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Post by c64stuff on Mar 27, 2022 22:51:24 GMT
It's for the raspberry pi 3, 3B, and 3B+ (UPDATE: He now also has built a Pi4 image and has a video for that one too). In the comments under his video(s) people are calling it the best Commodore Amiga/C64 Retropie gaming image ever built because of things like it's ease of use and preconfiguration that's been already set up.
There's more details about it in his video descriptions such as that it includes other systems of that era and the arcade but specifically was built for the Amiga and C64 with many tweaks already done for you such as assigned controller buttons so no need for a mouse or keyboard to control games or get past setup screens.
In the comments people say that you can even play games such as Pinball Dreams using the flippers with the gamepad instead of a keyboard with no need to configure such things in Retropie because it's all already been done for you. They say it has other stuff setup too like a button to jump and individual game setups you can tinker with, or that it even auto switches between pal or ntsc and already has the best hardware configuration set up for each game.
OBVIOUSLY MAKE SURE YOU ALREADY OWN THE ROMS AND GAMES FOR LEGAL USE. As for me, I'm getting the A500 mini because of the cool case, controller, mouse, and unique and officially licensed front end and software. And I plan to get the A500 Maxi when it comes out too.
By the way, check out all the love this guy put into this Amiga and C64 image, with stuff like categories for Amiga racing games and other stuff. Incredible effort.
This is his Pi3, 3B, and 3B+ video...
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Post by grasshopper on Mar 27, 2022 23:56:57 GMT
Yes, I already posted about this image in a previous thread.
I downloaded it a couple of weeks ago and it is indeed excellent.
It currently only works with the Pi 3. However, the author is working on a Pi 400 version.
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Post by c64stuff on Mar 28, 2022 0:33:00 GMT
Cool. Somehow I missed your post about it.
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Post by c64stuff on Jan 2, 2024 23:12:51 GMT
He now has done a version of the image for the Pi4 and released a video on it.
If you read the comments under the above Pi3B+ video or his newer Pi4 one people are saying it's the best, most stable and seamless, no hassle image ever built for Amiga and C64 Pi emulation. No need for things like a keyboard because he's configured controller buttons for each game for that, no need to switch between pal or ntsc because he does it automatically for each particular game, no need to tweak stuff like Amiga hardware configurations for each game to get best performance, etc.
The Pi 4 with it's power distribution issues early on and it's scarcity almost since it's initial release seems to be the black sheep of the Pi family. Now with the Pi5 out, which looks to be a significant improvement over the Pi4 and with some nice additional hardware interfacing for things like an onboard SSD, I bet most people will skip buying a Pi4 and buy a Pi5. Still looks like the 3B+ has the most support in software out of any of the Pis, so a lot of people who already had a Pi3B+ anyway held off in buying a Pi4 and waited for the next generation Pi5 model to come out.
I wonder if his image will work on an Orange Pi 800, which is a much better wedge all in one keyboard rig for retro gaming than the Pi400 in my opinion. It's got some nice extra features such as both HDMI and VGA outputs, onboard flash memory, and a few other perks over a Pi400. The 400 will still have better software support, which is one of the reasons many people only buy Pi boards.
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