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What's your favorite way to play old games? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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I was just thinking about how there's so many ways to play our old favorite games these days: Collecting for original hardware, playing ports and remasters on modern consoles, throwback consoles like the SNES Classic, having a dedicated emulation machine or handheld, etc.

What method works best for you? Has it changed over time?

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My use case is that this Mini PC acts as a living room console, and I like the Emulation Station front end, and that Emulators, controller setup, etc. more or less work out of the box.

But my big issue with it, is that Steam has effectively been broken on Batocera for a long time now. So, if I could run all of my ROMs and more modern stuff via Steam, all on one OS, that would be great

How would Bazzite fair in a living room console kind of use case? What is setup like? Especially for emulators. Could I have it boot straight into a front end, like ES or Lutris?