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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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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.