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RasPi viable for 1995ish emulation? how about more powerful ARM options- Cubie?

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sharpfork:
The RasPi thread is so old the board "yelled" at me for trying to post to it. I'm wondering if the RasPi an even remotely viable option for emulating arcade and consoles from around 1995?  I'm talking N64, PS1, and SFIII...

Even if it is underpowered, is there a decent arcade frontend that runs on ARM?
Are options like this more viable?
http://cubieboard.org/

sairuk:
I have a 256mb Model B (new model B's are 512mb) and from what I've seen of linux, xbmc, etc running on it I'd highly doubt it is a viable solution long term. There is a thread on the RPi forums with a list of emulators available (including PCSX) which I may try at some point. I also plan to have a look at what packages are available under raspbian to see if Wah!Cade/Mah!Cade will run in the next couple of day, I'd have to look at the memory footprint for the app as well.

I know advancemenu has been compiled and retroarch.

The cutieboard uses the MALI400 GPU, I would avoid it (based on the developers support of past tablets) unless there has been major progress with the open source drivers of late.

sharpfork:
Thanks sairuk   :)

I came across the openpandora.org handheld and it seems pretty impressive when overclocked.  There seems to be a decent community of folks working on emus for it.  It seems that the beagleboard shares much of the same hardware.  An overclocked beagleboard Bone with an arcade friendly cape board might be worth exploring.  Retroarch has been ported to openPanda too.  It can run some pretty solid android games too.



really long review:


Any thoughts?

sairuk:
I've wanted a pandora since they were first announced, but basically I can't afford it.

Wah!Cade runs quite easily on the RPi, performance is woeful. I'm just playing around it with at the moment. I have a 1920x1080 skin which wont help performance much.

starcade:
I've got a 256Mb Pi overclocked to 1000Mhz and it runs MAME ok but any game with background music or sound effects (even something ancient like Track & Field) runs at close to 50% speed.

I bought a 512Mb Pi and it'll run SF2 no problem at all and runs Soul Calibur at 98% too.

Some people have had problems with the PiMAME distro but it works for me  :)

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