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Main => Raspberry Pi & Dev Board => Topic started by: mlenardon on February 02, 2015, 02:43:47 pm

Title: Raspberry PI 2 1GB ram, quad core Arm 7 CPU
Post by: mlenardon on February 02, 2015, 02:43:47 pm

I am curious to see if anyone is working on a new front end and updates Mame setup for the Raspberry PI 2 that came out today.  With a Quad Core processor, and 1 GB ram it should be able to run a nice multi Mame system.

Michael

Title: Re: Raspberry PI 2 1GB ram, quad core Arm 7 CPU
Post by: EMDB on February 02, 2015, 05:02:27 pm

Emulation Station is a real cool front end for MAME and console emulators on the Pi:

Raspberry Pi with RetroPie & EmulationStation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq99cf1cuk8#ws)

The RetroPie is a fully configured SD card image with Emulatation Station and all emulators ready to go. Just add the ROMS you want to play. You can just copy them to the Pi using pre-configured SAMBA shares for the ROM folders. No need for any SSH , Linux command prompts  :applaud:

Title: Re: Raspberry PI 2 1GB ram, quad core Arm 7 CPU
Post by: Slippyblade on February 02, 2015, 05:23:34 pm

Oooo, this is the first I've heard of the new model.  Wonder how long it'll be before these are in stock for purchase?

Title: Re: Raspberry PI 2 1GB ram, quad core Arm 7 CPU
Post by: nitrogen_widget on February 02, 2015, 07:46:39 pm

mahcade/wahcade installs on the first rpi but pegs the cpu and just freezes up the system.
Bet this will run it.

Title: Re: Raspberry PI 2 1GB ram, quad core Arm 7 CPU
Post by: CanadianRyGuy on February 04, 2015, 10:00:11 am

Assuming we can play Arcade Emulators fine on the new Pi, anyone able to take an educated guess as to what type of games this would be able to play?

Title: Re: Raspberry PI 2 1GB ram, quad core Arm 7 CPU
Post by: nitrogen_widget on February 04, 2015, 11:25:12 am

well, my dual core android stick will run the PSP & reicast emulators fairly well.