,

UDb23

@lilbud They're not particularly attractive but sure I can. Probably tomorrow.

sergioad

@stuart2773 try lr-snes9x 2005, works almost flawlessly, lr-armsnes works with any slow down but the ship's reticle, blasts and the enemies suffer a severe case of flickering

FlyingTomahawk

A video of the UI would be cool.

Used2BeRX

Yeah. I knew about the roms already being dumped. I actually heard that No-Intro was going to be adding these to their database which really surprised me seeing as how picky they are.

I was under the impression that these games were no different than their old cartridges. Am I mistaken? Have they all received some sort of tweaks that no-intro would want to add them to the sets? I just think it's funny that they would add the NES classic, but they don't have the VS arcade machines when in almost every case the VS games are very different than the NES carts.

I'm really curious to hear what you guys have to say about the new Star Fox 2 game. My brother has been telling me for months that Nintendo actually finished the game themselves for this special release. I'd love it if that were true.

lilbud

@used2berx Maybe they cleaned up translations? Or removed rapidly flashing colors

sergioad

@used2berx Man, Star fox 2 is awesome, I finished it but sadly with not all the planets completed

edmaul69

Well it has been hacked already so i assume it will be the same as the nes classic

UDb23

@flyingtomahawk said in Mini Snes: first impressions:

A video of the UI would be cool.

Some people already did it ;-)

Ranma

@tonytoon said in Mini Snes: first impressions:

I've not seen any of the tech places I follow mention frameskipping in their reviews or impressions, so I'm going to have to assume it's an artifact of the video recording process or something similar.

@udb23 said in Mini Snes: first impressions:

@ranma played Star fox and contra, image quality is great. Used default 4:3 screen option.

Probably just either me or the video quality, but I was watching this guy playing F-Zero

and have to say something doesn't look quite right. Thought it might be frame skipping or something. Almost like it's on a GBA. Seen similar in a few videos of the console.

ByteThis

@edmaul69 I'ts not hacked yet..they are working on it, although the NAND can be accessed and downloaded using a certain version of Hakchi via FTP. The NAND can be uploaded to the nes mini and the nes mini emulating the snes mini, but that's about it so far. I have been following the progress as I own an nes mini, and was going to buy an snes mini as well, but changed my mind and sticking with my pi. The snes mini would have been modded and put away like my nes mini is..lol..so kinda an expensive toy to have kicking around. Using the money I was going to spend(on the snes mini) on building a bartop cab soon!

PetroRie

@stuart2773 said in Mini Snes: first impressions:

@used2berx

the Starfox 2 rom has already been dumped from the SNES Mini, i was playing the new version last night on RPi and theres a slight bit of slowdown on the intro cut scene that was not present in the hacked versions, other than that it plays really well,

Overclock the SuperFX chip via the SNES emulator and it will run much better.

sergioad

@sergioad said in Mini Snes: first impressions:

@used2berx Man, Star fox 2 is awesome, I finished it but sadly with not all the planets completed

@petrorie is not necesary

ruckage

@petrorie said in Mini Snes: first impressions:

Overclock the SuperFX chip via the SNES emulator and it will run much better.

That wouldn't helps as I'm assuming the slowdown and sound distortion is because the pi isn't fast enough to emulate the SFX chip so overclocking the SFX would need even more processing power.
However if you use snes9x2005 instead of 2010 you'l find it runs much much better.

ruckage

@sergioad said in Mini Snes: first impressions:

@used2berx Man, Star fox 2 is awesome, I finished it but sadly with not all the planets completed

A big part of Star Fox 2 from what I can tell (haven't played it properly yet) is re-playability, a lot is random so it will be different everytime.
The gameplay structure from what I've seen reminds me of Star Raiders on the Atari 8 bit, same basic idea, you have a galaxy map and defend space stations from the enemy - I wonder if that's where the inspiration came from.

sergioad

@ruckage Indeed, I will play it again soon

PetroRie

@ruckage I had slow downs with Starfox 1, after I overclocked the FX chip via the emulator the game ran fine. Same story with Yoshi's Island. It did work.

"the pi isn't fast enough to emulate the SFX chip so overclocking the SFX would need even more processing power."

That is not true, look at the specs of the Pi and compare them to the SNES. An another example, look at the specs of N64 and look at the specs of the Pi3. The pi 3 is in both cases much faster. The problem with lagging emulators isn't the hardware but the software. It will get sorted out eventually.

When I used the a newer version of the SNES emulator it I didn't even need to overclock the FX chip at all. The games who used the FX chip ran perfectly.