Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by atombender on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:03PM (#18650298)

So has anyone tried the Chinese pirate console that he's apparently rebranding?

It looks like it's this one [1], $89 on Amazon. Emulates PS1, GBC, SNES and more, with 843 games, including classics like Super Mario Bros.

I'd absolutely love to have something like this in my living room, but I think I'd prefer a somewhat less suspect, more hacker-friendly system where one could easily add new games. But I also don't know anything about this one.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Console-Entertainment-System-Classic-...

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by thg on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:23PM (#18650459)

Have a look at RetroPie: https://retropie.org.uk/

Doesn't come with any game ROMs, but there are enough places you can download them. Once you have them, it's just a simple file transfer to install them.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by atombender on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:32PM (#18650524)

Thanks. Looks like something I need a Raspberry Pi to run? I'd like something that just works out of the box, zero building or fiddling with hardware.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by jimsmart on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:54PM (#18651476)

Look for a bundle like this [1], the only 'buiilding' it requires is putting the Pi into the case, and plugging in the controllers and PSU. It doesn't come with RetroPie, but that's easy to put onto an SD card.

As a bonus, there are also cases like this [2] available.

[1] https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-kits-and-bundl...

[2] https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-store/products...

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by thg on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:50PM (#18651452)

It doesn't involve much effort. Transfer image to SD card, put SD card into the Pi and that's pretty much about it on the hardware side.

After that you just have to transfer some game ROMs, set up your controller(s) and you should be good to go. Takes at most 20 minutes to get it all up and running the first time.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by zimpenfish on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:44AM (#18654934)

> Takes at most 20 minutes to get it all up and running

I'm currently on about 2 hours of trying to get it working (having given up several times.) And that wasn't even configuring any exotic emulators or controllers.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by LolNoGenerics on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:59PM (#18660167)

After the ausus EEE series became hip I tried a random cheap product which was supposed to be a media center / entertainment system. It was horribly slow, running android. Even more worrying was that they rubbed remote desktop stuff under my nose all the time. I was so scared to handle any remotely personal with it that I gave up on it after 2 sessions of messing with it.

If you don't care about the money, test you luck. But I would be very careful. At least considering security/privacy.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by fhbdukfrh on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:06PM (#18650791)

I have one. The best part is the "case" it's huge compared to the hardware inside, do it's super light.

It's like an Arduino inside a shoebox.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by fabricexpert on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:04PM (#18650305)

There's lots of reviews on youtube of this kind of thing.

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