/vr/ - Retro Games

Well do you want to be able to just copy an image you've downloaded to an SD card and play or do you want to be able to do a lot more but have to spend some hours on setup

Any computer made within the last 20 years can play snes games just fine

>>6443262
>Any smartphone made within the decade can play snes games just fine

ftfy

>>6443238
for those systems? just get a wii, a classic controller, and a free crt with component

>>6443238
>goys
>not goyim

Can you at least jew correctly?

>>6443358
>Any toaster made within the decade can play snes games just fine

>>6443238
>build a PC to play SNES games
Lel

>>6443238
just get a cheap laptop

Save something from e-waste. Anything from the last 20 years will do.

>>6443560
This

>>6443238
You can play those games on anything.

If you buy a pi kit and flash the SD with retropie you can get all necessary components (pi, 32GB SD card, HDMI cable etc) for like $60-80 and it's basically no effort.

If you can score a really cheap linux laptop you can just install emulationstation or retroarch yourself for basically no effort.

If it's only those systems you can really use almost anything unless you're digging up old DOS computers from a landfill or something.

>>6443238
Buy a $50 netbook.

>>6443238
>>kega fusion & zsnes

celeron 300 +video 8 mb +ram 32mb +windows 98fe

>>6443238
I know 4chan says "x is a meme" about a lot of things, but in this case raspi's are literally a meme. Their goal is to be general open hobbyist platform small enough to put in a lot of embedded applications, but still be accessible for beginners. Your goal isn't smol and embedded, your goal is cheap, and I assume you want as many platforms as possible for the dollar. Ya, that's a used off lease office PC, one of those $100-$200 Dell towers.

>>6445170
Yikes.

>>6443238
The main advantage of getting a Pi over a used PC would be the lower power consumption, and that it runs with passive cooling.

I was happily playing SNES games on my pentium 100 MHz back in the day, so even the cheapest available used PC you can buy should work fine.


>>6443376
saying goys instead of goyim is like saying niggaz instead of niggers.

>>6443634
>netbook
Haven't heard that in a while
>I sure love having a single core atom with a mechanical hdd

>>6443238
Go i5 + windows. ~$100 and you're set up to gamecube/ps2. Can't beat it.

>>6445170
>raspi's are literally a meme
Remember when people said you can't [;ay light gun games on a modern tv?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz5VUvpi3to

>>6445686
Where do I get i5?

>>6443238

Pi + neat case + retropie

>>6445214
>yikes, you dissected by bugmanism and laid it bare for all to see in under 100 words

>>6445695
What does that have to do with a raspi that you can't do on a PC? It's MAME2016 using a wiimote and a wii sensor bar. He's using a raspi to mention it in the title bar, to draw in clicks from neo-zoomer hipsters, because raspis are a fucking meme.

>>6445659
>I NEED AN SSD FOR MY SNES EMULATION
No.

>i3 + linux?
What does a tiling window manager offer for emulation?

>>6443238
>I want to build a cheap PC to play PCE/SNES/GENESIS games
Get a free shitty computer from a charity or a thrift store for dirt cheap. A PC with 128MB of RAM and a 350mhz processor is going to be able to rock PC Engine, Super Nintendo, and Genesis just fine, as in accurately, or at least enough in the case of SNES. SNES really got perfected within the last few years.

*And throw SEGA CD in there too. And 32X.

>>6443238
Actually, no just buy a Wii.

>>6443468
>>6443262
my old single core laptop cannot play snes games at full speed on any emulator. nes games is the best it can do

>>6447250
>>6447260

use.... your....... phone...... you idiot

>>6447260
>my old single core laptop cannot play snes games at full speed on any emulator
It can, but it won't because you fucked it up.

>>6447327
no I didn't just throw retroarch on there and call it a day. it legitimately can't run snes games at a consistent 60fps. it can come close though

>>6447289
t. zoomer

>>6447408
Post OS and other software used

>>6447257
i tried using wii + homebrew launcher, but i can only run retroArch. other stuff like FCEUGX and SNES9xGx crash on load.

i heard retroArch's nestopia is better for NES emulation than FCEU though.

>>6447408
Zsnes is all you need for that toaster, boi

>>6447197
>what does a shitposting underage zoomer offer for /vr/?

>>6448074
Can you actually answer the question instead of spewing stupid memes?

>>6447260
Something might be wrong with your laptop. I was able to play ZSNES on my old 450 Mhz Pentium 3. Even an Intel Atom cpu should be able to handle SNES.

>>6445963
Ex-enterprise Dell Inspiron on eBay

>>6447260
Nigga, 2002 laptops could run SNES full speed.

>>6448183
That is the answer the the question my child. When you understand it you can begin to achieve the unzoom.

>>6448371
I never heard of anyone recommending i3 for emulation. It's always standard desktop environments like KDE or Gnome or "lightweight" stuff like LXDE.
The main appeal of i3 is tiling which feels pointless for emulation.

>>6448273
Only the emulators that used hacks so they sacrificed accuracy for speed

>>6447612
>other stuff like FCEUGX and SNES9xGx crash on load.
You need to start over because you messed something up. 100:1 you loaded entire ROM sets too. Don't do that, the Wii can't handle it.
>i heard retroArch's nestopia is better for NES emulation than FCEU though.
Maybe for a few games. Nestopia runs Ninja Gaiden correctly.

>>6448391
Part of the trouble emulation-challenged anons are having is that they're enabling all sorts of bells n' whistles, like weird filters, which further strain things. Don't use the filters, just use a CRT, that's your filter. Now you have that extra ass behind the processing to get your precious 60fps.

>>6448581
>your precious 60fps
Back to /v/ you go. These things actually matter for old consoles.

>>6448596
>Back to /v/ I go. These things don't actually matter for old consoles.
ftfy and bye

/for crying out loud, 59fps won't kill you now and then

Pi's and SBC are good if you travel a lot. But if you're just playing at home, office pcs from the last 10 years will play anything retro.

>>6448220
>>6445963
Or Dell Optiplex. Just ebay Optiplex i5. I have one with a i5-3570. I threw in a GTX 650 ti and I can run Dolphin 1080p 60fps using the non-free nVidia drives on Batocera..

>>6448389
Use the force, my child. Or the google. Not everything is as it seems.

>>6448389
I've heard that Atomic Pi is pretty good.

>>6449182
Searching for Linux i3 emulation just yields results for the terminal emulator in i3. Nothing about it being better or worse than other DE/WM.

>>6449519
k. Don't try to use the force. Try to use the brain. Yours obviously doesn't work to borrow another by asking to be spoonfed. Just not here.

>>6449986
I went through the archive and found two whole mentions of i3 WM (>>4942865 and >>2179529) and only the second one somewhat fits the topic.
I don't understand why you feel so smug about using a relatively obscure WM that apparently offers nothing over its competitors.

Guys where should i find games?

I have an idea for a setup to play arcade games
has anyone tried this? I dont care about the a e s t h e t i c i just wanna have a thing to play arcade games on
what's the best 2-joystick arcade stick btw? wanna play robotron and also possibly Mario Bros and Joust 2 player

>>6449986
>>6450017
This is some dumb and funny shit.

>>6448862
I haven’t cared about graphics cards since AGP was the standard, but I have a soon to be retired PC with just intel graphics that I’d like to make into an emulation rig for 3rd-5th gen games +GCN. What would you suggest I pop in there?

>>6447260
kek did you buy your laptop this century?

>>6450017
>I don't understand
Probably the smartest thing you've ever said

>>6450586
Indeed

>>6450616
No. He's so hard core wannabe he emulates on 90's shit

>>6450752
>hardcore wannabe
Even if he is, I was emulating nes/snes/genesis at least “good enough” on a pII 450 back in 1999. Hardware from this century isn’t even necessary.

>>6450801
>i've had low standards all of my short life and brag about it to strangers on teh intarwebs
yikes?

>>6449519
>Nothing about it being better or worse than other DE/WM.
That's because it isn't. It really is just another tiling window manager, roughly equivalent to the handful of other more popular twm's out there (bspwm, dwm, stumpwm, whatever else). It has absolutely nothing to do with emulation. You're arguing with a literal child who's having a bad day of homeschooling and needs an outlet, and doesn't actually know what he's talking about.

>>6443238
if youre building your own PC theres no reason to buy an i3, get a cheap ryzen 3/5 instead

>>6447187
I'm just saying those things were so underpowered it was vulgar. Chill out anon

>>6453451
Get a 3200G or 3400G. Ordinary Ryzen don't come with a GPU.
If you want intel you might as well get a Pentium Gold or Celeron.

But in this context i3 refers to a window manager for X11, not intel's Core i3 brand of CPUs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I3_(window_manager)