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NES Classic Mini Guide

Nintendo Classic Mini

I. What is NES mini?

Nintendo Classic Mini is a small video gaming console, released by Nintendo in 2016. It is an emulating system and it allows you to play a selection of 30 NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) games. The console is much smaller, than the actual NES and has different inputs. Instead of RF or AV Inputs it has an HDMI port. The system is powered via a micro-USB cable. The is no possibility to use real cartridges with this system: the console has a new menu and officially only allows to play the games which are installed on the internal memory.

Important:



II. Contents

The box contains the console, a USB to Micro-USB cable, an HDMI cable, a manual and one gaming pad with a rather short cable (76 cm long).

Other nice pics can be found here.

III. Console

The dimensions are: 125 mm x 100 mm x 45 mm. The console weights only about 175 g.

The design is the same (except the inputs) as the original nes.

On the front the console has a red LED to show its power state and buttons POWER and RESET. On the top and the bottom there are ventilation stripes to release the heat. The controller ports are the same, as on the Wii remote. On the back side there is a micro-USB port and an HDMI port.

The official internal naming is CLV-001 (clover).

Inpur voltage: 5V.

IV. Technical specs

V. Controller

The gaming pad has the same connector type as Wii’s remote and you actually can use this pad with Wii (e.g. for Virtual Console games) or those classic gaming controllers from Wii with NES classic (their home button acts as RESET button of the Nes Mini). The size and the overall design of the controller it exactly the same as of the original (except the texts on the back side are different). Only the cable connector and cable length is different.

The official internal naming is CLV-002 (clovercon)

The length of the cable is 76 cm, but you can buy extensions from third party sellers.

VI. List of games

The following games (US releases and all games are in English) are installed on the NES Mini. There is no official possibility to add more games.

The following video by GameXplain shows every game from this list:

VII. Connection

This device is a plug-n-play in the very sense of this term. You only need to connect it via an HDMI cable (included) to the TV or monitor and power using the Micro USB cable (included). If your TV has a USB port, you can use it, but some TVs don’t provide enough current. Otherwise you can use any smartphone power supply or adapter, which can connect to USB. Of course, don’t forget to connect the controller. That is all.

VII. Main Menu

As soon as the console starts, you will be presented by a list of 30 games. Navigate with arrows and press start, to start the chosen game. There are also video settings, main settings, language settings, legal notices and qr-codes for manuals : all in the top part of the screen (press up to navigate there). In the bottom part (if you press down) are the save states of the games. You can also sort games by title, number of players, year, publisher, etc using the select button.

Following icons appear on the game’s card:

Saving games

As soon as you exit a game (using the reset button), the current state of the game is shown as a small window with wings. You can press A to save it into one of four saving slots. Per game there are 4 slots to save in. To move the save slot, press select and then press LEFT/RIGHT to move and A to place. To delete a save slot, press SELECT and then move the slot to the trash bin. You can lock a saved game by pressing Down on it, then a small yellow lock will appear on the screenshot of the save.

Loading games

Navigate to a game and press down to enter the saving slots area. Select a slot to load and press A to load it.



Display Settings

The Video output is either in 480p or 720p. You can switch between three video modes:

Sadly, there is no stretch mode (for 16:9 aspect ratio), but you can use your TV settings to adjust it. But… many modern TVs (e.g. OLED from LG) have an option called Zoom in all direction all All direction zoom, where you can adjust the stretching manually (just like if it were a scaler like Framemeister!). You can set your TV to this apect ratio mode, set the game to Perfect Pixel, and stretch the image in the TV options wider. The flickering issues is no problem and you have your needed aspect ratio.

The YouTube channel mylifeingaing provides a very professional analysis of the video output:

Another freat video is from Digital Foundry:

Options

Here you can enable following options:

Languages

You can choose the system language between: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Russian. This only applies to the system menus, all games are in English and NTSC roms are used.

X. Adding more games/Hackchi

Russian user Cluster created a frontend and used some tools originally written by another user, madmonkey, which allow you to add more games to the system.

In order to do it, you need to connect your console to a pc and download and run the hackchi2 tool (from here).

The tool not only allows to add games, but also will search for arts (or allow to add they manually), will add game information from internal database and will let you sort or organize games on the console. You will also see the amount of free space. The programm is simple to use and you will find a ton of videos on the YouTube with simple step-by-step explanations. If you need to put the console to the FEL (debug/developer/hidden) mode, press RESET and while holding it, press POWER. The console will be recognized by the PC and the tool will be able to communicate with it.

What else is possible with hackchi2:

 

After you unpack the tool and start it, you can add games via drag and drop or File->Add More Games. Or via a button in the left down corner (under the game list). Press synchronize selected games with NES mini and the tool will show you what to do next. You will need to install a driver (if it’s not installed) and then press+hold RESET and then press Power to enter the EFL mode. After that the tool will be able to work with nes mini without any other interactions. On the very first run the tool will create a dump of the system core. After that it will only update the changed kernel.

In my situation (all drivers are already installed) I only need to connect the console to the pc and turn it on: hackchi sees it, without any dev mode.

In the right list the added games are listed. In the right panel you can check the information about the game or adjust options.

Following information is displayed:



Main Menu

File

 

Kernel

 

Modules

Via this options you can install other emulators or other tools or changes. These are extra plug ins, and are not necessary.

The list of modules may look like this:

This list contains e.g. other emulators or mods/hacks.

Settings

 

Tools

I haven’t used these and if you don’t know how to use it, just ignore it. The Save-State manager allows you to manage your save files.

Help

XI. What else

XII. Where do I get this console?

Unfortunately the supply situation with NES mini was very miserable. Nintendo announced the console in summer 2016 and almost immideately it was sold out everywhere. Nintendo promised to make more, but it didn’t happen or was not enough. The same situation happened (even worse!) to SNES mini.

In summer-autumn 2017 Nintendo promised to create more consoles and will ship them in 2018.

There are also a lot of new clones out there, which have almost the same design, but have more games, not always HDMI ouput and the controllers have turbo buttons.



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