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Building a "console emulator" computer!
Wired203:
I had done this years ago using meedio as a front end with my htpc and it was a lot of fun, then the dog ate the cords and years went by. This was about 7 years ago. I recently completely rebuilt my htpc with win7, xbmc, advanced launcher, and retroarch. The combo is amazing and using a Celeron dual core 1.8 gig processor/8gigs of ram/zotec 630 video card I am able to run all systems up to n64 without issue and haven't tried better systems as of yet.
The bonus is a great layout to launch your games from and oh yeah all of your music/tv/movies in a very visually appealing setup.
mgb:
--- Quote from: Wired203 on October 06, 2014, 09:20:49 pm ---I had done this years ago using meedio as a front end with my htpc and it was a lot of fun, then the dog ate the cords and years went by. This was about 7 years ago. I recently completely rebuilt my htpc with win7, xbmc, advanced launcher, and retroarch. The combo is amazing and using a Celeron dual core 1.8 gig processor/8gigs of ram/zotec 630 video card I am able to run all systems up to n64 without issue and haven't tried better systems as of yet.
The bonus is a great layout to launch your games from and oh yeah all of your music/tv/movies in a very visually appealing setup.
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First off, welcome
I'm interested in this setup you have. Not the hardware, as I already have a htpc with classic console emu but I'm interested in your xbmc, advanced launcher, retroarch setup.
I currently just kinda have all my stuff on the pc without one clean interface.
I've tried some stuff but nothing that really thrilled me.
Wired203:
XBMC is the media front end with multiple skin support, Retroarch is a emulation project which bundles several different emu's in the same package with shader support (yes my lcd looks like a crt) and advanced launcher is a addon for xbmc that scrapes info/images for your rom library to make it look professional.
I first re-did it a few weeks ago via openelec the Linux xbmc software but had some bugs and hardware support issues so I went to win7. Here is the link I used for setting it up via Linux and it's similar but a lot easier for windows.
http://openelec.tv/forum/128-addons/71535-guides-retroarch-friends#109977
eds1275:
Somehow I blanked out Turbo Grafx 16 from memory. Downloaded it yesterday afternoon and sometime right before dinner I realized I was addicted to Bonk's Adventure.
Bonk is the only game I ever played on the TG16 because they had it at the entrance to radio shack (back when it was a cool store... 1988? 1990?) My brothers would look at remote controlled cars and I would bonk it up for 15 minutes.
mgb:
Tg16 has some decent games.
I've played around with the emu of it.
When I was a kid, I only ever saw one.
I remember we were skipping school one day and we hung out at this guys house.
He was playing Bonk.
I remember thinking wow, this system is gonna be the next big system.
I don't think I ever knew anyone else with one after that.
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