Retro-Duo plays both NES and SNES cartridges
The box is ugly enough to cause spontaneous miscarriages in pregnant sheep (and the console design will at least generate some distressed bleating) but inside the Retro-Duo's box is a rather interesting piece of hardware: a dual-slot NES / SNES console with vintage controller support. It's running emulation chips, so it's not likely to be 100 percent compatible, but for the vast majority of retro-gamers, this is probably a good solution for cutting down on some vertical and horizontal real-estate in your entertainment system. It apparently plays the usual difficult subjects like Castlevania III and Starfox with aplomb.
The Retro-Duo is $45.99, which I guess is a reasonable price, but with home media PCs so cheap to build and software emulators free, I think I'd prefer to go that route than replace batteries and blow dust and skin detritus out of twenty year old eBay cartridges.
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That's cool...eventhough I love the games we've got nowadays, going back to that arcade style is great. I've still got an original Nintendo and will porbably have a look at this!!!
I think most of the emulation issue stems from the fact that at best it's a legal gray area.
Your average person on the street probably doesn't know about it, nor would they know where to find the ROM images for known games.
Have the Super Nintendo patents expired yet? I know most of the NES ones have which is why there's this sudden upswing in Famiclones being sold in the USA.
I bought one of these last Saturday!
It came out in March 08 and is, thus far, the best famiclone emulation out there. It doesn't only play NES and SNES, but also Famicom, Super Famicom, and Europe/PAL. Hot!
Weirdly, though, some people have said that the black RetroDuo may be less reliable than the white RetroDuo (different parts inside; different manufacturing runs?). I have no idea how the blue RetroDuo compares to the others.