Board:   [DoveNet] Hobby Corner
Subject: Retro gaming
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Mon Aug 26, 2024 17:00

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  Re: Retro gaming
  By: phigan to Nightfox on Mon Aug 26 2024 02:51 pm

 ph> Do you have the GPi Case? I've got one, and while I don't use it near as
 ph> much as the Odroid Go Advance (which doesn't get much use to begin with),
 ph> I don't think I'll ever get rid of it :). When the Gameboy first came out,
 ph> I would lay awake at night thinking about them and howmuch I wanted one,
 ph> and partly because of the aesthetic. Definitely will always love the GPi
 ph> Case. What I've noticed, though, is it goes through AA batteries faster
 ph> than if you hook up the regular USB power cable into a USB battery. I've
 ph> been playing it that way. Also I have a distro on it that seemed to boot
 ph> much faster than all the rest.

Yes, I have the GPi case.  I think mine is the newer version though, as it uses an internal rechargeable battery rather than AA batteries (and it charges via USB-C).  I think the battery has a decent life before it needs to be recharged.

I do like the aesthetic, though to me it feels a bit bulky in my hands.  I think the original Game Boy did too though.  Before I had this, I had a GCW Zero, which was thinner, and I felt like it was more comfortable to me to hold. The GCW Zero was also a wide one, with the controls to thesides of the screen rather than below.  The main reason I bought the GPi was that the screen on my GCW Zero crapped out and wasn't really working anymore, and I thought the GPi would be a cool Raspberry Pi project (which it is).

Nightfox

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