Poll: What Systems Do You Use?

AlexMurphy

@mattrixk I haven't been this excited since... forever! The Megadrive kicks ass. My first console was a Master System in 1987 so I'll always have a soft spot for Sega. Where I am from owning an NES was considered weird, most people had C64s, Speccys or Amstrad 464s, a few like me had the SMS.

mattrixk

@AlexMurphy I was pretty sure I had a Master System at some point, but looking at the pictures on the Goog didn't spark any memories. Then I remembered that it was actually a Master System II, looked it up and it all came flooding back. Then I had a MegaDrive II after that.

Most of my friends were Nintendo boys, and I had an original Gameboy, so I was still exposed to Mario, Donkey Kong, etc, but the Segas will always have a special place in my squeedlyspooch.

Update

SNES - Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 25
NES - Nintendo Entertainment System - 25
PSX - PlayStation 1 - 17
Nintendo 64 - 16
Genesis - 15
Game Boy - 14
Game Boy Advance - 14
Atari 2600 - 13
Megadrive - 13
Neo Geo - 13
Sega 32X - 13
FinalBurn Alpha - 12
Game Boy Color - 11
Master System - 11
Arcade - 10
Atari 7800 - 10
Nintendo DS - 10
PC Engine - 10
TurboGrafx-16 - 10
Dreamcast - 9
Ports - 9
Sega CD - 9
Kodi - 8
Super Famicom - 8
Virtual Boy - 8
MAME - 7
ScummVM - 7
Commodore 64 - 6
Colecovision - 6
Game & Watch - 6
Game Gear - 6
MAME - Libretro - 6
Atari 5200 - 5
Atari Lynx - 5
Capcom Play System - 5
Famicom - 5
Family Computer Disk System - 5
Intellivision - 5
PC - 5
PC Engine CD - 5
PSP - Playstation Portable - 5
TurboGrafx CD - 5
Vectrex - 5

Some real surprises here. Lots of Virtual Boy and Game and Watch. Not many MAME, but lots of Atari2600. No love for the 3do either, which I wasn't expecting.

AlexMurphy

@mattrixk Please just combine the Megadrive and Genesis... for the love of Bob!

mattrixk

@AlexMurphy said in Poll: What Systems Do You Use?:

@mattrixk Please just combine the Megadrive and Genesis... for the love of Bob!

No can do mate. The whole point of this survey is to find out the best folders to include in a theme, and in cases like MegaDrive/Genesis, PC Engine/TurboGraphx-16 and SNES/Famicom, to find out which folders and images to use by default.

AlexMurphy

@mattrixk Pointless! Really mate, are you that naive? You think you can please people??? I use Megadrive because I'm not a US citizen. They would not know, mostly, what a Megadrive was. It's just a regional thing. Blame the marketing companies and existing trademarks...

AlexMurphy

@mattrixk Megadrive, PC Engine, SNES. There you go... sorted! Cos they are the systems I use(d).

mattrixk

@AlexMurphy Hah. When I was in high school in Aus, I had a mate going to the US on holiday. I gave him some dosh and asked him to buy me a MegaDrive game. I had no idea the Genesis existed. Neither did he. He had a hell of a time trying to find a "MegaDrive" game. They all looked at him like he had 2 heads.

AlexMurphy

@mattrixk Ha! I just read that sentence in Paul Hogan's voice. Good thing he didn't get you one as it wouldn't run on your PAL system. And it's not "dosh", everyone knows they are called "dollarydoos". FACT!

sergioad

Those are my systems:

Famicom Disk System: 8
Game Boy: 24
Game Boy Advance: 100
Game Boy color: 16
SEGA Master System: 30
SEGA Megadrive: 64
MSX: 12
Nintendo 64: 28
Nintendo Entertainment System: 76
NeoGeo Pocket color: 8
PC engine: 18
PORTS: 4
Super Nintendo Entertainment System: 96
Virtual boy: 4
Wonderswan color: 4
Amstrad CPC: 8

All in my Raspberry Pi

mattrixk

The results after 49 responses:

37 - SNES - Super Nintendo Entertainment System

36 - NES - Nintendo Entertainment System

25 - PSX - PlayStation 1

23 - Nintendo 64
23 - Genesis

22 - Game Boy Advance

21 - Megadrive

19 - FinalBurn Alpha
19 - Game Boy
19 - Neo Geo

17 - Atari 2600

16 - Game Boy Color
16 - Sega 32X

15 - Master System
15 - PC Engine

14 - Arcade
14 - TurboGrafx-16

12 - Kodi

11 - Atari 7800
11 - MAME
11 - Nintendo DS
11 - Sega CD

10 - Dreamcast
10 - Ports
10 - Virtual Boy

8 - Atari Lynx
8 - Colecovision
8 - Commodore 64
8 - MAME - Libretro
8 - PSP - Playstation Portable
8 - Super Famicom
9 - Game Gear

7 - ScummVM

6 - Atari 5200
6 - Family Computer Disk System
6 - Intellivision
6 - Neo Geo Pocket Color
6 - PC
6 - Sega SG-1000
6 - TurboGrafx CD

5 - Famicom
5 - Game & Watch
5 - PC Engine CD
5 - ZX Spectrum

4 - Amiga
4 - Capcom Play System
4 - Mega 32x
4 - Mega CD
4 - Vectrex

3 - Daphne
3 - Desktop
3 - Neo Geo Pocket
3 - Odyssey2

2 - AdvanceMAME
2 - Atari 800
2 - Atari Jaguar
2 - MAME 4 All
2 - MSX
2 - Neo Geo CD
2 - PC-FX
2 - Sega Saturn

1 - 3do
1 - Apple II
1 - Atari ST
1 - Commodore Vic 20
1 - Macintosh
1 - Steam
1 - Stratagus
1 - Videopac
1 - WonderSwan
1 - WonderSwan Color
1 - Zmachine

0 - Adventure Game Studio
0 - Amstrad CPC
0 - BBC Micro
0 - Coco - Tandy Color Computer
0 - Dragon 32
0 - GameCube
0 - Love
0 - MESS
0 - Oric
0 - Pipplware
0 - PS2 - PlayStation 2
0 - ResidualVM
0 - SAM Coupé
0 - TI-99
0 - TRS-80
0 - Nintendo Wii

drake999

I use and enjoy the following.

Atari 2600
Atari 7800
NES
SNES
Sega MasterSystem
Sega Genesis
Sega CD (Some real hidden gems here)
Sega 32X
Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advance
Sega Game Gear
Atari Lynx
Playstation
NEO GEO
Sometimes DOSBOX

I would like to use the following, however I prefer nearly universal compatibility in emulators with minimal configuration and these emulators have limited compatibility for one reason or another, so I generally don't use them.

Sega Saturn (Insanely over-engineered hardware, difficult to emulate in general)
N64 (GPU heavy emulation workload on a weak Pi3 GPU, difficult to optimize for many games, I will not play N64 emu in low-res)
Dreamcast (Haven't tried with this one much, but I know the SH-4 outperforms the Pi3 CPU significantly with floating point math, so haven't even entertained the idea much, though I'm sure some games work ok)
3DO (I don't think there is much technical reason for this one not to work other than perhaps a lack of optimization for the platform, this emulator (4DO) works fairly well on a PC)

mattrixk

@sergioad, @drake999 Thanks for responding guys. Did you fill in the Google Form?

sergioad

@mattrixk I did not, I will fill it

sergioad

Ready

mattrixk

Great, thanks @sergioad!

sergioad

You are wellcome, wich theme do you use?

mattrixk

@sergioad I use MetaPixel. I was enamored with the original Pixel theme, but back then it didn't have it's Pixel-Meta counterpart, so I taught myself how to make themes so I could add metadata to the Pixel theme.

There wasn't really the space in Pixel to just add the data, so I had to create my own borders and backgrounds. That's why MetaPixel looks like Pixel, but is still a bit different. Rook was also kind enough to let me use his original Pixel icons.

I mainly just did it for myself, which is why it didn't support too many systems, but I figured others might like it so I put it up on GitHub.

sergioad

I use pixel too but unlike you I gone for the original and added the old Carbom's scrolling sounds aming to give it a nice retro audio feedback.

The old Carbon had a scrolling sound similar to the joystick of an arcade being pushed an released quickly so I wanted to use it on Pixel since day one after I discovered it because both together creates a sense of an 8 bit arcade cabinet wich I wanted since RetroPie is by its own merits a retro gaming console and a glorified RetroArch frontend wich deserves a nostalgic but eye and ear candy theme that looks great and sounds great.

I am a person with low vision so I am more an auditive man and I love have auditive feedback wich is for you visual people like a nice UI, this is why I chosen pixel plus sounds, because I search a nice UI but also a nice auditive feedback and a retro style

mattrixk

@sergioad I never thought of it that way. I haven't added sound to any of my themes because it just kind of annoys me. I never thought about the fact that sounds could be helpful to some. I'll have to look into adding sounds to my next theme, and then going back and adding sound to my others when I fix them up for Video Previews.

(I'll probably have the sound option de-activated by default, but it's easy enough to activate if someone wants it.)

sergioad

@mattrixk I think it is a great idea, many themes are not adding that option and I think it is a great form to make it more inmersive; if the sound anoys you you can try a non invasive sound like the ome on the new Carbon theme or im simplebigart (I love this theme too but has many unthemed systems like Amstrad CPC and ZX spectrum) and then give the user the choise to enable or disable them