I recently built a console that can play many different games on the Raspberry PI. It was a cool project. I purchased a PI, got a microSD card, and burned RetroPie onto the card. The result - a great console that can play any type of game on SNES, NES, Sega, and other game systems. It only costs like $50 or so. Has anyone done this? It is really worth it as you can enjoy retro games and hacks of them. It hooks up conveniently to your HDMI on the TV.
Not for RetroPi but I have a RPi3 and it's pretty great. Cheap, silent, low power consumption and it can run a full Linux distro (no Android, no some obscure outdated hardware specific distro) like Debian based Raspbian.
Cool stuff. Wish it had 2Gb of RAM and a better bus since it has like a single 10MB/s bus for everything, that means all USB ports, SD port, networking, etc.
Extremely easy to setup too. Just burn the image on the SD, put it in, and it's booting.
I hope that eventually main Debian project will support it completely (maybe for RPi4's CPU?) so I can just grab one of their ISOs instead of Raspbian.
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I am running retropie on a RP2+
Works great except for N64 titles.
RetroPie is da Bomb. I heard Rpi3 works best for N64 titles.
