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Google's penchant for killing services seems inversely proportional to how much people like those services. Given stadia is likely to go over like a fart in church, it may well outlive us all.

Stadia news is out, and it's aggressively mediocre. They will be selling a controller and chromecast combo for $120, plus a $10/month subscription starting in November. That's the only way to use the service until the "free tier" opens up some time next year. Games will need to be purchased...

I think that's the relevant point. With a fairly slow CPU and only 1MB of RAM, this not only isn't intended for emulation, but simply wouldn't be up to the job. This really is a homebrew-only system. With the specs this modest, I wouldn't expect games made for the 32blit to take up more than...

That's what the CHIP people were going for with their pocketchip. I have one, and it pretty much delivers on that promise. Like you they focused on learning and included lots of programming tools and tutorials. Sure, dome switches make terrible gaming controls, but otherwise it was an...

I recently put together a crash bag for work. 9" USB-powered HDMI monitor Foldable USB keyboard/touchpad VGA to HDMI converter 10" tablet bag It hooks up to pretty much anything and cost about half what the nexdock is selling for.

The SoC is new(ish), but the CPU core is very old. 17 years and 5 generations old. That's not to say it won't be sufficient for 8bit and even some 16bit emulation, but it's still old. For reference, it's of the same generation as the samsung SoC in the GP32. Expect similar capability from...

It's slow, but it's definitely not "24MHz" slow. I think it would struggle with NES at 24MHz, let alone SNES and GBA. This claims the SoC can be clocked up to 900MHz, but that seems like a stretch for an ARM9 core dating all the way back to 2001. 300-500MHz seems more reasonable.

I wonder if the processor has the capacity to handle scaling. GBA emulation is likely pushing this thing to the absolute limit.

Apparently the banana pi people make an allwinner H2-powered board that is a drop-in replacement for the RPi zero. It's significantly more powerful, and should allow the GPi case to handle SNES and GBA games at full speed, as well as make a lot more PS1 games playable. Power usage is...

If you were cool with the Bittboy's antiquated ARM9 SoC but weren't a fan of the squashed-gameboy form factor, retromini is now accepting preorders for a smaller, landscape-layout device from the Bittboy team. Sporting an allwinner F1C100S with a whopping 32MB of DDR1 RAM, the pocket-go can...

It gets worse - apparently the CM3 needs 3.3V and 1.8V supplies, and doesn't do analog audio out without a good deal of futzing with the kernel config. I still don't think any of these issues are insurmountable, but it's looking like a bigger project than just slapping a 200 pin connector on a...

Ugh. It appears the CM3 is actually slightly wider than the zero, and the zero looks like it's already a pretty tight fit. The zero is 65mm, and the slimmest SODIMM connector I can find is just under 71mm. I don't think there's an extra 6mm in there without trimming plastic.

If AAs can even supply enough current to run the CM3 at all. I think a CM3 cart would have to go hand in hand with a lipo upgrade. The three AAs are wired in series, so they're supplying anywhere from 3-5V depending on their charge level. Clearly the power circuit can handle that range...

No, just the zero and zero-W. Like I said though, a CM3 PCB should be trivially-simple. I don't know how long it would manage to run on AA batteries, but it would definitely work. This is 6-button. The L/R buttons are on the back, they just blend in really well.

The cool thing is that they could just sell a replacement "cartridge" with uSD and SODIMM sockets instead of the pogopins, and it should work just fine. I can probably sketch one up in eagle in about 15 min and get the board made for a few bucks.

Modding an OG gameboy to house a Raspberry Pi Zero (or CM3) has been a thing for a while. Unfortunately it's always been a pricey proposition, requires more than a little electronic and physical modification, and the quality of the finished product can vary wildly depending on your skill level...

I've been working on a project for the last couple weeks that is part retro Z80 build, part 8-bit CS crash course, part historical reenactment. I finally made enough progress to post on the RC2014 google group. You can follow along here if you like.

Got my vita, got it hacked, and have been playing around with it for the last few days. Definitely a decent piece of hardware for the most part. The display is certainly a lot nicer than the PSP, and it's plenty powerful enough to run all the emulators I want with graphics filters. The...

There's quite a few on ebay right now in the $150 neighborhood with free worldwide shipping from Japan. For example, this one. The conversion rate does put it a bit over 200 kangaroo-bucks, but not much.

It seems the hacking/homebrew/emulation scene on the vita has really taken off lately. Just ordered a vita slim from Japan that's still on hackable firmware. Under $200 all in including shipping and an amazon order for a 128GB microSD, a SD2vita adapter, and a glass screen protector. I read...