My NAS became a retro gaming machine, and my consoles haven't been touched since
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A homelabber shares how they turned their NAS into a retro gaming server by storing ROMs in SMB-shared directories and streaming them to a mini PC running EmulationStation. The setup eliminates the need for physical consoles and cables, provides a polished browsable library with box art and metadata, and reuses existing hardware at no extra cost. Some emulator quirks remain, but the convenience of having every console library in one place has made the original hardware largely obsolete.
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The NAS serves ROMs the way it does any fileRetro consoles are aging fastIt's still not a perfect solution2.3K Impressions1 Comment