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Raspberry Pi MAME Arcade Project
Mysterioii:
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--- Quote from: Haze on September 20, 2012, 01:47:42 pm ---If it's the former the Pi is even worse than I imagined....
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:stupid
Just... wow.
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Well, I'm still hoping that the code just needs to be optimized for the ARM processor... and that someone else will kindly come along and do it. ;D Because of the form factor I'm hopeful someone will get it running well with "vintage" (80s era) games, for now I'm just hanging back and keeping an eye on things.
Haze:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 20, 2012, 02:29:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: Haze on September 20, 2012, 01:47:42 pm ---If it's the former the Pi is even worse than I imagined....
--- End quote ---
:stupid
Just... wow.
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Well I knew the performance was bad, but it's not even comparable with the last gen of smartphones which could run the classics with ease even on a modern build and the advmame builds are ancient (as in from 2006) and the ARM based arcade xxx-in-1 games run the classics with a relatively modern build too despite having lower clocks than this thing.
I'd say that puts performance somewhere on par with my old 300mhz AMD k6 based system... were all compiler optimizations turned off when building it or something?
So yes.. just... wow at the woeful performance. I'd like to say you get what you pay for, but I'm not even sure you get that.
ark_ader:
It is designed for kids to learn about programming or to run a simple media client.
I really do not see the point in such a project when you can easily get a £10 Xbox and decase it. ::)
paigeoliver:
Indeed Haze, my first mame cabinet ran a 300 mhz processor and mame .55 and there were very few games that had issues.
--- Quote from: Haze on September 21, 2012, 03:48:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 20, 2012, 02:29:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: Haze on September 20, 2012, 01:47:42 pm ---If it's the former the Pi is even worse than I imagined....
--- End quote ---
:stupid
Just... wow.
--- End quote ---
Well I knew the performance was bad, but it's not even comparable with the last gen of smartphones which could run the classics with ease even on a modern build and the advmame builds are ancient (as in from 2006) and the ARM based arcade xxx-in-1 games run the classics with a relatively modern build too despite having lower clocks than this thing.
I'd say that puts performance somewhere on par with my old 300mhz AMD k6 based system... were all compiler optimizations turned off when building it or something?
So yes.. just... wow at the woeful performance. I'd like to say you get what you pay for, but I'm not even sure you get that.
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danny_galaga:
I'm another that's perplexed by the performance. I experimented with an old 100mhz laptop for a potential project some years ago, and I was able to run games like Space Invaders and Galaga just fine. Granted, it was a pretty early version of MAME on it but still...
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