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YouTuber gets classic Tomb Raider running on a chip that sips a mere 1 W of power - The SoC in question is the ESP32-P4 microcontroller, a lightweight 32-bit RISC-V processor featuring two cores (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] swicano@programming.dev 31 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Lol I've got a esp32-p4 and I struggled to get the included example working. So. We're basically the same.

It's a very impressive chip but Tomb Raider, wow that's fantastic

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I wonder about the graphics arrangement? An ESP32 doesn't usually have video out.

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[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

This is built on a P4 dev board with the screen attached, likely over QSPI or RGB888. either a buncha wires or a more buncha wires.

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[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You can drive screen output via the gpio pins quite easily. You can even do VGA output via I²S!

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

I did not know I^2^S could do that. I thought it was digital audio.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

VGA is basically just a bunch of analog audio signals that, when timed correctly, happens to describe a field of pixels.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 3 weeks ago

The ESP-32 is actually more powerful than the original console the game was released on.

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