General Arcade and Retro Chat - Insert Coin -

o1s1n · 10-12-2015 11:30pm

Finally got the internet set up in my new place. Sweet mother****ing relief! It was beginning to feel like the early 90s. I was starting to cut knee holes in my jeans.

CiDeRmAn · 11-12-2015 4:17pm

And listening to Snap and watching The Fresh Prince of BelAir!

smurf492 · 11-12-2015 4:32pm

It was better than what we have now...Beware the smartphone zombies who make it their business to walk into people due their phone being bigger than their face...

Myrddin · 11-12-2015 4:44pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Finally got the internet set up in my new place. Sweet mother****ing relief! It was beginning to feel like the early 90s. I was starting to cut knee holes in my jeans.

Welcome back! BROS jeans yeah?

Shapey Fiend · 11-12-2015 5:31pm

Here lads I'm thinking of getting a Retropie setup.

What's the cheapest and least hassle free way of getting it going with all the Retroarch filters and what not. I'm all about not having to dicker around configuring and spending the time playing instead. If I can get a preconfigured SD card I'd happily go down that route.

Also any recommendations about cases that aren't dog ugly would be nice.

Have a PS3 hori arcade stick is that going to be hard to get speaking to it?

Steve X2 · 11-12-2015 5:47pm

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Here lads I'm thinking of getting a Retropie setup.

What's the cheapest and least hassle free way of getting it going with all the Retroarch filters and what not. I'm all about not having to dicker around configuring and spending the time playing instead. If I can get a preconfigured SD card I'd happily go down that route.

Also any recommendations about cases that aren't dog ugly would be nice.

Have a PS3 hori arcade stick is that going to be hard to get speaking to it?

It’s fairly handy to get working, especially the most recent version(the new version seems to have sorted a lot of the issues with getting retroarch setup with controls).
Grab yourself a Raspberry Pi 2, an MicroSD card and download the image from the retropie site. You’ll still need to edit a few config files in retroarch to get the screen filters just the way you like, but its fairly handy.

As for a case, that depends on what you like. I like the cases they do over on pimoroni, but these days usually I grab a nice one from thingiverse.com and print it out.

o1s1n · 11-12-2015 10:16pm

Myrddin wrote: »

Welcome back! BROS jeans yeah?

Xworx and Eclipse jeans all the way, yo.

Atavan-Halen · 11-12-2015 11:11pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Xworx and Eclipse jeans all the way, yo.

Could be on the way back in!

http://www.today.com/style/jnco-jeans-return-90s-throwback-comeback-t54096

Is this what old age is? Having a revival of trends from your youth and a console you bought at launch now being classed as retro?

o1s1n · 12-12-2015 12:01am

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Could be on the way back in!

http://www.today.com/style/jnco-jeans-return-90s-throwback-comeback-t54096

Is this what old age is? Having a revival of trends from your youth and a console you bought at launch now being classed as retro?

Welcome to being old. I've saved you a seat

smurf492 · 12-12-2015 12:19am

Well I'll be living the old grunge way of life like neil young...boo xworxx and file and all that sh##e...

CiDeRmAn · 12-12-2015 3:36am

Joe Bloggs jeans
Nafnaf jackets
Big hi top trainers
And a flat top you could land a helicopter on.

And, as I had some class, a Tomas de Torquemada T-shirt.

Early 90's were sweet!

Myrddin · 12-12-2015 3:45pm

Anybody know where I can pick up a cheap as chips remote control & receiver that'll work with a Pi2/Kodi...bricks & mortar only as I need it for next week...

Myrddin · 12-12-2015 5:31pm

From CVPL

o1s1n · 12-12-2015 6:51pm

KeRbDoG · 12-12-2015 7:13pm

Myrddin wrote: »

From CVPL

As compressed as it is, that image is only 39KB

Myrddin · 12-12-2015 8:03pm

KeRbDoG wrote: »

As compressed as it is, that image is only 39KB

You should have done a Schrute rtype rebut

eddhorse · 13-12-2015 12:37am

Myrddin wrote: »

Anybody know where I can pick up a cheap as chips remote control & receiver that'll work with a Pi2/Kodi...bricks & mortar only as I need it for next week...

I just use my samsung remote for the tv.

Apart from that i use the xbmc app for iphone.

MrVestek · 13-12-2015 11:43am

Any TV that's HDMI-CEC compatible will allow you to control Kodi on the Pi via your existing TV remote.

If not then pretty much any IR device will work as most of the versions of Linux that come pre-compiled for the Pi have iR drivers available for them.

Most devices (especially the cheap ones) use a pretty generic chipset that Linux has drivers for usually by default.

The Last Bandit · 13-12-2015 12:11pm

I use one of these cheapy keyboard/mouse pad to control Kodi, having the keyboard is handy for any tweaking thats needed.

Dr Bob · 13-12-2015 6:38pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Joe Bloggs jeans
Nafnaf jackets
Big hi top trainers
And a flat top you could land a helicopter on.

And, as I had some class, a Tomas de Torquemada T-shirt.

Early 90's were sweet!

bootleg metallica black album tshirt..west(!) German ex army shirt, black jeans and a smelly biker jacket.
I looked a feckin' wreck back then

airmax87 · 14-12-2015 2:14pm

people who list GAMES in the console section of ebay should get a kick in the shins, and they should get two if its shovelware

The Last Bandit · 14-12-2015 2:20pm

Oh I dunno, you can often get nice bargains on incorrectly listed or misspelled items

airmax87 · 14-12-2015 2:24pm

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Oh I dunno, you can often get nice bargains on incorrectly listed or misspelled items

I've always seen that in infographics but never came across a good badly listed bargain myself

The Last Bandit · 14-12-2015 2:27pm

Ah it purely be by random you'll stumble across something.

Last year I picked up a "Amstard" for peanuts, for some reason nobody was bidding on it

Atavan-Halen · 14-12-2015 2:28pm

airmax87 wrote: »

I've always seen that in infographics but never came across a good badly listed bargain myself

http://www.typobay.com

http://www.fatfingers.co.uk

Never used them myself, but might be useful

the groutch · 14-12-2015 4:51pm

be careful though, you don't want to end up with one of these

airmax87 · 15-12-2015 1:30am

What is this exactly ? android box ?

macarbe

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/100-Hottest-Home-video-game-consoles-player-TV-game-console/32422612711.html?s=p

Doge · 15-12-2015 1:53am

airmax87 wrote: »

What is this exactly ? android box ?

macarbe

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/100-Hottest-Home-video-game-consoles-player-TV-game-console/32422612711.html?s=p

Seems like something more prehistoric, i reckon it has similar internals to those cheap handheld emulation devices from china:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Q2o0_JS5A

Aside from saying "merde" a lot maybe the Longman can decipher what our French friend is saying!

Corholio · 15-12-2015 2:58am

Super Mario Bros 3.......on PC!

Romero released a video of a prototype that id Software made to show Nintendo what the PC could do back then.

https://vimeo.com/148909578

15-12-2015 1:37pm

Doge wrote: »

Seems like something more prehistoric, i reckon it has similar internals to those cheap handheld emulation devices from china:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Q2o0_JS5A

Aside from saying "merde" a lot maybe the Longman can decipher what our French friend is saying!

I think BGOliie can translate !

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