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The biggest problem is getting NES games in and out of the system. Once the game is in, then you have to pray it will work. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Just like old Nintendo's you occaisonally have to wiggle the cartridge to make it work.
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The patents for the NES and SNES parts all finally expired in 2005, so third-party hardware can be manufactured without licensed approval by Nintendo. This is exactly what the FC Twin is: a just-now-legal third party SNES/NES hardware product. Basically, it plays NES and Super NES games. Nintendo still owns the trademarks to those names, though, so no such reference is made on the console itself.
I picked mine up for $55 at a used game store here (new, not used); and a few spots online sell them for $60. It costs the same as any modern game title, so if you can buy games at all you can probably spare the cash for one of these. It also supplies both NES and Super NES functionality, cutting down shelf and wall-plug space and giving your older games for both systems a longer life cycle.
The Super NES seems visibly flawless in this model. I've played through Super Metroid and Illusion of Gaia, as well as a little StarFox; being a hardware clone, the Twin achieves full compatibility with titles using the DSP and Super FX expansion chipsets. The system comes with 4 foot controllers; original SNES controllers use 6 foot cables. Either get an extension, or use a real SNES controller; all original SNES controllers including the mouse and Super Scope work.
The NES also performs nearly flawless, using Super NES controllers. It won't play Duck Hunt, you can't use the light gun through an SNES port. The system also doesn't quite implement the sound functions of the 2A03 quite right; some of the sound effects may sound slightly off. Do not play NES games through surround sound systems unless you can turn them to mono or otherwise just clone the same out to every channel; doing some kind of Hall or Dolby ProLogic filtering causes the sound to get all messed up and freaky sounding, a lot more than just a few sound effects having misshapen waves.
All in all, I like it. I don't have to worry about my SNES dying now, or my NES needing a new ZIF socket (the Twin uses a more durable card slot).
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