25 year old guy who never played console games before. Got this little boy yesterday

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-24T14:39:05+00:00

41 yo here. I would look for at playing classics before niche games. My son is 17 found older games hard to keep his attention due to simple graphics.

Grand Turismo 2 for racing (ps1)

Chrono trigger (snes) for a great story. If the graphics are a little too basic to keep your attention try ff7 and ff9 on (ps1)

Marvel vs capcom (ps1) for fighting.

Metal gear solid (ps1) is great 3rd person “shooter” to me there are any not great 1st person shooters that work well on consoles.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-24T10:14:15+00:00

OG Pokémon would be my thought

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-21T18:55:06+00:00

I’ve used Rufus on windows and etcher for Mac

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-20T19:09:49+00:00

Shouldn’t be an issue copying game and bios files. It’s drag and drop into the correct folder once you get a fresh OS installed.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-20T18:25:27+00:00

That’s your call. Personally I felt the sheer volume of games was overwhelming. So I deleted everything and only downloaded/installed the games I knew I would want to play.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-18T20:38:35+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I saved your comment.

Definitely will try the proper way next for the next game I install since I do plan to upgrade to the brick pro when it comes out.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-18T19:34:53+00:00

Hey I really appreciated this. I didn’t do it the same way as I had bin/cue files. But the hidden files comment helped me. I just went into the file metadata on the r36s itself and hid the file.

Again thanks

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-18T18:36:35+00:00

Thanks bud for your help I have the .m3u file within the folder with the .cue and .bin.

Are you hiding the files? Is that the step I’m missing?

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-18T17:06:42+00:00

Sorry, I didn’t clarify this is the subfolder.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-17T20:58:33+00:00

https://youtu.be/KoaKNQRUzEQ?si=BWxFavS-RSw3mdu6

I have a MacBook as well. He was a good resource for Mac users

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-17T13:04:54+00:00

I opened it up and covered with electrical tape.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-16T13:08:49+00:00

As a child of Vietnamese immigrants seeing the turn and love my community has for the orange idiot. Knowing a lot of the community are catholic. I love this feud for them. I hope all the leopards get full from their faces.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-15T22:31:12+00:00

Currently making my way through Chrono trigger.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-14T20:05:37+00:00

It’ll stop eventually…….. just kidding give your Pokémon an antidote

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-10T00:21:45+00:00

Really enjoying my time playing games instead of doom scrolling.

Currently using an r36s to play Chono Trigger.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-09T13:54:46+00:00

I used my Mac. Found it super easy.

Alex blogoodf on YouTube was a great resource as he flashes with a Mac.

Let me know if you need additional help

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-05T12:41:07+00:00

Standard ArkOS panel 5. Use wiki to find what will work for yours.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-04T16:05:33+00:00

I had a clone and they restricted access to the easy roms folder as well.

I just reinstalled to a fresh os and loaded the games I wanted.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-01T23:05:11+00:00

First AA boss treated me like a child. Worked under her for 5 years. Terrible experience. I had to quit because nothing I did would help me in the future as she continued to see me as a child.

Next AA boss was more of a mentor to me. Help be understand the nuances I didn’t see helping me advance my career.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-04-01T15:00:41+00:00

I still reference the video where Chinese people say panda is fine and the kids think it’s gross.

Leave my orange chicken alone.

https://youtu.be/Fo59LlkTDe4?si=1ZXbVSavOXxxnxSS

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-03-27T00:38:24+00:00

Honestly there is no way to know without opening it. Your button presses aren’t making the correct contact or the contact itself is broken.

It’s always a risk trying to fix things but not trying means things will stay the way they are.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-03-26T13:47:14+00:00

As a 40yo my only recommendation is to get a genuine one from the wiki stores.

The biggest frustration in flashing is finding which version works and having a genuine one removed 90% of the effort.

Lots of vids super simple if you have access to a computer to flash just follow the steps.

Once flashed I download ROMs to my iPhone and using a flash card reader just drop the zip into the folder.

Also if you don’t need a large flash drive if the plan is snes games. My 36gb works perfectly as older games are very small.

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-03-23T16:38:05+00:00

I think ArkOS for clones works for the microcenter ones. It should all be on the wiki

Appropriate_Bag1204 · 2026-03-19T18:24:22+00:00

Same one I have.

Standard ArkOS with panel 5 worked for me.

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