/vr/ - Retro Games

Why does it have to be Android?

>>3563590
they have the best emulators I've seen

>>3563597
t. reddit

>>3563597
pfffthahahaha

I think you are probably trying to say "other than pc"

Just build or buy a small PC

I have a 8 year old laptop that can do what my sheild tablet can do. Can even hook up to a crt if i buy an adaptor for the lappy, it can do pc games and hook up any controller with ease too.

>>3564006
>Just build or buy a small PC
Yes, do this. I built an Intel NUC media PC for $300, and probably could have got it down to $140 or so if I went cheaper with the processor or got a cheaper brand. Plus, they're charming.

I'm so beyond sick of you advertising your reddit shit here

This is a retro games board, not a hipster product board.

>>3564118
Or just buy cables to connect your PC to your TV, you can get 50' HDMI and USB cables for under $20 each.

>>3564145
lel, 50 feet hdmi for under 20. kek

>>3564150
It's true I got a 25 for like $9. You can probably even buy them at Walmart around that price point now.

>>3564135
stop being a meme faggot and just answer the question
>>3564145
I'm just not a fan of connecting my laptop to the tv

>>3563552
The gpd xd is a great alternative to the shield. Cheaper too

>>3563552
Nvidia Shield owner, they are worth it and you get an amazing controller but you also have the option of using anything else you want.

>>3564150
HDMI has been really cheap for a long time now, including the ones that meet the spec for 4k video. Get with the times.

https://www.amazon.com/High-Speed-HDMI-Cable-Supports-Specification/dp/B00RYRJYDG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1476637846&sr=8-4

I gonna get flac for this but I do have a mad catz mojo and it works decent. I got this from a friend for free to mod his wii. It works decently well on everything up to n64 and plays ps1 really well too. If I didn't have this I would either get an hdmi from my pc running or mini pc build

>>3563552
You would be better to ask somewhere else, maybe the emulation on android reddit.

/vr/ is very opposed to these sort of machines and will always tell you to just build a computer.

I don't know much about these but considering how fast tech moves for Android devices I would imagine there's a better chinese brand right now but I really have no idea.

For alternatives you could do the small PC as was already mentioned, that steam streaming box thing, a long HDMI cable from your computer, a wii if you don't want to play playstation games, or a pi 3.

Android is fine, 4chan is just full of assholes.

>>3563552
/vr/ tends to say odroid, but that is missing some stuff, like CRT compatibility.

I bought a $50 Q-Box tv box hoping to use the usb as gamepad imput, or via bluetooth.

My usb gamepad didn't work. So I bought a bluetooth android controller. It didn't work either.

Now I'm stuck with it watching chinease television with an app it has.

>>3566683
Have you installed Gentoo on it?

>>3566685
No, I installed another buunch of apps for that and I can't make it work.

I actually kinda posted here because I knew I'd get some advice, so I'll try out Gentoo, thanks.

I installed an snes emulator and ran Final Fantasy III and Megaman X, and it seems fine, I'm really looking forward to try it with a gamepad.

>>3566685
>>3566693

So Gentoo is that linux os, it seems complicated, I don't know.

>>3564428
I won't give you flack I own a Game Stick. Its design is hipster central these fucking bluetooth controllers lol. It's adequately powerful for retro gaming though and it was dirt cheap since sometime someone convinced someone else with money that it would be popular with casuals and it wasn't. Its only unforgivable flaw is its wifi is so bad that after you've used it for a few weeks the antenna literally burns up never to work again.

>>3566701
It's /g/'s meme linux distribution.

>>3563552
Why would you get this when you could build a PC for cheaper with literally the same shit or better. What does this have vs. your computer?

>>3564656
Have you ever thought that there is a reason 4chan is against these sort of machines?

>>3563552
The Nvidia Shield is what the OUYA should've been in the first place. You can't go wrong with it.

If you're a cheapskate though there's always those TV boxes from AliExpress.

I hear good things about the rpi 3 with one of the emulation distros, theres a couple of them. Its small and cheap.

>>3567360

Yes. You all are terrified to be lumped in with the "normies".

>>3563552
Ouya is great for emulation.what's the issue? It not being successful surely couldn't be the problem