@thelostsoul

The supported tweaks also yield the best results by far. Setting a television to game mode alone feels like the difference between night and day. Setting even all of the possible unsupported tweaks feels more like the difference between night and a bit later that night.

Hi, do anyone still have these template? The links are off ): I want so bad to make this Pac-man... Can someone pm or mail it to me? Thanks!

Tinker Board doesn't have as much support as the Raspberry Pi does. But, it's GPU is much faster, at 600 MHz, versus the Pi's 250. GPU performance is the biggest hindrance in N64 emulation. Main reason why N64 sucks on the Pi.

@mediamogul

Excellent, thanks a lot.

@andrewh Is that a classic? I never heard of it...

yes that I know @DougA, but I do not wish to launch the games every time but the fire via Notepad ++
@mitu I'll try to see what I can do with emulators.cfg to scale my games

Retropie has an installation available of Kodi. It is available via the Retropie setup and is a full media center. If you prefer to run a separate install of Kodi on a seperate sd card, use LibreELEC.

@d39 You sometimes have to be patient with AWUK, but most parts labelled as "out of stock" are replenished in reasonable time (weeks to a few months).

@chizzer Sorry. I don't use 3rd party RetroPie Images.

As for the topic in the thread, I've found out that Attract Mode has a few vertical themes/layouts.

Also the Pegesus frontend (found on these forums) looks like it will work great in vertical as well.

So that's what I'm going to be testing and messing around with the next few days.

Jet Motto

@clyde Thanks.

I used the free trial to play championship manager 01/02 on my phone. While it worked and loaded the game... I wasn't a fan. If my phone screen locked I would lose my progress, had to constantly save. Had errors too.

Even if it worked properly I didn't think it was near worth the cost. If the guy had gone down the open source route I reckon he'd have had a far better end product by now.

Ultimately I'm sure there will be a product that does that in time.

Also while it may be useful to have access to something like this along with retropie, it shouldnt be him cashing in on retropies brand. That feels wrong on every level, especially when in my opinion his end product is nowhere near the level it needs to be.

@classicgmr So the stick has been 100% RELIABLE.

it does get pretty warm but nothing crazy, I can grab it with my hand( my right hand not my left hand) and say " ooohh that's warm", but it never heats up enough to cook my imaginary girlfriend pancakes. It's a solid drive for a Low Profile drive which is perfect for this portable gaming system. No worries in the heat department unles every degree counts, and then maybe ou should do some research.

What I did dislike was while it was PERFECT for my setup profile-wise, the transfer speeds are poor. I have a Kingston HyperX from two or more years back that performs the same as a modern 3.0 hard drive. 100MB/s either way. Not mbs, MB/s. So this drive wasn't great n the transferring category.

If I had everything set, and didn't use it as an experimenting USB drive, it would have been fine. Basically, It's awesome for the look, and I am keeping it as my travel drive, as I am replacing it with a higher performace PC compatible drive but it does perfect for only needing rare updates.

Just my 2 cents and I wanted to update the thread.

People can be intrigued by the thought of not having to do much. They like the idea of a pre made kit that they can play there childhood games on and have minimal setup

@lurker said in Is it Legal to use an arcade machine running retropie, put it in a public place and charge quarters to use it?:

It is like that in all sorts of things. Notice you will rarely see soda vending machines offer Coke AND Pepsi at the same time.

Well said. :)

@benjaminjay I agree that most game cafe's and such don't do their full due diligence in terms of having full legal right to do everything they do.

I can tell, as my return to the emulation scene after many years of hibernation was triggerd by an obviously custom made MAME cocktail table in a German craft beer bar in Winter 2016. Now, I have a self-made upright cabinet in my living room. Damn those bar operators! ;) (and the "good friend" who led us there)

@eckaji I am running at 1.45ghz with on the CPU. I've pushed it all the way to 1.6ghz but that would usually end up counter productive as it would heat throttle. I'm using a Flirc case.

For GPU I'm running at 500mhz vs the stock 400. If I go past that I will get frame drops and hick ups even with good heat and frame rate. My RAM has a similar +100mhz on it, honestly I think the RAM overclock is the most beneficial. You can't crank it up too high, though, as RAM OC can get unstable in a hurry.

I'm happy with my 3B+ and will use it for hundreds of gaming hours. However, there is no real performance boost with it over even a mildly overclockes 3b in my experience.

On the positive side, the WiFi is far superior and my Buffalo controllers no longer give ghost inputs like they did on the 3B. This makes me think that the 3B had some USB power supply issues.

@barbudreadmon said in Odroid XU4 MAME Performance?:

@loggahead said in Odroid XU4 MAME Performance?:

I just have to update the lr-fbalpha package right?

If you mean from binary, probably not. As said above you'll probably have to update from sources.

This worked! Thanks so much again!

Most everything in terms of desktop shell replacements died out around Windows 7's release.