OK, excellent, it looks like 2G is all I need for retropie. Thanks for the help 🙂

I used an Arduino breadboard controller to turn my fan on and off. Also, 2.

note that for retropie emulation purposes, there is no performance/compatibility benefit with >1GB RAM on pi systems. RAM size is simply not a bottleneck.

the 4GB pi4 model is relevant for those who want to the raspberry pi OS desktop, or as a server, etc but emulators for the systems that the pi supports don't have large RAM requirements.

@martinfr said in RPi 1 Model B only reports 256MB RAM under RetroPie:

To my surprise, the OS only reports 256MB of memory (checked through ssh).
Is that expected? If not, how can I tell it to use the full 512MB?

I think so - the rest of the memory may be reserved for the GPU, since it's used by both the front-end (EmulationStation) and the emulators.

@mitu
Thanks ! :)

yes, I just started trying out a few N64 games and noticed the lag. But I'm also not using an official raspberry pi power cord, the power cord that came with my pi was a micro USB to regular USB that plugged into a Power Adapter. But the plug doesn't fit snug into the adapter. So I directly plug my cord into a surge protector with a built in USB port. I'm getting a better power cord in the mail today to try out. Power consumption definitely effected my lag in Dreamcast, N64, and PSP games. But PSX always plays falwlessly. That doesn't make sense. Lol.

And yes I had that Tronkyfan theme before. Tried out alot of them. Superdisplay is one of the best ones for any newbie I believe. It allows you to see individual themed collections artwork and you can view 7 systems at once which is superior to most of the themes I've seen. The Star Wars theme though let's you see 9 systems at once and has run fairly well for me recently and with the new movie out now I just have to keep it.

@willcroft said in Kodi Builds on the Pi:

Again, is there a build that runs on RetroPie?

Yes - the official Kodi package for Raspbian, as explained in the docs.

Aw cool, did not know that, I am really starting to like Linux. :)

That applies only to a certain kernel version which I don't remember exactly, but I know for sure that the kernel versions on Raspbian Stretch from the beginning doesn't need it anymore, it "sees" all the available memory. You can easily check that for example with free -m and adding the gpu_mem you have configured to that.

gpu is slow and only supports GLES/open gl 2. open gl 2.1 isn’t different from gles in terms of featureset, and that’s what matters.

cpu/core use doesn’t matter because cpu is barely used with pi3 plus mupen64plus (thanks to the arm dynarec).

mupen64plus-gliden64 is fairly well optimised for pi at this point, in my view. ultimately the gpu’s lack of features doom it.

system bus speed is always probably a bottleneck but no amount of speed will get over the GLES/gl limitations.

@BuZz Thanks. I wasn't sure if it would or not.