You can get much better emulation than what's available on a Pi without breaking the bank. To my mind all of this coupled with the simple install, makes the Pi a PRACTICAL place to start playing again for those that have sensibly accepted its limitations. On top of this there are some games I have wanted to play since the 90's that just don't have home ports Kaneko Super Nova titles and some SSV systems games are examples I can think of. I've been buying video games for getting on for 30+ years now and have never had a problem supporting developers either. I had to stop collecting and sell up over a decade ago, which still hurts to this day as I knew when I sold it I would never be able to afford to recover the collection in the future once it was gone and I was right, prices are really high these days. Unfortunately I don't have access to the really large retro collection I used to. If I find there are games that I like I will get a few of the re-releases for the current Gen consoles I own, Switch and PS4 (assuming they are not super limited and prohibitively expensive). It has an extremely low entry threshold for people wanting to play older games? Trust me I would love nothing more than to have a home setup to play the original games and the disposable income to purchase the boards or the systems and some rare carts/CD's for ports or console exclusives but that just isn't where I'm at right now. I agree there are much better options out there BUT it is one of the most cost effective ways to get involved again.įor me like I said before, I have accepted its limitations and my focus is 90's-00's vertical shmups. Do I think it is the best thing to cover all my retro gaming needs, obviously not. Is the Pi a power house, no of course not. I'm genuinely trying to understand peoples reasoning. I'm not sure why running retropie is disappointing to anyone? Or why there is a need to broadcast this whenever there is an active discussion going. WelshMegalodon wrote:It will never cease to disappoint me that people here would even consider RetroPie, but it is what it is. PS I've also just managed to play Crisis Force 'on' the NES which I've wanted to play for as long as I can remember and it is a lot of fun Many of the games I have only seen on attract mode inn the arcade or played a handful of times back then.Īs ever any help greatly appreciated, drop me a PM if you prefer. I'm aware of some peoples feelings on the Pi and I know the zero isn't a powerful board but it is as good as the Jamma multi-carts that run all the vertical games from this era and it had low entry cost to get involved and use to work out what kind of games I like before buying some of the limited re-releases on Switch/PS4. There are also some systems I cannot get any games to run. For example I can get gigawing to run on CPS2 but not Dimahoo. I can get some to run on the different board systems but then others on the same system won't. I'm trying to play some vertical scrollers from 1990 through 2000. Does anyone else out there use a Pi Zero running Retropie to play shmups? Looking for some help from anyone that has experience.
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