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Thinking Heavily About a Raspberry Pi.


madhatter667

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  • 3 weeks later...

Still having fun with the Pi Zero W and Retropie..

The NES and TG16 seem to be great.

SNES, as I mentioned, feels pretty good to me, with the exception of Starfox. YMMV..

 

I did add some old arcade games that seem to work great on the Pi. (Pacman, DigDug, etc)

I then decided to try some NeoGeo games, and those seem to work really well too!! I was impressed!!

 

That said, while the 8BitDo controller works great with the console games, I don't find it quite as intuitive for the arcade games..

Probably because I am really used to real joysticks with those games..

 

So I'll probably try some type of real joystick/panel at sometime..

 

Still, pretty fun...

 

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I don't follow it much but I take it the Pi Zero is more of a lower speed/scale economy model? If that's right would not a Pi2 or Pi3 roll well with the heavier needs of the FX chip and so on?

 

I'm only wondering about this because I've got friend who have been moving that direction, one over at racketboy dumped his entire collection fed up with all the price abuse and trolling online, kept just a slim few items, and is going to setup a Pi box instead to do it all. He dropped a serious spread of consoles from the old atari stuff up through the ps1, saturn, n64 era things and all popular points in between even a healthy fairly sized tg16 collection.

 

I've been tempted with all of it, but the only time I've ever messed with something related (retroarch) on android and PC it was an unmitigated disaster trying to get Neo-Geo stuff to work flatly refusing to load let alone even menu list the known working ROMs. I didn't meddle too much further as it's fairly common sense at least how to dump a set of console or handheld game singular rom files to an organized directory. The most needed would be just to tweak the app you use (RetroPi I would imagine) and just get it all nice and cozy how you want it and you're ready to roll.

 

I do have one of those 8bitdo pro controllers because I wanted it for the Switch but that would be more than awesome for a Pi setup if I ever went with one.

 

 

I guess like my friend I'm in this weird zone where I'm very tempted to just flip the bird to pretty much all of it, and unlike him, only keep what I got as a gift or a purchase from my own kid/teenage labors of the 80s/90s. So far I've crept my way into a couple of everdrives as I still prefer using real hardware, but the fact I did have a lousy Retron5 for awhile and just used legit controllers on it doesn't mean I couldn't still get a USB to X adapter and still do that on a Pi box as they tend to have I think like 4 USB ports.

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Pi Zero is lower powered than Pi3. I think it's roughly equivalent to the Pi2. Unless you're trying to make a portable, I'd stick with the Pi3 or whatever comes next. It's still plenty small and sips electricity.

 

RetroArch is inscrutable on Android, but it's easy on Windows or Linux once you grok their somewhat obtuse interface. I think X is forward and Z is back if you're not using a controller. It's super easy on RetroPie because it walks you through setup.

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Pi Zero is lower powered than Pi3. I think it's roughly equivalent to the Pi2. Unless you're trying to make a portable, I'd stick with the Pi3 or whatever comes next. It's still plenty small and sips electricity.

 

RetroArch is inscrutable on Android, but it's easy on Windows or Linux once you grok their somewhat obtuse interface. I think X is forward and Z is back if you're not using a controller. It's super easy on RetroPie because it walks you through setup.

Pi Zero is equivalent to the old RPi (the first model A/B) but with a 30% higher clock rate. There's the PiZero W with support for wireless too.

RPi2 and RPi3 are now using the same CPU (since RPi2 v1.2) but with or without wireless/Bluetooth support (important if you are building embedded projects) and different clock speed (Rpi2 being slower).

 

So go with RPi3 unless you have special needs or you want to save a few bucks buying the RPi Zero [W].

 

Anyway details here;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Specifications

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