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Raspberry is the most important project that made my family interested in "computer things" It gathered the whole family together to play old couch-games[0], s
by _lce0 11y ago
Raspberry is the most important project that made my family interested in "computer things"
It gathered the whole family together to play old couch-games[0], something that most powerful consoles haven't even been close --specially with the grampas
Really exited about what the future will bring us!
0: http://emulationstation.org/ http://emulationstation.org/
- JustinAiken 11y agoRetropie makes emulationstation on the pi really easy!
- jarmitage 11y ago+1 for Retropie. So much fun. If you have a Raspberry Pi sitting around that you don't know what to do with, just do this. You won't regret it.
- nbschulze 11y agoFor real though, it's crazy how easy it is. I found my original Pi buried in some old stuff and was just like 'screw it, I'm going to do something with this' and then I was playing Pokemon Yellow that weekend. I've been working on the design for a cabinet for a little bit, but haven't had the chance to build it yet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw_tsjvxUfwFZjZpZlJuTUdLdW8/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw_tsjvxUfwFZjZpZlJuTUdLdW8...
- gambiting 11y agoIf I may add - do yourself the pleasure, and use a standard usb Xbox 360 controller, otherwise you are in for a world of pain. I've tried a NES30 controller over bluetooth and after a week of trying different configurations nearly chucked the whole thing in a bin. Also some of the emulators are too slow to be usable, even on the Rpi 2, NES and SNES work absolutely fine, but MAME, N64 and Dreamcast are more like curiosities, very few games run at anything even close to full speed on them.
- JustinAiken 11y agoI have the SNES30 and the SFC30 working great on my rPI2 - with retropie 3.5, you just have to make sure to create the UDEV rule, then it works like magic.
- throwawayy2 11y agoActually, for N64 emulation, I have a 100% full speed fork of Mupen64Plus for the Pi 2 sitting around on my hard disk that I hacked together a while ago. I should really clean it up and post it to GitHub. There's no fundamental reason why the N64 can't be emulated at full speed on that hardware. The VideoCore IV blows the RDP away in fill rate, after all. It's just that the available video plugins are old and aren't optimized for mobile GPUs. Additionally, Broadcom's drivers have a tendency to stall in inconvenient places and the emulator needs to work around that as well. But once those are fixed, most of the popular N64 games run beautifully.
- azinman2 11y agoPlease do! I couldn't get full speed Mario on my i7 Mac which is way more powerful than a pi!
- khedoros 11y ago...Which is sad. I played Mario64 in Corn on a 400MHz K6-2 around Y2K. Nemu+1964+Project64 each handled more, but it seems like I had to wait for my Athlon XP before my machine was fast enough to be useful.
- Sanddancer 11y agoGood emulation is hard, especially when you're dealing with code that was built around the bugs, quirks, and timing issues that the original SNES authors had to deal with. Then you have to worry about buggy software that works because of undefined behavior [1, see Speedy Gonzales]. More recent emulators have focused more on correctness than speed, because it means less work trying to patch and hack around broken games. [1] http://helmet.kafuka.org/state3.html http://helmet.kafuka.org/state3.html
- Relys 11y agoI recommend installing Retrosmc https://github.com/mcobit/retrosmc https://github.com/mcobit/retrosmc over OSMC https://osmc.tv/ https://osmc.tv/ and hooking it up permanently to your TV. I use a PS3 Dualshock controller and it works wonderfully. :)
- haberman 11y agoI don't get how ROMs for the old systems continue to be so easily available. I'm really glad they are, but how have all of the ROM hosting sites note been DMCA takedown'd into oblivion?
- davorb 11y agoThere's no money in it.
- ryanlol 11y agoBecause not everyone is in the US.
- jMyles 11y agoSome of them have (although I'm not aware of any that only host older games that have). In any case: this is the internet. You get whatever you want, and the effect of DMCA on that is indistinguishable from zero.
- IMTDb 11y agoSome game have "lost" ownership. Say that old game studio that developed GameBoy game has gone bankrupt, no one is going to enforce the copyright Most game or not reedited so there is no money to gain fom preventing them from being online. It may even help to keep the brand alive in case a reboot in programmed (Eg: tomb raider) Often it's a simple calculation of how much revenue could be won if you factor in the fact that you need to pay the team to find the ROM's, send the letters and enforce them once in a while. Basically it's nearly never worth it.
- rb808 11y agoI must be the only one disappointed with old-school games. I was super excited to set up a retropie, after 20 minutes playing the nostalgia wore off quickly. Anyone else find the same?
- nkrisc 11y agoI think some of that has to do with the fact that a lot of those older games aren't really as fun as we remembered them to be. There's some classic gems, to be sure, but they were also all we had.
- Danilka 11y agoThe bigger underlying problem is that we associate those games with happy periods of our lives. The once where we could play games, do projects and not worry about anything else. By playing an old school game, your brain extracts these happy feelings from the memory. However, it's not a sustainable source of "fun" per say. As opposed to the newer games where "fun" is being caused by the game directly.
- andrepd 11y agoI strongly disagree. I have zero interest in today's bloated AAA games. Simple games like Tetris, Mario + romhacks, or Civ II have given me collectively more fun that I would ever have playing some insipid shooter or uninspired pay2win fantasy game. I wouldn't trade them for any of today's games, which I consider severely flawed in many ways.
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- mandeepj 11y agocorrection - excited
- api 11y agoRPi is IMHO the most important computer product period. It's the gateway to PC 2.0, the modern Altair.