Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles
by atombender on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:32PM
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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.
Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles
by jimsmart on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:54PM
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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...
Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles
by thg on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:50PM
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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.
Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles
by zimpenfish on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:44AM
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> 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.
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.