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Can I get a rough overview of Raspberry Pi and emulation gaming?
ballboff:
I want to throw another solution into the mix also. You could use a multi board, I know the games are sub-par in some cases. But your system can be jamma ready, and it will be plug and play and silent. When I last put in a pc I had to use a load of fans to keep the thing cool. Didn't really give off that authentic vibe as it was a bit noisy, and took ages to boot...
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ballboff:
Sure I used a pi in a smaller system., which was perfect. But for a bigger build I'd want something a bit beefier lol. A genuine arcade board would be the ideal, maybe even a neo geo twin slot motherboard one day perhaps?
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lazrhog:
Did you want me to upload a video of My Pi 2 Bartop ? It runs most games just fine. I have Daphne running just fine with DL, DL2 and SA
Only issue I have is with Defender (one of my favourites). Definitely playable, but I think the draw time runs out and some aliens get warped out due to an algorithm in the game itself. I certainly don't recall it being like that in the arcades til you hit a smart bomb on some ads or much later in the game. Could be an issue with the emulation or the pi. I want to try it on a pi 3 and see if it improves
UEDan:
I'd go PC route. Then slap on a cheap ssd.
If my bartop had to go through the whole Pi startup just for me to play 1 game of Pacman. I'd never use it.
elvis:
I think one of the pros of an RPi is the simplicity. It's a single SoC board that can be driven by 5V. You can load up a trivial OS on an SD card, and swap it in and out with other boards trivially. And you can't argue with the space savings or low power consumption.
There's obvious downsides. Getting 240p RGB out of one isn't trivial (not impossible, but not trivial). And the CPU grunt is pretty light, if you're out to emulate newer games.
If you want to build a full sized cabinet at absolute minimum cost, then yeah, you'll find cheaper options (hell, the amount of free PC hardware people have given me over the years means I'll never be without a ~1GHz x86 processor).
But say you want to build something space-constrained (handheld, bartop, etc), then an RPi becomes really attractive. Especially so if you want to play with battery-powered devices.
I recently built an RPi-based Moon Patrol clone as a gift for a friend, and chose the Pi purely for the simplicity. I took an image of the SD card that powers it so that I can replace it trivially if it ever breaks. And likewise if the hardware ever goes pop, I know I can replace it (even with a newer model Pi) with little effort.
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