Nintendo Classic Mini - NES Coming on November 11th (30 NES games)

cmdrmarc

Must have been another small batch as OOS again

Inked

Yeah, only lasted a few minutes

G a f f e r

Firstly: Happy Crimbo everyone


Secondly: Yaaaaaay - my 3m controller extensions arrived (£2.52 each from eBay):

                                                                                                                                               

Now I can sit where I do for the PS4 .

However, there were a few weird issues to start with:

The male part of the extension leads have that clear plastic hook that you hook the wiimote cord into, but they won't fit side by side in the NES as there's no room. You have to have one without that hook (the left controller) so I broke it off one of them to allow them both to fit in.

Once done I plugged them both in and connected the controllers....and.....nada. Zilch. Dead.
No matter what I tried, they wouldn't work. Cursing the cheap Chinese crap I had bought, I decided to try one extension at a time.......yaay, now the official controller worked all of a sudden on one extension lead. The other extension lead didn't.
So I tried both extensions with the Wii controller one at a time and the lights came on both times (I modded my classic controller years ago to have blue light come through the A and B buttons)....so now I knew the power was actually coming through OK. However, only the extension in controller 1 would work with actual button presses in game (the one plugged into port 1).

Now I had to figure out why the second extension appeared to not work.
I tried the NES controller into both extension leads daisy chained (i.e. making a 6m extension lead) and the NES controller still worked fully. So now I knew the internal wires for both extensions had integrity.

Maybe the small NES could only power 1x 3m extension at a time?

I then plugged each extension lead into each controller port (1 & 2) and the NES and Wii controllers into them (as I had done at the very beginning) but now all of a sudden everything worked as it should

So I now have the NES controller in port 1 and the Wii controller in port 2, both on 3m extension leads and everything works fine. Coming home from work today and powering it up and everything still works as it should.

I have no idea why the extensions "slowly" came to life as if being phased in or something, but suffice it to say, if you buy these and find they don't immediately work, persevere and they might after a bit of fiddling.


Top Tip #2

Don't fancy standing up to press the RESET button for a game change? Just press the HOME button on the Wii controller instead - takes you nicely back to the home screen

hippo99

Maybe you had a 1 player game loaded all those previous tests

Seriously though, maybe it was something as simple as you had a bit of grit in port 2 (on the NES mini) which meant it wasn't connecting properly. With your multiple test, plugging in/out it eventually 'cleaned' the contacts in port 2 & is working properly now. Other than that, I can't think of any other explanation.

Tooms

Double Dragon 2 -- woo hoo

May need to get some of those extenders !!

hutch

Had the NES Mini open since Christmas day and must have had it switched on for about a total of 5 minutes, the thought of retro gaming always excites me but the reality is unfortunately way different

w3dal

Mines still in its box since release day, no idea when it will get played if ever but I just wanted one

rhubarb4

Yes CEX have them in stock at a lovely cheap price of £130 [emoji50]

Tooms

I introduced the kids to Bubble Bobble last night !! Not sure they got it !!

gingerone

My all time favourite arcade game