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Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« on: April 06, 2015, 05:40:57 am »
I've been readin about pi2 for the last few days now.  The more articles and posts I read the more confused I get.  some say Pi2 can not run mame in all its glory so it's trash and other say it runs mame great.  The youtube videos show a lot of mame games running very smooth including even play station games.  :dizzy:

Why are the opinions so greatly divided? Do I need to just blow $40 and see for myself?   Lol

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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2015, 09:35:33 am »
If you expect performance to match the price level you are at you will not be disapointed.  If you want the Pi to run everything then you will be unhappy with the result.   Some people do not understand the fun of running Mame on a smaller scale.  Sure you can always run many more games on a 0$ old PC cast off but that is not the point.  Look at how well the Pi replaces a 60 in 1 or just consider it a fun experiment.

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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2015, 10:00:56 am »
Look at how well the Pi replaces a 60 in 1 or just consider it a fun experiment.
Great idea!

Has anyone gone lengths to show the difference?

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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2015, 11:55:14 am »
If you expect performance to match the price level you are at you will not be disapointed.  If you want the Pi to run everything then you will be unhappy with the result.   Some people do not understand the fun of running Mame on a smaller scale.  Sure you can always run many more games on a 0$ old PC cast off but that is not the point.  Look at how well the Pi replaces a 60 in 1 or just consider it a fun experiment.

Ahhhh...ok.  So the Rasp Pi2 is more a novelty thing then a solution for a first build cabinet.  I'll stick with plan B and just take the LCD off my laptop and mount it to the inside of the cabinet. 

I thought the Rasp Pi2 was my solution to play my old favorites from Pac man -->Street fighter... 

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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2015, 01:27:24 pm »
Well, you just listed a one player 4 way vertical game and an 8 way two player horizontal game which is two extremes of the spectrum and both on the same cabinet equals one of them won't be very fun to play.
Especially on a smallish laptop screen.

The RPI is not a novelty.
The millions of units it sold plus the handful of dedicated distros for it
Prove otherwise.
One just needs to check out the gaming section of the RPI forums.
However, much like an old free PC it has limitations.
Its only $35

I'm building a dedicated vertical 4 way bartop.
RPI is perfect for this set up.
I'm also planing on a classic one player horizontal bar top.
Again RPI is perfect.

If I were to build a 4 player dedicated with 2 or 3 buttons each I believe RPI may even have this covered but not sure as I haven't tried to play the d&d games on it yet.

But for a fighting cab you'll have to look at final burn alpha to see if the games you want to play work.
I'd say probably not.
I don't play the fighters.
I know mk1 won't play very well even on the rpi2.
I know some of the neogeo games do play fine as far as I can tell when I was testing things using Mame .94.

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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2015, 04:02:30 pm »
I agree with Nitrogen_Widget.  The Pi is not a novelty.  It's a tool.  Much like a socket wrench.  You *could* hammer a nail with a socket wrench, but it would suck for that.  It's meant for a specific task.  The Pi is not that different.  There are many tasks that it is absolutely perfect for.  In another thread it was mentioned that the Pi would be a great as a dedicated PCB replacement for tons of arcade machines. 

Check out this guy's game room and thread.



All his machines are Pi's with controls wired to the GPIO.

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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2015, 04:06:38 pm »
Yeah, and on those, the Pi is only running one game per cab. 
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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2015, 10:47:12 am »
Here is a bartop with multiple games on the RPI.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,141979.0.html

Here is a 4 player project powered by the RPI also.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,144577.msg1503289.html#msg1503289


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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2015, 10:56:51 am »
Two Raspberry Pies and Mane

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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2015, 04:38:57 pm »
Mmmm, Raspberry Pies.  and a ---meecrob---?  Meh.

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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2015, 05:55:00 pm »
Mmmm, Raspberry Pies.  and a ---meecrob---?  Meh.

If Billy Mitchell comes to ZapCon next year, I'm going to tell him you said that.  >:D
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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2015, 06:10:00 pm »
Just watched King of Kong a few weeks ago.  Guy just seems to be an extreme narcissist.

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Re: Confused: rasp PI 2 and mane?
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2015, 06:13:42 pm »
That's due to creative editing.
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