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On the plus side, rumor is that Best Buy will be getting some stock for in store only around the 20th. So... maybe line up on the 19th if you're looking to get one in time for a Christmas present for a loved one?
For those that do, I wish them luck in acquiring it. That's far too much dedication for me. (Not doing Christmas is a big part of that.)
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When the scalpers are using bots to obtain units, normal customers have little choice but to shop brick and mortar.Or wait until after the holidays when more stock is available.That assumes Nintendo intends to continue production, which could be true. They may decide to instead make it a limited print run and move on to the Switch or a SNES classic limited print run.
Point is: there's nothing wrong with people lining up at stores to buy a product for themselves or a loved one. Hell, in my household it was tradition to go line up on Black Friday. A bonding exercise where we sat out in the cold and whined so that we could get Mom the free snow globes at Macy's or that new tv to replace our broken one.
There is full intention to keep making these.
As for standing in line, dry your eyes mate and knock yourself out.
Dude, they're still shopping at stores instead of from home. Of COURSE they have no idea that emulations are a thing.When the scalpers are using bots to obtain units, normal customers have little choice but to shop brick and mortar.
Then, too, there are the people who are uncomfortable entering into emulation due to not being familiar with copyright law and how it intersects with emulation. Is it legal to obtain an emulator and a bunch of roms if you don't otherwise own the games or devices being emulated? If so, is it ethical?
My answer was to just buy an actual NES and the handful of games I'd actually want to play. It cost more than the NES classic, but I have a 1:1 match for the machine in my memories (well, I did, until I modded the unit, replacing the spring tray and 72 pin connector with a straight load solution; the Blinking Light Win mod kit)
I'll still be keeping a weather eye open for an nes classic, because it'd make for a good portable solution when visiting the in-laws. Don't want to drag my 20 year old machine around, lest it become damaged. Let the cheapo emulation machine bear the brunt of travel.
not to be that guy, but once you mod the unit you are breaking the law just as certainly as anyone emulating. At least you were back in the day.
People just recently realized there was an internet up here.
So I'm guessing no.
What is an in-ter-net?
Great list Dragon, but you also need the following:
Secret of Evermore
Illusion of Gaia
Super Star Wars + Empire Strikes Back + Return of the Jedi
Wrestlemania
Shadowrun
Ogre Battle
Oh! Add Terringama with Soul Blazers and Illusion of Gaia, they supposedly are a kind of trilogy. Terringama got pretty sad in places.
It's a mod for repair, not to circumvent copyright protections or other nefarious things. It literally changes the mechanical process by which you load the cartridge and nothing else. It violates the warranty for repair, but that ran out years and years ago. It does not, as far as I can tell, violate the EULA or applicable laws.
But this line of discourse is neither on topic nor particularly desirable, as I absolutely resent your implication.
I wonder if my brother in law might want a classic... not sure how big he is on classic gaming. Might need to line up for one for him.
I do not aim to offend anyone other than the people who came up with the eula and other such bodies. You'd be surprised- or perhaps not- at what constitutes a violation, though possibly not at what breaks the law in a classical sense.
Also note that I said back in the day. Things probably have changed since then. For all I know this is Nintendos gazillion year plan to bring back old copyrights so they can go back and shut down emulating sites. But that was crazy talk even back when I had a flattop.
I had an afro, or so people would say.
Really, I just had insanely curly hair and a legally blind mom that insisted on doing the haircuts.
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Have none of these people heard of emulations?
Speaking seriously now. I'm starting to get worried.
I know I'm a few days late but I empathize.
To mitigate I did post the instructions on how to make a better in every way version of this a bit further up the thread if it helps.