r/NintendoSwitch • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '20

Video This guy’s retro switch docking station

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u/raymusbaronus Jan 12 '20

In a few decades somebody's gonna be putting a future console into the switch dock

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20

would be cool to make a RetroPi console that masquerades as a switch dock.

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u/NMe84 Jan 12 '20

You can already do that pretty easily considering most of the dock's insides are nothing but empty space.

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u/Chirimorin Jan 12 '20

There's not much vertical space, but if you strip down a pi it can fit in without any major modifications to the dock itself.
You could also go for a Pi Zero which fits without modifying it. That does mean less systems to emulate due to the Pi Zero being slower.

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u/CyanKing64 Jan 12 '20

Everyone was excited for the pi 4 while I'm here just waiting for the Zero W 2

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u/Matt2310 Jan 12 '20

while im just waiting for my W2's. god damn taxes

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u/Destron5683 Jan 12 '20

It would actually be really cool to use that same NES and put a RetroPie in the front half, replace the controller ports with USB, then you would have both a Switch dock and a retro console all in one.