The hours of tinkering, troubleshooting, and configuring were mine - not AI. The "Super Pretendo 5" exists because I built it, not because of a mockup Sega attack ad from 1993.
If the fun wrapper offends you, that’s your hang-up, not mine. If your big move is policing how I shared my joy, congrats - you win the 'hall monitor of fake internet points" retroachivement.
Funnily enough, I have ROTK high up on my GameCube "to play" list after playing LOTR on GBA. The GBA game was pretty dang güd.
Heh...it's a little late for a career change...
But I'll add it to the list :)
Windows sucks...but the M93p is old and Windows has bespoke drivers for it to coax the most out of the iGPU. The m93p really is tiny (1L case) and presents no real possibility for plugging in a GPU.
I've also had really shitty luck getting stuff to run under Proton.
Don't worry. It's the only thing in the house running windows. We're all about the penguin here (Raspbian, Zorin, PopOS and a few others)
Besides which, there's a peverse pleasure in torturing Windows into doing what you want :)
Bazzite is just for steam, right? Would that mean it plays Windows based games via Proton layer? Proton blows on Batocera. Shame, because Bato was pretty nice.
I strongly dislike Windows, but it was the only way I could cobble together something for this use case that just works
I'm getting that vibe lol. My bad.
Sorry my dude. I don't have that skillset. Would be handy. Will work on it.
So! I have a pi4 acting as my Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr etc server. (I'm actually debating adding Immich and Synchthing, as well as home CCTV to it's list of duties).
IME, emulation on the pi is weirdly hit or miss. For example, Dreamcast (Redream) is pretty good! N64 tanks it. Zero chance for PS2 etc... but then it plays Half life and Doom 3 just fine.
I lucked out when I got it - for what you pay for a Pi now, you'd get a lot more out of a NUC or a thinclient. Case in point: a barebones pi5 costs around $150 AUD near me. Literally just the board - no case, no power supply.
For a $150, you could replicate the machine I got, which is orders of magnitude more powerful, with 120gb SSD, power supply etc. And only slightly more power hungry than the pi.
I love my Pi, but that thing is like a box full of angry cats. Something about the Argon 40 case messes with it. You breath too hard near it, it drops wifi. It spontaneously decided "no RealVNC access for you - come back one year".
I really need to strip it back to parts and start again, but that's a job I keep putting off, because it works well enough for what it does.
Wouldn't want to game on it tho; I actually think even the Google Chromecast outperforms for some stuff.
I noticed that too 🤣 ChatGPT is an idiot sometimes.
I mean, we all know the Xbox260 only came out in Japan.
A+ for style. C- for content
I'm toying around with the idea of 3D printing a case for this, in classic console style. If i can just figure out how I can incorporate some IR LEDs into the front (so that the Wiimotes work without wii light bar) and the Xbox 360 USB dongle, I'm I'm business. As with all retro projects, one thing inevitably leads to the next...
It had Batocera on it :)
Batocera is wonderful, until you want to mix and match it with PC games or steam stuff. Then it makes your life more difficult than you'd expect.
(Weirdly, I find some of the standalone emulators legitimately work better in Windows that Bato.
Dolphin, PCSX2, PPSSPP etc are much more performant).
Some other perks: In windows, one neat thing is being able to run multiple instances of same emulator, slightly differently.
For example, Dolphin doesn't allow you to enable / disable Vsync per game.
Which means, you can have some games upscaled (but with screen tearing) or native resolution (but no screen tear)...but not both within same emulator. Think Rogue squadron etc.
No big deal if you're emulating on something with grunt, but when you're using office refuse from a decade ago, every little bit helps.
In Windows, I just create c:/dolphin1 and c:/dolphin 2, and tweak each game as needed.
TL: DR: i'm using win 8.1 for the OS, stripped to the bone, and replaced Explorer.exe with Playnite. I genuinely think it's a touch faster than Batocera and more maliable to PC stuff.
PS: I also had RetroBat for a while but it was doing something or other that made a few games less performant.
Proton must have come along in leaps and bounds since I last used it in that case.
What front end does Bazzite use? I understood it to have Steam baked in; most of my games are from other sources, like GoG.
I think once Steam kills support for Win 10 (probs in a year or two, based on history) the smart move is going to be something like Bazzite.