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Raspberry Pi
| It's basically a super-small computer running Linux. You can do a whole lotta stuff with it, from emulating older consoles to making a smart home setup.
| >>125074 Oh? I'm interested in the emulation. Also, could you hook several together and make a slightly more powerful mini-computer?
| >>125075 From my understanding, there's a steep dropoff after two or three linked but I could be wrong.
| It's a super small computer all right, but with gpio to program electronics kinda like an arduino, but with linux and doesn't require another computer to program it, and has all normal linux pc stuff like internet browsers
| >>125076 Okay, good to know. What kind of setup would be required to have it emulate old consoles? Also, what consoles can it emulate?
| >>125075
I have never actually tested that. They won't be doing anything fantastic, definitely, but making them crunch numbers in parallel might be plausible.
But uh.. that's outside the scope of your question here, so let's leave my assumption at thay.
| >>125081 I just looked it up and It says that you can make cluster computers if you hook them up.
https://lifehacker.com/link-multiple-raspberry-pis-together-for-a-souped-up-di-1761556292
| >>125080 Pretty much anything up to N64 and PS1. Anything past that might be pushing it. Never really tried past that though
| Oh, if you just want to emulate, retropie is good. A raspberry pi 3 B would be best
| >>126080 be aware that many n64 games have performance issues on retropie(if someone here knows how to fix this please share the trick)
| >>126075 CanaKit sells kits for $50 on Amazon. Case, power, pi, heatsink. Just add a microsd and a controller (USB or BT) and you're set
| >>126088 Okay, like just lag or hardcore game breaking stuff?
>>126149 All right, I'll check them out later
| >>126384 some work fine, some lag a little and some are unplayable
There's no telling which will happen intil you fire up the rom
Strangely enough psx and psp run with no problem at all, you only have to put the heat sink
a cooler fan helps too, but it's not necessary(removed mine a long time ago because the noise was annoying)
| >>126391 Hm, okay. I'll check out PSP games, then. I've emulated some before and they are pretty fun. If I find a way to make most n64 games work I'll focus more on those. Do you know if Golden Eye or Ocarina of Time work? Also, you can have multiple controllers hooked up right?
| >>126395 never tried goldeneye or OoT because I still have the cartridges
I managed to hook up 3 controllers with ease but I'm pretty 4th one would be just as easy if I had this many
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| How to use? Program? Do cool stuff with it? I'm interested