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      VictimRLSH
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      Lately it seems all I find myself doing is building hardware projects and figuring out how to compile and run new games. I think that is the actual GAME known as Retropie...

      System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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      • ClydeC
        Clyde @VictimRLSH
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        @VictimRLSH Welcome to the club. 😉 It's the same with me, though it helps a little that my upright arcade cabinet is running most of the time. So I actually play a game on a whim sometimes.

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          retropieuser555 @VictimRLSH
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          @VictimRLSH yeah man...gotta play em for a good while to see if there's any bugs in em or if they don't play as well as the original hardware ;)

          Pi 5 4GB

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          • JesseBlueJ
            JesseBlue
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            90% tinkering
            10% playing

            :D

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            • simpleethatS
              simpleethat
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              Wait, you can actually play the games?! Honestly I go through long periods of just tinkering followed by slightly less long periods of gaming on my retropies. I recently got hooked on a couple xbone games so everything else has fallen by the wayside but I need to pick up the tinkerer hat again and finally setup my Pi4.

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                VictimRLSH
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                Some of the Zelda fan games will probably get some play soon, those looked pretty slick. I still play Vagrant Story but am getting close to finishing that. When I compile I will usually use the -j2 flag instead of -j4 and play a game on boardgamearena.com if compile-time gaming counts. :)

                System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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                • quicksilverQ
                  quicksilver
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                  Haha I know what you mean. The vast majority of games that I set up on my pi I never play. But some really draw me in. Recently I got half-life running on my pi 4 and played through and beat the main story plus the two expansions (blue shift and opposing force). I also got Freespace 2 running and being a big fan of space flight sims I played through the main campaign and I am now working my way through the Freespace 1 mod (Freespace port).

                  But there is something to be said for the joy of tweaking, compiling, and customizing that is as much fun as the games themselves. It's a bit like playing Legos when you were a kid. You spend a lot of time building and when it came time to play with what you built, you end up just building more (at least that's what I did) :)

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                    Charlox
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                    This is one of the reasons why recently, I’m trying to maintain a much smaller library of games I like, or would like to try, and add them as I discover new gems. Maintaining various systems of full romsets is such a headache. It’s nice to flex on visitors by finding any game they could name for a particular system but not worth it in the long run honestly. Smaller libraries of your personal must plays takes less time to setup and leaves more time to play.

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                      VictimRLSH @Charlox
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                      @Charlox said in Does anyone here actually PLAY the games anymore?:

                      This is one of the reasons why recently, I’m trying to maintain a much smaller library of games I like, or would like to try, and add them as I discover new gems. Maintaining various systems of full romsets is such a headache. It’s nice to flex on visitors by finding any game they could name for a particular system but not worth it in the long run honestly. Smaller libraries of your personal must plays takes less time to setup and leaves more time to play.

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                      System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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                      • DarksaviorD
                        Darksavior
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                        Once it's "done", I'll start playing more than testing. It's been a long adventure with the pi4. I could not close up my case because I was always testing out images but now I can thanks to usb boot.

                        I'm slowly deleting games I'll never play. The most annoying work for me has been the scraping. The scrapers are sometimes inaccurate and have the worst possible art available. I had to hunt down high res art and resize to a res that won't make the pi lag. I used a batch converter in photoshop, but it's still a long process. Then used an auto renamer to match the scraped art names but that only worked on arcade romsets and not the rest..
                        My arcade system menu (minus cps and neogeo) are marquees so that required all to be resized and sometimes I had to make them since none are available.

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                        • ClydeC
                          Clyde @Clyde
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                          @Clyde said in Does anyone here actually PLAY the games anymore?:

                          @VictimRLSH Welcome to the club. 😉 It's the same with me, though it helps a little that my upright arcade cabinet is running most of the time. So I actually play a game on a whim sometimes.

                          I forgot to mention that I am occasionally motivated to play certain games by retrogaming videos or podcasts. Recently, I started to play Snatcher, which is often praised as one of the best cyberpunk games of the retro era, but which I never heard before. 😳 As far as I know, the Sega CD version is the only official English version and has English voice acting at several occations.

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                            retropieuser555 @Clyde
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                            @Clyde same here! Whenever I see a particular AVGN video talking about a game and how awful if it, I feel compelled to dig it up and try it for myself!

                            Pi 5 4GB

                            Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

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                              Darksavior @retropieuser555
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                              @retropieuser555 When they played goonies 2, I wanted to play it and in my search there's a fan patch to make it slightly easier.

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                                retropieuser555 @Darksavior
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                                @Darksavior yeah it's incredible that people take the time to modify games to make the mechanics or gameplay actually work.

                                Like that ET game on Atari, regarded as one of the worst games ever, someone made a patch for that.

                                The rabbit hole of playing is absolutely incredible in pi for me. Games I played as a kid, games I missed out on, hack versions of games that didn't exist, import exclusives, the list goes on and on.

                                Pi 5 4GB

                                Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

                                Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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                                • dankcushionsD
                                  dankcushions Global Moderator
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                                  i try to! but the docs/support/developing is as fun for me as the games, so i try not to feel bad about it :)

                                  i try to be working on one game at any given time. right now it's castlevania - harmony of dissonance on the GBA (which is apparently the weakest vania on the GBA but i'm having some fun with it!)

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                                    Thorr69 @Darksavior
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                                    @Darksavior said in Does anyone here actually PLAY the games anymore?:

                                    @retropieuser555 When they played goonies 2, I wanted to play it and in my search there's a fan patch to make it slightly easier.

                                    Easier? Why? I remember buying that game on release date and I finished it over the weekend. (I was stuck on getting the ladder. Once I had it, I finished it 10 minutes later) It is definitely counter-intuitive to 'HIT' walls and stuff, mind you, and the translation errors are annoying. This is still on my all-time favorite NES games list.

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                                    • IanDaemonI
                                      IanDaemon
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                                      The ability/freedom to customize is fun. Cue this graphic...and apply it to RetroPie/EmulationStation/Retroarch:
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                                        dionmunk @IanDaemon
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                                        @IanDaemon Spot on!

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                                          simpleethat @IanDaemon
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                                          @IanDaemon That should really be a gif

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                                          • ClydeC
                                            Clyde @IanDaemon
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                                            @IanDaemon said in Does anyone here actually PLAY the games anymore?:

                                            The ability/freedom to customize is fun.

                                            Indeed. That's why Minecraft is such a big thing.

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