You can probably pick up a used PC (more convenient if you went for a laptop) that is around 5 to 10 years old - at a cheap price and they can run 8-bit and 16-bit emulators without any problems at their full speed (normal speed). While I did test out the Dreamcast - and got various emulators running on it - it was for a friend - who probably didn't play them. I lost all interest In the PS2 and never followed up on that scene. I sold off the new PS2 - without even switching it on. I actually stopped playing the latest videogames at this time and turned into a collector of emulators and their ROMs/etc. While I did buy a PS2 when they were on the market - I never got around to buying any games for it (or have it mod-chipped). Would a ps2 be good for Atari 8-bit/C64 emulators? I don't know if there is a list somewhere which shows the parent ROMs for the all time classic coin-op games in Mame? Such a list will enable me to delete easily all those ROMs I won't ever run anyway - but take up so much internal memory space.
You can of course delete all the ROMs of games you'll never run in Mame - but you always run the risk of accidentally messing with games you like running - because of how the parent ROM(s) may not be so obvious as to which game(s) they are for? Even getting it to work from the internal memory - was no easy task. I think it might run alright from the microSD card? But getting it to point towards it - is very confusing indeed - and is very tiresome to go through the menu options to try getting it to go. Mame runs fine - but I can't seem to get it working off the microSD card - and putting all the Mame ROMs on the internal memory - simply does not give you room for the other stuff you'd rather have there. The Altirra emulator does not run on this - but it's Android equivalent is not too bad? I'm still trying this out. Don't know about the Saturn, Dreamcast? Gamecube? I haven't run every emulator - but I'll guess N64 should be fine? I don't know what the latest emulated systems it can handle well? It handles PSP, PS without problems. and all the various emulators do run fine on this. This will accept microSD cards up to 128 gig (Transfers to MicroSD is done on a PC, so you manually take it out of the tablet - to plug it to the PC - and after transfer - you then insert it on to the Tablet) OTG cable will connect a keyboard/controller. You do need the extras which will cost extra as such. Or maybe go for a Nvidia K1 Shield Tablet? While it's a cheap (but powerful) tablet - it's ideal to run emulators (and their ROMs/etc) on this. Just use USB flashdrives - which are cheap these days. You do need the multi-USB hub though - and this is a good option if you have a wired USB keyboard/mouse (or wireless?) to use with it. You can get the Intel PC on a Stick - I do have one and Altirra works fine with it - though I do not use it enough. You do have all kinds of choices these days - and I don't think Dreamcast is great for emulators - unless you like buying a lot of blank CDs to do it with? Which you can't do on Dreamcast - to continue far into the game. While Hawkquest ran fine - you could not play far into this game - as it did loads/saves from disk. I connected a PC keyboard and that ran fine - all running off a CD with emulator and game(s) on it. And I was pretty impressed with the emulation of Hawkquest running on it. I did test out an Atari 800 emulator running off the Dreamcast back in the day when they were new. To select another game, just follow these steps again.Select "Reboot (Cold Start)" and press A, this will load the game and unloads any game that was in the virtual drive.Select the system the game or program is made for, choosing for the Atari 320XE usually with all games/programs.You see all your disk images, choose the one you want to play and pres A.To load up an Atari 800/130/320 game or program do the following: Just press the left trigger to enter the actual emulator. Once it started up, you will see the Self Test screen from the Atari 800. Starting Atari 800/130/320 games and programs I found an old site on the wayback machine, turns out you may be able to use the emulator without a keyboard.