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Retro Gaming With Raspberry Pi

Posted by Soulskill on from the bring-your-own-roms dept.

coop0030 writes "Thanks to the affordable Raspberry Pi and some clever software, anyone can re-create the classic arcade experience at home. Adafruit brings the genuine 'clicky' arcade controls, you bring the game files and a little crafting skill to build it. Classic game emulation used to require a well-specced PC and specialized adapters for the controls, so it's exciting to see this trickle down to a $40 system. Also, a video of the game system is on YouTube."

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  1. Re:So what? by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People are annoyed because RPi failed to live up to its hype or promises.

    The h.264 decoder is buggy and locks the hardware.
    The USB controller is buggy and stuff doesn't work right. See the infamous LKML post ripping it.
    The SD controller is buggy and regularly corrupts SD cards.

    From what I can tell, I should've bought Beaglebone Blacks instead. For some reason RPi still gets lots of attention. If it worked right, people would just complain that it was underpowered, but, eh, it's cheap. But promising and not delivering gets peoples' hackles up.

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