The first ever GBA Advance SP Rice on the Linux Mint server.

[wary fiber]

This is insane.
props to you man.

[formal garnet]

Woah wtf is this

[wary fiber]

its a nintendo gba sp

hol up

[steep oak]

holy moly how in the world did you pull this off

[wary fiber]

sonic adventure 2???

[formal garnet]

What is sp

[wary fiber]

thought that was for dreamcast

[wary fiber]

the original gba had some bad stuff so nintendo released "sp" an enhanced version of the original gba
sp stands for special edition

[formal garnet]

Oh

I'm still not understanding what's different in it

[wary fiber]

it also had some custom editions like mario edition and the pokemon edition
(its just different colours)

[wary fiber]

the original gba was a plain handheld but sp was a flip type handheld like the DS
gba used double a batteries but gba sp actually had a rechargable battery with a charger cable evrything

[jade surge]

HOW I DID IT:

The Anbernic RG35XXSP.

IT RUNS ON LINUX.

[formal garnet]

Link?

[jade surge]

THIS COUNTS AS A RICE SETUP.

[jade surge]

no problem

[formal garnet]

It do

[wary fiber]

technically its not a gba its some other handheld

[jade surge]

https://anbernic.com/products/rg35xxsp

[wary fiber]

reminds me of that one guy who got xfce running on some random knockoff nintendo game console

[cobalt minnow]

Lol

[humble steeple]

WOAH!

[jade surge]

COUNTS AS A RICE SETUP, IT RUNS LINUX

PLUS THE BRAND HAS A CULT FOLLOWING BEHIND IT

[wary fiber]

is it like a special distro

[zenith valley]

that is a lot of caps

[jade surge]

ITS OFFICIAL TISSUE OVER HERE 🔥

[humble steeple]

you got it to run linux??

[jade surge]

sorry, this is just a legendary moment in linux server history

[wary fiber]

linux community is really creative

[jade surge]

it comes with linux if you purchase from the China warehouse

[wary fiber]

inspires me to never stop learning

[jade surge]

but I loaded a custom theme to completely change the look

[zenith valley]

also we don't have a linux mint server edition

[wary fiber]

woah they have their own distro techinically that means

[zenith valley]

just Ubuntu based and LMDE

[formal garnet]

I mean I use to thought that putting linux on everything was a joke, but I'm glad I was wrong

[humble steeple]

👀

where did you buy this im curious and i want a copy

[wary fiber]

what bout edge iso

[formal garnet]

Ubuntu server is great

[humble steeple]

oh i see anbernic?

[zenith valley]

those are no longer offered remember?

[jade surge]

It has:

• FTP Support through web browser
• Easy theme conversion
• Retroarch built-in

[humble steeple]

ok brb purchasing

[jade surge]

https://anbernic.com/products/rg35xxsp

[formal garnet]

Can we install mgba on it?

[jade surge]

YOU NEED TO PURCHASE TWO SD CARDS AND A (5V/1A) power brick.

[analog harbor]

what the hell is THAT

[wary fiber]

retroarch is GOATED
best emulator ive ever tried

[jade surge]

iirc, you absolutely can

[humble steeple]

forgive me, is there a reason why we need 2 and a power brick?

[wary fiber]

retroarch has mgba core inside it too

[jade surge]

Dreamcast works, but it WILL run hot

[formal garnet]

Its good mostly

[analog harbor]

run ps1 games?

[wary fiber]

i like its UI too
UX, not so much

[formal garnet]

Mgba has more options to customise, retroarch is just frontend

[wary fiber]

ye bc ps1 is much weaker than dreamcast

[analog harbor]

so ps1 homebrew games can run too

[wary fiber]

retroarch is not just a frontend it has many many individual core and game options

maybe 🤔

[formal garnet]

Retroarch is just frontend

[humble steeple]

https://anbernic.com/collections/handheld-game-console are these prices bad?

[formal garnet]

Idk if it has exclusive cores

[jade surge]

yeah, but it might run warmer than older systems

[wary fiber]

it doesnt have any standalone cores but rather cores from other emulators all put into one big frankenstein monster app

with more options for cores
sometimes more than the actual emulator

[jade surge]

rg35xxsp is the most popular, it has a literal cult following the handheld scene, i got mine yesterday, set up MuOS CFW, and im understanding why people would die for this thing

[formal garnet]

It actually have less features than actual emulators bit I can just "work"

[wary fiber]

you can also define game-specific things like controls for a racing game that you want different from the global config

[long otter]

No one is going to die for an Anbernic

[wary fiber]

ehh, its debatable, some cores have less options, some have more

[formal garnet]

Yea

[jade surge]

it also has a built in dpad to analog mode

amazing handheld imo

[formal garnet]

Since it's just frontend for most emulator cores, it's options are mostly same

[jade surge]

average retroid user

[long otter]

I have an SP

bought it the day they came out

[wary fiber]

def NOT gonna buy it
i still have enough money for it but im trying to save up to the big 100 OMR

[formal garnet]

Don't get me wrong I also love retroarch

[jade surge]

Retroarch can mess with performance rather if you just used the program separately, but it’s for some titles.

like SNES and all the 8bit shit, RA can do it

[wary fiber]

i use retroarch so i hhave all my emulators all in one place rather than me looking through a million ROM files

[jade surge]

but mid-high end, retroarch might be dodgy

[wary fiber]

i love its library feature

[jade surge]

i get my games legally, so if they run like ass, its the frontend or the individual emu

[wary fiber]

im running a 12 year old thinkpad t420 gives all my retro gaming needs, with good performance

[jade surge]

my last few posts about linux have all skyrocketed 🔥🔥🔥

[formal garnet]

Retroarch also skips bios issue

[wary fiber]

i might say something that would get me banned so ill stay quiet

[jade surge]

I love the Linux community dawg

[jade surge]

say it in dms, idc

[wary fiber]

me too
not the arch one however

[jade surge]

i already know what you’re gonna say tho 💀💀💀

[wary fiber]

linux community is very creative
this is a prime example

[formal garnet]

Gentoo community is also good ngl

[jade surge]

True

[formal garnet]

People are very humble there, they never force anyone or make fun of people to use other distros

[jade surge]

I’m not familiar with gentoo, but a friend of mine gave me Tails on a USB, that’s my first ever Tor experience

[wary fiber]

daijisho is a cool frontend, looks very nice and even supports frontending individual retro arch cores
only for android though

[jade surge]

it was boring asf

[wary fiber]

ye i love the people there

[formal garnet]

Has anyone tried emudeck or retrodeck?

[jade surge]

i was surprised to see people (like you) openly help me as a beginner, especially on mint.

it was very refreshing

[formal garnet]

Tails is not Gentoo lol, its debian based

[jade surge]

I don’t own a Deck yet, but I would love one

[wary fiber]

when your name is steve balmer of course its gonna be the helper dude

[jade surge]

oh no, I was just stating that randomly 🗣️

[formal garnet]

You can get it on normal desktop as well

[wary fiber]

pluh

[jade surge]

he was one of the people who said the fatal last words before helping me setup i3

[jade surge]

You can?

[wary fiber]

haven't you heard, its been passed all along the linux community

[formal garnet]

Retrodeck also have frontends but putting roms in correct folder is a mess

[wary fiber]

i always loved retroids

[formal garnet]

Hehe, thanks

[jade surge]

I could probably port it to MuOS if I tried 👀👀👀

[formal garnet]

Of course and it's very good experience

[wary fiber]

my first experience with retro gaming was when my cousin told me to try pokemon fire red
he taught me how to setup an emulator
i really loved that game

[formal garnet]

I think there are better frontends for smaller device

[jade surge]

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[formal garnet]

That's my first emulator experience too lol

[wary fiber]

it was on a mobile phone running john gba

[formal garnet]

There is one linux distro called batocera linux, which is made especially to make any computer retro console

[wary fiber]

than i went for sega saturn emulation with retroarch, i liked it, favourite games were rayman and daytona USA

[formal garnet]

Same, I also played on jhon gba

[wary fiber]

sega saturn is such an underrated console

sega dreamcast was even better though
great games, good graphics, its got it all
it was nothing though, because the ps2 was at its time

[formal garnet]

https://youtu.be/9BB3i4sgM98?si=327r8ztBa_qMCB6A

[long otter]

Saturn is not underrated, it's rated exactly what is deserves

[wary fiber]

mame my beloved
used to play TMNT 4

[formal garnet]

I'm liking emulation station