Well that’s a very nice surprise, I bought exactly that one earlier this year. Can’t wait to throw a distro on it.
For a reference of the performance for those interested: It can play everything up to just under high end N64 and PSP games for emulation, it gets a little framey at the largest games (ex: conkers bad fur day) but still playable. No idea what performance it’ll get for native, but I wouldn’t expect to be running anything above low end on this thing. For performance the price isn’t worth it compared to just buying a used phone and a telescopic controller, it’s okay for what it is though.
Now I’ve gotta plan what to throw at it to see what it can do with mainline Linux. Though there isn’t any onboard storage, it’s just two microSD card slots, one for OS one for games, so a full Linux distro is gonna chew through those little microSD’s.
Can this thing run non-emulated games or software of any kind at all (without this kernel) or is it just another Ambernic type device for retro gaming?
It’s similar to Ambernic in that it’s just the console GUI and game menus, but it has portmaster installed to put non-emulated games on it with a decently big list of games that’s been ported to it here.
For software it has rclone, syncthing, wireguard, and moonlight on it to gamestream from a PC via Geforce Experience (nvidia, Windows) or Sunshine (any gpu, Linux, Mac, or Windows). JelOS is the official distro for it
Well that’s a very nice surprise, I bought exactly that one earlier this year. Can’t wait to throw a distro on it.
For a reference of the performance for those interested: It can play everything up to just under high end N64 and PSP games for emulation, it gets a little framey at the largest games (ex: conkers bad fur day) but still playable. No idea what performance it’ll get for native, but I wouldn’t expect to be running anything above low end on this thing. For performance the price isn’t worth it compared to just buying a used phone and a telescopic controller, it’s okay for what it is though.
Now I’ve gotta plan what to throw at it to see what it can do with mainline Linux. Though there isn’t any onboard storage, it’s just two microSD card slots, one for OS one for games, so a full Linux distro is gonna chew through those little microSD’s.
Can this thing run non-emulated games or software of any kind at all (without this kernel) or is it just another Ambernic type device for retro gaming?
It’s similar to Ambernic in that it’s just the console GUI and game menus, but it has portmaster installed to put non-emulated games on it with a decently big list of games that’s been ported to it here.
For software it has rclone, syncthing, wireguard, and moonlight on it to gamestream from a PC via Geforce Experience (nvidia, Windows) or Sunshine (any gpu, Linux, Mac, or Windows). JelOS is the official distro for it