I was kicking around the idea of building an arcade machine at home and this might just be the one…
Now the real question - can you play old school platformers on it with split second precision that doesnt get interrupted by random shit on the OS? Even Nintendo’s SNES Classic was horseshit for games like Megaman. Or maybe I just suck now.
Honestly I love the idea. I wonder if they’re planning on the obvious next step of adding a media player that will work similarly, turn it on with a disc or SD card inserted and it’ll play the DVD or music
So I need an SD card for every game?
The idea is for that, yes. I suppose buying up a bunch of low (4gb and lower) capacity cards off aliexpress won’t be too expensive, and would be ideal for the smaller games like Celeste or stuff from 2008 and earlier
Those really low capacity cards have DIRE read speeds though. I wouldn’t want to cheap out too much on them.
We have one SD card at work that seemingly works fine, but has read speeds of like single digit Mbps. It’s plenty for the arcade machine it runs with no more than 10mb roms at the max. But oof is it bad.
I mean I pretty much do the same thing with my mister and NFC card readers.
My first though was KZ OS. Cool name!
Serious question: Do I have to be a jew in order to use it?
(Because KZs and im German and stuff)
It would be pretty cool to share games using SD cards like that, but there would hardly be anyone to share them with.
this is the peak of “cool but functionally useless”
i unironically love it
If only the builtin SD card readers from most computers could last more than 1 year… Either they’re all shit, or I’ve been really, really unlucky with them.
This is really awesome! I’m 100% going to build a little system for this.
But why? Is there really not already some other project that does that, that the dev could join instead?
These projects collaborate and copy each-other’s work more than you would think. When one stagnates, others pick up the slack, and when one pulls ahead, the others increase their efforts to catch-up. More potential solutions for the same problems is a good thing.
