You can add a cheap telescopic controller and play games like a handheld or get a dock and a wireless controller and use your phone like a console with your tv. You could use that dock and a keyboard / mouse with your TV or a monitor to use your phone like a pc. You can stream video services to an old dumb TV to make it a smart media center.
Use retroarch for console and arcade emulation. It's free and quite powerful. Dolphin works well for GameCube/wii and ppsspp works for PSP emulation.
Don't forget there are zillions of games in the app store that work with controllers as well.
If you want to use your phone with your tv as a console any old cheap Android controller will do. If you have an Xbox or ps4 controller those can be paired easily as well. I'm using a USB-c to hdmi multiport powered hub to connect my phone to my TV. Make sure your phone supports hdmi over USB-c if you want to try this.
You can then navigate decently with your bluetooth/ps4/Xbox controller.
If you want to replace your pc with a phone you'll need that hub plus a mouse / keyboard and a monitor or TV to display your desktop. Samsung has a feature called dex that switches the phone to a desktop mode and there is a developer option for Android that allows a desktop mode as well.
If you want to use your phone to make your TV into a smart TV / media center you can install kodi for free. There's also an "android tv" interface but I have never tried to set that up.
There are many many guides on YouTube for setting all of these things up but if anyone has questions please ask!
Playing Mario kart double dash with a couple dirt cheap controllers and an old phone on a big TV is super fun, give it a shot!
October 01, 2021 at 09:02AM
