Retro Gaming
The games I grew up with, running on modern hardware, organized the way a real library should be.
Old Games, Done Properly
New consoles are fine, but I keep coming back to the older stuff. There’s a craft to those games that a lot of modern releases have lost.
These days most of my retro gaming runs through emulation on a handheld, with a proper frontend so it feels like a curated collection rather than a folder full of files.
The GearWhat I Play On
Ayn Odin 2
Android Handheld · Main MachineBuilt around a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, so it handles everything from 8-bit systems up through the harder-to-emulate consoles without breaking a sweat. Pocketable, fast, and flexible enough to run whatever frontend and emulators I throw at it. This is my daily driver for retro, made by Ayn.
My Setup
The part fellow hobbyists actually care about: how the library is built and kept tidy.
- ES-DE as the frontend, so every system gets scraped box art and sits in its own place
- Custom collections for favorites and themed sets
- ROM management kept clean, one folder per system
- One gotcha worth knowing: custom collections only show up once they’re registered in
es_settings.xml
Away from a screen, I’m usually on a padel court or out running an RC rig.
