Retro Gaming on a Mac Mini (is Now Awesome)
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- Macs are often considered terrible for gaming, but recent advances in Apple silicon chips have paved the way for some spectacular retro game emulation. In this video we're going to take a look at the cheapest Mac available today (the M2 Mac Mini), priced at $599. I'll walk you through the setup process and perform game testing for all your favorite systems: from classic retro content like GBA, NES, and SNES, all the way to more powerful systems like Dreamcast, N64, Saturn, PS1, PSP, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, Switch, PS2, PS3, and Xbox.
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Timestamps:
00:00 introduction
02:40 pricing and accessories
04:49 unboxing and impressions
05:55 software orientation
06:31 Steam gaming
08:45 OpenEmu
09:29 emulator setup
14:42 emulation testing
25:04 EmulationStation setup
27:01 "consolizing" the Mac Mini
29:02 summary and conclusion
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Thanks for the lively discourse in the comments. Some notes (I may update this as more comments come in):
- This M2 Mac Mini is currently on sale for $499 on Amazon: amzn.to/3KhxlCH
- Although development has halted on the emulator, AetherSX2 is available for Macs with silicon chips and I tested it after making this video. It runs like a dream, and resolves any issues I had with PS2 games lagging in PCSX2. I was able to play God of War II and Jak & Daxter at 4K resolution with zero issue. I've added more info to the written guide.
- For the Sega Saturn interlacing/combing artifacts in Beetle Saturn, I found that using a CRT royale or bob shader resolves the issue. Some options include misc/bob-deinterlace, misc/bob-and-ghost-deinterlace, crt/crt-geom, crt/crt-royale, and crt/phosphorlut.
- The heavy-duty CRT royale shaders work great on this setup within RetroArch, even with a combination of other features like run-ahead and rewind enabled, every core ran at full speed.
- Regarding input lag on MacOS, I ran a series of tests with retro games including bluetooth and wired controllers, and tried to tax the system heavily with shaders and other features enabled, and everything still ran very well. I didn't feel any difference compared to playing these same games via RetroArch on a Windows PC, although adding run-ahead of 2 did make the experience feel a little more responsive (and still played very well). I wouldn't consider myself extremely sensitive to lag but it was a genuinely excellent retro gaming experience.
- I understand the Apple hate, for example I don't agree with their stance on repairability and user upgrades. But it is also nice to see what other computers can accomplish outside of general Windows/PC spaces, and enjoying retro games on a Mac doesn't need to turn into a competition with other platforms. The reason for making this video was to show that if you own a Mac, or are interested in getting one, it does a great job with emulation right now. As a point of clarification, MacOS is not "walled off" in the same way that iOS and iPadOS is -- you can freely install apps (as is demonstrated with installing the emulators in this video).
That interlacing you saw on the Saturn might have had something to do (MIGHT, I'm speculating here) with how some Saturn games did some funny business with their resolution, like running their foreground elements in 480i and background in 240p or something. On a CRT you could do stuff like that, line to line changing the resolution, and I saw in a Retro RGB video how some upscalers handle that poorly.
@@NoobixCube after doing some more digging, apparently it is due to the interlaced signal being deinterlaced with a "weave" algorithm, which also happens on cheap DVD transfers of old TV shows. The shaders I mention above convert the deinterlacing to reduce the effect but with some additional motion blur.
@@RetroGameCorps can u make a video on a STEP BY STEP on how to get a ROM to down load and get a ROM to work
Great vid!
I mostly agree with most Mac hate, but it's great that people can enjoy retro gaming and emulation in all systems.
@@RetroGameCorps fair enough, but I've been repairing apple and other products for years and Apple had been the top manufacturer that has screwed Right to repair in the states since day one it's so heartbreaking that a great tech company that makes very good hardware will screw the small independent repair shops! I hate apple, but i support you brother keep it up!
For the mac users, I hope that Valve eventually makes a version of Proton available as well.
If you get the “unknown developer” pop up, you should be able to right click on the app and click open, this time it will give you a “run anyway” command. Should save you from having to go into the settings app to find and allow it like you did
Nice tip, thanks!
@@RetroGameCorps Have any guides or tips for a Windows Mini PC ?
I'm thinking of refreshing my setup, buying a new (Windows) HTPC/Mini and a new Laptop (mac). That seems like a better combination than the other way around (Windows Laptop + mac Mini).
I feel like for today's standards it should have an AMD r7-6800u for the iGPU performance. An r9-6900hx is nice, but it's not much of an upgrade, yet the price would be too high.
Based on your chart, the Mac Mini M2 at USD $500 does pretty well, with the exceptions you've noted. But there doesn't seem to be any comparable (6800u +) Mini PCs out there at that USD $500 price point. Unless you know some, or can point the way forward. Cheers and Aloha.
@@ekinteko as far as "price friendly" emulation power from a """reputable""" manufacturer, this is probably a good a it gets..
Arguably there are cheaper mini-pc with arguably better performance with tweaking; but it'll be from some random company in China...
This is a really tempting option tbh... my 2cents
@@unbearifiedbear1885 I found this guy; the Venus UM773. It's the cheapest 6800u variant out there. On sale now for around USD $550 online. That gets you 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD.
@@ekinteko if you want you could just plug your Mac into your monitor and use it as a desktop for emulation
It will still be super quiet and since the processors are basically the same there should be little to no performance penalties
A windows mini pc for the price of a Mac Mini could be a bit of a stretch right now, however if you don’t mind getting a slightly bigger pc then it will do just fine!
I found your channel a couple of weeks ago and have been hooked. I've watched a bunch of your videos on retro handheld emulators. This guide is perfect for me as I have a Mac. While I've been able to run different emulators, it's always nice to find a guide that is using the same OS I'm using and is very detailed. Keep up the great work!
I absolutely loved this. While more than half was review as I already casually enjoy retro on my MBP M1, the remainder was pure gold. Time to complete my retro arcade setup! 😎
I think this will be a very good value in about 2 years once corporate users start selling these to upgrade to a newer model. These are very popular among creative workflow offices right now, so there should be a very healthy supply of them once that sell-off happens. Plus we should see emulator support for Mac / Apple silicon be a lot more mature in a couple years time, so performance will be better on the same hardware.
I was honestly thinking with how Asahi Linux is progressing, I would pick one up maybe 8 or so years down the line when they'll presumably basically be seen as e-waste and use it as a home server.
@@liamness yes! I'm *still* using a 2010 Mac mini server & it works great for what it is. [I'm just catching up w Asahi developments today & impressed]
have you found a particular website that sources corporate sell offs? I want to be armed & ready 2 years from now :)
You think offices upgrade their computers every 2 years? What fantasy world do you live in?
@@Robstrap Haha, so true!
So glad I found this channel. Loving your content, great work!
Regarding Dolphin Stuttering, you can enable “Compile shaders before start” so it doesn’t stutter even on the first run
Would CEMU have this ability?
@@sc3ku yes
I remember seeing that wouldn’t be possible for more modern systems like the Wii U or the Switch, at least for now. But there is an alternative, there is databases of “pre-run” shaders (basically people who have ran the game and compiled shaders once who then share their shaders). I think I remember about a manager for ryujinx (ryusak) that automatically download shaders for the games you have, there might be something similar for cemu
Shoutout to that mewithoutyou shirt
I went from a search for a live video of Julia to this. It was so weird.
I saw, and I immediately hit the uppy thumb. How does this video-machine of a man also have time to find good tunes?
Russ gets better and better
King beetle song is my favorite
Hell yeah, I knew Russ was a real one
I was waiting for you to make this video. Keep it up Russ!
I just got an M2 Mini. I’m going to try this out. Thanks for this.
Out of all the retro game review channels I watch, you are the only that shows your face, and I really like it. I think it helps the audience feel more connected with you. Love your content, keep it up!
Wow, thanks!
I’m of the opposite opinion, not because I don’t like seeing Russ’ face (although I think he looked much better - younger, too! - without a beard 😅), but because every second spent on his face is one second stolen from showing us what he’s talking about.
In fact, what I like about his channel is how efficient it is: to the point (except for cat breaks, but let those pass 😂), no frills and, thank goodness, no stupid faces.
@@suntorytimes1 What a befittingly odd opinion
@@suntorytimes1 I agree with you
So much easier to drag apps out of the dock instead of using the context menu. Also, you can launch the app by ctrl- or right-clicking on the app and choosing Open (at least that worked up to Monterey, maybe they changed it in Ventura).
I have been doing a lot of Gamecube and Saturn emulation on my Mac mini. It’s been great.
how capable is it generally? is it your main system or do you have something else? perhaps something windows?
@@sockrabbtt I don’t have a windows Pc, at the moment. It works well for me. I do a lot of video work (just 1080) and music on it, also. Have had great luck with Saturn stuff.
@@DoubleDguitar you haven't by chance tried NFS Hot Pursuit 2 (GameCube) on it, have you?
it's one of the few my old dell can't handle at all
@@sockrabbtt not that one, I know the Star Wars Rogue Squadron type games wouldn’t run on it, but most others have.
@@DoubleDguitarwierd. I’ve seen that emulated before on video with Mac mini with no issue. Better than some cheap windows pcs even. Although windows you could get a pretty good performance for around the same price
Already have the base M2 Mac Mini. I use Dolphin on it already and it runs very well. One thing I'd like to mention is if you're a student or a teacher, you can get the base M2 Mac Mini for $499.
You’re the first person I’ve ever seen with a Mewithoutyou shirt. I’ve seen them plenty of times in our hometown of Philadelphia. Great video as well, but you already knew that. 👌
One of my favorite bands!
We’ll be like torches 🔥
Another thing to mention is that joycons work with mac now and are great to use with dolphin as a wiimote.
Shit yeah!
The M1 Mac mini was my first Mac computer and honestly it’s been my primary computer ever since
This is incredibly useful. I'm going on a work trip and don't want to bring 2 laptops but don't want to be bored to tears overnight or during the flight. My work computer is a Mac and I'll be outfitting it with Dolphin and Retroarch. I have an Android phone, but some of the emulators have really bad lag.
This saves me a lot of bag space. Thanks!
Great tutorial! Thanks as always!
I'm also a primary mac user so I'm glad to see this :D I really hope Apple catches up with the gaming cause there is a huge audience of people who would like to have one or two devices to enjoy the games they love most :)
Finally! Been waiting for this video since 2020. :)
I've been running Citra on my M1 Macbook Air for a while now, and it has been great emulating 3ds games. There is a specific ARM build for it that someone made, but I found it too buggy (it would randomly crash too often). So I have been just using the old Mac build and running it through Rosetta and it has been great.
How much of what he talks about in this video for mac mini, can be used on an M1 macbook air? If most of it works, and/or works with minor tweaks, I might try loading up a bunch of the emulators he talks about in here on my own M1 macbook air and save myself $600 for a new mac :P :D
@@IronDad-ml3wq M2 is only about 10-15% faster than the M1 chip, but your Air will definitely get a bit hotter than a Macbook Pro or Mac Mini and thus may throttle. Give it a shot! :)
All of it, I have an M1 Air with 16GB of RAM and it runs everything up to and including PS3 games really well. PCSX2 has support for the Metal API now too which really makes a difference if you want to emulate PS2 games. AetherSX2 was more performant but the developer isn't working on it anymore so I went back to PCSX2 and found they've updated and streamlined it hugely. @@IronDad-ml3wq
Kudos for the Maldita Castilla running in the background. Awesome game...
13:05 if you right-click/control+click on the app it will then give you the "Open" option even from an un-trusted developer. Saves a trip to settings. Great video!
OpenEmu is amazing and honestly I prefer its design over a lot of the PC offerings. It's a better "out of the box" experience as well. Something like LaunchBox is really neat and customizable, but it can honestly feel overwhelming for users. OpenEmu is nice because you can just drag and drop ROMs and it'll scrape the information and allow you to boot seamlessly from its launcher (for supported emulators). I just wish they had more integration for 6th generation consoles.
Have you tried GNOME games? It is an amazing frontend
@@seadx6 I have not as I'm not much of a Linux guy, but I may see what it's about to get an idea. From a quick glance it looks similar to OpenEmu's design which I like.
@@f937r you can even add your Steam games and games from other launchers too
There haven’t been major updates to OpenEmu for a while, apparently people are having a lot of problems with it on Apple silicone. Still works brilliantly on my old intel Mac tho. I hope they’ve not abandoned it completely
I 100% agree . Its just sad that if I want to play PS2 games (and its a major one for me) I still have to go on Windows, but for all the other retro consoles, OpenEmu is all I need.
This video rocks! I didn't know I could game on my Mac :) Now I want to try it out
Recently got a mac mini to try for the first time and I liked it so much that now I use it as my primary pc and then I stream my pc games with moonlight.
What a great video, huge thanks to you! I've been messing around with the Dolphin emulator on my MacBook Air M2 (16 GB Ram) and tested Resident Evil 4, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Gun, Super Mario Sunshine and it's pretty impressive. My device never gets heated, games are running smoothly. And OpenEmu is just a great way to play GBA and Sega games easily. I love how most of the emulators works great on M1-M2. Soon I'll try Cemu for the WiiU games. Thanks for the video again, I'm sure it'll help lots of people just to get opinion about emulating games on Mac!
How did cemu run for you?
Is your Air the 8-core or 10-core?
I just bought a refurbished M1 mac mini and I am excited to see what retro emulation I have fun with on it. Thanks for this timely (for me) video! The pricing for the M2 machines aren't so enticing when you earn and spend in Canadian dollars so I'll have to live vicariously through M2 owners to some extent. :).
The performance difference from M1 to M2 isn’t huge, to be honest. I have an M1 MacBook Air and it handles everything I throw at it. Enjoy your new computer!
Can’t stand our bs dollar when having to order from the states or even worse the uk.
Tip: you can also right-click the app that only gives the "move to trash" or "Cancel" options and click "Open" from that context menu, and it'll give a prompt that features an "open" button so you can access it normally :)
Great guide! I really considered getting a Mini, but the exchange rate didn't make the price as attractive in Japan. Bought a used powerful desktop PC (Ryzen 7 5800X + RTX 3070) locally, but hope to replace my underwhelming Windows laptop with a MacBook someday since I like working in both environments.
Maybe I'll get a Mac Mini for my mom 🤔
Appreciate the video, thanks!
A lot of discussion on the internet is basically "hurr durr just get a better pc for same money" but I got mac for work and far away from home and got to make do with what I have.
I had a macbook many years ago with OpenEmu and it was pretty nice to use.
I’m quite enticed by the low price point along with the 2TB external SSD. I’d use someone’s college info to get that sweet sweet discount. One of my fave things about your content Russ is how you provide cost effective alternatives & solutions to expensive gear and/or tech.
Love the shirt. My fav songs:
Fox's Dream of the Log Flume and Watermelon Ascot
Good stuff, keep it up.
I have the Mac Mini M1 model that came out a couple of years ago. I like both Mac and PC for totally different reasons. Yeah, Macs aren't the best for gaming (though getting better) and Apple does have poor user upgradiblity and pricing. One thing I like though is that apple stuff just WORKS. It connects seamlessly and stuff transfers over without any issues. Like I may wanna upgrade my cheap mac-mini with a more powerful mac mini (in time) and I know I'll be able to transfer over all data in my sleep. Cuz it's Apple.
Oh nice! I'm glad you put this together, I'm already using a 2012 mac mini as my Media computer, and I've had a few emulators running on it from time to time, but nothing as comprehensive as what you've set up here. I know a bunch of these won't run on my legacy Mini (or not very well) but it's inspired me to dig in a little deeper and clean up my emulation system a bit more.
Awesome video
this i pretty awesome to see. im using an old mac Mini from 2012 running batocera to run classic games.. runs DreamCast, Ps1 and N64 pretty solid.. havent tried but want to test xbox on it and ps2 at some point.. the Minis are sleepers for sure.
i went with batocera for a fail proof system my GF could use as she loves the retros more than i do.
The kerrygold comparison gets me every time.
Love the mewithoutYou shirt. Happy to see you're into "retro" music too. :)
Dude! The shirt!!! I saw mewithoutYou in a small cafe show in PA back in like 2001 or something way before their first album dropped. Back when they still played "Flamethrower" lol! Haven't thought about them in years.
I have been waiting to get a M2, currently running 2 iMacs with TDM as my daily set up
I haven't tried PCSX2, but AetherSX2 ran all of the games you showscased flawlessly out of the box. I'd consider using that over PCSX2.
I didn’t know there were other options out there for Mac besides open emu. I can finally play twilight princess! Thanks for these guides homey
the "open anyway" for unsupported devs/apps can also be done with just right click on the icon and open.
Lovely! Great content! Also Mac user. Only thing I miss is the PC gaming part 😢
my plan is to buy one with more ram as an all purpose machine so i'm looking forward to play and work hard on an impressive beast, the fact the entry model only has 8gb and still performs that well is mindboggeling.
Great video! With all the emulation talk, you should also mention Windows emulation via Parallels or Vmware Fusion! Many games work with no problem on my M1, even Anno 1800! Not everything works though, like recent titles like Diablo 2 Resurrected. But playing Anno 1800 in a ARM Win VM on M1 is amazing! :)
Im not sure if someones pointed it out yet but at 7:50, that is not Shadow of the tomb raider, its actually Rise
Haha! I love the butter block size comparison.
Great job Russ!
Thanks Bill! This one was fun to put together.
Great video! Awesome shirt too
Excellent, thanks for sharing!. I rarely comment on youtube videos, but this one is so well done and anticipated most of the qs I have. I am planning to do the setup but in my main mac, a laptop with the M2 chip. I got a 2TB drive with Batocera and games already in, planning to have the content in a 2TB SSD in the dock of my mac. Newbie quick q: any hints about how to transfer the roms/etc in the 2TB batocera drive into the setup you recommend for macOS? Cheers
I used mac way back when the imacs were white, the first Intel ones, and decided to get a mac mini when the m1 chip came out. I got it for video editing and OBS but it turned out to be my daily driver. I have played some SNES/Genesis but not much else. I'll have to give all these emulators a shot and see how the m1 mac mini does!
Ryujinx Switch emulator works decently. Been playing Metroid Prime Remastered and it’s a blast. Others want to crash though sadly.
Recently bought an M1 MacBook Air. It’s had virtually identical performance up to WiiU, even at upscaled resolutions.
I bought an external 2 TB Harddrive full of Games from Ali Express. It works fine on my MacBook Air mid 2013 and also on Windows.
For Cemu I would recommend turning on async compilation, it completely eliminates stuttering
Yep, Cemu definitely has async compilation.
Unfortunately async compilation is not an option in the Mac version of Cemu, you can toggle it on but it will give you an error that says it is currently not working. The graphics driver doesn't support the necessary Vulkan extension.
@@RetroGameCorps oh I had no idea, that sucks
Absolutely Awesome Shirt!
That's really cool you can boot straight into Emulation Station on powering the Mac Mini up.
You can actually set the dock to autohide in the system settings so it will never show up unless you push your cursor against the bottom edge of the screen. You can also bind autohide toggle to a key. I have it binded to my F17 key, very useful
I believe you can also remove the fullscreen transition animation with terminal commands, but I'm not sure if it still works in the new macOS
I also like to set the speed of the reappearance of the dock to instant. There's a terminal command for it...
MWY shirt alert! Love it.
I'm emulating on M1 Mac Mini and it's freaking awesome!
Only just installed ryujinx last week on my m1.
Having grown up in the 80s with NES and pretty much forgetting about gaming for the last 30 years, I am now having a blast showing all this stuff to my 7 year old daughter.
I suspect buying a switch is on the cards in the next couple of years
I run OpenEmu, Redream, and Dolphin on a 2019 MBP and they run perfectly fine.
Those lines you saw in Fighting Vipers are that Beetle core isn’t deinterlacing the image. I’m pretty sure that can be fixed but I can’t look right now.
Good old Kerry gold irush butter, wasn't expecting that 😂
Your videos are awesome
Trying to get Retroarch working with the 8bitdo m30 6-button controller for Sega games drove me insane. I gave up and used OpenEMU where it took all of 5 seconds to map the controller buttons.
The Kerrygold butter caught me off guard.. 😂... I near Kerry.
You can even change apple loading logo with emulatonstation logo :D Also, you can completely disable the dock in terminal
These videos are interesting to me, especially since I know that I won't buy a Mac. I am glad that there is emulation support for Mac users.
Really digging the mewithoutYou shirt.
I have an M1 Pro but I couldn’t really play Metal Gear Solid 3 for PS3. Not sure if there were some updates since then or if I just needed to give the shaders time to buff. But I’ll be giving it another shot!
As a long time Mac user, and UA-cam humor Video Game channel host, it’s great to see this kind of video illustrating simple emulation setup on a Mac. I love my Mac mini M1, and now I may have to get that external SSD just for doing this on my Mac mini. Thanks for the great vid!
Sweet shirt, dude!
Mewithoutyou! I hung out with those guys back in the day at Ace's Basement. Can't remember if I was helping out running sound there back then?
Anyway, nice T-shirt!
16:06 I would guess that the Fighting Vipers game is actually running in 480i and the emulator is only doing a simple weave deinterlacing. I've seen this happen with some ps1 emulators on games that run in 480i. I would guess that either rendering at a higher resolution or if possible, changing the deinterlacing method in emulator settings to something different, would both fix the "issue". Not really an issue though, just a weird quirk that makes the visuals look different since we are not playing on CRT TVs anymore.
Yes you were right, using CRT royale shaders fixed it. forums.libretro.com/t/beetle-saturn-core-has-strange-dithering-scanlines-effects/22355
I love every video that you make 👌
Excellent 👍
are you stalking me? i was looking to buy mac mini m2 and this video is awesome
Fairly new to channel but never knew you had a face...lol ...... Good to put a face to the great content! Keep it up.
Thank you for such an in-depth video. Does Force Feedback on the controller work with these emulators on Mac? No one seem to mention this.
impressive little machine!
Been using AetherSX2 for my ps2 RPG needs on an M2 Air without any issues. Pair with that with AirPlay to my Apple TV and bam. Doesn’t skip a beat.
That’s awesome to know what i can play on my M1!
would love to see you test an i3 12th gen mini pc or optiplex if compatible. Would be cool to see how it stacks up to the i5s you have done.
If you want an optiplex vid, he briefly did a demo in the botocera video with his sons pc. (It's an optiplex)
Nice!! You should cover emulation on Apple TV 4K
Love the mewithoutYou shirt!
Really cool video. I wasn't expecting to be, but I have to admit I'm impressed. At $499, this Mac Mini costs roughly 10% of my desktop workstation and probably gets about 70% of the emulation experience. Excluding fringe things like high refresh rate, extreme graphics mods, and brute-forcing poorly optimized games, this thing largely goes toe-to-toe with my system. Considering it's a machine that's 10% of the price, 10% of the size, and 10% of the power-draw, its a pretty compelling value.
Actually for 3DS you can run an experimental version of Citra and runs pretty well.
Great video, but there are a couple of nitpicks I have with the emulator settings: for Dolphin, they actually have (and have had for a couple of years now) a working solution for shader compilation stuttering, it's just not enabled by default for some reason. If you go to the "Graphics" configuration, then under the "Shader Compilation" section, simply enable "Hybrid Ubershaders" (Also, make sure you're using the "Metal" backend as that generally gets the best performance for Apple Silicon processors). From my experience, it doesn't 100% eliminate stuttering, but it drastically reduces it to the point where it's basically a non-factor, even when doing the first run of a game.
Additionally, with Ryujinx, the MacOS build has broken vsync as well as broken rendering in Metroid Prime Remastered. They're fixed in the mainline builds which you can build manually yourself, but it takes a bit of knowhow and many games that work on the MacOS build won't work on mainline and vice-versa (A big one is Pokemon, mainline currently doesn't implement transform feedback which is required for Scarlet/Violet). The future plan is to have MacOS support, which is currently a closed-source version of the emulator with Mac-specific hacks, fully implemented in the main branch, but that hasn't been finished yet.
Everything else was pretty spot-on from my experience with an M1 Max, although the additional CPU headroom from the M2's frequency boost is greatly appreciated for emulators like RPCS3 or Ryujinx. Once again, great video and a great introduction to emulation on Apple Silicon!
Thanks for the tips!
Dock icons... you can also just drag them from the dock to desktop to clear them. Quicker.
Thats why I bought a refurb i7 2020 iMac with the Radeon XT card last year. I can have the absolute best of both world. This computer is still pretty decent for gaming on Windows 10 via bootcamp and I love to play retro games on macOS. I'll keep this mac as long as I can.
Always loved the mac mini pcs.
Being able to play Zelda Windwaker HD is worth it alone. But I’m also pumped to try out Boom Blox with Switch joy on controllers as Wii controllers.
Best part of this video: the Me Without You shirt
I used to game on my grandmother's MacBook pro. It was a 2010 model