Asus Tinker Board
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I'm waiting for a board like this with good retropie support. I think the pricetag for the hardware is still ok. The Pi3 is already a really good system and it has a great community, but it could use some more power here and there. Sadly, I don't think we will see a Pi4 before 2018 :(
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Anyone tested Retropie on the Asus Tinker ?? Hopefully it will work :-)
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I wasted a couple of hours on it yesterday. No luck.
First of all the most basic stuff don't work well on the ASUS OS they offer now.
I had to fix apt-get as well as locale settings and ntp. After having a decently working OS I first I tried to force the __platform variable of the Retropie manual installation script to all the default options and I had no success.
Then I went for pi2 as it is at least a similar architecture 32bit, installation went through with missing dependencies and so I tried to compile EmulationStation manually. After wasting a couple of hours on that I discovered I had to compile libSDL with special options, which I did, but still compilation of EmulationStation failed.
I learned a lot and I would have to wipe the OS and redo all the steps manually, however no time in the next few days. Honestly it's a pain, I wouldn't recommend getting this Asus board for this purpose at this stage. I got it just because it was a super promo deal at 35€ with a cheap plastic case, but the pi3 would have been a wiser choice in the end.
If retropie adds the Support I'll be happy to donate a bunch of money to save another half day of work :) -
@stereodark
It's good to learn new things!If retropie adds the Support I'll be happy to donate a bunch of money to save another half day of work :)
Maybe you should purchase one for BuZz and donate a bunch of money ;-)
If he actually had one to "tinker" on, I could see the odds of RetroPie getting ported to ASUS Tinker Board being greatly increased! -
@stereodark Thanks for your heads up! Honestly I'm surprised Asus software us that bad, I think a good software base is one of the most important steps to build a healthy community.
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This is too bad, I'm going to buy another pi or tinker board next month and this was a big consideration. I was hoping that the increased power would have let some of the emulators run without overclocking.
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Note I have one of these boards now (Thanks to ASUS for offering/sending one) , so will be looking into compatibility with RetroPie on it in the near future.
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@BuZz this is awesome news. I hope it works out. I really want to upgrade.
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@BuZz Please share the results :))
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@BuZz interested to see how it turns out!
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Hi BuZz,
did you get it work with RetroPie ?? :)
And is it much faster than PI 3 ?
If yes i will buy one...
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@Rotarum I will update when I have news. There is no timeline for this.
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@BuZz ok Thanks :) Hopefully you can test it soon when you have time...
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ASUS announced yesterday they are now selling the tinker board in North America ...
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Hi all, I just received my Tinker Board.
Tinker OS is pretty much the only OS that booted right off the bat. Tinker Board is certainly faster than the Pi, however I am not sure how much that matters to some of us.
I will do some testing and report back.
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hey guys. just joined that community. Bought a Pi3 a week ago. loved it so much went to buy another today and bought the tinkerboard instead. found a video of someone getting retroarch to work anyone have any luck finding out he did it?
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I think ETA Prime has a video on it. Search it on YouTube. It is buggy, though. I don't assume we'll be able to use the Tinker Board anytime soon.
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I bought one yesterday, and managed to get retroarch on it. I like it alot, but the image is still in beta and has issues. Once it gets hardware acceleration, I think things will run alot better then.
I also compiled Mednafen multi emulator and it runs a little better.
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@KryPtAlIvIaN how did you get retroarch to work? Any videos you watched on how to make it work? Or did you put one on youtube?
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@memothejanitor yeah I think I watched that video but he is just showing how the roms are playing. He doesn't explain how he got arch to work..... I don't think
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