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  • RetroPie for Raspberry Pi 4 now working!

    From alterego@VERT/ALTERANT to Paulie420 on Tue May 12 07:55:26 2020
    Re: RetroPie for Raspberry Pi 4 now working!
    By: Paulie420 to alterego on Mon May 11 2020 08:45 am

    What is the gamehats function???

    One of these:

    https://www.waveshare.com/game-hat.htm

    As for the ROMs, I'm thinking I'll lean away from any huge collection as its easy to load yourself - and scrape the video and JPG info about each title.

    But for $40 (which includes the 128GB SD card) - somebody else has done all that work for you, and you have 18,000 of them! (I think anyway... :)

    (I didnt know that there were that many....)

    I just got an alert that it will be arriving today - woot.
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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Paulie420 on Tue May 12 09:20:36 2020
    Re: RetroPie for Raspberry Pi 4 now working!
    By: Paulie420 to All on Sun May 10 2020 12:33 pm

    So I have this project that had recently taken a back burner because RetroPie wasn't working for the newest Raspberry Pi 4 machine>>> But they recently released a new version that seems to work pretty well with RPi4!

    I built one a few weeks back using the dev version for the rpi4, it seemed to work pretty well.

    I have a mountain of ROMs that I've acquired over the years, but they're a bit of a mess.

    I was hoping for a little more horsepower to run some n64 games, but alas, the n64 emulator doesn't seem to function any better on the pi4 than it did on the pi3 at this time. Maybe once they can optimize stuff for the pi4 a bit better, things will smooth out.

    DaiTengu

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  • From Paulie420@VERT/PAULIE42 to DaiTengu on Tue May 12 16:12:45 2020
    Re: RetroPie for Raspberry Pi 4 now working!
    By: DaiTengu to Paulie420 on Tue May 12 2020 09:20 am

    I was hoping for a little more horsepower to run some n64 games, but alas, the n64 emulator doesn't seem to function any better on the pi4 than it did on the pi3 at this time. Maybe once they can optimize stuff for the pi4 a bit better, things will smooth out.

    DaiTengu

    I totally agree.. and I'm even feeling like... Nintendo; regular NES 8-bit doesn't feel perfect!! However, I am using a keyboard right now as I wait for an xbox wireless reciever for xbox 360 remotes... so I'll try it out when I have regular controllers and all - and it better function.

    I wonder what box, as cheap as possible and hopefully smaller than a normal console, will run everything up to N64 (I know, I know... but at least run it GOOD ENOUGH..), Dreamcast and others all in one system. I want to create an emulation box to be done with it-- one box, all my systems up to N64 and I can stop working on it. :P

    a NUC? An ODRIOD? Hmmmm...
    My RPi 4 is a 1GB version - I guess I could take it up to the 4GB version before I write em off. They do so much other stuff, I don't mind ordering more of them.

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