Karnov at 14:00. You're welcome viewers of this video.

"When you do this nothing happens at all. So don't do this" classic game sack

You'd think considering that it costs 500 bucks, that they'd make the cartridge slot more stable.

You guys deserve way more subs.. just saying

AVS, for the money ($185), is the clear winner for me. All I needed was for my NES carts to look and play great on my 55" HDTV. Mission accomplished ! and I took the extra $300 I saved from not buying an Nt Mini and bought a brand new Nintendo Switch with the money. :)

2am and i was just about to head to bed, I love you game sack!

i love you guys, i hope you never stop making this videos, ever.

On something that costs $500.00 the carts shouldnt wobble. Really no excuse for that.

Nothing in this world excites me more than a new Game Sack video appearing at the top of my youtube feed

Yet another in depth and helpful review of a piece of pretty darn cool hardware. Thank you guys for taking the time to make videos like these! They're fun and just so happen to be informative!

I bought the NT Mini and absolutely love it. I also think it's not for everyone but if you really want the best way of experiencing NES/Famicom, this is it. I also have an AVS and Hi-def NES, because I wanted to compare them, and the NT mini really just blows the others out of the water, in my opinion. The hi-def NES has sound accuracy problems and some very popular games trigger a bug in the NES PPU that causes random corrupt scanlines, but is otherwise good. The AVS has very limited picture options and I had compatibility issues that were fixed with beta firmwares, but then in the betas my Everdrive had issues with it and the menu randomly corrupts itself.. krikzz just told someone who asked about it to use a real NES. And now I have no problems running anything straight off the sd card or cartridge slots in the NT mini on any of my tvs. No corrupt scanlines, no incorrect sound, no compatibility issues I've found.. the resolution and scaling options are great for any tv/monitor, and there are tons of other consoles kevtris is adding every week with no signs of stopping soon. the mapper support of the NES core blows the Everdrive out of the water, even supporting weird bootleg games like Mortal Kombat 3 or Pokemon Yellow for NES!

The production and quality of this channel just blows me away, top job guys!

when he first lifted it up to the camera before saying what it was, i thought he was holding a neo-geo game. no joke.

It's unreal how good your content is. Thanks for putting this review out.

I ate some chicken taquitos earlier, and now I have blast processing, too.

It cost more than modern systems nowadays .

been watching your reviews for a few years now.you guys deserve more subs.

So much aaaasssss!

Wow I LOVE the music you guys used for the credits, I assumed it was "Xevious - Xevious Hurry" from the ending titles but I couldn't find info about it anywhere. Anyone know where is it from? Or who did the arrangement? Anyway, I love your reviews of consoles like this one, I didn't even know it existed.

FYI 31.6 ounces = 0.895844931 kilograms

HDMI port i think is the only feature that appeals to me personally. Im still happy with my original NES!

So glad the exasperated gamer is back! Asssssss!

I always love a fresh sack.

waiting for a Game Sack episode for 2 weeks is just like skipping time. watch a few dozen epidoes after the new one comes out and its already time for another new episode ( this is not rly muchof a hate comment coz I and others know how hard living in youtube's middle tier and to produce episodes ranging from 25 mins to 45 mins must be exhausting) and to Joe, Dave and Jen of Game Sack, keep up the gud work!!! =D

6:15 Joe has outdone himself with fantastic humour. I'm just pissing myself laughing.

For $500 I expect perfection

This is the best show on KZfaq period!!!

Loved the review! A couple of extra details if I may. Kevtris is not only the person who jailbroke the device, he's also the main engineer for it. So you could argue the jailbroken firmware is actually more official than the one provided by Analogue (which is also made by Kevtris). He also added SMS lightgun functionality to his To Do list during a stream with RetroRGB. Expansion sound chips are automatically detected and enabled when playing roms with headers from the SD slot. He's putting a lot of work on the cores since he will reuse them for his Zimba 3000 console which is another FPGA system he's planning to release soon, that one will be capable of 16-bit stuff and possibly even more. Finally, his nickname comes from a puzzle game he created, that's why it sounds like Kevin and Tetris.

I have been a sub for quite some time and I love the content and channel , but I have got to say I have never laughed so hard until I saw joe ranting into that mic! Comedy gold , keep up the great work

I like every game sack video because it's game sack. Nuff said

Thank you for producing this show guys. It really brings me back to 1996.

Great review, as expected :D

Great video guys! Glad to see these older consoles getting the much needed love they *deserve*. If I ever have kids, you better believe they'll start out with the classics *first* if only to give them prospective.

Loved that AVGN reference at the end. XD

Still the only real review for the Nt Mini that I have seen. Liked the parody at the end, too. 22:22-22:42. After ten seconds, I couldn't help but shout "Stop making that hand gesture!"

4:17 - ZX spectrum gamers had to live with visuals like that.

That pal support makes this super tempting, because of the pal region variant systems and having to buy one of each.

It's currently cheaper than the NES Classic Mini (judging what I saw for pricing), plus has more functionality (and play a lot more games legally). Definitely a better option for the money.

Vomitron!!! Gotta love the ability to use vgmusic without getting dinged for the original songs :D

Vomitron supplying some NES awesomeness background music hell yes

1:45 Still the funniest thing I have ever seen on this channel.

The skit in the end made my day xD

You guys make the best reviews of the world in my opinion, I love retro, it would also be very cool to see you guys making reviews for newer titles, like Breath of the Wild? :)

hi Joe!

That spinning triangular aperture effect with focus transition is like eye candy. and that fish-eye to normal cam shot of the board is pretty neat. Some requests if you cover more GBA games: V-Rally 3, Ekks vs. Sever, and hot wheels stunt track challenge.

great review! lol I didn't realize the neogeo controller was the same connector as the fami expansion port

FYI, Kevtris' custom firmware is allowed by Analogue because Kevtris is the developer of Analogue's official firmware as well :P If i'm not mistaken, he's the one that programmed the FPGA to begin with.

Finally! Dave is revewing a system with Joe and it's not just Joe!

Love the random death metal blast beat when Joe was taking about choosing your favorite color

Very Great Video!!! I found out they were making this thing shortly after getting my AVS. Really wish i could have got the Nt manly for the Analog out, but the other features like playing roms from an SD card is pretty awesome

SG1000 was released in New Zealand /Australia and the SC3000, which plays the same games was also released in Europe. I have a PAL version.

Oh my goodness the ending was excellent keep up the good work guys

Fc twin, circa 2007 was a godsend for my retro gaming back then.

In the timing section where they were testing the lag, the marvelous, perfect, and great is a dance dance revolution reference

Jaysus, that thing has more options than my PC.

Thank you so much for this great review! I got it at launch and threw it in the corner after I had problems getting RGB to work. Monoprice wants 60 USD to ship stuff and the Analogue manual has errors in the pin out section of the manual. Now I have the energy to try again =) Thanks, you two guys! =)

I love your videos. You guys are smart and also very funny, i have to laugh out loud several times almost every episode. And i allways know a little more about gaming after watching your content. Great work!!

Hey Game Sack, another great episode. Always good to see you guys add stuff like hardware reviews to your repertoire. Do you plan to release any more Blu-rays? Thanks for all your great videos.

Looks cool, but soo expensive 😲 Glad you used my Phatasy Star track there 😄

Interesting. But I'll wait until I hear Bob Cornhole's opinion before deciding to get one.

That custom firmware sounds awesome, especially for game gear and fds!

I pre-ordered this last year because I missed out on the original Analogue. I didn't even know it would play multiple systems.. just bought it for NES alone.

The problem with putting anything on the NES slot to prevent wobbling is it would get in the way of the disk system adapter.

RetroUSB AVS has ZERO wobble. ;)

The SG-1000 was also released in New Zealand as the 'Sega 1000'. I heard rumours of an Australian version, but I can't confirm that one.

Ordinarily I would never buy something this expensive just to play NES games, but I was kinda put on the spot at Thanksgiving by my parents about Christmas and it was the first thing that came to mind for some reason. They agreed to pay for half of it and gave me the money at Christmas and I felt awkward not buying it at that point so I did. Honestly I love the thing. Let me reduce two systems to one, both the games and the system itself look fantastic, I don't have to worry about emulation issues like with clone consoles, and I can play ROM hacks through the SD slot which is nice. Much like you guys I also prefer to use an actual NES pad with the thing, and the fact that I can is awesome.

I think this thing boils down to the user having two specific qualities: 1. A giant NES library and 2. Being obsessed with video and audio quality. If you have #1 there is a good chance you spend a lot of money on your NES collection (unless you got it all 15+ years ago). Considering how pricey NES games have gotten, $500 for the ultimate NES console doesn't seem that out of the question. And of course if the user is #2 this console does appear to offer the highest quality and most complete customization of video and audio. But if you have a smaller NES collection that is supplemented by ROMs to play games like Little Sampson and you just want HDMI out and a decent HDTV display, there are much cheaper emulation devices that will adequately meet your needs.

Great review, guys! It looks like a very capable system for real retro enthusiasts, but I think, as you said, it's just too expensive for someone like me (who's happy playing ROMs on an HDTV) to justify. With that in mind, I wondered which method/system you guys favour right now as a multi-console emulation solution for HDTV? Raspberry Pi? Hacked NES Classic? Hacked older games console (such as Xbox 360)? Or maybe even one of these Android sticks like an Amazon Fire or GameStick?

At this price, it should not have any negative point, you should expect perfection

$200 and I'd consider it. $500 just sounds like the devs trying to see how much they can get away with charging for it.

The v2 is up for preorder now and boasts a “new and perfected NES cartridge slot”!

Me: (Sees ad for analogue) OH MAN that looks crazy nice! Also me: (sees price) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAH But forreal, idea, wonderful, build, great, price? Insane. Not even worth that price if it DID play more than just NES/FMC games. Side note: I'm running out of GameSack videos to watch that I haven't already seen and I'm kinda sad about it. Just found this channel a few months ago and have to say initially the acting killed me, and I was like, I can't watch another episode of that.. but then.... I missed it.. and needed more of it in my life and now I've watched almost every one of your videos.. Keep it up guys, easily one of my most favorite channels on here!

"...when you do this nothing will happen, so don't do this" proceeds to still show it. I'm dying lol

Open it up and adjust every prong on the cartridge port and you will have no connection problems. I did this with every Nes I owned and I never blow into the game. Connected properly 100% after that.

Now that the Analogue Super NT is up for pre-order, I hope they do a revision of the NT Mini that brings the cost down. It's "out of stock" and still lists at $450 where the Super NT is $189. If they brought the price of the NT Mini rev 2.0 down to maybe the $150 range, that would be pretty fantastic. The fact that these have options to output analogue signals to CRT's is what has me sold on them. My current setup is quite nice and I use an CRT but my NES is the only console I own that is still on composite. Be able to run component out of it through an NT Mini would be fantastic...but not at $450 haha. Great episode guys as it definitely gives me some ideas for the future!

this is a excelent review, good job

I think you needed to inspect the scanlines a little closer, Joe. The close up needed to be more EXTREEEEEME.

oh god i love the ending skits

To all the morons in here bashing the console, this is not an "emulation machine", it's a hardware simulation. The FPGA accurately simulates the hardware without any OS, APIs, emulator cores (GS describes these hardware cores incorrectly) or other nonsense in the way of just accurately cloning the system. No, your raspberry pi can not do lag-less simulation of NES games. No, not even your tricked out i7 can do it, because there's an OS in the way. If someone is looking for 100% accurate gaming (w/o lag) in 1080p (with pixel scaling), then this is the ultimate product.

Props for music from Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu. It's one of my favourite NES games ever and I think it's criminally overlooked.

Nothing better than some Sunday morning Sack. :D

I love Game Sack episodes that feature Joe freaking out like a madman.

Nice to see you guy's advocating Emulation for a change. Question, why hasn't Dave ever said " Hello. And Welcome to Game Sack " PS: I'm certified as Dyslexic. So I can get away with starting a sentence with a conjunction. " . "

23:02 David is such a chill person

You guys are *killing* it lately!

Excellent episode, i love that ending.

i just sold a bunch of stuff too and have enough to get one... but im on the fence when hearing that the extra cores aren't perfect yet....

At 8:06 how is the Psycho Fox like game called? (Kid Kool?) Thanks Joe and Dave for your great shows every two weeks. Like them very much.

Playing black metal when he says it's up to you wether you get the black or gray version. Nice touch.

The sg1000 was also released here in New Zealand as the Grandstand :) I can barely find anything about them online but I played one once as a kid :)

loving that metal Zelda dungeon music

Sack time!

Please have more episodes with Joe Cornhole. Ed Cornhole? Mr Cornhole.

Kevtris also wrote the early Colecovision homebrew Tetris like game called "Kevtris"

That moment with the shouting in the mic still cracks me up...

i love these review episodes (granted i love all your episodes). even though everyone and their mom is doing it right now, if you guys reviewed the nintendo switch i'd actually trust your review more than i'd trust the ones that everyone and their mom are doing. especially their mom. i mean what the hell does she know about video games?

Seriously, this thing is so great. You are getting around 20 different 8 Bit systems in one console, all with Everdrive like ability to play ROM's off of the SD card. I would never sell mine, not even for the crazy prices they are going for on Ebay now.

Even if I had that kind of disposable income, the unstable cartridge slot and lack of save states would be deal breakers at that price. Fix those issues and I'd be tempted to start saving up for one.

I watched that vid for like 10th time at least, and I'm always impressed how thorough this review is ,)