Asus Tinker Board
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I recently acquired a Tinker Board to play with RetroPie. While this is still an ongoing process, I did run into the same SDL2 and mali-fbdev problems mentioned above. When I contacted Asus, they provided source code modifications to compile fbdev support into the Debian kernel. Even after I recompiled my kernel and forced the core components of RetroPie to compile, I still end up with the error message about being unable to initialize SDL2.
I'm not really surprised by my results thus far. The Tinker Board is relatively new to the market (the oldest post in this thread is six months ago). I'll just have to keep trying different options and with the help of the internet, everything will eventually work correctly on the Tinker Board. -
Launchbox says that it can launch through Kodi.
I just bought a tinker board in hopes to make an emulator. I have seen a lot of people being able to install and run Kodi on the tinker board.
On PC I have used a launchbox as it makes your library of roms look a little nicer then other emulators and adds box art to the roms etc all that crap. They have wrote that there is a plugin called big box that you can download for Kodi on the Launchbox website.
I dont know if this helps anyone. I will give this a shot when the board arrives on wednesday and tell you guys what happened. If anyone wants to give this a go and report back what happened that would be really helpful.
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Any luck on this? I'm waiting on a success to grab a tinker board myself.
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@BuZz Are there any updates yet? I just used my Raspberry for another Project so i will buy a new one soon just for RetroPie. Is there support for thinkerboard now or still not for a while?
Depending on that i will buy a second raspberry or a tinkerboard.
Thanks for your answer and have a nice day!
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@multidjroni No. I have said I will update the thread when I have news.
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Doesn't the Tinker Board have something like Ubuntu on it so you could run retropie that way or do they use a totally different OS because i never really researched it.
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So far I have just been running this on android.
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@dannybeatz said in Asus Tinker Board:
So far I have just been running this on android.
Right now they have Debian which is also in beta as well but worth a shot to try out and see if the Linux version of RetroPie will work.
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@ecks It won't work. Different hardware. RetroPie image targets the RPI specifically.
To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@buzz said in Asus Tinker Board:
@ecks It won't work. Different hardware. RetroPie image targets the RPI specifically.
But what about this then because that doesn't look to be on RPI and i have seen video's of people installing it on older laptops as well.
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@ecks That's a source build for X86 because we support OpenGL targets on top of X.
The tinker board support will also be a source install on top of X. Code changes are needed.
To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@buzz said in Asus Tinker Board:
@ecks That's a source build for X86 because we support OpenGL targets on top of X.
The tinker board support will also be a source install on top of X. Code changes are needed.
But it still doesn't hurt for him to try it out and find out if it might work out because if i had a Tinker Board and a old 8gb SD card (which i would install the OS onto) i would test it out.
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@ecks It would be a waste of time though as it won't work. The RetroPie image wouldn't even boot as the boards have different hardware / firmware / boot systems.
As for a manual source install on top of Ubuntu - it will need code changes. I have already got stuff working, but it's not finished. Anyone with some knowledge can try out my WIP branch - https://github.com/joolswills/RetroPie-Setup/tree/tinker_board - but note I won't offer any support at this stage as it's still a WIP.
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@buzz said in Asus Tinker Board:
@ecks It would be a waste of time though as it won't work. The RetroPie image wouldn't even boot as the boards have different hardware / firmware / boot systems.
As for a manual source install on top of Ubuntu - it will need code changes. I have already got stuff working, but it's not finished. Anyone with some knowledge can try out my WIP branch - https://github.com/joolswills/RetroPie-Setup/tree/tinker_board - but note I won't offer any support at this stage as it's still a WIP.
I'm hoping you get this fully functional. The tinker board's specs alone might bridge the gap and let N64 run smooth..
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@phoenixjedi the n64 doesn't even run smooth on a PC so I wouldn't hold your breath
If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/
Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@herb_fargus said in Asus Tinker Board:
@phoenixjedi the n64 doesn't even run smooth on a PC so I wouldn't hold your breath
I have it running quite smooth on an overclocked PI3 at 1400. I don't like to OC it though, even though i have it heatsinked and fan cooled.
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@herb_fargus said in Asus Tinker Board:
@phoenixjedi the n64 doesn't even run smooth on a PC so I wouldn't hold your breath
I sort of wonder what kind of PC you're running because my back up system with a C2Q and a GTS 450 can play N64 games at 60 frames and looks pretty smooth.
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@dannybeatz hey bro did u ever get retropie to work thru kodi?
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@buzz
did it change yet? -
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