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Posts in Category: retro
Posted on 13th Oct 2024
Downloading all of MAME ROMs, is not useful, as many of them don't worth, as games or the emulation is not good. Also, each of us, has his personal preferences on which games he likes, remembers from his youth and has that nostalgia feeling. So, i wanted a way to download, almost, specific games, wh...
Posted on 8th Oct 2024
There are several images (.img) outhere, specially for Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, which contain full set of ROMs, with some of the best games or just all. The best thing about these images is that they contain in game pictures, videos with gaming preview and also you are sure, that they play on a...
Posted on 2nd Oct 2024
I really liked the arcade games back in the 80s-90s and still enjoy playing them in MAME, with a keyboard or a gamepad. But nothing beats the feeling of an arcade stick. For a long time, i wanted to buy or make one, for my self, but i was mostly been hesitated, because of the various models, the big...
Posted on 2nd Oct 2024
Customize your file manager to launch an emulator when you double click an ISO file. Normally, double clicking an ISO file opens a file archive program which is useless! This way we can use our file manager as a very easy way to launch ROMs and our favorite emulators, with just a double click, thu...
Posted on 21st Jul 2024
A neat way to get roms, specially for MAME, is using the Archive.org site. WIth a simple search you can find complete sets of rom files for many MAME versions. You can just click a file and get the complete set, but you can also navigate into the archive/zip file and get individual files/roms. Thi...
Often, there are times, that i want to share a text (link, command, search term etc) to my phone, from my main computer PC. For...