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Retro Gaming using Batocera on a Mini PC,

ca Offline Chako

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Retro Gaming using Batocera on a Mini PC,
on: August 28, 2023, 09:21:05 AM
As you may know, I purchased a Kinhank 2Tb external drive off of Amazon.ca with the thought that using my PC would probably go higher on the emulation system list than my Raspberry Pi 3B Retroflag systems I got into back in 2018. I even recently went down the path of emulation handhelds, my current favorite is the Anbernic RG505 which can emulate a little past a PlayStation 1...which is not bad at all.

I found that having to go into my main computer's BIOS every time I wanted to access the Kinhank drive was bothersome. Because of that, I bought a BeeLink Ser5 mini PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor, 16Gb of DDR4 RAM, and a built in 1Tb drive, all running off of Windows 11 Pro.

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After setting the external drive as my main boot device, I now have an awesome retro game station that beats all of my other stuff.  Here is a list of what is available on the external drive. This took me some time to compile...and because I grew up through a lot of these systems, I had myself a bit of fun putting them into order of date released. Maybe because I just turned 50, and I have been along this journey starting in 1978 with my first Pong machine...retro gaming has a very strong appeal to me. I do not have the room to gather the physical hardware, and the games bring back a lot of great memories...



Anyhow, here is the list of systems and game numbers for anyone who may wish to go down the same path..in chronological order by date:

1. Atari 2600 - 1977 - 2687 games.
2. Apple II - 1977 - 1558 games.
3. Magnavox Phillip Odyssey 2 - 1978 - 131 games.
4. Mattel Intellivision - 1979 - 158 games.
5. Atari 800 - 1979 - 5494 games.
6. Nintendo Game & Watch - 1980 - 53 games.
7. Sinclair ZX81 - 1981 - 1171 games.
8. Commodore 64 - 1982 - 6935 games.
9. CollecoVision - 1982 - 173 games.
10. Atari 5200 - 1982 -73 games.
11. Sinclair ZX Spectrum - 1982 -20965 games.
12. MB Vectrix - 1982 - 78 games.
13. Nintendo Entertainment System - 1983 - 1592 games.
14. Sega SG 1000 - 1983 - 202 games.
15. Microsoft MSX1 - 1983 - 936 games.
16. Amstrad CPC - 1984 -11230 games.
17. Amiga - 1985 - 4277 games.
18. Atari ST - 1985 - 7080 games.
19. Microsoft MSX2 - 1985 - 196 games.
20. Sega Master System - 1985 - 539 games.
21. Nintendo Family Computer - 1986 - 297 games.
22. Atari 7800 - 1986 - 64 games.
23. NEC PC Engine - 1988 - 412 games.
24. Lucas Arts ScumVM - 1987 - 55 games.
25. NEC PC Engine CD - 1988 - 70 games.
26. Sega Master Drive - 1988 - 2135 games.
27. Nintendo Game Boy - 1989 - 1605 games.
28. Atari Lynx - 1989 - 76 games.
29. NEC Super Grafx - 1989 - 319 games.
30. SNK Neo Geo - 1990 - 265 games.
31. Super Nintendo - 1990 - 3742 games.
32. Sega Game Gear - 1990 - 497 games.
33. Sega CD - 1991 - 164 games.
34. Amstrad GX4000 - 1991 - 25 games.
35. Microsoft Windows - 1992- 1 game.
36. Watara Supervision - 1992 - 110 games.
37. Atari Jaguar - 1993 - 56 games.
38. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer - 1993 - 46 games.
39. Sega Saturn - 1994 - 305 games.
40. Sony PlayStation 1 - 1994 - 1469 games.
41. NEC PC FX - 1994 - 6 games.
42. SNK Neo Geo CD - 1994 - 97 games.
43. Amiga CD32 - 144 games.
44. Sega 32X - 1994 - 60 games.
45. Nintendo Super Game Boy - 1994 - 239 games.
46. Nintendo Virtual game Boy - 1995 - 31 games.
47. Nintendo Satellaview - 1995 - 39 games.
48. Nintendo 64 - 1996 - 256 games.
49. MAME Arcade - 1997 - 1932 games.
50. SNK Neo Geo Pocket - 1998 - 340 games.
51. Sega Naomi - 1998 - 77 games.
52. Nintendo Game Boy Color - 1998 - 1495 games.
53. Sega Dreamcast - 1998 - 216 games.
54. Bandai WonderSwan - 1999 - 112 games.
55. Nintendo 64 Disk Drive - 1999 - 11 games.
56. SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color - 1999 - 118 games.
57. Bandai WonderSwan Color - 2000 - 91 games.
58. Pygame Team - 2000 - 1 game.
59. Sony PlayStation 2 - 2000 - 215 games.
60. Nintendo Game Boy Advanced - 2001 - 2954 games.
61. Nintendo Pokemon Mini - 2001 - 43 games.
62. Nintendo Game Cube - 2001 - 110 games.
63. Microsoft Xbox - 2003 - 1 game.
64. Sammy Atomiswave - 2003 - 7 games.
65. Sony PlayStation Portable - 2004 - 425 games.
66. Nintendo DS - 2004 - 6757 games.
67. Nintendo Wii - 2006 - 19 games.
68. Sony PlayStation 3 - 2006 - 3 games.
69. Atmel Uzebox - 2008 - 89 games.
70. Nintendo 3DS - 2011 - 12 games.
71. Nintendo Wii U - 2012 - 1 game.
72. FB NEO Arcade - 2019 - 6671 games.
73. Game Ports - - - 10 games.
74. Open BOR - - - 170 games.
75. Ports Lutro - - - 9 games.

It is an interesting list, and pretty much gives the highlights of gaming from its start to more modern times.

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