Best portable Famiclone from AliExpress
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Best portable Famiclone from AliExpress
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I'm looking to buy a nice portable Famiclone (with SD Card support) on AliExpress.
Any recommendations?
I'm looking to buy a nice portable Famiclone (with SD Card support) on AliExpress.
Any recommendations?
Re: Best portable Famiclone from AliExpress
If there's SD card support, it's not a famiclone anymore, just an emulator console.
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Not necessarily, it can be a NES-on-a-chip with an SD card interface. That's what I'm looking for.
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That would require embedding a flashcart, which means either badly limited mapper support or too expensive for China to do, and so it doesn't exist.
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There are VT369 handheld famiclones with a microSD slot. They can run mapper 0 and mapper 4 games (because the VT369's OneBus mapper is basically an extremely-extended MMC3). Here is one of them.
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Why do you not want a handheld emulator? Those will typically support other systems as well, which some folks would see as a bonus.
If you prefer a genuine famiclone for some reason, you could get one with a cartridge connector, then put in a flash cart. Again, not sure what your goals or requirements are or how much you plan to spend.
If you prefer a genuine famiclone for some reason, you could get one with a cartridge connector, then put in a flash cart. Again, not sure what your goals or requirements are or how much you plan to spend.
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Most important thing is the quality of the controller. If the D-PAD is unresponsive, you can't actually play the games.
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Re: Best portable Famiclone from AliExpress
I'd like to know if there's a VT-family clone with the second APU feature that lets you supply your own ROMs (with a famicom or NES cartridge slot, or otherwise something easy to use), for testing and research purposes.
It's been hard to try to find one, though, as products using them don't tend to advertise what's inside, and aren't usually long-term products so it's hard to find specific known ones.
It's been hard to try to find one, though, as products using them don't tend to advertise what's inside, and aren't usually long-term products so it's hard to find specific known ones.
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It would be useful if there was a cheap famiclone/emulator-console that had a cart slot and an SD card slot - that could be a cheap method of dumping carts. But I suspect those two things - cart slot and SD card slot - would end up making it expensive.
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The existing dumping methods aren't particularly expensive?
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Are most NES emulators generally more accurate to NES hardware than NoaCs are?Ben Boldt wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 3:53 pm Why do you not want a handheld emulator? Those will typically support other systems as well, which some folks would see as a bonus.
If you prefer a genuine famiclone for some reason, you could get one with a cartridge connector, then put in a flash cart. Again, not sure what your goals or requirements are or how much you plan to spend.
If so, while not surprising in this day and age, it does show how much NES emulation has progressed since the '90s.
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Emulators still have issues with audio and video lag, whereas hardware that can generate a video and audio signal in realtime has no lag.
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Thank you so much for the replies, guys!
I think I'll take your suggestion and use a genuine Famiclone with a cartridge connector.
Yeah, I actually bought this one a while ago, I can't say I'm satisfied. I didn't know it could only run mapper 0 and 4, that explains why many games simply won't boot. Not only that, some games, such as MicroMages, get really glitchy as well. The battery life is very underwhelming and the LCD screen distorts the pixels a little bit. Now for the positives, the controls are quite responsive and when I hook it to a TV the image is quite alright.NewRisingSun wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:36 am There are VT369 handheld famiclones with a microSD slot. They can run mapper 0 and mapper 4 games (because the VT369's OneBus mapper is basically an extremely-extended MMC3). Here is one of them.
Well I'm also considering getting an Ambernic soon, but I have a special fondness for FamiclonesBen Boldt wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 3:53 pm Why do you not want a handheld emulator? Those will typically support other systems as well, which some folks would see as a bonus.
If you prefer a genuine famiclone for some reason, you could get one with a cartridge connector, then put in a flash cart. Again, not sure what your goals or requirements are or how much you plan to spend.
I think I'll take your suggestion and use a genuine Famiclone with a cartridge connector.