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Analogue's $219.99 Super Nt+ builds the wireless radio into the SNES console and lets you swap cartridges without powering down
The 2017 Super Nt needed an 8BitDo receiver in a controller port for wireless play. The Super Nt+ has Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz inside, hot-swaps carts from the menu, and ships in December.
Analogue’s new page sums up the 2017 original in one line: “In 2017, Super Nt reimagined one of the greatest video game systems of all time.” The Super Nt+ keeps the same idea. An Altera Cyclone V FPGA rebuilds the console’s chips in hardware, and the page puts it bluntly: “No emulation.”
The picture side barely moves. The 2017 Super Nt’s page, as archived in 2021, listed “HDMI 1080p/720p/480p” and the same Cyclone V. The Plus lists “HDMI at NTSC 480p/720p/1080p, PAL 576p/720p/1080p” and the same 48 kHz, 16-bit audio over HDMI.
The change is the cables. Wireless on the original meant 8BitDo’s Retro Receiver plugged into a controller port. The Plus has Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz inside, a pairing button on the front, and “up to 2 controllers.” It also adds “Hot swappable cartridges,” which Analogue explains as “Quit the cartridge from the menu and swap games without powering down.” Power moves to USB-C, with a 30 W supply in the box.
| Super Nt+ (2026) | Super Nt (2017) | Polymega Super Module Set | SNESTang | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $219.99 | not on the archived page | $99 (module and one controller; base unit separate) | free, open source (needs a Sipeed Tang FPGA board) |
| Plays | SNES and Super Famicom carts, region free | SNES and Super Famicom carts, region free | SNES (NA and PAL) and Super Famicom carts | ROM files from microSD; no cartridge slot |
| HDMI output | up to 1080p | up to 1080p | not stated on the module page | 720p |
| Wireless | Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz built in, 2 players | through 8BitDo’s Retro Receiver in a controller port | not stated on the module page | no; SNES or DS2 controllers |
| Cart swap with power on | yes, from the menu | not listed | not stated | not applicable |
Analogue’s footnotes carry what the headline doesn’t. The Plus drops Super Turrican Director’s Cut, “which was included on the original Super Nt.” It “does not support openFPGA.” Save states, overclocking, screenshots and 4K display modes from the Analogue 3D are listed as not supported. The controller isn’t in the box: 8BitDo’s SN30 is $29.99 extra. And the Classic color already shows “Out of Stock.”
For anyone who keeps old hardware running, the bet is clear. A cartridge library that outlasts the consoles it shipped for needs boxes like this one to keep a slot open, and each new Analogue model keeps that slot while the rest of the machine changes around it.
What Analogue’s page doesn’t say is what the 2017 Super Nt now costs, or whether it is still made.