Anyone here play around with Mini PCs?

T.A.P.

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Things like the ones Beelink make?

I picked one up a year ago, and I'm having a lot of fun with it and using it as a little ROM machine mostly that I plug in to my tv.

It's just wild to me to see such a small computer play (now admittedly ancient) stuff from Dreamcast, PS2, etc.
 

T.A.P.

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You can pretty much emulate every system from Original xbox and earlier these days (other than CD-i, I think?), although I haven't found a good one for neo geo / neo geo cd.

I've heard MAME does it, although I haven't messed around with that one in a long time. I wish neoragex worked on modern Windows. That one was so easy and simple to use.

I'd love to just rip all my old neo cd games and just pop them in an emulator so I can limit the wear on my poor old system.
 

Neo Alec

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I have one of these thinks stuck behind my upstairs TV as a network media player. It runs Windows 11, and I suppose it could probably emulate earlier stuff fine. The good thing I guess is it's just back there on the HDMI port, with a wireless keyboard; no one ever sees it.

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You can pretty much emulate every system from Original xbox and earlier these days (other than CD-i, I think?), although I haven't found a good one for neo geo / neo geo cd.

I've heard MAME does it, although I haven't messed around with that one in a long time. I wish neoragex worked on modern Windows. That one was so easy and simple to use.

I'd love to just rip all my old neo cd games and just pop them in an emulator so I can limit the wear on my poor old system.
You can just download the isos bro
 

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You can pretty much emulate every system from Original xbox and earlier these days (other than CD-i, I think?), although I haven't found a good one for neo geo / neo geo cd.

I've heard MAME does it, although I haven't messed around with that one in a long time. I wish neoragex worked on modern Windows. That one was so easy and simple to use.

I'd love to just rip all my old neo cd games and just pop them in an emulator so I can limit the wear on my poor old system.
Original XBOX emulation is shit.

Mame is fine for Neo CD, but if the interface troubles you, you could go full goob and use the ngcd dreamcast emulator inside a dreamcast emulator or something. But really, just figure out MAME, it's not hard.
 

kernow

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Should buy a mister for most things tbh
Unless you want to emulate erm newer stuff for some bizarre reason
 
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