Is kodi something equivalent to retroach or something like that? Any good resources you have used that explain how to set It up?

it’s screen is 720. I would not expect Nintendo to go above 1080 on the screen and maybe output a scaled-up 4K when docked.

I don’t doubt it… Nintendo is always years behind.

The PS5 came out in 2020 and this Switch2 is probably a year away. So that would make their hardware be roughly 4 years old in terms of power. Plus if this is roughly the size of the current Switch, it won’t be pushing more than HD-resolutions (current Switch is only a 720 display), so getting PS5-level graphics on a 1080 screen these days is not particularly complicated or expensive.

perfect

No way would that kid be frowning. If this was legitimately in the late 70s or early 80s that kid would be ecstatic with the graphics.

They are laughing at you, not with you.

Interesting. I’ve been using the same cheapo iron for years and years now but if I ever need to replace it, I’d probably at least consider one of these. Quick search on Amazon shows them for like $85. So not cheap, but not bonkers either.

Can you explain what makes them so good?

The artwork used on the sides of arcade machines and old school console games was wild. Lots of drugs must have been involved because ultimately the game represented the jousters in like 7 or 8 pixels and yet some artists came up with the image at the top of this thread.

In some ways it’s a problem of too many choices. I get it that there are a lot of front ends to pick from and a lot of emulators and lots of roms but at some point I just want to play a game and not endlessly fiddle with shit to get an extra 1/2 FPS. I want to watch the Retro Gaming Corp videos and just follow them step by step (if that’s how the videos are laid out) and just get it going.

I was hoping the Android side would give me more options for newer Android games. But honestly I just didn’t think it would be that big of a deal, but I feel like it’s a big step backwards from a user’s perspective that so much tweaking needs to be done.

Yeah that was the plan, but wanted to rewatch all his videos on the 3+ first but just haven’t had the time to do it.

I recently purchased a Retroid Pocket 3+ but I haven’t had the time to really set it up yet. I was hoping it was plug-and-play simnilar to a mini console I bought a few years ago that was ready to go immediately. Unfortunately the Pocket 3+ is going to take some time to get going.

Don’t let that stop you from trying again. The benefits of having all the old games you used to play within reach is worth trying with a better device. I recently bought a handheld device to see if having hundreds or even thoughts of games on the go is something I would use. Havent set up the device yet though.

Honestly, after o built the arcade, that’s when I just went with a cheapo mini retro console hooked up to the TV. It makes infinitely more sense since I’m in the living room so much of the time and everything is there. Hook up some wireless controllers to it and you’re good to go. If you want the old school arcade style stick,yiu can buy those as well.

I built a stand up retro arcade machine a few years back with some spare parts and wood I had. I never finished making it look “pretty” but tye functionality was there.

Here’s the thing, I kept it in the garage and because of that it wasn’t in the most super convenient location. It barely got used. But it sure took up a lot of space. I was ready to take it apart but my interests have switched to building something else and with that change I’m using the cabinet as a monitor stand instead.

All the software developers will say “there’s GIMP” and then anyone who’s actually used GIMP will laugh in their face, amd now you see why so much of the open source community is such shit.

I’ve kept it this long because I too would like to preserve it, and up until a couple of years ago, it was running fine. I’ll keep it in the garage for now and see if I can get it going again one of these days. I even brought home this old flat plasma screen that work was throwing away. This predates HDMI and digital signals. But its a big screen (40"+) for it’s age and rather thin. It was probably a $10k screen at the time. I kept it around because one day I wanted to hook up the Genesis to it because it takes in analog inputs like component and composite (as well as VGA).

I still have my OG Genesis in the garage. A couple of years ago I opened it up because the LED wasn’t turning on - the system itself worked perfectly fine, just the light. Don’t remember everything that happened but since then it hasn’t powered on. I’m tempted to toss it, but then again, it’s like 30 years old, so I think it deserves better.

I even remember the day I got it.

My parents would have killed me if they knew I spent money on a gaming console. I got dropped off over to my friend’s house as a sleep-over because it was summertime. He lived within walking distance of Toys R Us. Went there with a bunch of cash and bought it and brought it back to his house. I knew I couldn’t just bring the whole box back home without my parents knowing what was up, so I unboxed it and put each piece into a different plastic bag and mixed them all up in with my sleeping bag. To most people, it just looked like a mess of random electronic toys. When my mother came to pick me up, she started gossiping away with my friends mom for like 20 minutes. I asked her to pop the trunk and I snuck all the things into the car. When we finally got home, I pretended that I forgot the stuff in the trunk, so I went down to the garage and grabbed them a little at a time to bring back to my room. Thankfully the console itself wasnot that big so I kept it in one of the drawers in my desk, but I ran all the wires out the back. Over the next few weeks, I took out more and more of the parts and put them on my desk. At this point, it looked like any other piece of random electronics, so no one ever knew I did this. This is literally the first time I’ve ever told this story. Not sure if anyone else could relate, but toys and having fun were rather low priorities so ya had to sneak in whatever gaming you could do.

I have mixed feelings about this. If you zoom in, it looks especially bad. If you are talking about consoles that had like 320x240 pixel resolutions, it is especially bad, but a high resolution LCD display can use filters/shaders (whatever you want to call them) to mitigate the blockiness to a large degree. Early LCDs were simply no match for a good CRT. I would argue with people all the time and they simply couldn’t believe it and thought I was crazy. But now that we have LCDs with more than 4K resolution it is game over for CRTs and my back hurts just thinking about moving another 100 lb vacuum tube monitor.