Thanks for the heads up about this, just backed it on the early bird offer.

Wonder if I could transplant all the bits from this kit into a Gameboy Pocket case?

@jb32647 said in My "retroGamePi" console:

@ballanux An interesting thing for the accelerometer would be to simulate the paddles for an Atari or C64.

Maybe for driving games it could work simulating an steering wheel, but when I put it there I was thinking more for custom games development, not thinking in any particular system.

@nater This looks pretty cool. If you get one, let us know how it works. I am kinda worried about the battery being so close to the CPU.

They say you can buy it with a case, but they don't show what it is. It could be fun to design a 3D printable case to fit it all nicely.

looks cool,
I prefer the classic gameboy form factor though. but I do like his lcd driver combi board!!

@twd said in PiZero compared to a Pi3:

Did I say pifba plays cps3 ?

You said "Everything you stated works fine", and i stated cps3 wouldn't run fine. I can't guess you are using pifba if your first post is "misleading" (yes, i could have used another word...), things would have been different if you had said "i can't play cps3 but the others run fine on pifba". Of course you can run pifba fine on a rpi1@1Ghz, i never disagreed with that, it's an emulator especially written for rpi1, but that's a fork from 6 years ago (and heavily modified for rpi, mainly their m68k dynarec which won't work inside current fba codebase, that's why there have been no update for 6 years), which contains less than 1/20 of current fbalpha game library and lacks a lot of other features retroarch+fbalpha-libretro provide.

@itsnitro yeah, sorry :(

@barbudreadmon The price is fine, but I still can't find one for sale.

@Assault I decided to go with a Gameboy Advance. I don't have easy access to a 3D printer, or I'd look at that route. Maybe a future build.

@disruptityrslf - Thanks for the update. I'll keep an eye out for version 3. I can't wait to see what people do with the 0W.

Tried it on mi rpi2 with no issues. I haven't tested it with a rp3, sorry.

@qix77 yeah no stress don't Rush as I have it on PS3 and rarely play that I just love the attract mode it's awsome.

Far as I can tell? The typical approach is installing mednafen via sudo apt-get install; then using it to run GB/GBC/GBA/NES ROMs. One of the posts there shows you how to write a .SH launcher for it, as well.

https://bbs.nextthing.co/t/mednafen-emulator-configuration-gbc-gba-snes-nes/5027

That said, some kind of RPie for it, even a mini-version, would be pretty fantastic. Maybe someone can splinter off RP and include only the emus/scripts that the hardware currently supports; but not have ES run on boot; but rather from within CHIP's internal OS instead? Bear in mind that the RAM on PocketCHIP is way more conservative than Pi Zero/2/3; so having frontends running in the background will mess with in-game performance; hence the suggestion to minimize it.

But what should we call it? "RetroCHIP?"