Pi Zero and PSX

Raft · Post by **Raft** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 8:44 am

Hi to all!
I'm just on researching stage of building my GameBoy, and I want to play Playstation games in it. Is anyone tried to run PS roms on Pi Zero? Is it enough horsepower? Or maybe is better to spend some extra money and buy something more powerful? According to this list - https://github.com/retropie/retropie-se ... eed-Issues I need at least Pi2.

Ganreizu · Post by **Ganreizu** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 9:00 am

Yeah you really should have a pi 2. People are saying they're getting really hot pi boards using them in a GBZ build, but there are fan components being designed currently to help fix that problem.

Raft · Post by **Raft** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 9:12 am

I'm Ok with fan or heatsink if it's will fit inside the shell, but would it be enough CPU/GPU/RAM in Pi Zero to run PS?

Ganreizu · Post by **Ganreizu** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 9:18 am

Raft wrote:I'm Ok with fan or heatsink if it's will fit inside the shell, but would it be enough CPU/GPU/RAM in Pi Zero to run PS?

You can probably run it, but it would just be a horrendous frame rate in general that it wouldn't be worth it.

Raft · Post by **Raft** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 9:41 am

Ganreizu wrote:You can probably run it, but it would just be a horrendous frame rate in general that it wouldn't be worth it.

Ok, I got it. I can follow Chiz's or DirtyBeagles steps.
But I'm a bit upset that it'll be need to desolder some ports, and do some cuts on board.

UPDATE
Oh, retropie have Odroid support! It's same price, same dimensions, but more powerful.
Even found a project!
http://www.bluemind.org/hardware-linux- ... eboy-case/

statikeffeck · Post by **statikeffeck** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 12:24 pm

Anyone know the technical reasons behind why it can't run full speed? I ran a playstation emulator on my g3 iMac back in 2000 or 2001 which was 300mhz. It was a proprietary emulator called virtual gamestation.

Camble · Post by **Camble** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 12:28 pm

300Mhz on one architecture is not the same as 300Mhz on another.

Ganreizu · Post by **Ganreizu** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 12:28 pm

statikeffeck wrote:Anyone know the technical reasons behind why it can't run full speed? I ran a playstation emulator on my g3 iMac back in 2000 or 2001 which was 300mhz. It was a proprietary emulator called virtual gamestation.

Probably simply because linux unfortunately. :/

statikeffeck · Post by **statikeffeck** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:59 pm

Ganreizu wrote:
statikeffeck wrote:Anyone know the technical reasons behind why it can't run full speed? I ran a playstation emulator on my g3 iMac back in 2000 or 2001 which was 300mhz. It was a proprietary emulator called virtual gamestation.
Probably simply because linux unfortunately. :/

Couldn't be Linux, Linux is not inherently slow. In fact it is often faster because it's not a black box and can be optimized for any platform. Graphics drivers notwithstanding.

Fleder · Post by **Fleder** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:04 am

On the Pi Zero PSX Emulators run really bad or not at all.
I tried it on a Orange Pi PC and it ran like a charm, can't tell you anything about the Pi2, though.

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