/vr/ - Retro Games

>>698273
Awesome idea, looks a little strange but I like the idea.

>>698273
The ghetto-engineering here is pretty great. I don't have one dedicated to just emulation, but I do have one for old PC and DOS games.

That looks like shit. Sorry.

From behind.

>>698290
It wont be when I get some wood paneling in the near future. The cardboard is temporary.

>>698293
>>698295
You have no idea. If I had the foresight to take a picture of the guts, you'd see everything zip-tied to the monitor.

>>698273
What's the video titled "MOTHA FUCKIN..." about? First thing I noticed

I can't emulate sega saturn (all I want is to play RSG.. and maybe if it runs also panzer dragoon saga) so basically im going to buy a computer for this once I get a job.. (tried installing windows on this computer but it seems impossible, overheats during install)

>>698347
Boku No Skyrim I last used that harddrive shortly after Skyrim was announced.

>>698371
>pic

Attached a multi headphone amp on the side of it. Will upload pics shortly.

>>700261
I'm in the process of copying all my emulation stuff over. I'm gonna christen this bad boy with Hexen and then some Rollercoaster Tycoon

>>698273

>Minecraft - WITH HACKS!

>>700276
Hey man, going around random servers and blowing everything up was fun. I would fly above them and drop live TNT everywhere while making jet noises in chat.

>post this on /g/
>guaranteed replies

>>700323
I did post this on /g/ but that board moves far too fast for my taste.
Plus, I was hoping to discuss emulation on ghetto'd-up machines like this.
I thought I had a phenomx4 955 in there, but apparently it's my old ass single core. Most powerful single core made, but still old as shit. I'm not sure if it'll be able to run N64/PS1 effectively.

>>700324
My emuPC has a C2D E8400 and a Geforce 9600gt. i only get 20fps in dolphin but pretty much everything else runs fine.

>>700363
I doubt I'd be able to run dolphin. It's an old, lightweight motherboard with on-board video. I can't remember what I did with my spare cpu, nor what I did with a GTS240 I had for ever.

I would have just put the computer in a drawer if I didn't have a case for it.

>>700363
That's only because your GPU is especially shitty. Those things were rebranded so much.

This is actually pretty fucking awesome.

Good job OP.

>>700271
Behringer?

For retro emulation, I use a Raspberry Pi. Its actually a good little emulation machine if you know how to use it. Plays nes, snes, PSX, GBC, and GBA all fine.

Playing Zelda Link's Awakening right now on it.

>>700494

Wait a minute. The Pi is powerful enough to play PSX?

You might have just convinced me to get one.

>>700494
I really want to get one and make a very small portable device for it, but I don't have the spare funds.

>>700553
Some games, Mega Man X, Resident Evil 2, and so on work fine. Doom, Silent Hill and Myst don't work too well or at all. I think PSX might be slow on Raspbian. What I do is start up the games without an X server on Arch Linux. My Raspberry Pi is also overclocked to 800 Mhz.

These are the pre-compiled binaries I used:
http://blog.petrockblock.com/?wpdmdl=3

>>700494
What emulators are you running? Any special configuration?

I've tried MAME on one of my pis and it was painful, gave up on the idea of using it as a decent emulation machine.

I don't care enough to set-up anything like this but it's a nice idea. I'd do it if I had a home theater PC or something because you can get emulators to work with XBMC which might make for a very cool set up.

Behold.

Features:
Entirely self-contained. Only need a single outlet.
Comes with wireless adapter, mouse and keyboard, and a controller.
Has external USB hub for attachments.
Can accommodate multiple sound outputs with an amp.
Able to be mounted virtually anywhere thanks to a tri-pod.
Has a nice carrying case for whatever you desire.

>>698273
You're gonna put a cage or something on it to protect that fan, right?

It can swivel on the tri-pod to face any degree you wish.

A lewd shot of her underside.

>>700878

Action shot.

>>700946

I cross-posted this on /g/ but holy shit those people are worse than /v/ and I will not be going there again.
Here's some more action.

Excessive free time op? Tired of games all the time? Try a book

>>700973
I spend my free time doing constructive things. This last weekend I planted some stuff around, including an apple tree and some tomatoes.

Shit, I got a better idea than wood paneling.
I'll get an old CRT preferably broken, gut it, and put this all inside it.

Time to start sifting through garbage again.

>>700973
Who let you out of /v/?

Definitely not an ugly piece of shit. OP will surely never regret assembling such a glorious marvel of autism.

>>701013
See: >>700982

I've done the best I can with the materials I have available to me. I didn't get anything extra for this thing, it's entirely out of shit I had laying around, which was kind of the point.

>>700324

/g/ moves fast?

Fucking news to me. I never go there.

>>701027
It's also /v/-quality, which I didn't expect for some strange reason.

>>700973

You speak of books as though they are a bad thing.

It's beautiful, OP.

>>701043
I feel like the quality of the posts has gone downhill in there.

It's never been perfect, but it has seem to worsen over time.

>>701202
I'm guessing it's due to the Xbox Wan reveal. Same shit as with the PS4.

>>700324
I was running PS1 with halfway decent graphics on one of these shitty old things with a 32gb hard drive and god only knows what processor, back when I was 17 or so.

I'm sure that processor will do just fine.

>>701209
Nah in general, over the past months or even beyond that it's just gotten worse.

Anyways, so what material do you think you'll use to replace the mail boxes on your emulation box? Like instead of mailboxes.

>>701220
A CRT.
I'll find a non-functioning, but good quality one, and use it as the housing. I'll even wire everything to whatever existing buttons are there, and do my best to not use a shitton of zip-ties.
Probably got 100+ zipties on it currently.

>>701230
Oh great, I see what you mean. There are some monster size CRT's out there as well.

Now that's starting to sound even cooler. I'd like to do something similar to this.

>>701230
Just saying, I fucking love your jury-rigging. I love seeing people improvise functional stuff with any old crap.

>>701238
Yeah I wish I saw more threads with people doing stuff like that.

>>701235
To do something like what I currently have, it's really not that hard to do. When I get the CRT, it'll be more complicated, as I'll have a proper mounting system, better wiring and electronics work, and a way to dismount most of the stuff.

>>701238
B-but I don't have any duct tape. Which would be ugly imo, hence the packaging tape.

That actually looks quite cool, though I'm not big on that fan on the back. It is a fan, right? It seems pretty big.

>>701250
Only option I had that would work. It'll look better when I get it mounted and caged on the CRT.

>>701249
packing tape > duct tape

stronger grip and doesn't have that fucking awful adhesive that leaves that tacky residue on your hands

10/10 improviser, all my respect

>>701260

>>700776
I used Retroarch on Arch Linux

I start the game with:
retroarch -L /path/to/lib.so /path/to/game

I listed the pre-compiled binaries here >>700582

>>700982
Be careful of doing this though, there can be amperage stored in tube sets. Remember, it's not the volts that stop your heart, it's the amps.

Be safe.

>>701681
Oh, I know. Fortunately. My father was an electrician as well as an audio and videophile. Half the stuff in this thing used to be his.

>>701610
I'm thinking of having linux on this thing because lightweight non-stupid OS.
What's the best version to use, and can I use all the emulators I already have, or is there different things I should be doing?

I built a HTPC, mainly use it for video but it will emulate nes - ps2/wii well enough.

I use advanced launcher via xbmc on Windows 7.

I've been thinking of getting a raspberry pi as a portable emulation station

Anyone have any experience with using one?

>>701787
I'd say it'd be easier to find an old PC in a dumpster or something like that.

>>701790

Not nearly as portable though

>>700271
Can you explain all of these things attached to the computer? What are all of those knobs for?

>>701721
Additionally:
I completely forgot about a severe problem with the OS on this harddrive. It's somehow fucked in that it runs much slower than it should, and has a ton of problems relating to permissions and whatnot. I'll definitely have to wipe it an put a new one on there, but I'm not sure what what Linux version would be best.

>>701787
Apparently it's incredibly easy. I'm gonna get one some day and make a proper handheld emulation machine out of it.

>>701794
The knobs are audio. It's an amp with multiple outputs. I have to use it because these speakers are too low without.

>>700864
what are all of those black things hanging on the tripod?

>>701828
2 speakers and a bag for carrying the loose stuff like the controller.

>>701721
>>701795
Hello OP

The answer to your question depends entirely on your system specs but Ubuntu is a good place to start with Linux. Most emulators have a Linux version. For example you can use zsnes, mupen64plus and pcsx all on Linux.

>>701919
Why would you use ZSNES, and on linux of all things, when Snes9x exists?

>>701919
Last one I used was Lubuntu, and it was pretty decent. I've used Ubuntu before and it wasn't as good.

>>701936
I was thinking the same thing. I've never had problems with snes9x, hated using zsnes prior to that though.

>>701986
Snes9x isn't perfect (off the top of my head, the Kirby Super Star intro plays too slowly, though apparently Snes9x-Next on RetroArch fixes this), but it's a damn good emulator, and it's fast even on toasters. It should be the first thing anyone should try getting into SNES emulation. Though if you can run bsnes Performance or Balanced at full speed, then by all means use that instead.

>>701940

Fedora has a LXDE Desktop, might wanna see if thats fast enough on what you built:

http://spins.fedoraproject.org/

>>702632
I'll check it out, thanks.

>>701816
>>701816
Thanks for answering my question and thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed this thread :)

Wow OP i really like it, anyone more want to contribute their getho emulation?