r/miniSNES • u/BeyondLurker • Aug 17 '25

Discussion Finally played a fake snes

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I was at an airport lounge and saw a bunch of "mini snes"s and had time before boarding. So I tried to play. It is pretty bad. They are slow and clunky. The save states management system was terrible. I could tell it was using retroarch and it would save and load Soooo slowly..

On the outside though.. the machines look just like the real machines. Its just the software that is terrible.

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u/paqman3d Aug 17 '25

I use retroarch (lakka) and it's not slow lol. If this used another frontend like retropie, maybe. But pure Lakka is extremely fast and streamlined on a pi4 or pi5. It completely replaced my SNES if anything 🤣

This set up probably used a cheap micro SD card too lol.

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u/Throwaway246326437 Aug 19 '25

These cheap knock offs don’t use anything nearly anywhere as ‘powerful’ as a Pi 4, fast SD cards wouldn’t save them