NES Classic Edition

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Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

Eh, I can buy that big box retailers like Walmart and Target might have taken a passing glance at the product listing and wrote it off as "another one of those dumb plug-and-play things that gather dust" and ordered their numbers accordingly.

But Gamestop, a company predicated around video games, a company that buys hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of licensed backpacks and bottle openers and candy tins with NES controller imagery and 8-bit Marios and Zeldas to hawk in their stores? They saw that Nintendo themselves were releasing an HDMI NES with a pretty killer lineup of the NES' greatest hits, and said to themselves, "How many of these can we move during peak gift-giving season? Like maybe 4 or 5 per store should be good, right?" Nuh-uh. Bullshit.

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Game Informer has a 2 page review (30" controller cord, WTF!) for the system. You can bet that they wanted to push it at their retail chains. Like I'd said earlier, Amazon would have easily ordered half a million of the NES CE.

Why is anyone surprised by this? Nintendo has been playing this game since the 1980s.

Just judging from the initial reaction this thing was going to be a monster hit. There's no fucking way Amazon and GameStop just decided not to order that many.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Why is anyone surprised by this? Nintendo has been playing this game since the 1980s.

Just judging from the initial reaction this thing was going to be a monster hit. There's no fucking way Amazon and GameStop just decided not to order that many.

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I'm not. That's why I quit supporting Nintendo.

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/thr...post1065060744

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Why is anyone surprised by this? Nintendo has been playing this game since the 1980s.

Just judging from the initial reaction this thing was going to be a monster hit. There's no fucking way Amazon and GameStop just decided not to order that many.

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I dunno, if it was the usual artificial shortage strategy they bungled it. Step one is pumping up demand and hype by having it "sold out" everywhere, step two is flooding the market right before Christmas. But they forgot step two. I think they must have legitimately thought it was a niche product.

if they'd thought it was niche, I doubt they'd have bothered developing it in the first place.
It might just be a stunt to bolster their brand.

The sale of aforementioned $5 roms.

Alright, the tool used has come a long way in just one week and has basically made the Classic what it should have been.

So far we've figured out how to remove the epilepsy filter and the next rev plans to have a controller hotkey to act as a home button so you don't need to hit reset.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/hakchi2-...p-tool.456256/

There aren't any spare buttons on the pad, though. Does that mean the other buttons on the Wii classic controller can be used for stuff now?

He's thinking down+select on a gamepad. Not sure for the classic controller.

They should be able to program something like "hold up, start, select, a, and b to reset to home."