Introducing RetroNAS

I’m extremely excited to introduce a new project called RetroNAS: Free, open source software that lets you turn anything that runs Linux into a device that both hosts your games and acts as a bridge between retro PC’s and your network (and a TON more). I’m only scratching the surface in this video, but hopefully it’ll be a good introduction.

0:00 Intro
01:39 MiSTer
02:57 PS2
03:56 Coming soon
06:43 Hardware
09:19 Conclusion

[RetroRGB]

SYNOLOGY NAS OWNERS: At the moment, there's no official support, but we're looking for anyone in the Linux community who'd be willing to create a docker. Check out the github and see what you can do.

[corvusaflame]

Making a virtual USB drives would be a perfect for RetroNAS.

Being able to share a virtual drive to PS4, PS5, Xbox 360, XboxOne, Wii, & WiiU virtual USB drives from one big RetroNAS build would solve a lot setup problems.

There was a guy got it working. His name was Matt Olan, he called it a piSCSI. I have read about people using even cheaper hardware such as the RockPiS.

[thefieldsofdawn]

Holy cow, this will solve so many headaches in my setup! Great video, and thank you to Dan and Bob for your work!

[TheBrendanMcCoy]

As a person who does a lot of homelabbing and works professionally as a server admin anyway, this has got me very excited. I may get involved in the building of container images for this.

[derek]

I’ve been thinking about this concept for years, it’s awesome that someone made it real !
Hopefully all future rom carts will implement this too

[PluckyD]

This sounded very good for the MISTer support, but good grief that PS1/2 iso storage capability is AWESOME! I'm putting together a basic network share for media files rn, but this is definitely next on my list. Thanks for the great video!! :)

[MachoNachoProductions]

Whoa 😳😍 very cool! Thanks for sharing Bob!

[RedWolfy]

Bob, this has me genuinely excited for all its possibilities. I salute you sir

[RDJ]

This is a great project with so much potential.
I will post this and the RPI4 video on my Dutch website.

[jeff]

This is the Holy Grail !!! 😍 Thank you sooo much. Will promote this to my corporate work.

[ShankMods]

Remember: Its not an authentic experience if you don't store your ROMs on period-correct hard drives

[nightwinn]

"But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's skip to the end." Doesn't get much more ahead than that. Love it.

[Slice]

Now imagine the everdrives would get wifi boards from now on and can also get their roms through this

Really nice! I've always wanted something like this, retro gaming on the network. I'll check out what posibilites it has.

[Aberusugi]

Excellent. Glad Dan got it all figured out. I didn't know anything about him when he first announced it on twitter so I was skeptical (there's a lot of hustlers in the retro gaming space and overpromisers) but when he explained it in detail to me I knew he had major sysadmin chops and could pull it off. I'm glad to see his vision come to fruition!

[GUNkify]

Wow .. declare a configuration that is simple a SMB-Share for all variants.

Just about to be hyped.

[Punmaster]

I finally found it! (I think) I thought there would have been a video that directly said it was going to show how to stream games to the ps2. Now to dig for more videos on the subject!

[christopherjackson]

I've been looking for something like this for a long time. I'll check it out, thanks!

[makkoryn]

Cool, I've been banging my head against TrueNAS trying to get SMB to work with PS2 OPL off and on for a few months now. Something about OPL only supporting SMBv1 and TrueNAS not allowing me to push different shares out with different versions of SMB, idk. Anyway, I'm glad to see a project like this. Will spin up a Linux VM and try it out!

[mistaecco]

I've been running this sort of config on an arcade simulation setup I have for a few months now, and it's been a game changer! Might try and get this running as a VM on my server just to check it out - glad the barrier to entry is dropping! I truly believe this will be a game changer, on the same level as going from modchips and brined discs to an SD based ODE.