Asus Tinker Board

Ecks

@sirhenrythe5th said in Asus Tinker Board:

This thread makes me hate the TinkerBoard without ever owning one.
Gosh, if you are not happy with the performance of a Raspberry go and buy yourself a watercooled Intel Extreme CPU Based PC and leave us alone.

Why would people need a water cooled Intel Extreme PC for emulation?

sirhenrythe5th

@ecks why do people buy 5.3 litre V8 cars to drive to MC Donalds?
And i think it is the performance that matters you, or are you a die hard Asus fanboy?
You could play Demons Souls on the PS3-Emulator in 4k with 400 fps or something like that.

izaaner

Hi BuZz, Just want to say thank you for looking at porting retropie to Tinker Board. I have one and am trying Android for now. I mainly am commenting to say that while I am excited to see the progress everyone needs to relax. Development on other hardware for something explicitly designed for a specific architecture takes time. I would not be surprised to not hear much for a month or two or more depending on your life, hurdles in porting/debugging, etc.

Please calm down if you are excited about this and be patient. It is awesome that Asus reached out and I hope it works out! Thank you BuZz and good luck!

Ecks

@sirhenrythe5th said in Asus Tinker Board:

@ecks why do people buy 5.3 litre V8 cars to drive to MC Donalds?
And i think it is the performance that matters you, or are you a die hard Asus fanboy?
You could play Demons Souls on the PS3-Emulator in 4k with 400 fps or something like that.

This is more retro emulation not modern emulation and also the PS3 emulator is still in Alpha which you wont even get 60 fps for Demon's Soul and people that are testing games using i7's and GTX 1080 Ti's are getting more or less a stable 60 fps and that is for the Street Fighter II game only which honestly by the time you see a full working PS3 emulator we will be on PS5 or PS6 and people would want a PS4/PS5 emulator.

Also as mentioned this is mainly retro gaming for emulators which most people that comes on here that might have problems would be for something like N64 or Dreamcast so using a watercooled system for emulation is pointless because really for even PS2 emulation all you need is a 1st gen i3/i5 with a GTX 550 Ti and a PS2 right now is a little more retro as well.

One other thing to mention is for my desktop i do use Asus i do find them to be a reliable company when it comes down to Motherboards and GPU's i personally have not used a tinker board from them so i don't know what the experience would be like with it but it is still a nice concept from what i have seen in video's.

BuZz

Just a quick update. I have a few things to test out after some email exchanges with ASUS some weeks ago. I have been very busy on other things though, so I won't be continuing the Tinker Board support until after RetroPie 4.3 (which I am working on releasing asap).

Arcie

@BuZz You are the man! And I mean that in, like, I have a lot of admiration for you, not like you are a representative of big business trying to keep the little person down... Hope that was clear enough =)

My getting a Tinker Board is entirely based on your progress so I wish you luck. That being said, to everyone who thinks they are owed this or who can't be patient and let the guy work at a pace, just get out! You have paid nothing for this system. You have done nothing to earn it. He'll have it when he has it, move along.

Methanoid

I would have thought Asus would be offering help... things like Kodi and RetroPie will sell their boards. I am also waiting for RetroPie before buying one... I bet many people are.

Thanks for the update Buzz!

PhoenixJedi

@buzz said in Asus Tinker Board:

Just a quick update. I have a few things to test out after some email exchanges with ASUS some weeks ago. I have been very busy on other things though, so I won't be continuing the Tinker Board support until after RetroPie 4.3 (which I am working on releasing asap).

Thanks Buzz, I'll be picking up a tinkerboard soon, so I'll be able to help betatest if you need it?

Ecks

@buzz If you do not mind me asking but what changes will their be in RetroPie 4.3?

PhoenixJedi

@buzz said in Asus Tinker Board:

Just a quick update. I have a few things to test out after some email exchanges with ASUS some weeks ago. I have been very busy on other things though, so I won't be continuing the Tinker Board support until after RetroPie 4.3 (which I am working on releasing asap).

When you're ready, I just picked up a tinker board. I may be able to help/test anything you need.

HurricaneFan

@ecks Here is what will be in 4.3:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12927/retropie-4-2-22-image-testing-will-become-retropie-4-3/1

PhoenixJedi

I just tried something on the tinkerboard.. It turns out theres an ubuntu distribution called Armbian. I have it installing retropie on the tinker right now.

PhoenixJedi

Got a little something.. In Armbian, you can install mali drivers -- https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/1420-opengl-on-mali-gpu-bananapi-orangepi-pc-etc/

architect_x

@phoenixjedi Excited to hear how this goes. I may have to go down this route till official support.

PhoenixJedi

@architect_x said in Asus Tinker Board:

@phoenixjedi Excited to hear how this goes. I may have to go down this route till official support.

Well, I got the driver to compile and it seems to work, downside I can not get retropie to compile. I am missing libraries for this. The problem here is I am more familiar with RPM based linux distributions than I am debian based. I do not know the package names that are missing, where on SuSE, I just have ALL the C/C++ libraries installed. I'd need more of a debian expert to get this running. However, GLXGears works, and was showing 110fps.

mitu

Usually on Debian based distributions the dev packages are named libXYZ-dev, as opposed to RPM (Centos, SuSE) distros, where usually the name is XYZ-devel.

The RP script works on Ubuntu and installs the appropriate packages before compiling the modules it includes, but I think the script does not detect you're on an Ubuntu distro and doesn't know how/what to get.

PhoenixJedi

@mitu Yeah, its missing a lot of stuff.

PhoenixJedi

In the process of compiling retropie on lubuntu.. (there's a tinkerboard version of it that seems to have full Mali GPU support. Cross your fingers and hope this works!

PhoenixJedi

No luck with TinkerOS or lUbuntu. EmulationStation segfaults.

PhoenixJedi

Ok good news. Retroarch works with TinkerOS Android, and it DEFINITELY has the BEEF to play N64 games at 60fps. (Super Smash Bros, which had known audio issues and lag especially againts yoshi team runs 100%)