5th November 2016, 8:23 AM
If I were designing the thing, I'd use original NES style plugs or USB (preferably original NES plugs to allow use of the full suite of accessories for the NES on this thing). I'd also add a cartridge slot for NES games, to allow me to plug in my old library on the new system. NES emulation has reached a point of perfect hardware simulation, so they shouldn't have to worry about compatibility issues (if they actually had the will to use fan's work online rather than reinventing the wheel). I would love to take my old library and flat out rip it onto such a system, save data and all. They could encode the files so they could "track" anyone who tried to upload their rips online to share. These are all idealized situations.
As it stands, like you I don't really want it for myself. It doesn't really offer me anything I don't already own, but hey, it might make a good gift for kids.
As it stands, like you I don't really want it for myself. It doesn't really offer me anything I don't already own, but hey, it might make a good gift for kids.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)