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A Beta Fu7ure wrote:I honestly don't know. The last new Nintendo console I bought was the Wii which wasn't using HDMI leads.

Do any of our European Wii U users want to chime in?

Merlin would be the one to ask, I vaguely remember hearing some of the Wii U VC releases were upgraded to 60hz.

Will have to check with what I have. I know Super Metroid isn't 60Hz on Wii U, as it has those stupid french/german subtitles. But that's a SNES game (nN3DS should have the 60Hz SNES games), not a NES game that features on this mini NES. Can't recall if I have any NES VC games on Wii U (got some on Wii and 3DS), but I don't think it would be 60Hz.

With Nintendo always saying they want to give the players the same feeling of playing VC games like the originals, I don't think they'll change that on the mini NES. So it is a safe bet that we get a european mini NES with 50Hz games...

Just checked on the Wii U eShop and it seems a lot of NES games are the US version. You can check it on the eShop site.

Gives some hope for the mini NES getting these same 60Hz versions.

MerlinDrazziw wrote:Just checked on the Wii U eShop and it seems a lot of NES games are the US version. You can check it on the eShop site.

Gives some hope for the mini NES getting these same 60Hz versions.

They won't have a choice with some games. If they intend to give us Final Fantasy then their is no PAL version. Same goes for Super C (It was Probotector over here). These games were released as 60hz "imports" on the PAL VC.
The real difference maker here could be that this is designed for HD TV's as I seem to recall that 50hz games don't play nicely on modern TV's.

On that note: Can you still hook this up to ordinary TV's?

Since I live in Asia now, I'd have to import one of these anyway, so I'd just get the NTSC version but I'll still be pissed of on behalf of Europeans everywhere if Nintendo gimp yet another classic game release.

(Side note: Super Metroid did actually receive some optimization at the time to partially speed correct it.)

(Side note 2: That e-shop is horrible. The search function seems broken to the point that I couldn't even locate any NES games even when ticking only the NES box.)

A Beta Fu7ure wrote:

MerlinDrazziw wrote:Just checked on the Wii U eShop and it seems a lot of NES games are the US version. You can check it on the eShop site.

Gives some hope for the mini NES getting these same 60Hz versions.

They won't have a choice with some games. If they intend to give us Final Fantasy then their is no PAL version. Same goes for Super C (It was Probotector over here). These games were released as 60hz "imports" on the PAL VC.
The real difference maker here could be that this is designed for HD TV's as I seem to recall that 50hz games don't play nicely on modern TV's.

A Beta Fu7ure wrote:On that note: Can you still hook this up to ordinary TV's?

If it's only HDMI means the only way is via adaptors, which most are expensive due to the need to convert the signal format.

A Beta Fu7ture wrote:Since I live in Asia now, I'd have to import one of these anyway, so I'd just get the NTSC version but I'll still be pissed of on behalf of Europeans everywhere if Nintendo gimp yet another classic game release.

(Side note: Super Metroid did actually receive some optimization at the time to partially speed correct it.)

(Side note 2: That e-shop is horrible. The search function seems broken to the point that I couldn't even locate any NES games even when ticking only the NES box.)

A lot of games on the eshop does mention "This is the North American version of the game" which sort of implies 60Hz.

kawaiipikachu wrote:

A Beta Fu7ture wrote:Since I live in Asia now, I'd have to import one of these anyway, so I'd just get the NTSC version but I'll still be pissed of on behalf of Europeans everywhere if Nintendo gimp yet another classic game release.

(Side note: Super Metroid did actually receive some optimization at the time to partially speed correct it.)

(Side note 2: That e-shop is horrible. The search function seems broken to the point that I couldn't even locate any NES games even when ticking only the NES box.)

A lot of games on the eshop does mention "This is the North American version of the game" which sort of implies 60Hz.

Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Legend of Zelda, Legend of Zelda II, Ninja Gaiden, etc., all are US versions on the Wii U eShop. Would be harder to find a non US version I think.

As for the eShop: I could select only the Wii U NES games, but I didn't search by name. This web version still can be improved, but it does work.

A Beta Fu7ure wrote:
On that note: Can you still hook this up to ordinary TV's?

I don't know all the specifics, but I'm pretty sure it only has a HDMI port. Considering it doesn't even come with a power adapter (must use USB) I'm thinking they went super minimal with this.

The Shoemaker wrote:

A Beta Fu7ure wrote:
On that note: Can you still hook this up to ordinary TV's?

I don't know all the specifics, but I'm pretty sure it only has a HDMI port. Considering it doesn't even come with a power adapter (must use USB) I'm thinking they went super minimal with this.

If it only has HDMI this this adaptor here if you want to plug it into an older TV.

Still if you got a really old TV you could go all out like the guy in this video here.

That was much too long of a video for what he did, but it was actually pretty neat!