If a Shield is not sourceable, a Mad Catz Mojo or RaspberryPi also works. Personally I recommend Intel NUC but Intel for some reason has decided to not make them like they used to anymore.
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ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Buy an nvidia shield. Install retroarch. Find ROMs and put them on a USB drive, plug into shield. Pair any Bluetooth controller(s?). Play all the games.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 11 months ago
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
It’d be less than half the price to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 and you can even get a custom case.
ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’ve done both. The shield is both MUCH MUCH MUCH easier to setup and is so much more powerful than the Pi that N64, PS1, and GameCube Games are more likely to play well. OP didn’t mention being on a budget. They also didn’t mention their Linux skill level. Given thosee facts the shield is worth the price difference. They’re not really saving money if they can’t get the Pi working.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right, but I suspect if the user at the top doesn’t know what a Raspberry Pi is, then this is a bad suggestion. Sometimes you just have to recommend the simple stuff for normies.
stoy@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yep, I also ran Retroarch on an RPi 3 and it ran PS1 games fine
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A shield gives you access to GeForceNow, Moonlight, as well as streaming services for only about $100 more. Retropi is fine for a single purpose device though. Emulation Station is a much better front end than retroarch