Gaming

Oooh boy, everything I own that is moddable gets modded at the earliest (financial, mostly 😝) convenience. Currently I'm the proud owner of a modded Switch, 3DS, GBA, GBA SP, PS3, PS4 and of course, my darling PS Vita! I almost can't help myself with these things... All that stuff and, yet, all I seem to have time for is the excellent Metroid Prime Remaster... One day, backlog...One day...

ME ME ME ME! I created /r/flashcarts over on Reddit, and I've been wondering if there might be an appetite for a similar community here.

The smaller scale might mean it is more pragmatic to have a community dedicated to all of the above rather than just flash cartridges.

The steam deck has been a game changer for me in this regard. I used to try emulation but often didn't have a gamepad with the relevant PC for too long. Now I have one I can designate for emulation and it has a gamepad built in.

I’ve had a Steam Deck for a while and recently got an Anbernic RG405m (running GammaOS) which I’m very pleased with

Please play Pokemon Unbound. Its a Pokemon Rom Hack and just the best Pokemon game i have ever played

Ayn Odin! Love this little thing, currently playing through Pokemon Radical Red romhack (it's hard as hell but I'm getting through it). This little device is honestly a beast.

I used to be a huge fan of Neo Geo and old arcade stuff, so I setup a MAME pc in an old arcade cabinet, using the old crt monitor, and hooked it up with some simple self made joystick panel. It suits my emulation needs 😃

I use retroach on both my PC and my android. With my android (LG v60) I use a Gamesir Bluetooth controller.

Currently trying to master SimCity on the SNES (have two achievements left). I've also been doing as many Gen 1 Professor Oak Challenges as I can. However, my main systems are NES and GBA.

I used to have a PSP but now I just use an old Android + retroarch with a Razer kishi

Absolutely! Good games, like movies or books, are timeless, and some of the best ones are from past consoles. I know it is a recent phenomena, but it is incredible having a complete game that will never be updated again is refreshing. Having the entire experiencing, bugs and all, without the pyschic burden that you are missing out because the developers are still working on it is nice.

All my Nintendo consoles that can be modded are modded, so Wii(U) and (3)DS (XL)s. Playstation Portable and Vita are modded.

I have a Cannoo somewhere, early emulation handheld. GBA hardware clone. I want to buy a really good SBC for retro gaming, but I am getting caught up on the best screen ratio and trying to keep up with the latest chip sets.

ROMs are great. I treat them like music or any other art. If the original developers and artists are not getting paid, the estate is not getting my money. Nobody should get passive income just because they own the rights to something.

I spent a LOT of time earlier this year learning how to get RetroArch working since I had never bothered with it before (I come from the early age emulators, before the relatively recent trend of running them through a front end). I walked away from it thinking RetroArch might be one of the most infuriating pieces of software I've ever rotten my hands on. Bloated, Buggy, terrible ux design, a lot of seemingly basic functionality not supported whatsoever, I really genuine nelt hated my time troubleshooting it.

Standalone emulators mean you spend less time angrily combing through forums and watching YouTube support vids at 2x speed; and more time playing your roms.

This is besides the notoriously cruel and intolerant behavior of the RetroArch dev team. They're seriously bad people.

Don't use RetroArch kids, make everyone's lives just a fraction more pleasant. :)

I've been playing a lot on this Miyoo Mini Plus recently. Tiny, but surprisingly easy to play, and great for picking up for quick gaming sessions. With OnionOS, and its Game Switcher, you can be in and gaming in seconds.

So far, I've played through GBA Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow on it. Great games!

I'm an admin for RetroAchievements, so I interact with emulation quite a bit even outside my "me" time. Very few limits on what I'll play for a while, but it all happens on the steam deck these days. I shared my ROM drive with my deck over the network, so I don't have to burn extra drive space for it.

I have a jailbroken ps3 that I use solely for transit, basic emulators and roms on my laptop. My goal is to build a little emulation box with a raspberry pi. I honestly enjoy messing with the consoles and such more than playing games, haha.

I'm mostly into SNES and GBA emulation. Downloaded full packs of ROMs for each.

Currently playing Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. I avoided this game for a long time due to the bad rep ("it's too easy"), but I've been having fun with it. (Blazing Sword is still better though.)

I have a modded 3DS with a lot of games loaded onto it, but I haven't used it in quite a while. I'm mainly a PC player, so I use retroarch for older systems (up to n64) and standalone emulators for newer systems. The next game on my list is to try Red Dead Redemption again. RPCS3 has gotten better since the last time I tried it, so hopefully my laptop can handle it!

The Steam Deck has taken over gaming for me lately. Really loving playing modded BoTW and starting Disco Elysium via the Switch YUZU emulator.

But you'll see my V2 Miyoo Mini (with a Metal Gear Solid theme! and a jailbroken Switch).

...also just started playing Wasteland 3 on the Steam Deck. Enjoying how it has the older Fallout feeling.

OOO YES. I have a gameboy advance, a ds lite, a 3ds xl, a new 3ds, and a switch, but I primarily use my switch and my gameboy advance. Playing old pokemon games and gba romhacks on the native screen size is really nice.

Heck yea, I am a retro enthusiast. I currently have a PiBoy DMG running emulation staion and a customized version of Raspberry Pi OS w/ joycon and buttons mapped to a mouse emulation - its a nice form factor for having a portable Linux-box in the field... I still get looks when I whip out a 'gameboy' to do some actual work. :P

I stick to mostly 8bit and 16bit platforms, so the Pi 4 is more than enough for me...

I also have a few retro computer setups; of course, a C=128 for all my Commodore needs - an Apple g4 basketball w/ MacOS 9 - an antique Philco Predicta television that runs both some Python script for random vintage videos, and can serve up PONG - I retrofitted an old PONG controller w/ a Pi Pico so it feels right.

I have a couple other machines that bring me back to the 486 MS-DOS days. :P

Nice to know theres other folks that are into this hobby - cheers!

Yeah. I have a few emulators on my devices and a hacked wii u, and a ps3 with hfw.

Wii u gamepad broke but i had wii u, wii, gamecube, ps1, n64, and retroarch emulators.

My ps3 is somewhere but i got it loaded with games and even had fallout 3 with mods working on it

Havent been playing much on emualtors. But i keep trying different ones. I have retroarch, citra, and dolphin on my phone and i samus returns, wind waker randomizer, and fe: path of radiance.

But for the most part ive just been playing elden ring

I have a similar setup, Switch with CFW, RG350p for more portable retro games like GBA etc, and then the SteamDeck has just been an emulation beast. Absolutely love that thing

Love my little miyoo mini, I've been playing a lot of pokemon emerald rogue, perfect for pickup and play type of gameplay for when I'm riding public transit or when it's a little slow at work.

I tried playing NES ROMs on my old Nintendo DSi XL but the emulator runs the games a little too fast. SNES roms run okay but the aspect ratio isn't quite right.

Surprisingly, my favourite emulator on this system is SCUMMVM. It's so much fun playing old point and click adventure games with the stylus.

I like to modify and repair retro consoles and handhelds, so I have a pretty large collection in various states of repair: GameBoys DMG/Pocket/Color, DS Lites, NESs, SNESs, GameCubes, N64s, a Dreamcast (what I currently have hooked up to my big workshop crt), PS1s, PS2s, a PS3 that I think is beyond repair, a few perfect condition Xbox 360s...I think that's it.

In emulation, aside from on my PCs, I have a couple of modded PSPs and a Vita, though I really only use the Vita since I got that.