(December 12, 2016 at 6:45 pm)Asmodee Wrote: I'm not spending $200-$300 on eBay to get this thing. Hell, I had already decided I wasn't spending $60 on it. Way too much for 30 old games and zero possibility of future upgrades or new features/games.
What I got him instead was a Retropie setup. Yeah, it's $30 more, but instead of 30 games it's more like 3,000,000 (probably millions more, don't feel like looking it up and mathing) games you can put on it. Instead of NES it's ANY old system it can emulate. A $10 controller and a few ROM downloads and he can have a whole new(ish) emulated system.
I did some checking and this was actually a pretty good deal. Raspberry Pi 3b was about $35, the case about $7, the power supply about $10, the controllers about $7 each, the SD card about $17 (for a card twice this size, but not sure if it was 100% compatible as that seems to be touchy). That's already $83 and this also comes with the HDMI cable and qualified for free shipping, individual parts might not. It also comes with Retropie already installed on the card, saving me 10 minutes plus whatever time it would have taken me to research and download it and the software I needed to put it on the card.
It's coming in Thursday. I'll put it together if necessary, do any setup, copy over any ROMs, test it, put it back in the box and wrap it. I expect to spend 30 minutes or less on the project since the legwork is already done, though if it has an outdated version of Retropie I might redo it with the latest version.
It was the "one thing" he wanted for Christmas and he doesn't think he's getting it because it's just not realistically available. I think he'll be happy with what he gets instead.
Dude did you 300 for classic? Where have you been?! That's a steal! and you have to nearly as much for new stuff in the end anyway. My this me being young and taking his side but I'd say if you can squeeze let the kid have the classic.
