Pi4 and Retropie - awesome...or did you expect more?
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@Crush said in Pi4 and Retropie - awesome...or did you expect more?:
But i also was excited about performance improvements on DOS games., but instead found DOSBOX to run even the simplest DOS games terribly.
Had the same issue. See my post here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/25178/dosbox-on-pi-4-game-window-is-fullscreen-but-not-centered-on-screen/42 dosbox is running fantastic for me now.
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@Crush said in Pi4 and Retropie - awesome...or did you expect more?:
In addition some of the arcade games that ran slow on RPI3 run perfect on RPI4.
Do you have some examples? I would very much like to test some of those on my Pi 4.
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@VictimRLSH said in Pi4 and Retropie - awesome...or did you expect more?:
Erghiez and StarBlade now run perfectly on the Pi 4 and they were unplayable on the 3.
Oh yes, StarBlade … one of the games which I absolutely adored in the few arcades that had one here in Germany. I just tested it and you're right, its as soft as butter on my non-overclocked Pi 4. 🤩
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I forgot to mention that psx beetle is ~fullspeed for 2d games on an overclocked pi4 at ~1.9Ghz or higher. This emulator is much better than pcsx, and I can now play copy protected/anti-mod japanese games like Card Captor Sakura Tetris and some Goemon game. They both do not work in pcsx. Well, CCST will boot with a cheat file, but that's annoying to use.
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@Darksavior said in Pi4 and Retropie - awesome...or did you expect more?:
I forgot to mention that psx beetle is ~fullspeed for 2d games on an overclocked pi4 at ~1.9Ghz or higher. This emulator is much better than pcsx, and I can now play copy protected/anti-mod japanese games
Better in what regard except for drm/anti-mod games? I'm asking because so far, any PSX game that I tried with lr-pcsx_rearmed either worked perfectly (as far as I can tell) or not at all (maybe because of drm).
That said, is the text about lr-beetle-psx in the Docs outdated now? It reads:
Not available for ARM systems (like the Raspberry Pi) due to its poor performance on ARM.
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@Clyde said in Pi4 and Retropie - awesome...or did you expect more?:
@Crush said in Pi4 and Retropie - awesome...or did you expect more?:
In addition some of the arcade games that ran slow on RPI3 run perfect on RPI4.
Do you have some examples? I would very much like to test some of those on my Pi 4.
The only thing i can think of right now is "Super Chase: Criminal Termination" that was the only arcade game i was interested in that didn't run full speed.
I was not aware that some of the 3D games that @VictimRLSH also work now, but to be honest, they're hardly first choice games on a system that plays 5th and 6th gen console games.
I think you can even play NAOMI arcade games on the reicast emulator, but i have't tried that yet. -
@quicksilver I actually read trough and commented on that thread, but somehow missed your post with a working solution, thanks allot @quicksilver <3
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@Clyde said in Pi4 and Retropie - awesome...or did you expect more?:
That said, is the text about lr-beetle-psx in the Docs outdated now? It reads:
Not available for ARM systems (like the Raspberry Pi) due to its poor performance on ARM.
it's currently not available for ARM systems in retropie: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-beetle-psx.sh#L17
you would have to edit the install file. i'm currently experimenting with the new dynarec but it's a non-starter on ARM32. only works on aarch64, and even then some games still get slowdown.
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@Clyde I used a premade binary from libretro's nightlies page. The emulator needs work in order to be properly ported as @dankcushions said.
@dankcushions Are you guys fooling around with 64bit or plan to? (not sure if this has been asked)
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@VictimRLSH said in Pi4 and Retropie - awesome...or did you expect more?:
Erghiez and StarBlade now run perfectly on the Pi 4 and they were unplayable on the 3.
Which version of Ehrgeiz do you mean? The arcade version only runs in slow-motion with mame2003-plus on my normal-clocked Pi 4. The PSX version, however, runs fast and smoothly.
If you meant the arcade version, which emulator are you using, and did you do any optimisations?
(Fun fact: "Ehrgeiz" means ambition in German. 🤓 )
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@Clyde yep, the japanese people love the german language in video games because it sounds so horrible to them :D
Other examples are "Stahlfeder", "Herzog" or "Panzer Dragoon Zwei".
Not to forget the german soundtrack of the japanese Castlevania for the PC Engine CD. -
@Clyde Sorry, should have been more specific, yes, I was referring to the PS1 version. StarBlade was referencing the arcade version.
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@VictimRLSH Thanks. Then at least it matches my experiences.
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