The team behind EmuDeck, a project that started off to provide easy emulation on Steam Deck / SteamOS have announced their own hardware with the Bazzite Linux powered EmuDeck Machines.
  • cron@feddit.org
    16·
    3 months ago

    You can probably build this yourself with bazzite and a compact pc, but the pricing looks pretty attractive (for the ryzen variant at least)

    • Random DentEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      I dunno, isn’t £588 more than a 512GB Steam Deck would cost? That seems like the safer bet to me.

      • cron@feddit.org
        8·
        3 months ago

        The 8600G is quite a leap ahead of the Steam Deck in terms of performance and architecture. But of course you can just take the steam deck with you and play on the go or in bed ;)

        • Random DentEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          And also if your goal is just to emulate old games you might not even need the extra boost anyway!

          • cron@feddit.org
            1·
            3 months ago

            They say that even the cheap Intel version can play most retro games:

            Ideal for light indie Steam games and retro gaming up to Wii U

            With the ryzen variant, you can probably play most games.

    • electricprism
      1·
      3 months ago

      Right, but I’m assuming where the disk drive used to be is just decorative and not a optical disc slot

  • sacbuntchris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    3 months ago

    I like the product, but Interesting that they’re selling access to retro games. Seems risky.

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
    41·
    3 months ago

    I like the idea of a plug-and-play emulation station in a retro-styled case, but that case design is copyright infringement territory. Emulation devices are on shaky enough legal ground as it is, we do not need to tempt fate

  • ISolox@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    Cool devices, but I’ve seen Beelink PCs with better specs and for cheaper. Cool if you want the case but not really worth it at the end of the day.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    OS wise this is ready to go, my main concern is that their emu deck project is written in a way that needs KDE to be fully functional. Hopefully this is just because is started out as a steam deck app and isn’t inexperience.

    The old frontends like Hyperspin and Launchbox were similar in that they were developed in such a way it really limited where those projects could go, as such the retro frontends for Linux have been pretty limited.

    Be really cool to see them expand Emu deck into a standalone program, it’s even cooler that we’re seeing the intention of Ublue already allowing people to achieve their goals.

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
      3·
      3 months ago

      Well, there are already great emulators for nearly every console on Linux, all you need to do, is create a full screen app, that is controlled by controller, where you pick your games And the hardware, of course, but this is mostly of the shelf as well, I would say

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Where are the fans on this thing? Please do not tell me you intend to passively cool a chip you intend to run Cyberpunk 2077 on?

    Did we learn nothing from Intel era Apple? Sure, AMD chips run moderately cooler than Intel ones under the same workload, but still…