Recently in preparation for pax last year I lost nearly all 3 of my front loaders. They died during a connector switchout. One of my chrismas gifts was pinball quest for the nes. I needed to find another nes!
Lo and behold It works and its TINY. Its a tad bit bigger then a nes cart in width and height and is a bit thicker then 2 nes cartriges laying down. Its an NES on a chip so it suffers from some emulation but for 35$ I can’t really complain. I haven’t seen any major issues. Battletoads looked like it had a bit of timing issue but this is going to happen. The intro shows the timing issue as well. But for the most part it seemes decent. I’m sure if you stacked an official toploader next to one of these cheapo ones you would be able to tell.
There is one other thing wrong with it. The cartriged seem really tight when installed. Way way too tight. After around 20-30 cartrige swaps it seems to have loosened a bit to being finally managable.
Overall- Nothing beats a good official toploader but for the price this works pretty well.
