I don't know about you guys, but I miss playing old online games from around 2000-2016. Sucks the online servers for most of these consoles shut down years ago right? Yep. And that's wy we have 3rd party mock servers like Insignia, Wiimfii, Pretendo, and many more to bring them back. But for older consoles (particularly from the 2000's) can be a bit of an effort to connect due to old internet security protocols, outdated connection methods, etc. You COULD just configure your router to fix these issues, but not everyone can do that sadly. (Like me. UGH.) So I tried to come up with a way to sorta make my own router that I can freely configure to meet any outdated connection method I need. And that's why I made PiRouter.
To sum it up, I pretty much took my Raspberry Pi 5, (Microprocessor side-tangent at the bottom), and I pretty much compiled a hotspot (for wifi compatible consoles), and setup a wlan to eth0 bridge connection (for consoles that need ethernet). Yeah so nothing too impressive. Just some really easy and simple to setup stuff. What makes it stand out though is that I can pretty much make it support multiple consoles and have multiple consoles connected at once. The only down side is that it requires a connection to any kind of wifi. But since you can use any modern wifi it's fine.
First you need an active power source. Raspberry Pis don't run on batteries y'know. (Unless you somehow made yours have one. Congratz.) Next you need to connect it to an active WiFi source of any kind. This can also be a phone hotspot or something. And that's pretty much it. All you need to do now is run a hotspot of your choice like Linux Wifi Hotspot by lakinduakash on GitHub. WARNING: You need a WiFi dongle (perferably USB) to get this working. Details on how to use this software and compiling is on the GitHub. For consoles that needs an Ethernet connection, connect the console to the Raspberry Pi's Ethernet port and setup a new connection profile for whatever your Ethernet interface is (usually eth0 if it's the only one) and simply bridge your wlan (WiFi) connection to your Ethernet connection. I will leave that hotspot's GitHub link down below.
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I know a lotta people be saying the Raspberry Pi ain't that good cause there's better Microprocessors on the market, and yeah, there is, but I perfer to use my RPi 5 because it's something I feel like is good enough for my shenanigans. I might try out some other Microprocessors some day. If you got any suggestions, post em up on NetNerdz by clicking the NN Icon below or on the homepage.