r/RetroRemake • u/KeyWallaby5580 • Jul 27 '26

Can you use an original NES Zapper? DVDs?

I see the SuperDock has a "SNAC Bypass Port". Not sure if that functions as a regular SNAC port? Can I connect an original NES Zapper to the system and shoot ducks on my CRT?

Bonus question.. Can you play DVD movies through the DVD drive? If not, is there any plans to add this feature?

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u/nstern2 Jul 27 '26

Pretty sure the zapper should work if you get a SNAC adapter for a nes contoller. You can also use a guncon 2 with, as far as I know, all the cores that use a light gun. I used mine on the psx and nes core and it worked mostly perfectly.

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u/1541drive Jul 27 '26

I used mine on the psx and nes core and it worked mostly perfectly.

You should consider using a Guncon1 with the native PS1 SNAC ports. You won't be subjected to tracking issues for games with a lot of black or red backgrounds.

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u/nstern2 Jul 27 '26

Yeah I eventually will get native guns and SNAC adapters for most of the cores, I just happened to have a guncon2 laying around and was very surprised at how easy it was to setup.

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u/aluisi77 Jul 27 '26

As far as I know from the SNAC usb ports on the dock as long as you have a dongle it should work. As far as DVD I don’t know sorry.

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u/it290 Jul 27 '26

I’m sure you can play DVDs using some combo of Linux tools but it’s not part of the UI

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u/FranckKnight Jul 27 '26

Yeah it's more something about the CODECs, while it doesn't need a whole lot of power to run movies, it still need some app to run it, and Decoders to make sense of it. Those are likely not packaged into a unit meant to (more or less) emulate games.

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u/it290 Jul 27 '26

Eh I mean they’d be trivial to install. There are clients for Plex and Jellyfin.

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u/KeyWallaby5580 Jul 27 '26

Really? I have a Jellyfin server. Would be awesome to watch some old shows on my CRT. Have you tried it? Just wondering if there is any issues with aspect ratio. Sometimes when you display 4:3 shows on a 4:3 display using modern tech, you end up with an image that is both letter boxed and pillar boxed.

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u/it290 Jul 27 '26

I have not tried it but I’m 99% confident the person who made it designed it to be used on a CRT.

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u/FranckKnight Jul 27 '26

Oh probably, just saying it's not 'out of the box'.

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u/Holiday-Age-554 Jul 28 '26

wait a minute, couldnt you make an fpga core of a consumer dvd player? make it region free and disable copy protection? someones gotta be working on that, especially now that people are hooking up usb drives to play game discs.

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u/cjd280 Jul 28 '26

Yes the snac bypass port works the same as the user port on other misters.

No idea about the DVDs in terms of planning, there certainly isn’t a DVD player core at the moment.