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TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console
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For hardware engineers, the open source design and socketed chips create a modifiable platform where community additions like RGB output modules are feasible. The product's successful funding demonstrates that even extremely niche hardware projects can find viable markets when they serve unmet purist demands.
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The TinyNES uses socketed original NES CPU and PPU chips that can be swapped for clone processors, though the origin of the genuine chips is unclear.
The console only outputs composite video with no HDMI option, as the original NES PPU outputs its signal on a single pin, but the board supports rarer RGB PPU variants and a solderless RGB add-on is planned.
The entire design is open source, meaning the community could potentially add modern video output functionality that the creator did not include.
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