 Hi, my name is Luke. I'm addicted to retro games. It all started when I was about 10. My brother and I did chores around the house for cash until we saved up enough money for mom to buy us a Super Nintendo off some creepy dude that I was scared of at the time. Ever since then, I've been hooked. And I don't just play the games. I read books about them, like the figurines of the characters. I just can't stop. I even brought my obsession to work. Fortunately for me, my job's really cool, and that's OK here. So today I get to check out the Analog NT Mini. Beyond being the most beautifully crafted piece of console hardware that I have ever laid my hands on, it's got amazing under the hood capabilities, too, with a 1080p capable HDMI out and an RGB all in one output for NES and Famicom games. And it can be yours for $449. That's $449. Zotac's Magnus EN10 mini gaming PC is VR and AAA gaming ready. Check it out at the link in the video description. Everything about this is the Cadillac experience. This is the most comprehensive IOS setup I could imagine for a NES or a Famicom. You've got all the obvious stuff, power button, power input, whatever. But most of the rest of this is going to look pretty exotic. There are two thoughtfully padded cartridge slots on the top that allow both the NES and Famicom games from any region to be played natively without any form of adapters. On the front, you'll find a whopping four console inputs for the handful of games that can take advantage of this. And moving around to the back, there's a USB charging port for the included low latency wireless controller that can be used to power the system on for a surprisingly modern feeling experience. The SD card slot can be used for all kinds of fun. More on that later. Then moving back around the back, we find a Famicom expansion port helpfully labeled in Japanese for compatibility with obscure accessories like the Famicom Disk System. And what? It even has a mic jack for the tiny number of Famicom games that could actually use a microphone. Fun fact, Wind Waker was not the first Zelda game to pull this bullsh** off. Audio outputs are standard, but video is another story. You get this analog output port that can be adapted with a breakout cable to pretty much anything you could want. And it has native HDMI, which is much more challenging to do properly than you might think. More on that later. Which leads us finally to the internals. Conveniently enjoyable through the window in the bottom of the unit. An odd choice, but nerds will like it. I like it. It's actually on the other side of this PCB where you find the heart and soul of the system, the Altera Cyclone V FPGA hardware, which has been custom configured by an electrical engineer with over 5,000 hours of experience re-engineering FPGA systems for absolute NES accuracy. This is incredibly important. And this is what you are paying for. The Nt mini is not some random emulation box. In fact, it's not an emulation box at all. Instead of writing a bunch of software code to fake the functionality of Nintendo's original hardware, everything is done in HDL, or hardware definition language. This is how they achieved an identical experience to the original NES. 100% compatibility, 100% accuracy, zero additional lag. But is it actually solid? I threw everything that I had at it and experienced no issues whatsoever that weren't caused by my dusty old carts. This is not the experience that I've had with other off-brand retro systems that I've tried. And I do acknowledge that I don't have every game on Earth, but I couldn't find a single instance of anyone online having any issues either. There's even a new game that came out like not that long ago. Why people are still making games for NES, I don't know. But it works. It uses all four controller ports. It's all fine. But back to the Nt mini. How can an HDMI output claim to be faithful to the original experience? Well, this is not your dad's HDMI output. Or if your dad had one, I guess it would have been. But anyways, if you experience lag, it's your TV or monitor. There is no external converter to add latency. The HDMI transmitter is top notch, and the settings menu has extensive color, audio, and scanline tweaks for nerds. And I know you could save a buck by running the majority of these games on something like a Raspberry Pi. But if you're a purist, this is reference quality, which is hard to achieve without lugging a CRT around your house like I do. The Nt mini is objectively better than emulation and functionally better than even the original console. Which brings us back to that SD card slot. The Nt mini has been jailbroken. Their words, not mine. This allows you to dump cartridges you own into ROM files directly on that SD card, and even play ROMs right off of it without using emulation. You can use save states and run save files, though I will judge you just a little. You should even be able to use it to load additional FPGA cores, then with controller and cartridge adapters play other retro games on a similar hardware level, like Sega Master System games, Game Gear, ColecaVision, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, Adventure Vision, Super Vision, RCA Studio 2, and more. There's like 20 plus of them. And then on top of that, you've got an NSF player for tunes, a built-in Game Genie if you want to screw around, and an extensive settings menu that would have merited its own entire video if I had my way. But this video is near ending, and it is conclusion time. There are many other solutions, most of them cheaper. Some of them I've mentioned already, others like the Framemeister low latency analog to digital converter and upscaler that I haven't. And there are pros and cons to all. I don't plan to sell my Framemeister because it's still useful for other consoles like the SNES PS1 or even Xbox 360, and I also don't own this. This is works. Framemeister's mine. But this NT Mini, in my humble opinion, is the best way to play games that will be supported by Kevtris' FPGA core releases. It delivers everything from a reference to a highly customizable experience, and does it in a compact, beautiful package that will look great in your man cave. Just add friends and beer, assuming you have any money left over for beer or friends. Freshbooks is the accounting software for small businesses and freelancers. It's cloud-based so you can always get at it, meaning that all those tools it has, expense tracking, hour tracking, the ability to create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds, are always at your fingertips. It's also designed for the way that you work so you can accept payments on your terms. 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If you want to see another video, click this one, which is the link to the analog and 8-bit dough controller video, which is like this thing literally right here. It comes in the box when you buy the Nt mini, you get it. So if you're interested in buying the Nt video, you might as well watch that video so you see the other thing that you get in the box. That was a lot of words to explain that you should watch controller video. See you next time.