@allanbuzzy said in How to improve on the N64, Dreamcast and PSP emulation (RetroPie):
...there's Android boxes that are small and can literally do the same job as RetroPie. Until there's a powerful Pi 4 then, N64/DC/PSP will always be rubbish. I must've been high when I wrote this or something, but I apologise for causing a lot of controversy.
Nvidia Shield yes - all the rest of them no. I've had more than my share of Android boxes and I wouldn't pick any of them over a Pi, and I only have the Pi 3. None of these Chinese boxes have any appreciable improvement in N64 or DC to make it worth it. In fact in my experience they all perform worse, especially with the input lag on them. Awful. A bit of tweaking of the Pi and you can have very good performance indeed, barring shortfalls in emulation quality that are visible on most devices (certainly visible on Android boxes - I assure you).
Android boxes are a waste of money and time. If you don't want the stock OS you are gambling on the goodwill of perhaps one developer being interested enough in your box to make a ROM, and then being motivated enough to bug fix it and indeed finish it. Up against the community devoted to the Pi hardware there's no comparison. I won't ever go back to Android for these purposes ever again myself.
Plus, don't you find people's collective memories of N64 to be somewhat far from reality? The N64 could barely scrape frame rates of 20 FPS, particularly outside of Kyoto's own magic shop. Yet everyone seems to expect so much more from the emulation of it. It's a miracle we have emulation of it at all! Look at the Saturn.
