by nightrnr Sat Aug 12, 2017 2:06 am
I keep going back and forth on whether this would be worth getting.
On one hand, I really like the idea of manually copying roms from games I own to a dedicated emulation system. It's like a "my physical collection digitalized"; just seems neat. It would also make collecting carts fun again.
On the other paw, it really irks me that it encrypts the roms so that it cannot work on any other device. I'd feel like I'm subjecting my carts to foreign, vice gipping pins for no reason.
Thinking about getting a Pi3 finally and using it for a similar purpose (just putting "my" games on it). It would be nice to have an efficient, quiet, system with no moving parts for classic games.
Beyond that, there are the other systems I soft mod to meet my digital rom needs (Xbox, PS2, and Wii come to mind; some are quiet and efficient enough). And more still, everdrives for the actual systems I do have. And I even have a way to play them on newer TVs when it comes to it (Xrgb-3).
I think in the end, I am tempted, but it's not for me.
...and yet, do I still kind of want it? And what, for yet another option that I won't play much? Or would the limitations make it interesting enough to get more gameplay out of it. I could totally see just putting a game on it when I'm serious about playing it. Then it would be a record of what I actually spent time with, not a full, but emotionally empty rom list. It could be the anti-backlog for me.
...if only it were cheap enough to be an impulse buy...
...just another lost soul...