indieGO! All-in-One Retro Game Console (Raspberry Pi 2) -with DVD drive

[buzz_n64]

From the Kickstarter-

"A true console with access to thousands of games from past, present and future, powered by a spiritual successor to Commodore Amiga OS. "
What is it?

"The ultimate all-in-one-Retro console with a built-in DVD-RW drive to run games for Amiga CD32, Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn*, Sega CD*, TurboGrafx* and more .

The (*)-marked Systems will require additional ROM files in order to work. Easy-to-follow installation-instructions are provided in our included user manual.

Of course it can also play ROMS for other consoles such as SNES/Super Famicom, Genesis/MegaDrive and more.

The indieGO! is silent, power efficient and very unique, when compared with other ARM-based consoles, because of the integrated DVD-Drive."

"Compatible to tons of consoles - a App Store with optional downloads makes it future proof

The Hardware consists of:

Raspberry Pi2 or Odroid C1 or Odroid XU4
DVD-RW drive allows to execute CD-Based AmigaCD32, Playstation and PC games
front SD-Card reader
attractive mini-itx case
3D-Printed I/O-shield and ARM-Cpu board holder
USB-Joypad
2x Front- USB

The OS:

compatible to Linux (ARM and i386 binaries side by side)
compatible to ARM AROS binaries
Wine is included and allows the execution of Windows ARM And i386 Software
boots fast.
KODI (former known as XBMC) is included
Moonlight included to stream games from from your personal computer
AmiCloud (cloud without a traffic limit)
EmuLA (emulatorlauncher)
indieGO!-Appstore
EmulationStation a front-end for several emulations
it is Open! You can modify it and run games from all available sources. The main idea is to run original CD32 and Playstation games but you can run everything! Get games from USB-stick, DVD/CD, Internet, Pi-store, indieGO!-Marketplace and so on

Pre-installed games include Doom (sharware), Quake (Shareware), Duke Nukem (Shareware) and Whacky Wheels (shareware) and Jim Power Full-Version - more are accessible from our appstore.

For games you add by yourself and which are normally played via Keyboard and mouse we will offer a joypad-mapping tool. (a Default mapping will cover a lot of games) - Of course you can also connect a USB-Keyboard and Mouse if you like to

Games downloaded from the indieGO!-store are ready2play (mapped to be played with a pad)"

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...e-raspberry-pi

[Az]

Pointless, underpowered, overpriced off-the-shelf parts doing nothing you can't do right now anyway. I buy some really weird stuff and even I can't justify this. Throwing parts into a case doesn't constitute a "retro" console.

It's too underpowered for Saturn emulation and probably smooth PS1 emulation as well. Being that I can't use original carts or controllers (without adapters) and have to steal/pirate my own BIOS files I don't see anything I can't do on this with a modded original Xbox.

[FieryReign]

So this will play legit discs as well as burnt discs? I'm not seeing the point of a disc drive? I can run turbocd, segacd, and ps1 games just fine on a droid tablet/phone without the need for all that. It's called an emulator with the correct BIOS files. It would be nice to have a Saturn emu that runs over 10fps with sound but is this thing capable? Better off trying to make a straight Sega Saturn clone that is highly compatible and high speed. Amiga CD32? Nobody gives a fuck.

Hell, Sega is licensing off the Genny stuff to garbage cloners(atgames), why not the Saturn? Would be great to stick a stake in the hearts of braggadocio Panzer Saga and Radiant Silvergun collectors...