The new Raspberry Pi 4 is here!!
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@Lionheart Every emulator needs an operating system. RetroPie isn't available for Pi 4 yet, so we can't do anything about that. They are working on it. There are other general purpose operating systems like Debian (also Linux), where you can install emulators for it. Or there are other RetroPie like all-in-one solutions, but I am not familiar with them and I don't know if any of them are ready for Pi 4. See, the Pi 4 is very new and the developers need time to adapt. Just wait a little longer of buy a Pi 3 to play with it until its ready for your newer Pi 4.
Like @matchaman said, you can read the documentation, watch videos about RetroPie and prepare yourself for it.
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@matchaman Agreed. My pi4 just arrived so I tried some emulators that only ran on desktop and it was just unusable garbage.
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I'm super excited about running Retropie when it is ready for the Raspberry Pi 4. I'm not a very patient person, so instead of waiting idly by, I donated to the cause. It may not get Retropie to me any faster, but I feel good that I'm helping in some small way.
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Seems like the 4 GB models are in at most microcenter stores if you look now! I got mine reserved.
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@mostlymustard said in The new Raspberry Pi 4 is here!!:
I'm super excited about running Retropie when it is ready for the Raspberry Pi 4. I'm not a very patient person, so instead of waiting idly by, I donated to the cause. It may not get Retropie to me any faster, but I feel good that I'm helping in some small way.
Same, the best £25 donation I made outside health-causes :)
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@thelostsoul said in The new Raspberry Pi 4 is here!!:
@Lionheart Every emulator needs an operating system. RetroPie isn't available for Pi 4 yet...
RetroPie is not an operating system, it's an emulation frontend (emulationstation) + emulators + various other programs and scripts. When you get a preconfigured image for the raspberry pi, it uses Rasbian which is the official operating system for the pi.
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@cacophony555 Well, not wrong, RetroPie is a distribution in this case. RetroPie IS an operating system based on Rasbian, including a software bundle and configuration called RetroPie too. My point was, he cannot just install any standalone application and needs some kind of operating system.
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@thelostsoul said in The new Raspberry Pi 4 is here!!:
@cacophony555 Well, not wrong, RetroPie is a distribution in this case. RetroPie IS an operating system based on Rasbian, including a software bundle and configuration called RetroPie too. My point was, he cannot just install any standalone application and needs some kind of operating system.
No it really isn't. I don't think you know what an operating system is 😀
You could say the retropie image includes an operating system. The operating system is raspian. Retropie is not based on it. It's some programs on top of it.
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@cacophony555 said in The new Raspberry Pi 4 is here!!:
No it really isn't. I don't think you know what an operating system is 😀
I think I know what an operating system is. RetroPie is a distribution, including several applications and configuration on top of an existing os. That is the definition of distribution, which is an os. Otherwise, is Ubuntu based on Debian not an operating system? Or Linux Mint, which based on Ubuntu.
Shockingly, Rasbian is based on Debian.
You could say the retropie image includes an operating system. The operating system is raspian. Retropie is not based on it. It's some programs on top of it.
I would argue that you don't know what a distribution is. Quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection
Just because Raspbian got rebranded and reconfigured, does not change the fact that the RetroPie Image is an functional OS.
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@thelostsoul said in The new Raspberry Pi 4 is here!!:
@cacophony555 said in The new Raspberry Pi 4 is here!!:
No it really isn't. I don't think you know what an operating system is 😀
I think I know what an operating system is. RetroPie is a distribution, including several applications and configuration on top of an existing os. That is the definition of distribution, which is an os. Otherwise, is Ubuntu based on Debian not an operating system? Or Linux Mint, which based on Ubuntu.
Shockingly, Rasbian is based on Debian.
You could say the retropie image includes an operating system. The operating system is raspian. Retropie is not based on it. It's some programs on top of it.
I would argue that you don't know what a distribution is. Quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection
Nah, distribution isn't really the right term either, which is why you won't find that term used on the retropie site
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@cacophony555 Can you explain why distribution isn't the right term?? It is by definition correct. The RetroPie Image is based on an existing base os, with additional and changed software collection and pre configuration. This is exactly what Linux Mint does. At the end, whatever you call it, the RetroPie image is a functional operating system, regardless of its name.
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@thelostsoul The definition of distro gets a bit fuzzy. Raspbian is definitely a distro. I guess retropie might be called that too. But referring to retropie as an OS sounds very wrong to me considering that Raspbian is mostly untouched.
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@cacophony555 But the RetroPie image is an operating system. I know it is just rebranded, but that does not change its nature. Say you have Raspbian and you make some tweaks like RetroPie did and publish it in the internet. The only difference is, that you don't change the name. Would it still not be an operating system?
Whatever, we did discuss this off topic for too long here. :D lets just says we both are right somehow, because like you said, the term is a bit fuzzy and to be honest, it does not matter. ;-) But it was somewhat nice to argue.
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I always read in the Docs as Retropie is installed on Raspbian Lite. You can simply install Retropie itself onto a pre-existing Raspbian Lite or Raspbian full install and it would be no different as using the premade image. I don't think the kernel is modified but I could be wrong.
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What I am curious about is if anyone has been able to test any of the emulators yet on the Pi 4 to see performance gains. That is, if any of them have been updated to utilize the Pi 4 specifically.
"If you're gonna play the Game Boy, You gotta learn to play it right" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLGl92ETNQ
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@KN4THX Hard to say since whatever's out is un-optimized. Drivers need work too. I tried Lakka. TaitoF3 games that run slow on mame2003plus and extremely slow on fbneo on a pi3 run at fullspeed on neo with slight drops.
Flycast has major graphic bugs that makes most games completely unplayable. Like, Fist of the North star (atomiswave) ran at around 50-55fps but I can't distinguish anything due to the graphic bugs.
Using the "glcore" driver instead of the "gl" driver made the menu go from ~30fps to ~55fps.
Saturn is still unplayable. If it it'll ever be, who knows. I tried the slower libretro version, though.
Overall it's not worth the time right now. Lakka corrupts itself eventually. Maybe it's my card. -
@Darksavior said in The new Raspberry Pi 4 is here!!:
Flycast has major graphic bugs that makes most games completely unplayable. Like, Fist of the North star (atomiswave) ran at around 50-55fps but I can't distinguish anything due to the graphic bugs.
Looks like the widescreen hack produces some artifacts, the game seems to run close to 60 fps otherwise
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@Darksavior There's no RetroPie build atm, but tests and developments are taking place. It's just a Raspbian Buster system running RA and the
lr-flycastcore, under the same build conditions as on Lakka (i.e. using the KMS driver, no X.org). I thinklr-flycastadded some quirks for the PI4 drivers at some point, maybe an more recent version would work better.
The menus/qte are running at 20-30 fps and exhibit some glitches, but during gameplay it's 59.x FPS, without any frameskip active. -
I'm most interested in the performance increase using shaders. I only care about systems until the 32 bit era, which all run fine enough on Pi3, but most shaders are completely unuseable on the pi3 due to the graphics chip being ancient. Would really love if the CRT-lottes shaders would run at 60fps @ 720p. :)
CRT-Royale would be even better, but that's one bridge too far i think.
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