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submitted 4 days ago by Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca to c/emulation@lemmy.ml

For a while now I've wanted to pick up a hacked SNES or Raspberry Pi in a small SNES case to emulate my favorite games on my TV. It's both for me, and for my daughter (5) who has successfully played games like Spyro Reignited with little help from me. I think SNES would be an incredible entry point for her. That said, after some digging it looks like a Gen2 Amazon Firestick may be the better option?

Just hoping to get some advice on the simplest, most straight-forward option for me to play SNES ROMs on my smart TV, with support for two controllers. I'm even open to buying a complete package with the work already done for me, so long as I can add ROMs of my choice to it. I just don't know where to get something like that, and everything I've searched looks a little overwhelming to put together. I'm fairly tech-savvy, but I don't know that I'm up to the task of physically assembling devices and circuit boards like some of these kits seem to require.

Your advice is greatly appreciated!

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[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Multiple layers to this:

Setting up a Pi (form factor) device is pretty trivial these days. Retroarch has Retropie and if you don't care about trans rights, that is a great choice. I think there are a few "flash and play" distros that rely on ES-DE which is way better anyway since it actually encourages using the "real" emulators instead of kludged repacks.

That said? Raspberry Pis in general are REALLY expensive these days and that has led to a general scaling up of the competitors. I... have a lot of complaints with Russ's format and focus but https://www.youtube.com/@RetroGameCorps is basically exactly about cheap kinda sketchy "straight out of the box" "retro consoles" that sound like exactly what you are looking for.

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