{"id":14044,"date":"2018-03-02T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/hyperkins_new_supaboy_has_superior_coloured_buttons_and_a_43_screen_option"},"modified":"2018-03-02T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T13:30:00","slug":"hyperkins-new-supaboy-has-superior-coloured-buttons-and-a-43-screen-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/02\/hyperkins-new-supaboy-has-superior-coloured-buttons-and-a-43-screen-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperkin&#8217;s New SupaBoy Has Superior Coloured Buttons And A 4:3 Screen Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/hyperkins_revised_supaboy_comes_with_better_coloured_buttons_and_43_screen_option\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/hyperkins_revised_supaboy_comes_with_better_coloured_buttons_and_43_screen_option\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\" alt=\"M08889-SFC_Product2_HQ-735x400-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2012\/03\/hardware_review_hyperkin_supaboy_portable_snes\">Hyperkin SupaBoy<\/a> has already been revised once &#8211; resulting in 2016&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2016\/12\/hardware_review_hyperkin_supaboy_s\">SupaBoy S<\/a> &#8211; but the company isn&#8217;t done with the machine yet. The SupaBoy SFC is the latest variant and brings with it some notable upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>The most welcome is the ability to toggle between 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio by holding down the brightness button. As we noted in our review of the SupaBoy S, the picture was stretched to fit the widescreen display, making games look a bit odd. Hyperkin has taken this feedback on-board and come up with a solution for the new model. A proper 4:3 screen would have been preferable &#8211; the first model had one &#8211; but we imagine the move to a 16:9 panel is related to the fact that these are available cheaply, whereas very few devices use 4:3 screens these days.<\/p>\n<p>The second big change relates to the buttons &#8211; they&#8217;re now multi-coloured to match the scheme sported by the Super Famicom and European SNES. We might be biased here &#8211; we&#8217;re from the UK &#8211; but we <em>vastly<\/em> prefer this colour scheme to the purple and violet buttons of the North American SNES.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, there&#8217;s a 3.5mm headphone jack, adjustable brightness, two SNES controller ports, AV output and Hyperkin&#8217;s patented &#8220;Pin Perfect&#8221; cartridge slot technology:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pin Perfect\u2122 technology ensures gameplay isn\u2019t interrupted even if you shake or bump the machine. The cartridges slot into the SupaBoy in a satisfyingly secure way and \u2013 given that you\u2019ll be taking the SupaBoy and your games on the road \u2013 it\u2019s a great addition to this portable console.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The console will accept carts from any region. You can pre-order the SupaBoy SFC from <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funstockretro.co.uk\/hyperkin-supaboy-sfc-handheld-console\">Funstock<\/a> now, ahead of its March 9th launch. Expect a review the moment we&#8217;re able to get our hands on one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hyperkin SupaBoy has already been revised once &#8211; resulting in 2016&#8217;s\u00a0SupaBoy S &#8211; but the company isn&#8217;t done with the machine yet. The SupaBoy SFC is the latest variant and brings with it some notable upgrades. The most welcome is the ability to toggle between 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio by holding down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}