Emubee device question
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A few years ago I purchased a device from a Norwegian company called Emubee having no understanding of what it actually was. Turns out it's some sort of Raspberry Pi using Linux 4.4.13-v7+ armv71 GNU/Linux with Emulationstation installed and their custom layout configured. It has 15GB total hard drive space.
Now my questions are... is there a way for me to access the Emulation Station files on my PC? The device's manual told me how to add games by typing \Emubee into my PC's run command and accessing the roms folder there. However it does not provide me with access to the core of the system. Only Emubee folders are displayed here. I can see nothing for EmulationStation.
Second question which is why I want to do this in the first place. I wanted to add a Sega Saturn emulator to the device but due to the limitations of what folders I can access, there's no place to configure it. The only folders I have are BIOS and ROMS. Placing the Saturn emulator in either of these shows nothing on the main menu of the system. So should there be a way to find more of the machine's files than what I'm being shown? Maybe a run command I'm not aware of?
Third question. This was more an experiment by myself to test the limits of what this little device can handle. Considering what I've read about Pi emulation at the moment, it seems that Sega Saturn might still not work 100% as one would like on these machines. But I'd like to know conclusvely if I indeed do have a Pi on my hands, should I be able to comfortably run most Sega Saturn games?
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@Pelador said in Emubee device question:
So should there be a way to find more of the machine's files than what I'm being shown? Maybe a run command I'm not aware of?
You can if the device supports SSH.
The only folders I have are BIOS and ROMS. Placing the Saturn emulator in either of these shows nothing on the main menu of the system.
You'd need an emulator built for an ARM SBC and you can't just copy 'the emulator' in the ROMs folder and expect it would work. The emulators may also have a different folder/space where they're configured on a read-only partition, with only the ROMs folder being left writable and exposed to the network.
Third question. This was more an experiment by myself to test the limits of what this little device can handle. Considering what I've read about Pi emulation at the moment, it seems that Sega Saturn might still not work 100% as one would like on these machines. But I'd like to know conclusvely if I indeed do have a Pi on my hands, should I be able to comfortably run most Sega Saturn games?
The only Pi that can run Saturn is the Pi4 and even on it the emulation is not 100% - if you're using a Pi3 or equivalent SBC then don't bother. Just open the case and look at the board inside to see which device you have.
Note that there are several projects that offer a similar experience to RetroPie and support other SBCs - Batocera/Recalbox/EmuElec - you may have one of those base systems installed and 'rebranded' by the 'seller'. -
@mitu Ah thanks for the advice. Turns out I only have the Pi3 so even if I could somehow set up the thing to recognise I had a Saturn emulator on it, it's like you said it more than likely wouldn't run very well or even at all. And to think I spent all afternoon browsing the thing's files to try and find a backdoor. Oh well. Sticking to pre 1995 consoles for now it seems.
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