Curious question about Linux RetroPie
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Hi i am just a little curious because i recently saw a video on how to use RetroPie on a Linux PC and would just like to know if every game would work a lot better because i am planning on buying this old system with a Q6600 4gb DDR2 memory and it has a 320gb HDD in it and i already own as a backup GPU a HD 4650 and HD 7770 and just cause i am already going to build a bartop arcade with my RPi3 and was thinking of building a full size one with a Linux PC.
If anyone can help to confirm that most mame games works better on the Linux version it would be very helpful just so i don't end up spending money for like nothing as well . -
@Ecks i have some difficulty in understanding long sentences with no commas or periods but i would like to say that it depends on the machine you're using there's no right answer for what you're asking you should try it yourself i have a really old laptop with a single core cpu and my raspi1 performs better than that and i have another modern laptop with with core i7 with 4 cores and 8gb for ram and it runs n64 pretty smoothly i hope it helps.
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If anyone can help to confirm that most mame games works better on the Linux version
it depends on what games, and what mame core. anything that slows down on the rpi3 will likely be perfect on your pc, but compatibility and accuracy should be the same.
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@dankcushions said in Curious question about Linux RetroPie:
it depends on what games
And on the PC specs.
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@meleu OP gave their pc specs :)
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I found that my RetroPie install running on a Dell Chromebook 13 with a Celeron and 4GB of RAM that's running GalliumOS performs quite a lot better than my Raspberry Pi 3, but that's all solid state and is from 2015. I'm not sure how an older Core 2 Quad would perform, and I think operating system overhead will come into play as well.
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@dankcushions said in Curious question about Linux RetroPie:
If anyone can help to confirm that most mame games works better on the Linux version
it depends on what games, and what mame core. anything that slows down on the rpi3 will likely be perfect on your pc, but compatibility and accuracy should be the same.
The main games are Mame games such as Spider-Man the arcade game, Ninja Baseball Bat Man (runs a little slugish on my RPI3) and the Golden Axe games and since on a PC there will be a few fans installed i wont have to worry about heating issues when installing Mame 2016 (Which i use on my RPI3 and makes certain games a little more stable).
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I have a new question i would like to ask because i am a little curious about this and thinking of building another Linux machine with RetroPie in it and that is this embedded solution motherboard which i would like to know if it would be something more than capable for running arcade games because this one i plan on building a machine for my cousin.
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MAME will always benefit by as much horsepower as you can give it. While I can't speak to that particular board, a friend of mine recently built a cabinet with something similarly speced and it'll run almost anything you throw at it.
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@mediamogul said in Curious question about Linux RetroPie:
MAME will always benefit by as much horsepower as you can give it. While I can't speak to that particular board, a friend of mine recently built a cabinet with something similarly speced and it'll run almost anything you throw at it.
Ok thanks cause with the case (comes with a 200W PSU) and 4gb of memory the complete system will cost me 200$ and i do plan on installing the 32 bit Ubuntu.
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I was trying to get Retro Pie to work on a Lenovo ThinkPad 11E (4GB ram, Intel N2940 Quad-Core)running the 64Bit Ubuntu. Results were hit and miss. I would guess since you are using a desktop you should fair a little better though
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@DragonSparks said in Curious question about Linux RetroPie:
I was trying to get Retro Pie to work on a Lenovo ThinkPad 11E (4GB ram, Intel N2940 Quad-Core)running the 64Bit Ubuntu. Results were hit and miss. I would guess since you are using a desktop you should fair a little better though
You should try again because i saw video's on youtube getting it to work with older celeron laptops
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I'll have to watch the video and give it another go. Mine seemed to crash now and again. It said something like it had detected an error.
Thanks for the video link. I just subscribed not too long ago still going over his videos. -
@DragonSparks said in Curious question about Linux RetroPie:
I'll have to watch the video and give it another go. Mine seemed to crash now and again. It said something like it had detected an error.
Thanks for the video link. I just subscribed not too long ago still going over his videos.Watching his video's got me into the whole RetroPie RPI3 which helped me to understand that i could build an arcade machine for so little.
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Hi guys again just wanted to ask if this might be considered a little overkill for a Linux RetroPie machine.
getting a Q6600 with the motherboard and heat sink for 50$
HD 5850 1GB for 30$
Case with a 500W (cheapish PSU) for 40$
and i already have a back up 1TB HDD
Also note that this is all Canadian funds as well and just wanted to know with a complete setup like that if it would be overkill.
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