Aren't they kinda of hard to get a hold of still? During the pandemic they were going for 100$ and up
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2024
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you can at least get them directly instead of paying scalpers now, but yeah it's still $80 for an 8GB board.
My only real problem with emulation is that I haven't found a good way to connect my pc to a crt. I've been wanting to play oot randomizers on a proper display but I'm not willing to buy an everdrive at the moment.
I know this is the exact opposite of what you want in a sense, but with a little fiddling you can make the highest definitions of TVs look pretty crappy and old with fancy emulator settings. I had a friend with so many scan line and fuzzy plugins and crt color abberation and flicker fakers installed, i swear it was basically the same thing visually
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I setup and love retropie, but I will say that I was surprised at how many emulation issues I had even on some PS1 games. mostly it was framerate or processing issues, tried same emulator on my laptop with no problem.
raspberry pi is very affordable but it was surprising to me that the hardware specs were a limiter given how much of an increase they were over the ps1
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I have a nice collection of old games but I also have a nice collection of emulators and devices to run them on lol
I'd understand if it was about the controllers since the games were made to work specifically with them, but choosing to pay several hundred dollars instead of juste using something that cost less than a 100 and got far better UI and features is something i'll Never understand. Tho, It would make sense if you had that console as a child and getting the real one make you feel nostalgic.
I can see the appeal for that... Except for the NES.
I gave my last cartridge blowie a long time ago.
Something about the wire on a NES controller that makes it feel right.
The best of both worlds, I've got Flash Carts for all my retro consoles and I'm (slowly) working on ODEs for the others! In the cases where an ODE removes the disc drive, I have secondary consoles! My partner hates that the entertainment stand is covered in video games but loves that most of the boxed games are in storage!
I've got an Anbernic 353p and I LOVE it for handheld, but trying to use it as a console has proven tricky. I just want a device that I can plug into my TV and play games on with a minimum of tinkering. I shouldn't need to remap controllers every time I turn the thing on. I don't care to follow along with a three+ hour long tutorial to get all the settingsjust right. Plug into TV. Turn on. Play game.
This is where original hardware, or even those SNES Mini or Playstation Classic devices have appeal, because they aren't tinkering hobby devices, they're game systems first, last, and only. Everything above and beyond that should be very optional.
Steam deck. Not as cheap as an ambernic or raspberry pi, but I've been blown away by how painless and plug and play everything is, and I've played games on it from every console generation up to ps3 so far, plus modern pc games. Steaminput makes controller settings a breeze even for games or applications that don't have good input settings. I knew I'd like it before I got one last year, but since then I can't say enough good things about it, it's honestly everything I dreamed of as a kid playing video games, almost every game under the sun all in one handheld package, it's honestly incredible.
This is like people who insist building your own PC is easy.
No. It's not.
It is if you know everything about it sure, but that applies to most things.
I don't care about your raspberry Pi that I have to house, program, etc. I just wanna pop in a game and have it work. Easy peasy
I agree that it's easy in the sense that you can learn enough to do it via YouTube.
It's certainly not always easy to actually do the thing though.
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Both are awesome.
One for general use, not scuffing up my gear or games, travel, etc.
The other when I want to really have a beer and just retro out for an afternoon.