the.com/retropie
one raspberry pi, every childhood console you sold at a garage sale, resurrected.
means a free linux distribution that bundles emulators and a slick front-end so a cheap single-board computer can play games from dozens of old systems.
from built on emulationstation and a stack of open-source emulators, released in the early 2010s once the raspberry pi got just powerful enough to fake a super nintendo.
base costa $35 pi plus one sd card
emulator countsupports 50-plus vintage systems out of box
controller supportpairs bluetooth pads like a modern console
community romslegally murky, so it ships with none
for instance
raspberry pi 4 build — the standard rig, handles ps1 and n64 smoothly
arcade1up cabinet mod — hobbyists swap retropie boards into store-bought cabinets
handheld pi zero kits — gpi case turns a $10 pi into a game boy-sized console