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I "acquired" the entire SNES,N64,Genesis and NES library and its only about 5 gigs if not less.i have one set up and things run fine. All roms must be put onto the microsd card on the pi befire you can play it. Not sure what is the max size but I use a 64GB class-10 microsd card. For games like nes, snes, atari etc, those games take up almost no room... you can probably store the entire nes + snes roms ever made onto less than 3GB's... its only psx, dreamcast and n64 that starts taking up room. But each game is like 200 ~ 500 MBs
Can someone explain why anyone would go the raspberry pi route for this I am just curious. In my mind for emulation I was as much power as possible which means shield tv or shield tablet.
Look at something like the pitendo. Its a tiny cube thats has like 30 emulators on it for like $130. or you can do it yourself for a lot cheaper.Can someone explain why anyone would go the raspberry pi route for this I am just curious. In my mind for emulation I was as much power as possible which means shield tv or shield tablet.
My burning question, is how does the Pi3 handle N64 emulation. I've heard it was hit-and-miss.
Have you tweaked the configs at all? There is a setting to adjust where that info is located... my configs also got borked once and I have no idea why, but resetting everything to defaults (removing any custom themes/configs) fixed thingsOn mine I somehow lost the ability to see what save slot I'm using in the lower left. I can still select+left right but nothing is displayed. Any ideas what I did?
My burning question, is how does the Pi3 handle N64 emulation. I've heard it was hit-and-miss.
I only made two tweaks by changing the graphics api and disabling video threading to see if that helps input latency. I do not remember making any other changes.Have you tweaked the configs at all? There is a setting to adjust where that info is located... my configs also got borked once and I have no idea why, but resetting everything to defaults (removing any custom themes/configs) fixed things
I have had much better results from those cheap android boxes. Bought a beelink gt1 box that has a s912 CPU+2 GB ram and it runs amazing, box cost I think $60 and it's now my primary retro game box.
so far like a champ, I have been playing alot of n64 and ps1 games on it and havent noticed any performance issues yetcan it run N64 well?
Did you do any settings changes to get N64 to work well? for me it's been hell and I haven't really touched anything
I'm not convinced the Retropi input latency is CPU related on the Pi. You can monitor the CPU utilization and it just sits at like 30 or 40% while NES games are running.
After I made some tweaks it seems to be better.
Yeah I also read that. USB protocol adds a lot of latency.It's not the CPU. It's the piece of shit USB controller they're using on them.
Yeah I also read that. USB protocol adds a lot of latency.
I had lag on the RetroPie, so bad it was unplayable. I reached out and found that I was not using gaming mode on my input on the TV. Once I did this the lag subsided.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but PC games are built with USB latency in mind. NES games did not. Just saying.It's not the protocol, it's a combination of the USB controller and the drivers on the Pi's themselves. People game just fine with USB keyboards and mice on PC's.
maybe because the games are designed with lag in mind, so it's not as noticeable. I'm thinking this is one reason why key/board mouse control in FPS consoles never took off, because it's just too huge a difference in feel due to the additional & unavoidable latency.I'm playing my XBox just fine on my monitors non-gaming mode.
maybe because the games are designed with lag in mind, so it's not as noticeable. I'm thinking this is one reason why key/board mouse control in FPS consoles never took off, because it's just too huge a difference in feel due to the additional & unavoidable latency.
I mean, by the time you get the Pi3 working, you'll be spending close to $100 maybe more. So the price difference is lower and you get so much more.
On the Pi3 alone (doesn't it cost $35?), so I assume you already had everything else.I spent $30