The Ideal RetroPie
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To be honest I find it amazing as it is. Maybe it's my age but I know if I'd seen this when I was younger it would have blown my mind. I think it was version 4.0.2 when I started to think "hang on, this is now doing what I imagined it would do", and feels now complete.
I'd like to see N64 emulation improved but I think everyone wants that no matter what machine you are running . I'm not convinced throwing more power at that would make much difference; certainly not at the moment anyway. Otherwise this is an amazing feat as it stands and I'm not sure at any point I've thought that it needs to do more. :)
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I would like to see a Raspberry which can run GameCube emulation. Now I still have to use my modded Wii to play them but who knows whats going to be in the future. As for RetroPie, it's kinda fine how it is now. So far all the games I played ran fine! I can play all the games i used to play as a kid on the SNES, N64, PSX, Genesis never owned a Neo Geo console but Neo Geo games are extremely fun to play as well as MAME roms. I started to play them because of my older brother who used to go to arcade halls back in the early 90ties.
But you know what would make RetroPie freaking awesome? If it had a great multiplayer support, like you can add friends, chat with them, talk to them via your mic, invite them to play games with you. And watching your friends play remotely and they can give you control over their controller so you can play remotely. Kinda like the PS4. That would be AWESOME!
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I would like to see a Raspberry which can run GameCube emulation.
Probably by the PI 6, if ever. My mid-2015 computer can barely play GC games.
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Frontend:
Attract-Mode is a very fine addition! Beautiful UI with Marquees, Videos, Categories, Tags, Favorites and much more.It is already available in experimental packages - needs some integrating, but looks far better than EmulationStation - in my opinion.
http://attractmode.org/Just my 3 cents
Thanks for all your work! It is a pleasure to play with retropie.
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@herb_fargus Here goes your hope for more ram http://www.techrepublic.com/article/raspberry-pi-in-2017-new-boards-new-oses-and-more/
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@lilbud No ram, but the Model A 3 could be kinda cool for retropie builds using bluetooth controllers.
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No ram, but the Model A 3 could be kinda cool for retropie builds using bluetooth controllers.
It will also be great for those retro handheld builds! @obsidianspider needs to read that!
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@backstander I need to finish one project first, but I can see a 3-powered handheld in the future.
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Hardware: A pi yet to be released with a minimum of 2 GB of RAM, perhaps some flash memory and of course all the current options of the pi 3. Better GPU.
Enough power to be able to run Naomi/Atomiswave games that would be wicked. I wouldn't mind a small cooling fan if necessary.
The Front End: I was envisioning something like open emu where you have a list of systems on the left and a grid view of sorts of the games on the right, and possible video and music support if I were feeling ambitious.
A better filtering system would be nice. If you have a couple roms its OK but if you start to exceed 100 roms per emulator it would be nice to have the possibilities to sort/filter by genre, A-Z, Z-A, most played evtl. add a favorites feature to add a star next to the roms and only display those. I have seen someone posting a video once with such extended features.
Controls: I was thinking of there being a diagram for each system of that systems controller as you configured your controller so you could know exactly what your buttons corresponded to on the original controller. Also to be able to have settings to control which controller is which player.
I think once you know how the controller setup stuff works its easy but a diagram like you have in windows under advanced settings would be not a bad idea. That would make jstest obsolete.
If I remember right there was a controller sorting feature inside the RetroPie right? Like put port 0 on second position and port 1 on first, something like that.Save States/Load States: When you save it takes a screenshot at your current position in the game and then when you go to load it opens up a menu where you can choose from your savestate slots like the old point and click games or the nes classic
I never used that feature yet. Most games have a build in saving feature. But I have seen that people request that a lot, the screenshot thing. Kinda like the classic NES has?
Web Dashboard: A dashboard that shows all of the pi's settings: temp, space left, up time, etc. Along with a file transfer section that checks hashes of your roms so you know if they work or not before you even try them
That would be VERY helpful.
I guess I am looking forward to a RPi6? or 7? with some of the mentioned improvements? Not sure how much influence RetroPie can have on them though. EmulationStation? Retroarch? Raspberry?
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Considering your hardware requests, you guys should probably take a look at udoo x86. It is pricier than a rpi, but still a good deal.
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Nice! That's really nice! Thx.
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@FlyingTomahawk said in The Ideal RetroPie:
Wonder what specs are needed to run Naomi/Atomiswave.
From what i know, demul is more demanding than pcsx2/dolphin, and i expect mame to be even more demanding to play Naomi/Atomiswave, so don't expect too much from a computer with a cpu below 3Ghz.
My main goals with my udoo x86 will be to play bomberman (saturn), guardian heroes (saturn), chuchu rocket (dreamcast) and towerfall ascension (x86), which i can't on my rpi.
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@barbudreadmon said in The Ideal RetroPie:
3Ghz.. man that would be a lot for such a small PCB. Guess I stick with my PC for the time being, at least for Naomi/Atomiswave.
bomberman (saturn)
THAT is an awesome game, and probably the best Bomberman from all systems. I have the original on Saturn and I own the Bomberman multi tap for it.
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It's hard to reimagine something when you've been immersed in it for a long time, but one thing that I think would make RetroPie better for me would be another/better way to manage game metadata (gamelist.xml and snapshots). A web UI would be great, but I'm not sure how much overhead a webserver would add to things.
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@FlyingTomahawk said in The Ideal RetroPie:
I have the original on Saturn and I own the Bomerman multi tap for it.
Same with 2 multitap, but my saturn is dead and i don't feel like buying a new one : having something more compact, more durable with wireless controllers seems better.
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Maybe an option to "favorite" a game and access the list easily. No more scrolling through stuff to pick up where I left off. Or even a History screen.
Otherwise, perfect. Thanks everyone.
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On the hardware side, I'm not sure the CPU is the real limiting factor as much as the weak GPU and lack of proper OpenGL support.
I'm hoping in February we see an updated Pi with the same CPU (maybe overclocked slightly) but an updated GPU, so the SoC is mostly the same and backwards compatible.
As for software, I like everything about the RetroPie stack, however if the Pi hardware isn't powerful enough for some arcade games, the N64, the Dreamcast, etc. then I'm considering a similiar stack on Windows. I presume I'd just be looking at EmuStation + RetroArch on Windows.
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This year (2017!) I am 99.9% sure is no space for a Pie part 4. I think we will get a Pie 3.1 in shape of the famous A
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I agree with everything you said, especially comparing to OpenEmu. The grid artwork mode would be the greatest thing to ever happen to retropie. It looks like it's being built per the other thread I was just commenting on, so hopefully we'll see that in the near future.
OpenEmu has such a nice clean interface, anything to mimic that functionality would be awesome.
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