Do a forum for nintendo classic mini consoles

[Alex4nder001]

Title says it all. There should be a thread for discussing the Nintendo classic mini consoles (e.g. NES/SNES mini or N64 mini), and for hacking and adding games, homebrew etc...
IK homebrew doesn't exist for them yet, but I saw a video of somebody running an N64 emulator on his SNES mini:
(Well it's the motherboard from the SNES mini. Just read the video description and you'll see, don't let the video title deceive you).

 

[Pedeadstrian]

Title says it all. There should be a thread for discussing the Nintendo classic mini consoles (e.g. NES/SNES mini or N64 mini), and for hacking and adding games, homebrew etc...
IK homebrew doesn't exist for them yet, but I saw a video of somebody running an N64 emulator on his SNES mini:

If you want a thread discussing this then make one yourself, but it'd be silly for the mods to make subforums for every single console and console revision. May I point you to https://gbatemp.net/forums/other-consoles-oldies.165/ ?

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Actually, that's not a bad idea

 

[Reploid]

Yeah, let's give each half-assed emulator or half-assed Chinese tablet their own forum.

 

[smileyhead]

"I saw a guy turn his SNES Mini into an N64 Mini, let's make it its own subforum now!"
Excuse me what

But subforums for the official Nintendo Classic Minis wouldn't be that bad of an idea.

 

[migles]

a subforum for "mini consoles" would be cool
forum with 2 categories, 1 for official nintendo mini consoles, and a second category for non official ones and DYI style of emulation consoles

 

[HamBone41801]

a subforum for "mini consoles" would be cool
forum with 2 categories for official nintendo mini consoles, and a second category for non official ones and DYI style of emulation consoles

This sounds like the right way to go about it.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

a subforum for "mini consoles" would be cool
forum with 2 categories for official nintendo mini consoles, and a second category for non official ones and DYI style of emulation consoles

That's kinda what I imagined it'd be when I saw this, yeah

 

[DinohScene]

Has been suggested a couple of times before.

 

[p1ngpong]

Mini consoles are the fad of the month at the moment, you could easily make threads about them in the general computing and gaming sections. To create a new forum sub section you have to expect it to be able to drive at least a few dozen threads and a few hundred posts at least per month for a good while to be justified. Mini consoles probably don't have the ability to create that kind of demand, on GBAtemp at least.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

This has been suggested a few times now, and the answer still remains the same: There's not enough interest for an entire dedicated section/subsection. Why do we need an entire section for products that could be discussed in essentially two or three threads?

Maybe if other sections started getting spammed with dozens or 100s of separate discussions about mini consoles, we'd consider a subsection for them, but as it stands now, 4 or 5 threads doesn't really constitute a whole new subsection.

EDIT: Damn p1ngpong