Retro gaming is a massively popular Raspberry Pi application, and while loading your favourite old video games onto an SD card is pretty straightforward, building the physical shell of a gaming system can be daunting for those of us without 3D printers or design skills of any kind. PiBoy Mini bridges that gap by providing partially-assembled devices to their customers. The rest is BYORP: bring your own Raspberry Pi.
These things are cool in theory, but $100 before the computer is past what I’d pay for a novelty.
So you like $200-150 for a working system. Then the steam deck is like hey im $400 and way more capable.
Sometimes the portability is nice.
There’s also a ton of emulation handhelds out there that can likely do the same thing with better firmware for around $100. Look at the RG35XX or the Miyoo Mini. Both devices can play up to PSX.
Its a cute device, but 90 bucks without a pi or sd card?
Here’s a photo taken from their website.
The triggers look like they would get very tiring to use. There’s also only two so you wouldn’t be able to play PSX.
Nice idea but I can’t remember the last time I saw a Pi for sale. Might as well be powered with unicorn dust.
The final cost of this device is a bit of a hard ask in a world where we have a lot of Android and Linux handhelds out there. It seems like this would only be a good idea for users who just really want a raspberry pi as their emulation device for the familiarity.
The main advantage is that this is upgradable. So when they come out with a new Pi, you don’t need to buy the whole kit, just swap out the Pi. The old Pi can be relegated to home automation tasks or resold.
