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Out of curiousity, what makes Gamecube emulation "impossible"? I don't really know much about the technicality of emulators, but Quadcore i7/Radeon 58xx > whatever's in a Gamecube, no? Anyways, that's my primitive logic, but there's got to be more to it.

[*] Gamecube*

[*] Xbox*

Impossible and Impossible.

I have one of the best Laptops on the market right now. i7 Quad Core and Radeon HD5870 and I can only run a handful of Gamecube games fullspeed. And Xbox emulators are virtually non existent.



Hmm, understandable. (A quick aside - would a ...

bassmasta wrote:

Labot2001 wrote:That's ARM-based, all the emulators I know of run on Windows only. I was looking at small x86 boards (mainly nano and pico-itx).

I'm sure there are some...

What about Pandora?

This Pandora? What about it?

Mini-itx boards can handle N64 emulation, although they require a discrete graphics card.

You're really probably better off starting with a netbook for a foundation. Common, inexpensive, compact, capable of emulating N64 and lower, and requiring little more than gaming controls and a case mod ...

bassmasta wrote:Beagleboard xM will run up to N64 emulation, I think.
You'll need a LCD with digital input though, and a 5V source (just use a 5v switching regulator).

That's ARM-based, all the emulators I know of run on Windows only. I was looking at small x86 boards (mainly nano and pico-itx).

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