Analogue Super NT

With the popularity of retro gaming, but the advancements of television technology, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to play those treasured retro games. With the company, Analogue, they’ve got you covered. Now, Analogue doesn’t use emulators or cheap hardware. Analogue uses high quality materials and an FPGA board to replicate the original hardware albeit with 1080P HDMI video. The system boasts compatibility with the entire 2200+ SNES and Super Famicom library, along with peripherals. The system also claims to be lag free and while playing it. I didn’t experience any noticeable lag. The unit comes with an HDMI cable and a USB cable and adapter for power. You need to purchase the controller separate, which is an 8Bitdo wireless controller that also claims to be lag free. While testing, I didn’t notice any difference in response time between a wired original SNES controller and the 8Bitdo wireless one. I didn’t have any software/hardware to detect any lag, but I didn’t notice any and my gameplay wasn’t adversely affected either way.

The unit is region-free and supports 100-240v power and 50-60hz signal, making this a great way to play both SNES and Famicom games for those that enjoy imports. For the video, HDMI 1080p/720p/480p are all natively supported, along with 48KHz 16-bit digital audio via the HDMI. There’s also an SD card slot for firmware updates to keep the system up to date. Super Turrican Director’s Cut and Super Turrican 2 are both digitally loaded onto the unit which is a nice touch.

Now I did run into one issue while connecting the Super Analogue NT unit to my TV. I connected it to an HDMI hub that connected to a splitter before going to the TV and the signal wasn’t supported. I got the audio, but no video. I then connected the NT directly to the TV and everything worked perfectly. When connecting to hubs or splitters, remember not all devices are the same. If they change or degrade the signal even slightly, 1080p TV’s will not recognize the signal properly. I wasn’t using a high-quality hub or splitter so that was my own fault. These units come in four different colors to choose from: Transparent, Black, Classic SNES, and Super Famicom. The only choice left when I purchased mine was the Classic SNES, which was fine because that’s the color I wanted anyway.  These units retail for $189.99 each, which is a great price for a high-quality way to play retro SNES/Famicom games. Plus, this may be less expensive than having to own both a SNES and a Famicom to play the both region’s games.

Head on over to the Analogue Store for the Super NT and other goodies!