Supaboy (Portable SNES)

I don't think anyone is as excited about having a portable SNES as I am. I plan to pick this up on day one. Anyone else? I emailed Hyperkin about a release date and was told mid-October. I know its old news that came out of this years E3 but I didn't see any threads on this.

Hyperkin web site: http://hyperkin.com/index.php/supaboy-portable-pocket-snes-console.html/

Nice. I see they are out of stock - were they ever in stock / was there any preorders?

Thanks for the link.
 
I have a demo unit on it's way that I'm supposed to give feedback on... Should be here today according to the tracking number.
 
cwales - please let us know your thoughts. This is a great way for me to get back to the classics of SNES - Rock n roll racing!
 
Pretty cool, but I'd think a PSP is still better for practical reasons. But this would be cool to have, none-the-less.
 
cwales - please let us know your thoughts. This is a great way for me to get back to the classics of SNES - Rock n roll racing!



I have a demo unit on it's way that I'm supposed to give feedback on... Should be here today according to the tracking number.

Yes, please let us know what you think. I'm really curious about the pros & cons of this unit.
 
Pretty cool, but I'd think a PSP is still better for practical reasons.

+1

Though, SNES emulation on the PSP isn't 100%. This one runs the actual carts so that's a plus. And the inputs for controllers is another plus even though it's a little awkward. But the Sega Nomad had a 2P controller input and I remember it was pretty cool to have that option.
 
+1

Though, SNES emulation on the PSP isn't 100%. This one runs the actual carts so that's a plus. And the inputs for controllers is another plus even though it's a little awkward. But the Sega Nomad had a 2P controller input and I remember it was pretty cool to have that option.

I read an article recently that there isn't really anything that can do a 100% accurate emulation of a SNES. Here it is:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/...hz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator.ars
 
The reason for the controller ports is that it can also be hooked up to a TV and played like a normal console.

First impressions: There's a high pitched noise constantly when it's on and the viewing angle for the screen is really weird. Like you don't look directly at it, you tip it down a little. Seems odd. It's comfortable to hold, there was no screw holding the battery cover on.. but maybe it's because it's a test unit? Why would there not be a screw in the test unit. There's a green LED on the bottom that I don't know what is for because it's labeled "LED".. low battery maybe? The sound is quiet.. but it's loud in here with the music playing and 22 arcade games going.. headphones sound good besides the high pitched noise which was present in both Mario Kart and Super Mario World. It comes with a little bag to keep it in, a power supply, some AV cables to hook it to a TV...

I don't really get the noise thing. Other than that, I'd say it was a good product, the other things are just nitpicking. After playing it a bit the viewing angle is pretty comfortable and how I would hold it anyhow.

Here are some bad ipad photos to enjoy. As you can see I have test unit 37.
 

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there was no screw holding the battery cover on.. but maybe it's because it's a test unit? Why would there not be a screw in the test unit.

Thanks for the review. Maybe because they know that screws in the battery cover are annoying :)

I think $80 is pushing it, but still a neat unit.
 
Just tried it connected to a TV and it's really nice.. but does not do anything a SNES can't do and I think an original unit might be more reliable hardware wise. Something else of note, when it's plugged into a TV the controls go dead.. you need to use a real controller.
 
Can it play games from different regions (Europe & Japan for example)? Come across any games that it isn't compatible with? It looks like cheap plastic how does it feel in your hands?
 
Can it play games from different regions (Europe & Japan for example)? Come across any games that it isn't compatible with? It looks like cheap plastic how does it feel in your hands?

I don't have any non-US games here right now but it says on the box that it can play them. It feels pretty solid to hold. It's played everything I've tried including Star Fox.
 
I don't have any non-US games here right now but it says on the box that it can play them. It feels pretty solid to hold. It's played everything I've tried including Star Fox.

You can send it to me, I'll test my Final Fantasy 5 cart on it. ;)

I'll let Steve look at it while it's here? :D

Seriously though, from what I've seen bSNES is about as close as you can get to perfect emulation. There's no tricks, hacks speedup, etc. I downloaded it last night but haven't had a chance to try it out because I'm at work for 12 hours today!

Can't wait to give some games that have giving me emulation bad mojo in the past...like Tetris Attack.
 
bsnes runs like ass on both my PCs, including my new Dual core AMD with 6GB of RAM laptop...

I appreciate what it's goals are, but it's not an emulator for actually PLAYING games on. It's more like MAME, for SNES games.
 
Pretty sure the author made exactly that point in his article and on the website.

It's not about what you can do with it today, it's what you can do with it 5...10..15 years down the road when computing power can deal with it, and legacy programs like SNES9x are totally obsoleted by moves away from 32-bit because they're no longer maintained.

How long has it taken us to even take the baby steps away from 32-bit, and we still can't convince the OS makers to take the full plunge despite the massive benefits. We have games out there using way more than 4GB of texture memory, but yet, the developers refuse to write 64-bit native clients for them...it's just absurd.

I expect that 64-bit will be around for much longer than it SHOULD be, and long enough to provide more than satisfactory results with bSNES. :)
 
bsnes runs pretty great on my 6 core Phenom II. It maxes out one core when paused :) I haven't used it much but what little I have seems to run perfectly. Hell even Star Fox runs great. I couldn't figure it out for a long time...until I read the damn manual and realized I had to "clean" my roms :p
 
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