Which Emulator should I target?

[ras_oscar]

I am running a current retropie 32 bit installed from the disk image link on a raspberry pi 4 (4gb)

I am looking for a target console to emulate with clean graphics on a 25" computer monitor.

I installed and ran a few GBA games and was not happy with the graphic (I know, I can reduce the image size and improve its appearance) There simply isn't sufficient information available to fill the screen and produce an immersive environment.

I downloaded a few PS2 games only to read further and learn that the PS2 emulator won't run satisfactorily on RPi and therefore is not included in my distribution.

What system emulator would the braintrust recommend I target to get a good balance of image quality at 22" and an acceptable framerate?

[Floob]

@ras_oscar
I always find SNES and Megadrive great to test with. Very straightforward to run and configure.

[dankcushions]

@ras_oscar

I installed and ran a few GBA games and was not happy with the graphic (I know, I can reduce the image size and improve its appearance) There simply isn't sufficient information available to fill the screen and produce an immersive environment.

i don't really understand what you mean by this. can you get much 'cleaner' than low resolution 2d graphics? there's no blur, the lines are crisp. as far as 'filling the screen' - they are 4:3 (actually GBA is 3:2) so it's going to have vertical borders on a widescreen monitor, but you can stretch the image to fill the screen via aspect ratio options in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Configuration-Editor/ - but it's not clear to me if that's what you're referring to.

[jamrom2]

@ras_oscar I'm not sure what you're expecting to see on a 22" screen that is emulating a handheld that is roughly 3" in size.

Try each emulator and see if that works for you. Are you a C64 era, A2600 era, PS1 era... Laserdisc... You have to decide... Not the "braintrust", as we already decided on our own as well.

I have 51 systems working on my RP unit. I like them all.