In the 1980s and 1990s, Nintendo and Sega fought to dominate the console market. While both had similar products, there were still some major differences. If you compare their earlier products, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Sega Master System (SMS), and Game Boy/Game Boy Color (GB/GBC) and Game Gear (GG), it always seemed like Sega was in the lead when it came to technology. ▶
Things You will Need (Use your nearest ODROID supplier) -- ODROID-N2 ~ $60 - $70 ODROID-N2 Case $4 ODROID-N2 Power Supply $6 eMMC (If you choose to use 32GB or 64GB): ~ $27 - $40, or microSD (If you choose to use 16GB, 32GB or 64GB): ~ $8 - $14 ▶
For this project, I wanted something more powerful to run N64, Dreamcast and PSX games, but also some native Linux game. There are not a lot of low power consumption options with sufficient CPU+GPU for that, so I chose an ODROID-C0. ▶
Retroroller is a pre-built image for the ODROID-GO Advance that provides RetroArch 32bit and 64bit on CrashOverride's one and only stock image. Among other tweaks, a custom kernel is integrated that supports sleep. The idea with this image is to be able to update via a rolling package release instead ▶
I built a gaming console using an ODROID-C2 running Android 6 ▶
This is a short tutorial to help you with your ROM sets and the ODROID-GO Advance. Many of us have ROM sets with accompanying media files like box art, screen shots, logos, etc. Sometimes these ROM sets have compressed files. Now do we really want to be using up precious battery power to decompress games before we load them up? ▶
Rob promptly asked if I didn't have a pool of games I just played on my ODROID running Android and for a miraculous stroke of luck I did have it! Who could imagine that I play games on my spare time? ▶
Our long wait is finally over: Google Stadia, this universal game-changing streaming service, has gone live now! It debuted late November, 2019. As discussed in earlier articles from this column, on this launch date, Google Stadia will ONLY be available to subscribers of the Stadia Founder’s Edition. As you may ▶
I knew the system had some really good games, but I was really surprised how many games I enjoyed playing. ▶
In the previous installment of this series, I was able to play a very good mixture of different genres. I found some shooting games I liked, one of my all time favorite adventure games, and even the one sports game I liked on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) ported with ▶
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