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Lakka – The DIY Retro Emulation Console

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1) Grab a console from eBay, fleamarket, ...

2) Get a few games along with it

3) Hook it up

4) Play old games on/with real hardware

5) Fun! (sorry, no profit here ;) )

Really, nothing beats the experience playing those old games on their respective hardware. You're missing out if you're using an emulator (though more power & kudos to the devs!).

Only thing i'm using an emulator for is trying the more expensive games first if i even like them, since retro-gaming kinda exploded and the prices of used games with it :/

Absolutely true. However, as someone who has neither a television set nor an apartment large enough to fill with hardware I'd only use infrequently, and also has to travel frequently, I'm still a big fan of these kinds of projects.

It'd be even better if Nintendo could somehow convince publishers to re-release all their classic titles for the Nintendo DS, assuming it's powerful enough to reasonably emulate a fair number of platforms. I'd be more than happy to pay good money for good classics.

The Wii (dunno about the Wii U) had a pretty great collection of Virtual Console games for quite a number of platforms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_f...

Also, there are flash carts that can run homebrew emulators for the DS, including an emulator that can play almost all NeoGeo games.

Nintendo's got an irritating policy of not releasing games that originally came out on any TV-based system since NES on Virtual Console for the DS.

On the flipside, nothing introduces a modern kid to the 80's era with more gusto than loading up an rPi with EmulationStation, filling the SD card with ROM's, and having at it. The fun factor is multiplied when you've got 1000's of ROMs available to play ..

If you want to run a cartridge based console on a modern TV without introducing a lot of clutter, the Retron5 is worth consideration. It also supports many of the original console controllers.

http://hyperkin.com/Retron5/

No, it is not. Period.

Why? Because it still is only emulation on the inside.

True, but aren't those expensive?

Next we need a DIY handheld to go with this. I don't mean something like the 3D printed handhelds getting around, I mean something people could make themselves with only basic soldering skills.

I just discovered the Odroid-W, a very tiny Raspberry Pi clone. Surely one could sneak that into a PSP housing easily.

I've been using this for months. Works really well! Almost everything works out of the box.

I just installed it on a usb stick, bought a £5 USB adaptor that let me use my xbox360 wireless controllers (up to 4 iirc), plugged it into the little nettop box I usually use for Kodi and I was up and running!

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