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hi my name is Luke I'm addicted to retro games it all started when I was about 10 my brother and I did chores around the house for cash until we saved up enough money for mom to buy us a Super Nintendo off some creepy dudes I was scared at the time ever since then I've been hooked and I don't just play the game I read books about this I collect the figurines of the character I just can't stop I even brought my obsession to work fortunately for me my job's really cool and that's okay here so today I get to check out the analogue NT mini beyond being the most beautifully crafted piece of console hardware that I have ever laid my hands on it's got amazing under-the-hood capabilities too with a 1080p capable HDMI out and an RGB all in one output for nests and Famicom games and it can be yours for 449 that's four hundred and forty-nine dollars so tax magnet en 10 mini gaming PC is VR and triple-a gaming ready check it out at the link in the video description everything about this is the Cadillac experience this is the most comprehensive i/o setup I could imagine for a ness or a Famicom you've got all the obvious stuff power button power input whatever but most of the rest of this is going to look pretty exotic there are too thoughtfully padded cartridge slots on the top that allow both the Ness and Famicom games from any region to be played natively without any form of adapters on the front you'll find a whopping 4 console inputs for the handful of games that can take advantage of this and moving around to the back there's a USB charging port for the included low latency wireless controller that can be used to power the system on for a surprisingly modern feeling experience the SD card slot can be used for all kinds of fun more on that later then moving back around the back we find a Famicom expansion port helpfully labelled in Japanese for compatibility with obscure accessories like the Famicom disk system and what it even has a mic jack for the tiny number of Famicom games that could actually use a microphone fun fact winwaker was not the first zelda game to pull this boat stuff audio outputs are standard but video is another story you get this analog output port that can be adapted with a breakout cable to pretty much anything you could want and it has native HDMI which is much more challenging to do properly than you might think more on that later which leads us finally to the internals conveniently enjoyable through the window in the bottom of the unit an odd choice but nerds will like it I like it it's actually on the other side of this PCB where you find the heart and soul of the system the altera cyclone 5 fpga hardware which has been custom configured by an electrical engineer with over 5000 hours of experience re-engineering fpga systems for absolute mess accuracy this is incredibly important and this is what you are paying for the empty mini is not some random emulation box in fact it's not an emulation box at all instead of writing a bunch of software code to fake the functionality of Nintendo's original hardware everything is done in HDL or Hardware definition language this is how they achieved an identical experience to the original nest 100% compatibility 110 accuracy zero additional lag but is it actually solid I threw everything that I had at it and experienced no issues whatsoever that weren't caused by my dusty old carts this is not the experience that I've had with other off-brand retro systems that I've tried and I do acknowledge that I don't have every game on earth but I couldn't find a single instance of anyone online having any issues either there's even a new game that came out like not that long ago why people are still making the internets I don't know but it works it uses all four controller ports it's all fine but back to the NT mini how can an HDMI output claim to be faithful to the original experience well this is not your dad's HDMI output or if your dad had one I guess it would have been but anyways if you experience lag it's your TV or monitor there is no external converter to add latency the HDMI transmitter is top notch and the Settings menu has extensive color audio and scanline tweaks for nerds and I know you could save a box by running the majority of these games on something like a Raspberry Pi but if you're a purist this is reference quality which is hard to achieve without lugging a CRT around your house like I do the NT Mini is objectively better than emulation and functionally better than even the original console which brings us back to that SD card slot the anti mini has been jailbroken their words not mine this allows you to dump cartridges you own into ROM files directly on that SD card and even play roms right off of it without using emulation you can use safe States and run save files though I will judge you just a little you should even be able to use it to low additional fpga cores then with controller and cartridge adapters play other retro games on a similar hardware level like Sega Master System games Game Gear colecovision Game Boy Game Boy Color Atari 2600 Atari 7800 and television Odyssey to adventure vision supervision the RCA studio 2 and more there's like 20-plus of them and on top of that you've got an NSF player four Tunes a built in game genie if you want to screw around and an extensive settings menu that would have merited its own entire video if I had my way but this video is near ending and it is conclusion time there are many other solutions most of them cheaper some of them I've mentioned already others like the framemeister low latency analog to digital converter and upscaler that I have it and there are pros and cons to all I don't plan to sell my framemeister because it's still useful for other consoles like the snaps ps1 or even Xbox 360 and I also don't own this this is works frame masters 9 but this NT Mini in my humble opinion is the best way to play games will be supported by kept Reese's fpga 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