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      Normohl
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      @BuZz interested to see how it turns out!

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        Rotarum
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        Hi BuZz,

        did you get it work with RetroPie ?? :)

        And is it much faster than PI 3 ?

        If yes i will buy one...

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

          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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

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              Jake
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              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/

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                memothejanitor
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                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.

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                  hannibal
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                  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?

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                    memothejanitor
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                    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.

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                      KryPtAlIvIaN
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                      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.

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                        hannibal @KryPtAlIvIaN
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                        @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?

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                          hannibal @memothejanitor
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                          @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

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                            mab1376
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                            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?

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                              BuZz administrators @mab1376
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                              @mab1376 no. tinker board will require code changes.

                              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                hannibal @mab1376
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                                @mab1376 I believe the os is debian based

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                                  Charononus @hannibal
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                                  @hannibal
                                  Not all debian bases are equal. There could be several differences. For instance I played with retropie on mx16 for a while to see what it would be like. Because all the libraries and compilers aren't the same, some things such as dolphin in that case wouldn't compile without changes. It can probably be done, but it's going to take a bit of work.

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                                    mab1376 @Charononus
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                                    @Charononus

                                    Ok thanks, I'll probably pick one up soon if any needs testers. Seems like a good upgrade in hardware performance, maybe n64 will run a little better on it.

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                                      mxstar1
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                                      they are $59 on amazon, I got one. Time to play around! No Pi 4 for some time..this should be the next thing until then, if it can get some support

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                                        hannibal
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                                        Still no news on how anyone got retroarch to work?

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                                          hydroxide
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                                          I don't want to bother you guys but is there any chance that we'll have a working build around November? It seems that the Tinker Board is the next big SBC because the Foundation is focusing on software for now and I don't think they'll release a new board for a while.

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                                            herb_fargus administrators @hydroxide
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                                            @hydroxide specs mean nothing if there is no software support. Any development is done as there is free time and as such there is no eta for support.

                                            If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                            Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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