ODROID H4 - The Next Great SBC For Retro Gaming?

[@konradlindblad7860]

What Mario Kart are you showing at 5:20? I have only played Mario Kart on N64 but that looks a lot better. :)

[@psymagearcade]

Mario Kart Double Dash on the Gamecube.

[@cloudycolacorp]

This is cool, but I feel like the reason that the Pi was popular for emulation wasn't that it was a bare circuit board, but that it launched at 30 pounds. The moment we get over a hundred, the glut of really good handhelds start to majorly compete, and when we're looking at X86 machines to play on a TV, you might as well get some SFF PC second hand cheap. I think the 'SBC' aspect isn't relevant unless you're planning on building it into a project

[@psymagearcade]

Yeah, that's definitely true about the price. I remember getting a Pi 3 for $50-60 but it came with some extra accessories. I don't think that prices will get that low again anytime soon if ever. And I kind of wish I would have talked about the used PC market because there are great deals to be found, so you have a good point about that.

[@craftymulligar]

Although more expensive would rather buy a more top of the line tablet. When power is considered.

[@psymagearcade]

That's definitely an option, and a more portable one. The newer chips in the top of the line tablets are great, and Apple is now allowing emulators on iOS so you don't need to jailbreak an iPad anymore to emulate a lot of stuff.

[@r0galik]

Wait so you just talk about the thing with random clips and website scrolling? Who would watch this?

[@psymagearcade]

Apparently, it has over a thousand views, so I guess some people definitely watched it. Also, with the exception of Quake, these are Gamecube games that run in the Dolphin emulator, which this board can run, so it's not entirely random per say. And when I originally released this video months ago, the board still hadn't shipped out yet, so it's not like I could have showed it on camera anyway.

[@r0galik]

​@@psymagearcadewhy make a video about it though. There is literally nothing to show.

[@psymagearcade]

​@@r0galik That's an odd thing to say considering a lot of content creators who cover products of any kind will make videos about something even before it ships in order to share information about it. I thought my audience would be interested in this product as I do plenty of retro gaming content, simple as that. On paper, this board is great for a retro gaming box, as you can emulate almost any system on it (prior to Gen 7) with no issues as long as you're not trying to emulate at higher resolutions. Seems like a cool device to me.

[@CGoody564]

​@@r0galikHe's a shill bruh

[@alexisrivera200xable]

The Intel CPU is not a positive but a negative. The integrated GPU simply sucks compared to anything AMD has.

[@lycanwarlord]

but does AMD have a similar product available?

[@psymagearcade]

That's true if we're talking about desktops and laptops, but AMD does not try to compete a whole lot with Intel in the low power mini PC/single board computer market. I would love to see a Ryzen SBC though.

[@sciisfun]

@@psymagearcadeI’ve always wanted the steam deck processor/soc on a sbc, I think that would blow everything away

[@psymagearcade]

​@@sciisfun That would be phenomenal. Maybe someone should suggest that to Valve. The only thing is, that was a custom chip just made for them IIRC. There are also Ryzen Embedded chips but those are for industrial purposes.

[@printstrname5346]

@@psymagearcade it is kind of custom. It's a slightly adapted version of the Ryzen Z1, which is also used in a bunch of the other x86 handhelds (ROG Ally, etc.).