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Click the tabs on the top of the webpage and look for your console to find your ROMs.
Inspired by that thread from the other day. I hope this thread inspires anyone who wanted to get into retro games to consider emulation instead of 5000$ scalped disks and consoles. This site maybe doesn't have the fastest downloads but it makes emulation sooo easy for anyone hesitating!
Edit: thanks eveyone for the links!
More ROMs!
https://www.myabandonware.com/
https://vimm.net/
For PC games!
https://gog-games.com/
For Flash games!
https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads/
:matt: We all carry portable computers that are more than capable of emulating a bunch of old systems and have very well developed emulators available on them
:monke-rage: TOUCH SCREEN CONTROLS
Well, there's a reason why my phone emulated games are all turn based or just reading like in Ace Attorney, no chance in hell I'd be able to play supah Mario worl with touch screen :monke-beepboop:
I tried just that. Sure you can connect a DS4 to your phone but that's not really portable anymore now is it
Could you connect a single Switch joycon? Those could do anything that doesn't require two joysticks.
Don't have one of those. You'd still essentially have a very small portable combined television and console instead of a handheld
I have a GPD XD plus handheld that's kind of like a DS. Really good clicky buttons and even analog sticks. It even closes. I got it on ebay for $120.
I've fooled around with a Steam Deck too and they're pretty great for emulating. Hoping to get one soon.
A Steam Deck would be total overkill for my purposes
I'd want something sleek that can play games from before the PS2 generation
PS2 and above I'd rather just play on my PC on a big screen anyway
Your best bet there is one of those Chinese handhelds made in Shenzhen, like the ones made by ANBERNIC or GPD. There's actually a kind of renaissance right now of handheld emulation machines running Android or some derivative and it's awesome. A coworker of mine has a RG351MP and it's cool as heck, runs everything up to PS1 games, but kind of lags on big files. Does 2D stuff SNES, GBA, etc perfectly.
China is contributing to the future of retro gaming :china:
How far back? A used PS Vita will run you about $100 and only starts to choke on emulation well into the N64/Dreamcast era.
Solution: hack a 3DS
I still use my jailbroken gen 1 PSP, it's a high quality emulation device.
I kind of want one of these Chinese contraptions
https://www.goretroid.com/products/retroid-pocket-3-handheld-retro-gaming-system
Emulator-focused portable consoles based on SBCs are becoming a thing and have real buttons and probably soon touch screens. Folks are combining the world's of raspberry pis and vast production capacity in China. It's pretty neat.
I don't have one yet but they look cool.
Chinese emulator devices have been a thing for a while now but it is my understanding that they have only recently become actually decent.
Here's one I linked above
https://www.goretroid.com/products/retroid-pocket-3-handheld-retro-gaming-system
Some of them even run Linux instead of Android
Oh nice that looks fun. I'm holding out for something that can replace a DS. Doesn't need 2 screens necessarily but being able to place the two views into one screen while still having controls would be perf.
Not an expert, but I'm pretty sure that's a feature in every DS emulator. The relatively big screen for the price class with this one would probably help in that respect
That's true though the stacking will probably leave a lot of blank space with a horizontal 16:9 screen. To properly fit side by side you'd want an 8:9 ratio, but DS screens were 4:3. Stacked horizontally they'll add up to 8:3, so 24:9, leaving about 1/3 of the screen space blank. Stacking vertically would use the screen better but then you'd need to hold the thing on its side.
It's honestly probably fine though I dunno.
From personal experience, the RasPi 4 is capable of emulating N64 games smoothly with a modest overclock (i.e. you just need to put it in a case with a fan). Raspberry Pis are hard to get right now (at MSRP) so I'm fucking around with an Orange Pi 4 instead. It seems to have more severe overheating problems though. Currently, I'm trying to design a custom case for it, but I will also need to figure out how to build LibreELEC with some proprietary blob drivers for the WiFi/Bluetooth.
Nice! I got a Quartz64 to screw around with for similar reasons (can't find raspberry pi 4s anywhere) but it's in the early stages of Linux kernel support.