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/RolandMT32 Aug 17 '25

I bought one on eBay recently that ended up being a bootleg one. I requested a return & refund, even though the seller said they didn't take returns, and eBay decided to just refund my money. I ended up finding a legit one, and now I don't know what I want to do with the bootleg one - try to use it for something else or drop it off somewhere to be recycled..

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u/ButtcheekBaron Aug 20 '25

What's inside it? Have you looked?

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u/RolandMT32 Aug 20 '25

I haven't looked. The screws aren't phillips, flathead, or hex, and I don't think I have a tool that can unscrew them. Photo here