/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10021828]

The Chromecast is pretty good as a retrogaming device.

[Anonymous No.10021835]

no it isn't

[Anonymous No.10021836]

Thanks for the recommendation, hidden

[Anonymous No.10021837]

>>10021835
yes it is
>>10021836
you're welxome

[Anonymous No.10021842]

>>10021828
what kinda hardware does it have these days

[Anonymous No.10021849]

Worse than a used office SSFPC off eBay.

[Anonymous No.10021850]

>>10021828
It's not a good device for any purpose. Just use an HDMI cord from your laptop if you need to watch jewflix or tranime. I can't fathom wanting to play games on that piece of shit even your phone is a better option

[Anonymous No.10021851]

>>10021842

[Anonymous No.10021862]

>>10021842
I use it mostly with retroarch and it runs fine up to PSP, some consoles like PS1 or Dreamcast are better using the stand-alone versions of Duckstation and Flycast respectively (couldn't get redream to work because Google fucked up the file browser on their latest OS).

[Anonymous No.10021864]

Yep, waste time stripping down something designed to spy on boomers instead of just buying a mini PC and installing Retropi or Bacetra on it.

[Anonymous No.10021869]

>>10021864
But it’s heckin cozy and wholesome and portable !!!!

[Anonymous No.10021878]

>>10021869
Sounds about right.
(The original post was about installing Retropi or Batocera, wasn't expecting someone to reply that fast)

[Anonymous No.10021913]

>>10021862
>Android 12
That's better than I was expecting. I thought Google didn't update their shit at all anymore.

[Anonymous No.10021958]

>>10021913
honestly its kinda annoying because A12 doesnt let you browse the data folders and these devices have issues with external storage.

[Anonymous No.10022425]

>>10021828
You should've grabbed that box on the left instead.

[Anonymous No.10022587]

>>10021828
How is it for Saturn games? Also how well does it handle external storage drives, I have a drive that works on my cheap Walmart stick but not my Fire TV 4K Max. Pic related is my currecnt favorite for all of the 16- and 32-bit stuff besides Saturn

[Anonymous No.10022624]

>>10022587
Haven't tried Saturn.
For storage I got an USB-C hub and both my USB drive and SD card work fine, just dont format whatever you're gonna use as extra storage for the device.

[Anonymous No.10022707]

>>10021828
wtf I've owned one for years and its borderline useless for emulation. Stop fucking lying op.

[Anonymous No.10022727]

>>10022707
If you owned one for years you would have the old model and it would indeed be useless then right? Having said that I would want to see how well the new one works, I'm very skeptical.

[Anonymous No.10022757]

>>10022707
mine works fine
>>10022727
I mostly use retroarch with it and will say, if you want the accuracy emulators like mesen, bsnes or mgba then its not gonna run them, but the basic ones like snes9x, fceumm, picodrive, gpSP and the like work very well, you can even use basic shaders or runahead if you like.
Stand-alone Duckstation, Flycast and PPSSPP work well too, I'm gonna try Saturn when I can.

[Anonymous No.10022852]

>>10022757
Nice, thanks bro. Just bought a house and I'm contemplating how my setup will be to play retro games. I do have a Steam Deck and a dock too. I got the seller to leave behind his next level audio system too so I'm just over the moon.

[Anonymous No.10022974]

>>10022852
not who you’re replying to but sending a sincere congrats to you anon, big powerplay

[Anonymous No.10024180]

>>10022974
Thanks anon, in Canada housing is a mess so I'm happy to get something I can afford. I appreciate your message.

[Anonymous No.10024193]

>>10021828
current (or recent? I dont follow this) chromecast does up through PS1 no problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01C4Cv6BgSE

[Anonymous No.10024497]

Tested saturn cores on retroarch and only yabasanshiro was running games at average performance (tried sega rally and marvel vs street fighter).
Stand-alone Yabasanshiro runs waaaaay better and I got to play Sega Rally Championship, Sonic Wings Special and Ninja Penguin Manmaru without issues, only downside is lack of a menu hotkey.

[Anonymous No.10024805]

>>10021828
>>/g/

[Anonymous No.10026114]

>>10021828
These things got nerfed hard. I got the new Onn box and the 4k Chromecast last week and the Android 12 TV OS has no internal file manager. No downloaded apps can access files. Emulators are broken. No frontends work. "You don't have an app that can do this."

In some of the videos they show emulators working but not the setup so I'm suspecting they're older models before Google fucked everything up with these "updates"

[Anonymous No.10026123]

>Buying any google products
>Year of our lord 2023

[Anonymous No.10026286]

>>10026114
Yeah the biggest issue is android 12's retarded restrictions and google fucking up the file browsing on android tv (this isn't just a chromecast thing, every smart tv that has android tv integrated suffers from this).
Installing nightly retroarch (the one from playstore is outdated as hell) helps this device a lot with emulation.

[Anonymous No.10028607]

>>10026114
>>10026286
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy-HlXPEIsI

I got it to work with the apks from this youtube video: 32-bit retroarch and an old version of ppsspp. I also paid attention when he stopped at the version number of his mupen N64 emulator and found out it was an old version from 2018 that still has the legacy file pickers for Android 9 and below. Got that too. Also found out that only FAT32 is supported now for USB sticks, no exFAT or NTFS. Can't believe I have to do all this shit to run emulators for freaking Android

[Anonymous No.10029010]

>>10028607
an older version of redream also works better for android tv, but I couldn't get it to access the external storage.

[sage No.10029335]

>>10021828
not really

[Anonymous No.10030515]

>all this Android 12 fuckery

So does this affect all of these devices then? Is there a better option for a portable TV emulation device?

[Anonymous No.10030603]

>>10030515
I usually see sticks and tv boxes with tons of emulators on facebook and other shopping apps but no idea if they're good or not.
I agree that this whole A12 File Browsing is annoying but I'm fine with what my chromecast can do so far in regards to emulation.

[Anonymous No.10030616]

>>10021828
Does /vr/ really?

[Anonymous No.10030629]

>>10030616
yeah
t. /vr/

[Anonymous No.10032363]

>>10029010
Yeah I decided to stick with Flycast since retroarch can use external but it's good to have another option

>>10030603
They're pretty bad out of the box, full of roms and emulators that don't work or are in chinese. Decent if you're getting them for the hardware and setting it up yourself. You'll also get those cheap $5 fake ps2 controllers bundled in