The Analogue NT is completely legit, and actually uses repurposed Famicom chips to run the games on a mix of old and new hardware - but it's also a premium device, costing a steep $500. It's also widely derided in the gaming community for allegedly stealing code. The RetroN 5, for instance, is actually a $160 Android device that runs cartridges through an emulator. After all, don't all three of these consoles pipe HD NES games to modern televisions via HDMI? Well, yes - but how they do it varies wildly. OK, that might sound like splitting hairs. And, unlike the RetroN 5 or Analogue NT, the AVS is all new hardware: a custom FPGA board programmed to replicate the NES' original processor.
In lieu of a cumbersome AC adapter, the AVS uses a humble USB cable - and can be powered solely by the media port on your HDTV. Instead of pushing a fuzzy, ugly picture through ancient composite cables, it pipes a crisp, high-definition signal over HDMI. It plays the same games and even uses the original controllers, but everything else is brand-new.
Think of the AVS as an unofficial hardware refresh for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Who really owns it? Me, the guy who scoured garage sales to build our collection of classic games, or him, the firstborn who - by sibling law - is right by default? To this day, we still argue about whose house our childhood console should live in. My oldest brother and I have been bickering over our original NES for decades. Most of our sibling rivalry died with our youth, but one single, never-ending quarrel outlived our childhood: the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was part of being the youngest, and part of being a family. When I was a child, I fought with my brothers.
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