Introducing the Seedi System, Plays Old CD-ROM Games

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I bet many of you are dying to replay your old CD-ROM games on a modern TV. Meet Seedi, an emulator box that hooks up to your HDMI port and plays most of your retro games. While we try not to bring attention to someone's latest crowdfunded campaign, this idea seems a bit backwards. Bonus points for having a Retrode adapter for cartridges that will get you towards your game console nirvana.

Preview gaming heaven.

Seedi is a game console that plays original discs from Sony PlayStation 1, Neo Geo CD, TurboGrafx CD, Sega CD, DOS PC, and more.
 
Seems like a great idea for nostalgia purposes, but I don't see a huge or even moderate demand for this.
 
So what, it runs Retroarch under the hood?

Seriously, this isn't that hard to do; just get a standard x86 PC in ITX form factor, slap in a Linux based OS that auto-loads Retroarch, and boom: a "console" that plays all your legacy titles. Not sure why these attempts keep getting the attention they do.
 
gamerk2 said:
So what, it runs Retroarch under the hood?

Seriously, this isn't that hard to do; just get a standard x86 PC in ITX form factor, slap in a Linux based OS that auto-loads Retroarch, and boom: a "console" that plays all your legacy titles. Not sure why these attempts keep getting the attention they do.
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You can do the same thing with the new classic but is in stupid high demand. What you propose far to complicated for the common man to do.
 
gamerk2 said:
So what, it runs Retroarch under the hood?

Seriously, this isn't that hard to do; just get a standard x86 PC in ITX form factor, slap in a Linux based OS that auto-loads Retroarch, and boom: a "console" that plays all your legacy titles. Not sure why these attempts keep getting the attention they do.
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what is an x86 ITX form factor?
What is linux and where do I get it?
How do I install it?
How do I get it to auto load retroarch?
 
nysmo said:
what is an x86 ITX form factor?
What is linux and where do I get it?
How do I install it?
How do I get it to auto load retroarch?
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Exactly, that's precisely the issue - this product is NOT for us, as we can manage ourselves - however, the problem there is that the market of people who could use something like this is pretty much made up of us types, so... um... yeah.
 
focbde said:
Exactly, that's precisely the issue - this product is NOT for us, as we can manage ourselves - however, the problem there is that the market of people who could use something like this is pretty much made up of us types, so... um... yeah.
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Mostly us, but there are a few soccer dad types out there who might be interested. A few months ago a coworker came to my office and said "hey, so I heard you can play like SNES games and stuff on your TV with this pie thing? You know anything about that?"

Me: Well sure, I think you're probably talking about a Raspberry PI, basically you can load an emulator which plays all sorts of games and connect it using HD...
Him: yeah yeah yeah, whatever, hey I'll buy 2 of them, 1 for your troubles and 1 for me if you can set mine up and just give it to me ready to go
Me: oh, well, ok then
 
IIRC some of the old systems CD's could only be read by certain cd drives, and they weren't always the same ones for each system. I can see a huge value if they had an all in one unit that would eliminate the need for tracking down those separate drives to get all of the old games working.
 
nysmo said:
Mostly us, but there are a few soccer dad types out there who might be interested. A few months ago a coworker came to my office and said "hey, so I heard you can play like SNES games and stuff on your TV with this pie thing? You know anything about that?"

Me: Well sure, I think you're probably talking about a Raspberry PI, basically you can load an emulator which plays all sorts of games and connect it using HD...
Him: yeah yeah yeah, whatever, hey I'll buy 2 of them, 1 for your troubles and 1 for me if you can set mine up and just give it to me ready to go
Me: oh, well, ok then
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Absolutely there will be exceptions, hence the 'pretty much' in my post, but the question is whether or not the sales potential from that 'pretty much' is enough to actually develop/produce/profit on a product... :)
 
Very Cool but does it do UMD's.....:) I would even take them out of their protective casing.
 
gamerk2 said:
So what, it runs Retroarch under the hood?

Seriously, this isn't that hard to do; just get a standard x86 PC in ITX form factor, slap in a Linux based OS that auto-loads Retroarch, and boom: a "console" that plays all your legacy titles. Not sure why these attempts keep getting the attention they do.
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How do companies get away with stealing other people's code, and then selling the product?
 
Gigus Fire said:
How do they get the bios for the consoles? I thought that was a huge grey area.
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they let the customers figure out that part,

mainly this just seems like a small linux box mainly just kodi and some plugins
 
TheBuzzer said:
they let the customers figure out that part,

mainly this just seems like a small linux box mainly just kodi and some plugins
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So customers aren't that smart enough to make their own box, but should be smart enough to download copyrighted bioses from consoles and put them/configure the emulator.
 
Gigus Fire said:
How do they get the bios for the consoles? I thought that was a huge grey area.
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Trying to sell an actual product that will play not just original games, but backups?

Copyright lawsuit in 4...3...2...1
 
nysmo said:
what is an x86 ITX form factor?
What is linux and where do I get it?
How do I install it?
How do I get it to auto load retroarch?
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1. https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
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Code: 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libretro/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install retroarch retroarch-* libretro-*


But you could just install retroarch on a Windows Pc and be done with it, but where's the fun in that?

 
DukenukemX said:
1. https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
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Code: 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libretro/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install retroarch retroarch-* libretro-*


But you could just install retroarch on a Windows Pc and be done with it, but where's the fun in that?

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I think that's something that would only be fun to a super nerd. It would bore most normal folks to tears though.
 
I don't know if there is a market for this, but I will say it is off base to just say "oh just setup a retroarch". That works for tech people but not the average joe. I'm a linux n00b and I would say building a retropie definitely wasn't the hardest thing I've ever done but it was a major pain in the ass, and it still is with updates. Emulators can be fickle (have to have the right romsets and use different ones for different games and such), but the biggest problem is that tutorials don't get updated as quickly as the software does, so every time it does an update something breaks and you have to do some sort of hack to fix it, usually involving lots of linux terminal commands. If it is a bit difficult to me, then my dad, my wife, a lot of my friends and coworkers, etc definitely could not do it.
 
You had me at "DOS CD." If you can make that level of emulation easily done on a television based unit, count me in.
 
focbde said:
Exactly, that's precisely the issue - this product is NOT for us, as we can manage ourselves - however, the problem there is that the market of people who could use something like this is pretty much made up of us types, so... um... yeah.
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Friend of mine did a YouTube video. He first claimed that people couldn't make a RetroPie in 10 minutes. So, he took the challenge.

Like someone in the comments said - they may be able to, but do they really WANT to?

I'm not so sure I like this new fad of retro gaming. It was fun because it was reliving my childhood, and I have always played my old games. The systems I collect for mostly my old systems and games that I've kept. Now that everyone and their dog is into the retro gaming scene, it's hard to find good deals or get my hands on things that should be common. It's nice they are experiencing the old stuff, but it just feels weird.... I guess it's the old "get off my lawn... back in MY day...." stuff. I'm old and bitter. Shit.
 
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