Redesigned NES Analogue Nt Now Available for Pre-Order

[mazeroth]

How is going this route superior to an HTPC?

 

[mmntech]

How is going this route superior to an HTPC?

There's a lot of retro gaming purists who insist on using original carts with original hardware. They also want RGB output for optimum image quality. Problem is the NES can't do it without significant modding.

These clone systems allow the use of original cartridges and controllers. However, they output video as RGB either through SCART or HDMI. They also upscale the image to HD.

By the same token, software emulators also output video as upscaled RGB. Ones for the 8 and 16-bit systems very accurate nowadays. Only downside is you can't use the original controllers. Still, it's a better solution than a lot of the clone consoles, which can be dodgy at times.

 

[Fallen Kell]

How is going this route superior to an HTPC?

Well, there are still some games which do not work perfectly even with the emulators, and the same goes with the clone systems, many of which have all kinds of problems with games like Castlevannia 3 which used some tricks to hide multiple game levels/maps in the same memory space which results in the background becoming a "waterfall" of the other level when object move past it on the redraw. Using the original CPU and PPU makes certain that all games work, including the things like the 52-in-one, etc., rare carts.

 

[Fallen Kell]

So I guess I will post when mine arrives.... I've been wanting to RGB mod my NES for a while now as well as do the audio mods that the Analogue NT has done. And after thinking it over pretty hard, and going over their setup/design, they simply have a much cleaner design that I can ever mod the NES to do (and not spend almost as much the price of this unit). I have a pretty extensive NES collection that I like to play, but I have kept an old CRT TV around simply to play this system (my others I have all RGB modded and play them through SCART to a framemiester). It would be a lot simpler to do the same with this system and play it on my flatscreen TV's.