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Author Topic: Move from Desktop to Raspberry PI  (Read 3529 times)

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Move from Desktop to Raspberry PI
« on: April 06, 2020, 03:48:26 pm »
Hi folks,
Looking for some advice.
I've got Mame setup on an old desktop pc running few emulators for Arcade, N64, Megadrive. Its mounted in a cabinet I made with the old monitor, two speakers and the two player joysticks and buttons on a panel.
I'd like to downsize the arcade cabinet if I can so looking to maybe change out the desktop for a Raspberry PI as read Mame etc can run via this and its a nice small size.
Is this easy enough to do?
Is there a way to turn the Raspberry on and off from a button on the outside of the cabinet?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

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Re: Move from Desktop to Raspberry PI
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2020, 01:57:43 pm »
One word :

Retropie

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Re: Move from Desktop to Raspberry PI
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2020, 05:20:39 pm »
I concur, retropie was SUPER easy to setup and run, just move your roms over to the proper directory on the pie after you install Retropi and it's cake from there.  I can help if you need more info.

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Re: Move from Desktop to Raspberry PI
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2020, 09:15:28 pm »
retropie on a rpi3.
it isn't ready yet for the rpi4.
either way only some n64 games will run well on a rpi.

i had to go with a odroid xu4 to get smooth n64 emulation.

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Re: Move from Desktop to Raspberry PI
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2020, 02:04:55 am »
retropie on a rpi3.
it isn't ready yet for the rpi4.
either way only some n64 games will run well on a rpi.

i had to go with a odroid xu4 to get smooth n64 emulation.

This is true - N64's are rough, unless you overclock your RPi.  But you have to make sure you have some active cooling to combat the heat generated by oc'ing it.  I OC'd my old one and it worked wonderfully.  Yes there were still some hiccups, but no where near as many as if I left it stock.

THere is an official unsupported Retropie version 4.5.8 works on RPi4

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Re: Move from Desktop to Raspberry PI
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2020, 10:55:27 pm »
They've now got an official RetroPie build for the Pi4, and supposedly it is handling most N64 quite a bit better.  Haven't tried it myself.  RetroPie is definitely great to work with, however, even for a newcomer to Linux.