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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/
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.