raspberry pi 3 as an emulator?

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anybody tried using a raspberry pi 3 for emulation.

I just started looking at it and wondered what the best way to do it is.
Most people seem to be using retropie.

just wondering if anyone has any tips and what i would need?

thanks
 
Retropie is one option. I've also tried Recalbox and thats pretty good. These were on a r Pi2 so emulation should be smoother on a r Pi3
 
EmulationStation is a nice front end. Some games will probably never work well though, regardless of emu or Pi version

Mods are a bit funny with emu talk so expect this thread to vanish
 
d_brennen said:
EmulationStation is a nice front end. Some games will probably never work well though, regardless of emu or Pi version

Mods are a bit funny with emu talk so expect this thread to vanish
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Emulation is fine I thought, it's only pirating that is a no no. You can emulate games legally by owning games already as that would licence you to do so, it's when you start downloading games that you don't own that then that becomes illegal.
 
LOL I have one that I am currently building into a Brawlstick. It will be using RetroPie and emulating SNES, Genesis, PC Engine, N64, MAME to name a few.
 
ZXSpectrum said:
LOL I have one that I am currently building into a Brawlstick. It will be using RetroPie and emulating SNES, Genesis, PC Engine, N64, MAME to name a few.
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Love to see a build log on that - is the stick just detected by RP or fiddly as hell to setup and work?

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Its actually a USB Brawlstick for the PS3/PC so it just plugs in and works. When you first fire up RetroPie it asks you for your input so you can use any wired USB controller.

Unfortunately that's as far as I have got at the moment as I have bought some new buttons. I had a hard time finding a replacement sticker for the front so have just got some carbon fibre effect vinyl for now. The Pi3 will be housed inside the stick.
 
Ahh thats cool - wasnt sure about compatibility - love to see the inside and how youve housed the RPi3...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
I have got a few pics I will put up when I get chance. The PI will be mounted to the base plate with the USB and NIC at the Rear along with a HDMI Socket and Micro USB Power Socket.
 
well, ordered one with a box and power supply - i guess i'll see what happens.

I'm amazed how cheap it was and how powerful they look to be!
 
My latest WIP arcade build (a mini bartop) is running off a Pi3 (RetroPie/Emulation Station). I'm massively impressed by it, so so simple to setup and get running compared to all the other frontend and emulator combos I've played around with.

16Bit era (SNES/Megeadrive) and older systems work flawlessly and the build in scrapping tools are pretty good at pulling basic metadata (covers, screenshots, game data).

It does have its limitations though, emulation wise you are looking at PS1 and N64 tops and even some of the N64 games has issues however most of the popular mainstream stuff works well.

It's also not the slickest of interfaces if you're the sort of person that wants to hide the backend staff (loading/config screens) however for £30 you really can't go wrong and I can see myself using these in some further projects.
 
I also have a JXD7800b Emulator Tablet. It runs the same stuff and there are only a few games (Some Dreamcast and N64) don't play that great but I am more into SNES, Megadrive, PCE, MAME and NeoGeo :) all of those work brilliantly. I could play Zelda on the SNES till the cows come home.
 
got it last night - still figuring it out but its looking good.
Damn scraping takes a long time and seems to stop when the sreensaver comes on.
Haven't figured out how to use screen filters yet.
 
I'd quite like to put something together like this for some retro goodness.

What is the n64 / Dreamcast performance like on a RP3?
 
Anyone know what the best arcade emulator to use is?? there are a lot of choices:
mame4all
lr-imame4all
lr-mame2003
lr-mame2010
advmame-.94
advmame-1.4
pifba
lr-fba
lr-fba-next
gngeopi
 
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