So what Sayeth the computer gurus to this guy for retrogaming

[FSUTribe76]

I'm looking to add some emus to a small, easy to use system so I can decrease my clutter on the entertainment stand to just it, the cable box, my PS4 and possibly the Wii and ditch my Retron 5, my old self built Raspberry Pi, PS3, and XBox 360 to the darkest corners of the closet.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/44364488?...2636856&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=108541329416&veh=sem

While I was thinking about just nodding the Wii to include the emus, I'm not a fan of the controllers and would rather have a more dedicated machine for XBox and older emus and if I mod the Wii it will be only to run the old Nintendo 64 and GameCube games as the emus apparently work better on Nintendo made systems for....reasons.

So do you think this little guy will get the job done?

 

[seminoledq]

 

[Nole Lou]

I'm looking to add some emus to a small, easy to use system so I can decrease my clutter on the entertainment stand to just it, the cable box, my PS4 and possibly the Wii and ditch my Retron 5, my old self built Raspberry Pi, PS3, and XBox 360 to the darkest corners of the closet.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/44364488?...2636856&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=108541329416&veh=sem

While I was thinking about just nodding the Wii to include the emus, I'm not a fan of the controllers and would rather have a more dedicated machine for XBox and older emus and if I mod the Wii it will be only to run the old Nintendo 64 and GameCube games as the emus apparently work better on Nintendo made systems for....reasons.

So do you think this little guy will get the job done?

Doesn't your Pi work for emus? I'm not an emulator guy, but I know many XBMC users launch emus from that, presumably the Pi would work. Do newer roms require more juice?

If you're really just looking to use it for emulators, I'd probably look at a standalone android based box like the Nvidia Shield TV or the FireTV. The ShieldTV is an Android box that's $200 and has pretty robust processing, as long as there's an Android emulator for everything you need (which I would assume there is). I've done the HTPC thing for years...there's just something to be said for a set top box when it comes to price, ease of setup, and especially power/remote management.

Also that ShieldTV plays 4k video from Netflix, if you have a 4k tv or expect to.

 

[FSUTribe76]

Doesn't your Pi work for emus? I'm not an emulator guy, but I know many XBMC users launch emus from that, presumably the Pi would work. Do newer roms require more juice?

If you're really just looking to use it for emulators, I'd probably look at a standalone android based box like the Nvidia Shield TV or the FireTV. The ShieldTV is an Android box that's $200 and has pretty robust processing, as long as there's an Android emulator for everything you need (which I would assume there is). I've done the HTPC thing for years...there's just something to be said for a set top box when it comes to price, ease of setup, and especially power/remote management.

Also that ShieldTV plays 4k video from Netflix, if you have a 4k tv or expect to.

The Pi works for certain emus (basically SuperNintendo and down and there's even a little slowdown with SNES while Genesis runs great) but the Bluetooth dongle needs to be replaced anyways and I'd probably just want to ditch it. I THINK the one I attached would run PSX, XBox and do a better job at the newer MAME stuff and I can add some old abandonare windows stuff that the Pi couldn't handle. I'm not looking to play the newest PC or PS4 for that, I'm plenty saturated with high end gizmos. But I thought this guy would get rid of my "need" for some of the clutter.

 

[FSUTribe76]

So I looked into the Shieldtv. The other stats are ok (1gig less ram, processing speed a little slower), but it's only got 16gb of internal Hardrrive space. For my recently modded PSP, I've got one 32gig SD card filled with the old stuff (Atari 2600-SuperNintendo) plus a couple of PSX games and got two more cards filled with PSX and PSP games. So I'd probably need about 120gigs of space and the Walmart Asus I attached has 500gigs (more than necessary). So the 16gigs on the Shieldtv won't cut it. Thanks for the feedback though, I hadn't considered it (I did consider the newish Playstation tv from Sony which is basically a stripped down Vita you plug in your tv but it has not been sufficiently broken yet.

 

[Banditking]

Haven't done emulator stuff in a while. I have too many games and not enough time. But, I keep all of my emulators on my pc. Mostly, I have snes, mame, neogeo, Atari 2600. All worked pretty well last time I checked. I would think some sort of pc would be best. There are integrated chipsets that are small and can be cooled quietly. I wouldn't imagine that these are too taxing on modern chipsets.

 

[KitingHigh]

Jamies Christ,

I thought I had a lot of hobbies. Between the food tourism and cooking, exploring and camping, Internet research, posting here, and your job; how do you have time for so many video games?

 

[FSUTribe76]

Jamies Christ,

I thought I had a lot of hobbies. Between the food tourism and cooking, exploring and camping, Internet research, posting here, and your job; how do you have time for so many video games?

I work from home for myself in a wide variety legal and medical field capacities as well as have various ownership stakes in various companies. So long story short, I only work about 20 hours a week and still make orders of magnitude more than when I was working as a chief prosecutor for DOH. So I've got plenty of time and money for various hobbies and travel.

 

[FSUTribe76]

Haven't done emulator stuff in a while. I have too many games and not enough time. But, I keep all of my emulators on my pc. Mostly, I have snes, mame, neogeo, Atari 2600. All worked pretty well last time I checked. I would think some sort of pc would be best. There are integrated chipsets that are small and can be cooled quietly. I wouldn't imagine that these are too taxing on modern chipsets.

I agree somewhat on the too many games as my wife has enough JRPGS (which are anywhere from 20-120 hours each) that she could probably play them from now until 10 years from now 24-7 and never have to replay them. On the other hand, all of the little Colecovision, early MAME games, the various Ataris, and Intellivision games are designed to be quick. Frankly, I think that those old companies are losing possible revenue by not simply upgrading the graphics and rereleasing a bunch of the old games for iphone and Android. Instead if they do anything, they just rerelease the old stuff untouched and it's the bad graphics that scares away the kiddies, the gameplay is usually amazing.

 

[Banditking]

The game play is not something modern kids usually tolerate for a bunch of reasons.

 

[Banditking]

Heh

 

[Banditking]

Oh, there is by the way a new version of Sierras kings quest series available on pc and I know for sure Xbox one. Haven't logged into my ps4 recently so not sure there.

 

[FSUTribe76]

Oh, there is by the way a new version of Sierras kings quest series available on pc and I know for sure Xbox one. Haven't logged into my ps4 recently so not sure there.

Yeah it's on PS4 as well, I'll have to read some reviews. I've yet to replay the series on SCUMM but it's on my list. I have to do the Discworld series first though.

 

[West Duval Nole]

Are you FSUTribe76 on PSN?

 

[FSUTribe76]

Are you FSUTribe76 on PSN?

I don't think so. Either way I don't do social gaming as I'm not a fan of shooters or sports games. My first preference is old school strategy (not the dumbed down rts) like the old SSI games like Conflict in the Middle East and Panzer General, the various Koei strategy games like PTO2 and Nobunagas Ambition, and I've really been on a naval strategy sim kick with the semi realistic Janes Fleet Command & Harpoon and the so realistic it's used by the naval academy and defense think tanks Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations Professional.

Outside of the strategy games, I tend to play mainly a mix of simulation/"God" games like Civilization, Alpha Centauri, and Simearth; weirdly I prefer the more arcadey less authentic "flight" games like Rogue Squadron, Colony Wars, and Ace Combat; various adventure games both the point and click SCUMM type of games and the real 3D exploration/adventure like Uncharted; and the various videonovels and QuickTime event games like Two Souls, Heavy Rain, Indigo Prophecy plus the old Daphne games (Dragons Lair, Space Ace, Time Gal, Cobra Command etc...). And of course all of the old arcade and early console action games.