@thelostsoul yes, you and @mitu can all make me feel bad for the liberal use of sudo when I shouldn't :) You're right, I don't need sudo. I might have originally saved the collection files in a folder where the pi user didn't have write permissions, so that was that! Or I might have just been lazy about it - also likely.

Yeah, there's no issue with the platform you use, by all means - though you can install RetroPie on a Linux machine as well! A Pi3 is certainly a viable option, though with the Pi4 and the Pi5 - and especially with you playing on a Linux PC and a Steam Deck - the systems it supported are slightly self-contained by now.

No worries, I'm thinking of some developments on the EmulationStation front and this was a fun input that I had not considered. When I get around to it and publish them here I'll tag you.

Cheers, have a great weekend!

@thelostsoul Good point.

We used to have a couple of arcade machines in the common room at Uni. They swapped them around every month or so.

I remember one time they had Robocop, and people used to stand next to the enemy guy that throws hand grenades and just shoot his hand grenades over and over again while the timer counted down. They knew how many seconds they had to have left in order to complete the level before they ran out of time.

I never worked out whether you got more points per shot hand grenade than you got for remaining time left, but presumably they thought it was worth their while.

Made for a pretty boring game to watch though!

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