Comment on What retro handhelds are the best value?

InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can’t recommend it.

  if you have 300+ hours to configure it and have your entire ROM library ordered in the exact way it likes, go for it.

  otherwise, I’d skip it.

  I really really wanted to like it, but I just don’t have the time or attention span for it.

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  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not sure what you mean. You just put the roms in the right folders and it shows alphabetically per system type.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      that part works “ok”, but if you try to import any of the boxart or other metadata they have to be named in a specific way in order to be “found”.

      out of a library in the tens of thousands of roms I barely have 500 with boxart or metadata.

      the alternative is to go to each game and select the game. by hand. no thanks.

      I get it, it’s far easier to have required set parameters to start with, but there’s a better way to achieve the same goal with fuzzy logic and simple prompts.

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      • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That doesn’t really sound like an essential part. I don’t really care about the box art and I have a looot of stuff loaded on there. It’s the first and only distro where I didn’t have to tinker with too many things just to get a good experience, it just works.

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