Asus Tinker Board

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@stereodark
It's good to learn new things!

If retropie adds the Support I'll be happy to donate a bunch of money to save another half day of work :)

Maybe you should purchase one for BuZz and donate a bunch of money ;-)
If he actually had one to "tinker" on, I could see the odds of RetroPie getting ported to ASUS Tinker Board being greatly increased!

Capt_MorganCreek

@stereodark Thanks for your heads up! Honestly I'm surprised Asus software us that bad, I think a good software base is one of the most important steps to build a healthy community.

Charononus

This is too bad, I'm going to buy another pi or tinker board next month and this was a big consideration. I was hoping that the increased power would have let some of the emulators run without overclocking.

BuZz

Note I have one of these boards now (Thanks to ASUS for offering/sending one) , so will be looking into compatibility with RetroPie on it in the near future.

edmaul69

@BuZz this is awesome news. I hope it works out. I really want to upgrade.

Rotarum

@BuZz Please share the results :))

Normohl

@BuZz interested to see how it turns out!

Rotarum

Hi BuZz,

did you get it work with RetroPie ?? :)

And is it much faster than PI 3 ?

If yes i will buy one...

BuZz

@Rotarum I will update when I have news. There is no timeline for this.

Rotarum

@BuZz ok Thanks :) Hopefully you can test it soon when you have time...

Jake

ASUS announced yesterday they are now selling the tinker board in North America ...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/asus-releases-tinker-board-single-board-computer-in-north-america/

memothejanitor

Hi all, I just received my Tinker Board.

Tinker OS is pretty much the only OS that booted right off the bat. Tinker Board is certainly faster than the Pi, however I am not sure how much that matters to some of us.

I will do some testing and report back.

hannibal

hey guys. just joined that community. Bought a Pi3 a week ago. loved it so much went to buy another today and bought the tinkerboard instead. found a video of someone getting retroarch to work anyone have any luck finding out he did it?

memothejanitor

I think ETA Prime has a video on it. Search it on YouTube. It is buggy, though. I don't assume we'll be able to use the Tinker Board anytime soon.

KryPtAlIvIaN

I bought one yesterday, and managed to get retroarch on it. I like it alot, but the image is still in beta and has issues. Once it gets hardware acceleration, I think things will run alot better then.

I also compiled Mednafen multi emulator and it runs a little better.

hannibal

@KryPtAlIvIaN how did you get retroarch to work? Any videos you watched on how to make it work? Or did you put one on youtube?

hannibal

@memothejanitor yeah I think I watched that video but he is just showing how the roms are playing. He doesn't explain how he got arch to work..... I don't think

mab1376

Has anyone tried the retropie image on the tinker board? does it boot at all?

does this work? https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/RetroPie-Ubuntu-16.04-LTS-x86-Flavor

is tinker OS debian based as well?

BuZz

@mab1376 no. tinker board will require code changes.

hannibal

@mab1376 I believe the os is debian based