Raspberry pi mame emulator11/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Now it's more of a tweaking things to my liking. I read some more info and I have the Retropie set up properly now, and I have the networking figured out so I can just drag and drop the rom files from my PC over the network and not have to fiddle with USB drive bullshit. In the end, I'll have a little thing about the size of a PSTV that can play anything from NES to the PS1, Doom, and pretty much all the 2d arcade games I want with a slick interface. The downside is that it takes a lot to figure out, but that's mostly because I was clueless about how to use Linux. So far, it's looking like a Pi 2 can do pretty much everything I want out of the box and I'm in at like $50 in parts. I probably will at some point in the future. I'm not saying that having a dedicated Mame machine isn't awesome (it is!,) I just don't want to buy/build the parts. Then the computer is no longer a computer. ![]() They seem to run perfectly, and even without me customizing the video settings it looks pretty good on my monitor, and vsync is enabled so no tearing. I did play some Final Fight and Don Pachi, intentionally picking two games that are on the Pandora 3. It's set up easily enough, but I haven't figured out how to transfer all the roms appropriately or how to configure Retroarch's shaders yet. I'm doing something terribly wrong in RetroPie, I need to look up the instructions and try it again. It's a lot like a netbook, I like it a lot, but I've totally forgotten how to use Linux. At one point I had the Iceweasel web browser with chat and the forums open, a Pandora app streaming music, and apt-get updating at the same time with no major slowdown. I'm very impressed with the desktop performance, it makes a nice little internet terminal. It took me a while to figure out how to make it display on my old crt monitor in a decent resolution, but I finally figured it out. ![]() I got the thing to be a mamebox, but I set up the desktop using Raspbian Jessie first. I'm keeping a few different SD cards for loading different OS's instead of trying to make a complicated multiboot setup since SD cards are so cheap on Amazon. I finally got my Pi yesterday and spend several hours setting it up. ![]()
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