Pi Zero and PSX
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Pi Zero and PSX
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.
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.
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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.
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You can probably run it, but it would just be a horrendous frame rate in general that it wouldn't be worth it.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?
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Ok, I got it. I can follow Chiz's or DirtyBeagles steps.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.
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/
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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.
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Probably simply because linux unfortunately. :/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.
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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.Ganreizu wrote:Probably simply because linux unfortunately. :/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.
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Re: Pi Zero and PSX
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.
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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