EmuDeck team announce Linux-powered EmuDeck Machines

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• NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s about $350 for the base model, during the “early bird” special.

  No.

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  • SatyrSack@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is a basic mini PC with similar specs much cheaper? I am out of the loop.

    The specs for these two models, for reference:

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    • TechAdmin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve bought a few Gmktek Intel N97 mini-pcs on Amazon (US) for around $200 usually. So far I’ve only used them for htpc @ 1080p but N97 GPU has a higher boost than N100 GPU so I imagine should do alright for lots of emulators too.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The idea is that this is a console-like device that you take out of the box and “plug and play” for those who don’t know how or can’t be bothered to install an OS. Kinda like a Steam Deck.

      Presumably it also supports the EmuDeck project.

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    • NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seems that way, and the EM2 is significantly more expensive.

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• TechAdmin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Their project timeline being really short combined with a really low “flexible goal” of $69,780 doesn’t give me a lot of confidence in it releasing or shipping on time if it ever does.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly? Just learning how to set up moonlight streaming (it is trivial) and using basically any dongle is probably going to be sufficient for this use case. Still, I am not going to pretend I haven’t been thinking about using some spare parts to build another HTPC.

  And emudeck? It is really hard to tell where third party tools start and emudeck ends but it is a good tool. Steam Rom Manager is a shitshow (I NEVER managed to get it to acknowledge that Blood Omen for the PS1 was not Blood Omen 2 for the PS2 or whatever it was…) and I have strong feelings about anything that relies so much on retroarch (transphobic and abusive shitstains who bully developers), but I can’t deny its usability on a Steam Deck (even if you can get most of that with just es-de).

  But still, this is a pretty easy problem to solve and most of the cost is just sourcing the hardware. Not super familiar with bazzite as a distro but it shouldn’t take too many mods to get rid of the login screen and boot these into steam big picture mode.

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