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Anybody out there messing around with one of these? Looking for all the stuff they can do. I just picked one up last week because I got tured of waiting for a nes classic(I grew up in the 80's and the nintendo was king then. Guess you could say I'm a retro gamer), and wanted to be able to play the old school games again after seeing the nes classic commercials. So far I got mine setup with a 64 GB sandisk extreme card(I know it's overkill, but it was on sale, and not that much more than a cheap 32GB card), a couple of buffalo snes gamepads, a wireless mini keyboard with touchpad and video player shortcuts, and a basic plastic case. I loaded it with retropie 4.1 which also has a desktop program in it, and allows several addons like kodi to work with it as well.
I've got $130 tied up in it for everything including a 25ft hdmi cable so I can set it up and sit on the couch and play games on the big screen. The desktop program allows me to go in and edit all the internal files, has some basic linux programs, and chromium web browser that now has flash loaded so it can do most all web pages. And for kodi I have it set up with a few add ons including exodus which has allowed me to watch all kinds of movies for FREE(including most in theater movies).
Just curious if anybody else had messed with one of these, and what all you used them for. It seems like a very capable mini computer. Many have even set them up on the back of a 7" touch screen, and basically made an extremely capable tablet. Only drawback is it has to be plugged in.
I've got $130 tied up in it for everything including a 25ft hdmi cable so I can set it up and sit on the couch and play games on the big screen. The desktop program allows me to go in and edit all the internal files, has some basic linux programs, and chromium web browser that now has flash loaded so it can do most all web pages. And for kodi I have it set up with a few add ons including exodus which has allowed me to watch all kinds of movies for FREE(including most in theater movies).
Just curious if anybody else had messed with one of these, and what all you used them for. It seems like a very capable mini computer. Many have even set them up on the back of a 7" touch screen, and basically made an extremely capable tablet. Only drawback is it has to be plugged in.