Subj : Nintendo NES Classic
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : alliekbean
Date : Wed Dec 14 2016 21:14:00

  Re: Nintendo NES Classic
  By: Richard Menedetter to Alliekbean on Tue Dec 13 2016 09:35:00

 >  al> I think from the teardowns they've done it's actually a Linux machine
 >  al> running Nintendo's own emulator software, which is likely superior to
 >  al> the FOSS stuff since Nintendo has all the specs and other information
 >  al> to make an accurate emulator.
 >
 > The open source emulators are extremely versatile.
 > I do not believe that there is a difference between them and the Nintendo
 > one. The amount of testing and development is far bigger for the OSS
 > emulators.

I'm certainly not saying the open source emulators are bad. They're really
amazing, especially considering they're entirely reverse engineered. But there
are some places where they're not quite accurate or there are still little
problems, and Nintendo's own emulators don't have as many issues since they
didn't have to reverse engineer anything.

 >  al> I still kind of want one for my family since it comes with most of our
 >  al> favorite games and is way more approachable to them than a retropi.
 >  al> But I've not ruled out putting together a retropi for them either.
 >
 > Other emulators with changeable ROMs also have all your favorites ;)

True, but the rest of my family aren't computer geeks. :) So the easier the
better for them! I still may build a retropi at some point, though.

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