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My SuperPretendo5 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

So, I've been getting back into gaming in a big way these last few months, after a low back injury left me sidelined from my other, more physically active hobbies.

The silver lining (or I suppose cat nip) for my ASD brain is modding. In the past 6 weeks, I've modded a ds, a dsi, a wii u, a wii (which underrated as a "turn it on and play the classics" machine), several Android TVs... yeah...

While I've loved all of them (the Wii especially brought me great joy), I wished there was a way to play everything in one spot. A curated console, as it were.

Of course, you know where this is going - emulation.

Through the wonders of Ebay, I was able go score a Lenovo M93p tiny for around $80USD (a SFF pc from around 2014, about same dimensions as wii).

Throw in a faster processor, lobotomise windows, throw on Playnite, Dolphin Emulator and a bunch of personal classic and... well...let me introduce you to my SuperPretendo 5 :)

PS: ChatGPT gen art (and typos aside), I kinda love what it came up with for this.

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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It kinda sorta does? With onion https://onionui.github.io/docs/apps/syncthing will do it. Although for me I just pull down the sd card once in a while and save the whole thing when I remember to do it.

Nice! Glad more people are using it. For me, its my pokemon pinball machine. My ooooold gameboy has it but I cant see it anymore, no backlight :(

this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2025
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