Random Gaming Talk

[bork]

Anyone ever bought one of those Evercade systems? 

I know there's cheaper alternatives to playing retro games, but I like the idea of owning legit copies of things (I know, whatever).

They keep popping up on my feeds and seem like a bit of fun.

Have read good things, but haven't tried any of their products.  Too limited compared to what you can do with the various Android/Linux handhelds.

I figured that was the case. I just don't fancy fucking around with emulators and losing games and stuff. I also like collecting random shit I don't need. 

It's definitely something I'm keeping an eye on.

It's pretty easy getting emulation set up these days.  The only tedious thing is getting a rom collection going but even that's fairly easy.  Google "roms megathread.". You'll also want BIOS files.  Archive.org has that stuff plus roms too.

On Android devices for example, I can get everything set up in like 10 minutes or less-

1. Pop in your sd card with roms
2. Download Retroarch (from their site!)
3. Install all the cores in Retroarch and close it
4. Install a front end and let it do the rest

That's it.  You may also want a few standalone emulators too but those are also easy to get and set up.