Hi, everybody. I read the list of acceptable hardware and saw that the Analogue NT mini is approved. I have a Retro Duo that (I believe) is essentially the same idea--it is a modern hardware console that plays original NES or SNES cartridges. Is the Retro Duo allowed for speedruns? If not, what is the difference between it and the NES / Analogue NT?
Thank you for explaining. My current runs are with the NES classic mini, but I wondered if the Retro Duo would be allowed or even better because the frame rate might be the same as the NES instead of 60.00 on the NES classic.
Clone consoles aren't allowed because they are not accurate. I used to run on a Retron 2 and got rejected a run because of that. I don't really know the differences between clones and NES, but Kosmic told me they were not the same and that clones are inaccurate.
A lot of the clone consoles aren't accurate enough to be suitable for a game with the level of optimization that this game has. Other leaderboards are a little more relaxed and will allow you to use those (SMB3).
I don't know what the framerate for the Retro Duo would be, but I highly doubt it would match that of the NES/SNES. The reason for that is because the video output falls outside of the NTSC specification which would be 59.94 FPS for progressive (deinterlaced) video. NES/SNES runs at 60.0988, so I doubt these days, someone would produce a console out of spec. For other consoles that have HDMI output, the HDMI standard is capped at 60 FPS. That's probably partly why NES/SNES Classic and Switch are capped at 60, because it's not possible for it to go higher. There's a little more to it, but I feel that's going far enough into the weeds.
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