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11 hours ago, Tulpa said:

I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W for playing Genesis, TG-16, Atari, and a few others. Pi Zeros are good for 8 and 16 bit systems and computers, but if you're looking at PS1 or N64, you might want to go for a Pi4.

Pi Zero W kits that have everything (power supply, microSD card, case, microUSB and microHDMI adapters) but a controller will run about $35-$40.

Pi4s will be about $70 without the microSD card or case, but with a power supply. A complete setup would be around $100, depending on how big the card is and what case you want. They have full USB and HDMI ports, so no adapters are usually needed, and any USB controller should work.

Alternatively, you can save a bit with a comparable Orange Pi or Banana Pi, although the support isn't as extensive as the Raspberries, and the communities are much smaller. They'd use RetrOrangePi or Lakka software, though I haven't looked into what all is offered in those.

Emulation is decent, though N64 has been the toughest nut to crack. For 8 and 16 bit, it's nearly flawless now. Lots of systems and emulators built in. If you have a WiFi enabled Pi, you can load roms over your network. Otherwise, it's a matter of copying a USB image to a thumb drive, connecting it to the Pi, and powering it on. If you've worked with emulators and everdrives, you'll find a lot of the Pi stuff very similar.

My dinky Pi setup.

Thanks, some great info here! I didnt know about banana pi or orange pi, I'll have to look into those. 

I dunno what to do, I feel like probably the pi zero would be enough. As right now I only really play 8 bit and 16 bit games. Though I do wanna get into arcade stuff as well, not sure how mame works on the pi zero. But I think it would still be nice to have the option to play PS1, PSP and Dreamcast on the Pi4. But that raises the cost a fair bit, meaning I could probably put that money towards a mister fpga. I also have an extra Wii I could load some emulators on, there's just so many options haha.

No issues with input lag or anything like that? You play shooters on that thing?

3 hours ago, Sumez said:

Ok this is what I was thinking of. You're definitely seeing something I'm not. What graphic, where?
This makes an important distinction for me, because the NES version of Tetris is definitely not a 10/10 game, due to awkward issues specific to that version (but it's still one of the better version for other reasons)

I think he means the picture of the box art on the OP.

I like NES tetris a lot because the journey to try and max out the score is fun for me. The idea that you only have a limited amount of lines before the kill screen to get there, and trying to maximize your tetrises and stacking optimally and being able to burn efficiently and manipulating DAS its all great stuff. What I dont like is anything beyond that, where hypertapping is essential to make any progress. I think its great how people are pushing the game to insane heights with hypertapping but I don't care to get into it myself. Also I don't want carpal tunnel for a dumb game

So for me, my goal is to one day max out, after that I'm probably done with it.

What are your thoughts on TGM1? You mentioned TGM2 and 3 but skipped that one haha. 

I'd love to get into TGM2 but its a bit tricky to get the hardware, would probably have to emulate that one. It does look like a fun implementation of Tetris.

I like this game 

I was debating getting into the mister fpga project, but its a bit expensive. It got me thinking about retropie, I guess because its also a little box you can load a bunch of games into. 

Anybody here have a reteopie setup? I'm just curious how well it works and how much it cost to build. I believe it'll be cheaper than putting together a mister fpga, and I'm assuming the emulation is pretty good for the most part. 

Anybody have any experiences they wanna share with these?

1000 bucks? Damn, better get in on this auction soon

I should probably play some of these

Welcome!

2 minutes ago, cartman said:

I think the Supaboy for example seems closer to hitting the mark for NES/SNES gameplay.

I have a supaboy. Thing is a piece of crap

8 minutes ago, Gloves said:

They do. I believe their business model is essentially that of something like, say, the Supreme clothing line. Limited stock, much hype.

Yeah I get it. Not unlike limited run games originally, the company orders x amount and guarantees very little overstock which is a great way to maximize profit. The fomo being a nice little side effect. I guess I was just hoping for an open pre-order this time around. Should've known better. 

I typically don't like supporting companies that intentionally make a limited product but I really wanna play pokemon on my lunch breaks

1 hour ago, Gloves said:

In hindsight, I do regret skipping it.

Its my fault for not paying attention to the pre-order date. And for assuming that they wouldn't be that limited. Figured they would have a good understanding of the demand for their products. 

1 hour ago, Bearcat-Doug said:

I just want a Super NT without having to pay $400+.

A Super NT would be nice to have but I think I'm fine using a mister for console games. I am interested in the pocket to actually use as a portable 

This is dope! Great work

Man I just want an analogue pocket

Just now, Tanooki said:

I don't think I've ever seen that before.  And 'ages collection?' what's that about.

My memory is a bit foggy on it but I believe they sold all the unreleased FFs in one package. So FF2 FF3 and FF5, I think

I believe these are all my imports, just a handful of Super Famicom games

Haven't played one myself, but I love arcadey games and I love pixel art. I think it would be right up my alley, just haven't gotten into it yet. 

@OptOut, hope your birthday is a swell one

19 minutes ago, Gloves said:

(the joke is that we don't have an "upvote" system, so it won't happen)

 

 

"Downvote"

1 minute ago, Gloves said:

Actually piracy has been shown numerous times to increase likelihood of purchase where games are concerned. A lot of people pirate games specifically to demo them, where a demo is not provided by the developer.

Actually thats a great point. I've done that myself with old games

This is now a conversation about the ethics of piracy? I dunno, most of the time the people who pirate stuff were never interested in paying money for it anyway. What does this have to do with a counterfeit NWC?

Also I agree with the veg guy.

17 minutes ago, CasualCart said:

This is a boxing box...

-CasualCart

 

Ah, the rare left-boop variant. Very nice

Saturn sucks.

Though honestly if mister fpga gets a Saturn core i may take it for a spin. Looks interesting enough

15 minutes ago, Sumez said:

This is also the exact reason I told you, when you started, that it's important that you didn't kill anyone, even though some people thought that was a spoiler.  

But it does suck having to play the whole game again. I didnt bother

Oh did you kill toriel? Yeah just YouTube it bro

Just now, Jeevan said:

  So new content as in i didnt beat the game?  Would you consider it beaten?  I kinda feel like if its just little piddly stuff then I count it......We talking new areas or new dialog?

Call it beat if you want, who cares what other people say. That said it's more than new dialog and areas, yes.

What did you think of the game?

On 2/14/2020 at 7:51 PM, Reed Rothchild said:

Is that Javascript book any good?