Recycling junk into a emulator box for my nieces and nephews

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Going to see what I can do with this first gen amd apu

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Fixing to look for an appropriate ETA prime video for a software solution

It does not even use the cpu 4 pin

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What kinda games will you be emulating?

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Probably not even n64, but maybe n64
NES, SNES, GB, GBC, and GBA

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The IO shield is replaceable so if it doesn’t work out I can use a different Mobo and CPU

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PSU says not to exceed 80w so maybe no switching out mobos, like Maybe an i3

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Doesn’t run it playable but way better than I expected, wonder if I pop in a gpu how it would handle

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That’s a tiny guy

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It should hopefully run a bit better then that. Dolphin has had a bunch of speed improvements added to it since then.

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I can throw in a 6450 so the CPU won’t have to share memory bandwidth and power budget with the GPU

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Lakka and some “legally” acquired games worked well on an Intel M-5Y10c for me. It also worked with a Fenek controller and Sony DS4 with minimal setup.

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Added what I believe to be a R5 235 and swapped out the nice 500GB drive it had for one of the slower drives I had, they want the hard drive for their new desktop

Listening to this while I work

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Now to test if it turns on! Hahahaha

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I advise LakkaOS

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Yeah I’m gonna try both lakka and batocera see what’s stable and what’s fast

Probably not even going to try GameCube and Naomi, but maybe specific games that play nice

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I’m interested to see how the software side turns out. I tried retroarch and had issues with mapping controllers. It seemed like multiplayer input was troublesome as well.

Looks like a fun project anyway.

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Lakka is def stable. I have it running on my pi and like 4 laptops as benchmarks.

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Can confirm, I’ve had Lakka on a Pi, the SenPi, and a 2-in-1 laptop, worked great on all of them.

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On the 3.3v and 5v rails. The line below that says 220w.

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I don’t know if its still possible but have you considered making a steam machine and use it as a steam link?

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Nah, nieces and nephews are like under 12 and it’s going into my aunt and uncle’s place

They don’t have steam accounts And my library doesn’t have a lot

Plus the games free