By Gerald Lynch
Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition may look like an old-school Nintendo Entertainment System (if it had an encounter with the “Honey I Shrunk The Kids” laser), but what’s it packing under that miniature hood?
With a few machines now out in the wild ahead of the NES Classic Edition’s 11 November release date, a few daring souls have started to peel back the chassis for a peek at what Nintendo’s popped inside.
And, considering it’s replicating a 33 year old machine, you might consider the mini NES’s internals a little like overkill.
Quad-core for koopas
Gamespot’s Peter Brown went inside first of all, and tweeted the following image:
Though he revealed that soldered-on flash storage would make it near impossible to update the machine with your own games, he didn’t identify the components in use specifically.
But Reddit’s gaming community was more than a match for the task, examining the image to break it down component by component.
It found an Allwinner R16 (4x Cortex A7, Mali400MP2 GPU) system on a chip, SKHynix (256MB DDR3) RAM and Spansion 512MB SLC NAND TSOP48 flash storage.
With a quad-core chipset, it’s far more power than the 8-bit NES ever made use of. But with the NES Classic Edition outp …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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