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screamingtiger:
I noticed there are people building arcades with  a raspberry pi.  In watching you tube, it seems to run lots of games pretty well, such as the capcom and neo geo.

A new version called banan pi even adds Sata so you can have a lot of space.

What is a disadvantage to using this setup?  I am putting a pretty decent computer in it and was told get 8 gb of ram, but this seems to be contradicting what I am seeing going on.  It looks like several emulators can be compiled anddaphne is also going to run on it soon.

Does it seems odd I need a 700 watt computer when something that can run on 7.5 watts can do it all?

What am I missing here?  Thanks!

yotsuya:
To be honest, I don't seem to recall any RPi builds done HERE. People have mentioned trying it, but have there been any full-cab RPi builds completed? Scott, can I get some links?

And unless I was building a super-tiny barstick, I wouldn't use a Pi. But that's me.

screamingtiger:
My thoughts are given the challenges with heat, and not to mention power consumption, what inside the arcade cab doesnt matter so long as it works.  I am just not convinced it does work.  I am talking about emulators:
Mame,
Nes
SNES
Atari

etc..
I assume there is a line somewhere such maybe PSX I am not sure.  Just when I think it cant do it, someone has a you tube vid doing it :)

Would be crazy to open up a full size cab to see it empty  :)



--- Quote from: yotsuya on September 03, 2014, 02:36:34 pm ---To be honest, I don't seem to recall any RPi builds done HERE. People have mentioned trying it, but have there been any full-cab RPi builds completed? Scott, can I get some links?

And unless I was building a super-tiny barstick, I wouldn't use a Pi. But that's me.

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benarcade:
My limited experience with the Pi is that you could do it, but it would significantly harder to do than using a fairly underpowered PC. Most of us have old PCs lying around that are more powerful - and unless you're proficient in Linux - proficient and not merely familiar - it will take you some effort to get it running right. The only reason to use a Pi would be if you're building a micro cab.

dkersten:
From what I have read, which isn't a whole lot, the rpi will work for a lot of the mame games, but there are a lot of games that even a fully loaded gaming computer will struggle with.  This might seem counterintuitive given that the original hardware most of these games ran on had less processing power than your watch does today, but it is what it is, some games will not run at 100% even with a decent computer.

If you ONLY want to run the classics with mame, then an rpi should work just fine, as long as you are OK with the Linux front ends.  But if you want to run other emulators, it gets trickier and in many cases impossible.  There is a long list of games that won't run on Mame that will run (or run better) on other emulators.  Then there is the supporting files for the front end, plugins, and all sorts of other things you can do with a PC that you can't do with a rpi.. Some people have over 2 terabytes of files for their cab...

Heck, you can't even run the current version of mame in d3d mode without a halfway decent GPU any more..

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