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Raspberry Pi Gaming Thread - Emulation in the palm of you hand.
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Shipping is $35 from Korea, that makes the whole deal pretty expensive :(
Very small, I have a 2.8 IPS screen that they might be using and it's very sturdy and great for displaying content on it. If is is the same one it will be a great way to play retro games. the screen is like less than $8 so that will drive the price down quite a lot.
Very small, I have a 2.8 IPS screen that they might be using and it's very sturdy and great for displaying content on it. If is is the same one it will be a great way to play retro games. the screen is like less than $8 so that will drive the price down quite a lot.
That's great!
If they're using off the shelf parts (I think it's said like that) it would be very easy to replace if worst comes to worst.
I hope I can import this easily or it's available where I live (Retroflag's NES and MEGAPi cases are very available for some reason)
The design on that thing is absolutely genius.
The shoulder buttons look more comfortable than anything Nintendo has ever released in a portable. Wonder if they're as good as they seem.
Made a quick search and couldn't find more information and I can't see the videos now, but it doesn't come with Pi Zero right? And I still need to assembly? (my soldering skills isn't good)
Assembly is a perfect word. You provide the Pi Zero and assemble the board in a cartridge thingy that the case has.
You can see the videos posted here. There's no soldering whatsoever.
Was pointed here from the RetroFlag thread, but does anybody know if it's possible to do Pico-8 development entirely on a Pi Zero? I'm sure it can at least play the games, but I'd be looking to potentially plug in a keyboard + mouse as well.
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3085
Yes and no? you will need to power the ribbon cable that uses micr-usb also note all standard pi's have GPIO pins so you would need to desolder it in the first place.
The Retroflag case looks like genius.
I'll probably get one. I don't really need it (can play on my switch or modded 3ds) but it is too cool. Will have to grab a Pi zero next time I skate by Microcenter.
Wishing for an OG style GBA one, maybe using the Pi3a? Never had much nostalgia for the OG Game Boy, I was a poor kid when they were popular. But I had a GBA in my early college years.
I'll probably get one. I don't really need it (can play on my switch or modded 3ds) but it is too cool. Will have to grab a Pi zero next time I skate by Microcenter.
Wishing for an OG style GBA one, maybe using the Pi3a? Never had much nostalgia for the OG Game Boy, I was a poor kid when they were popular. But I had a GBA in my early college years.
Original GBA form factor with 4 face and 4 shoulder would be so good.
Proballt not, but to be honest it's been a few years since the pi zero came our so an updated version must be in the works.
Yeah, but the CM3 has a pretty high price tag approaching that of a modded 3ds (which I already have).
I like the cheaper price of this, and the AA batteries. And Retroflag has a good track record.
It's worth a shot, this hub seems to be compatible with those wii style controllers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X83GlJvEx0
The Raphnet USB adapters are supposed to have the least input lag. I know they work with the Pi. They're a bit pricier though than the cheap models.
I just bought a Pi 3b+, a 128gb SD card (probably overkill but it was only like 7$ more than the 64gb) and also grabbed one of those off Ebay https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/151426617330
yep on the audio jack, it's on the bottom.
No benchmarks yet regarding snes/gba but performance of games has nothing to do with this device and everything to do with the raspberry pi zero. In all likelihood, we'll see a newer Pi zero this year, and it will share the same form factor, so can be just a drop-in replacement.
I'm a little disappointed this wasn't designed with the Computer module instead of the zero.
compute module: 67.6mm × 31mm
zero: 65 mm by 30 mm
They are practically the same size.
here's a pic of the computer module:
and the pi zero:
just for comparison
I've bought 3 RPi so far thinking they would be the ultimate emulation station. But I've always got put off by there being no good way to get video/art for each game in Emulationstation. Has anything happened on that front in the latest year? Any automated services that can download videos/art for all the games you own?
That looks exactly like what I'm looking for. Didn't know about it - thanks!
At the end of the day, it's down to the CRC/Hash/MD5 filename of the rom more than anything else. I dunno if there is ever going to be a universal solution that "just works"
Thanks for this, was just trying to find such a link, wonder if it will go live midnight here (48minutes)
Yea I wish they would make a Gameboy Color cast with a slot to insert a Raspberry Pi 3 compute module.
Modify the case in the same way Retroflag has done to add an extra 2 face buttons and 2 shoulder buttons and obviously the larger screen and rechargeable battery. I would be happy.
Modify the case in the same way Retroflag has done to add an extra 2 face buttons and 2 shoulder buttons and obviously the larger screen and rechargeable battery. I would be happy.
Funny, I tried figuring this out for about 5 minutes then gave up.
I feel like Emulationstation not supporting system specific controller inputs is the weirdest and most obvious omissions I've seen...
Like... Really? This should be a no brainer...
I saw a reply from a dev saying that you can set them if you open the retroarch menu once in a game to set it for that core but that feels like a weird workaround...
So how does it work generally if you have more than one controller?
Let's say I have a PS4 controller connected via Bluetooth and I have a SNES classic controller plugged in... Can I seemlessly switch from one to the other depending if I launch a NES/SNES game versus a game on a different platform?
Like... Really? This should be a no brainer...
I saw a reply from a dev saying that you can set them if you open the retroarch menu once in a game to set it for that core but that feels like a weird workaround...
So how does it work generally if you have more than one controller?
Let's say I have a PS4 controller connected via Bluetooth and I have a SNES classic controller plugged in... Can I seemlessly switch from one to the other depending if I launch a NES/SNES game versus a game on a different platform?
Well, I use recalbox and what matters is the order that you "plugged" the controller. I mean, if the DS4 is the Player 1 controller, then all the games are going to use that controller by default. You can turn the DS4 off and reassign the SNES controller I think (or rather, maybe ES then defaults to the other controller when the first is missing)
However, I think what you're asking is beyond the scope of what ES is trying to be. Like, it's a frontend to make easy the organizing of games and use a general profile for all the consoles instead of editing manually the configuration file in retroarch. And people that want to use a different controller to specific consoles in a hot swap fashion are not the majority of users and, personally, I don't think it's a very big deal (even though I'm also thinking of buying specific controllers for a couple of consoles like NES/SNES and Genesis besides the DS3 controller that I use now for everything)