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What's your favorite console to play your "backed up" games on? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
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If you've ever checked out /r/OriginalXbox there were some pretty neat hardware mods like LCD screens on the front of the console that display current playing content.

The PS2 can play games off of an SD card with MX4SIO through the memory card slot, through USB, through SMB with a Raspberry Pi, and through an internal HDD. You don't even need a working disc drive or a hard mod.

The PS Vita has a rocking homebrew scene.

The 3DS had neat custom themes and being able to use QR codes to download games is pretty nifty.

There's also SBC Gaming devices like the RG350 and Retroid Pocket 3+ that can play a wide array of systems.

Basically I have a hard time narrowing it down. What about you? Is there one console or device you keep coming back to?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was using an original xbox until the first Pi came out, haven't used the xbox much since.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that because you use your Pi for emulation?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I had linux & emulators running on the old xbox and was quite happy when the Pi came along.

My current pi 4 is a server/media centre most of the time and for retro gaming I just reboot into another drive. Arcade Punks made it too easy to just grab configured & working images for the board and now that the Pi can boot directly from any old hdd I have lying around it's a simple way to game.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does you pi media center do 4k movies?

Doing a pi build is on my list of projects I really want to tackle but they are so expensive and hard to find nowadays. Do you know if there are any good alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It plays 4k but only x265 play smoothly, also it won't transcode 4k for jellyfin of similar. Shame rarbg just vanished, will need to look elsewhere for x265 files.

An older intel NUC should do the job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I get x265 files from PSArips, they are great!