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for the number of super Nintendos that i own that's also technically the number of super Nintendos that i own that are also broken but we won't talk about that for the number of SNES hardware revisions recommended by purists for optimal RGB output for the number of available colors for the Super NT a hardware reverse engineering of the original Super Nintendo and for the number of seconds before I tell you this video is brought to you by us check out the LTTE merch store at the link in the video description we've got shirts mugs stickers hats the super NT is the latest retro console from analog built by enthusiasts for enthusiasts right off the bat it appears to be quite a bit less premium than their original reverse engineered NES the NT it ditches the USB charging port for its included wireless controller and it's made entirely of plastic instead of 6061 aluminium but that's actually ok because in return we get a selection of classic and modern designs for both the console and it's controllers we get a price tag that's dramatically lower than anything analog has produced to date a mere 189 dollars including two built-in games putting the super ante within the reach at least of mere mortals unlike first party SNES classics which have gone for as high as $400 on eBay thanks for limiting your production Nintendo anyway what else do we get here it still got an SD card slot for firmware updates with the possibility of a jailbreak firmware that would enable you to run games off of it and we have a single universally compatible SNES cartridge slot thanks mainly to 1990s Nintendo and they're curious implementation of cartridge region locking move around back there's micro B USB for power a single HDMI port and that's actually it no fancy outputs this time but we do still have real SNES controller ports compatible with every single SNES accessory outside of the super scope and again with the downgrades where the NT and NT mini had four here we only get two thankfully multi taps works just fine though and that's it aside from power and reset buttons they really simplified the outside this time around so have the internals been cost down too absolutely not we've got the same altera cyclone 5 and all its companion circuitry on the top side of its beautiful PCB programmed again by Kevin Horton aka keV trous the same legend who did the reverse engineering for the analogue NT minis FPGA though he didn't go it alone this whole thing has actually been something of a community effort with input from people like Beauty author of the super-accurate higen emulator intro sound effects by electronic musician square pusher and a shiny new user interface designed by indie developer phil fish yes that phil fish complete with a super slick optional animated intro that randomizes each and every time you power on the console within the menu you'll find a ton of options to customize the experience from adding and controlling the depth of scan lines to enabling more sprites on-screen than the real SNES could handle to adjusting hotkeys audio volume and even the skin of the user interface it allows you to add filters like the previous consoles or remove filtering entirely if you just want those beautiful chunky pixels in all their unaltered glory as for what it's like to actually game on to answer that question I brought in my framemeister to test out an OG Nintendo adapted to HDMI alongside our super NT with an SD to SNES so we could test as many games as possible let's start with compatibility testing analog claims its 100% because they're actually simulating the chips in a real Super Nintendo and from what we've been able to tell they've hit the market dead on believe it or not not only does the Super NT handle edge cases that were only recently discovered and patched in emulators the way they've done it allows them to improve upon the original without sacrificing that compatibility in particular with the sound so after spending some time with it to say that it's a great experience would be a huge understatement it handled literally everything we could throw at it including enhanced msu 1 games with CD audio tracks and FMV the picture is sharper the audio is clearer the input lag is non-existent every box is so thoroughly checked for this little thing that people around the office are already competing for their pick of the sample units with others saying they're just gonna buy one themselves if they miss out which is probably the boat I will be in if you spent any significant amount of your childhood playing Super Nintendo games you want the real experience on modern where this is it I mentioned this already but the sound is one of the best things about the super MT although I would personally like a toggle to put it back to 100% original they won't tell us how they improved things exactly but knowing a little about the super Nintendos audio processor helped us kind of piece it together the SNES mixed together individual sounds like a drum or a guitar to make music or sound effects and these small sounds were usually somewhere between eight and twenty two killers the og Super Nintendo just mixed them together at 32 kilohertz with a Gaussian Gaussian bhooshan Gaussian filter that basically muffled it to hide the resulting noise meanwhile the super NT mixes them at forty four point one kilohertz along with modern cubic or sync filtering so everything sounds much sharper and truer to the artists intent pretty cool stuff there are some dilemmas with the console like this if you're a new collector and want to support the original developers of the games you're playing the only real way to do this is ironically via Virtual Console and the classic series which are our emulators that don't give you the original experience and the only way to get the classic series anyway is on eBay making your purchase less meaningful to developers and more meaningful to opportunistic scalpers and what if you already have some games is it worse to buy unofficial hardware or is it worse to pay scalpers who buy up all the official stuff is it just as bad to download all your games and throw them on to a SD to SNES or a Raspberry Pi for that matter well nope I can't answer that I'm gonna bail hard so anyways then if what you're after is a no-frills easy-to-use experience with full compatibility with all your favorite SNES games and as close to real hardware as possible all while having full compatibility with modern displays there's really no contest this is your go to it's super inexpensive compared to getting a framemeister and potentially modding your SNES it's well-built its feature-rich and it's clearly a labor of love just like your Squarespace site will be Squarespace lets you pick one of their gorgeous templates and get a website up and running basically right away they've got 24/7 support via live chat and email it's just 12 bucks a month and you get a free domain if you by Squarespace for the year the 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