I dug out mine out of the closet recently and was so confused when it didn’t power on properly. Turns out, the .3v difference between a Duracell and an Eneloop really matter when you scale it to 6 cells!

Upon second viewing, I highly suspect he glued that cover onto the case… which will warp/peel off SO FAST.

There is a reason cases have a plastic shield and lips on the case to hold the cover in.

Yeah, I share your pain. I think I ended up 3D printing something like this but the game density is very low for shelving. So I ended up putting most things into something more like this and throwing them all into a drawer.

I’m not happy with either solution.

Maybe if this were printed by a professional…

EDIT: Ha, totally missed the sentence where you point directly to a professional who makes custom cases. Derp.

Yeah, for me it was Technos Collection 1. :(

I’d like to add two more things:

It was the generation of HD remasters, so a lot of older (high quality) titles are available on the platform, such as the Dead Rising games, the Mega Man collections, almost all the Resident Evil titles, Devil May Cry collection, Bioshock collection, Final Fantasty X/X-2.

And most importantly, since they are last gen, they are not stupidly hard to find yet.

Might be an unpopular opinion (but that’s what makes it cheap): An Xbox One.

It’s got a fairly sizeable library at 3,067 titles and a backwards compatible list with 632 games from Xbox 360 and 63 original Xbox titles. So you have plenty of choice depending on your gaming tastes.

It’s the last generation, so many stores will be clearing out the old inventory at a discount. Popular titles like Mass Effect Trilogy or Borderlands Handsome Collection will be a great value for the money. If those are your style.

ooh, that’s a tough sell. I absolutely love my Evercade, but the library is hard to get. If you don’t snap up a popular new release, it’s likely to vanish forever. Major FOMO.

Yup, 60W.

More than enough to power one or two drives but when 3+ were writing I’d have a random disconnect.

Tried different hubs, of increasing power. Same thing.

How do you keep it properly powered? When I tried something similar, some drives would randomly vanish because the peak power demand exceeded the supply of the hub.

I saw these guys at Portland Retro Gaming Expo. I played the demo a tiny bit, and while it was interesting in a way… it felt a bit too early to be showing to people. Maybe it was the 3D printed stuff that made it amateurish.

That said, if I am recalling correctly, the was open-source (oh I found the site and it is) so maybe that whole booth was to demonstrate how someone could build their own unit.

I mean, we have Evercade and it’s not failed yet.

I didn’t dive too deep into this when I encountered it, and instead just avoided decoding on the device itself, so my apologies if I am incorrect here.

I’m fairly certain you are being affected by the removal of OpenMax. Since OpenMAX hardware decoding was not actively in development, it didn’t make the transition to 64-bit and was removed in bullseye, replaced by v4l2. Unfortunately it seems like v4l2 wasn’t a 1:1 replacement and people (like me) just gave up. You can try using that post to see if your h264_v4l2m2m package can be installed, and that might fix it… but if it doesn’t I’m not sure what you can do.

My 10.11 migration blew up because one of my directories didn’t have enough space for the migration.

The path /var/lib/jellyfin/data has insufficient free space. Required: at least 2GB.

It looked like the jellyfin service started after the package install, but it was stuck in a loop attempting migration.

I think in this case “confirm” just means it is a second source saying it is a 4GHz Pentium 4. The first source of that information is just marker written on the CPU and thus considered less reliable.

Back when I had my Intel 3GHz Prescott working in tandem with the dustbuster Nvidia 5900XT, I honestly didn’t need to turn on the heat during winter.

I know you are asking for FOSS alternatives, but for those who are looking to just restore the old programs:

https://win7games.com/

Burned optical media shelf life can be as little as 5 years, so I don’t think it should be recommended for long-term storage.

Don’t want to ruin the fun but he missed an apostrophe in the sentence. His stuff is in the back of the garage. “mine’s at the back of the garage”

Easily defeated by those who play Minesweeper.

PSP’s store closed a looooooong time ago. Used to be that you could purchase stuff from the PS3’s store and use a USB cable to transfer the license, but after Sony enabled 2FA that route closed as well.