/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1200754
I finally Googled this thing right now, and I don't get the point. Why? I mean, designing this must have been fun, but using it? Not likely, no.

>>1200754
I've heard it's not very good for that purpose, but I can't remember exactly why.

I would just spend another $20 and get a used Wii if I were you.

Uses Retorarch under a freeware Linux distribution. Not a particularly powerful CPU; probably limited to GBA/SNES/GEN level emulation. Maybe early PS1 games.

Keep in mind, the system is very much 'stone soup'. You pay $35 for just the bare board. No shell like the fancy transparent case in OP's image. No power supply. No cables. No controllers. It's an old-school DIY computer.

Get a Wii instead.

>>1200754
I have one, and honestly, no. For example, SNES games only began to run near-perfect for me on the third overclock setting (I have the 256MB model B board), and even then there was EXTREME lag on Chrono Trigger's foggy over-world. I'd say get a cheap ass old PC and install a lightweight linux distro if you want more fun emulation.

>>1200761
>Gee, I want to automate my X. How the fuck do I do that?

>>1200820
Sorry? Automate your what?

>>1200826

X

A variable for "Anything"

Hook up your actual computer to your TV.

Buy an original Xbox and mod it. That's still the best thing for emulation save a PC in my opinion.

>>1202878
Hell yes on this. I have an OG XBOX with a SNES emulator, the games run amazingly perfect.

I have one that I SSL into from Windows to fuck around with Linux stuff -- the few times i've used it outside of the command line (with Raspian, the raspberry pi-recommended debian distro) it's seemed a little too sluggish to do emulators. haven't actually tried myself, though.

Since it ends up costing more like $50 including all the cables and whatnot, i would echo other posters' sentiments in recommending a cheap wii or xbox.

>>1200754
Good for emulation? Not really.

I'm currently using mine as a Asterisk VoIP gateway. For our seven person office with modest telephony needs, it works fine.

>>1200754
Hey, I wonder if i could use this to run not just pre-snes and early mame / raine games but also stuff like quake1, maybe 2.

>>1203168
>gamex86.dll
wait, no, a lot of it wouldn't work. AQ2 should.

Doom and duke nukem should work too.

You can just get an old lap top for 50 bucks and use that.

>>1200754
It's got no S-video, no VGA either. Only one USB port and only the system SD slot is less of a problem.

>>1200754
>overpowered microcontroller
>underpowered computer
The Pi is both of these things. It's too weak to perform the duties of a computer yet too strong/power-hungry to be an alternative to a microcontroller. The only reason to get one is because it has great software support, for example the Raspbian(the linux distro optimized for the Pi) and indeed it can run quite a lot of software when properly configured.

I wouldn't suggest it to anyone who can't even handle Windows though.

>>1200851
No, X window system.

>>1200761
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>>1203185
It's portable. You can hook it up to whatever TV is at hand anywhere. you don't need much of a power adaptor either, you can power it off a USB hub.