Asus Tinker Board
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Is RetroPie compatible with Asus Tinker Board? or is there a port planned?
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@Greakon no and no. :-) (this may change of course).
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Just for reference:
Getting towards double the price of a Pi though at £55, so maybe not competition:
http://cpc.farnell.com/asus/90mb0qy1-m0eay0/tinker-board-2gb-1-8ghz-4k-gb/dp/SC14363- Quad core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A17 CPU - 2GB Dual channel LPDDR3 memory - Gigabit LAN and Bluetooth 4.0 + EDR connectivity - 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi - 4x USB 2.0 ports - 40-pin Internal header with 28 GPIO pins - Contact points for PWM and S/PDIF signals - 1x 3.5mm Audio jack connection - CSI port for camera connection - DSI port supporting HD resolution - 1x HDMI 2.0 port to support 4K resolution - Micro SD port supports UHS-I - Supports Debian OS with KODI - Power supply: 5V/ 2A Micro USB (not included) -
@Floob With those specs (a quick search reports its benchmarking at twice the Pi's speed), I'd be very interested. Could allow us to emulate later-gen systems like the N64, Dreamcast, and PS2, which are currently glitchy or impossible to run.
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I was just composing a post about the Tinker Board. I know its more expensive than the Rasberry but its specs are pretty crazy.
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If we can get enough intrest in this board we might be able to convince them to port it over. :)
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@Greakon
I bet if you purchased one and gave it to BuZz, he might work on porting RetroPie over to it ;) -
After further investigating, it looks like the Asus ChromeBit shares the same processor as the Tinker Board. I'm not sure if they share the same GPU but if they do share all the hardware, then if RetroPie got ported to the Tinker Board, it might also work on those ChromeBits as well.
To me though, RetroPie's first love is the Raspberry Pi and as long as "The Foundation" keeps supporting their efforts, RetroPie will always have a home. Asus has a long way to go before it has the community support that the Raspberry Pi already has today.
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Honestly, It would probably run without porting anything.... The Tinker board runs Debian so it should be a matter of just doing the manual install....
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@nullhart It would likely need more than that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/5pxb9h/yeah_but_can_it_run_retropie/
RetroPie will need to include support for it. If it has X with h/w opengl (not gles), it may be possible to get somewhere with a generic X11 + opengl build, but it may well need more work than that (and for running on the framebuffer, some of the existing mali code may work, but it expects specific packages to be available - eg mali-fbdev as shipped with odroid ubuntu etc).
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I have one and whilst not tried retropie yet can offer these insights:
OS images are pre-installed debian with lxsession.
The kodi version is the same with kodi pre-installed, but still boots to lxdesktop.
(User linaro pass linaro - not documented anywhere)Pulseaudio doesn't detect an hdmi sink, so even though kodi runs, unless you have usb audio hw, its silence.
I've put it back on a shelf as i don't have the time just now, but hopefully things will improve.
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See Asus! It's not as easy as it seems to make a Pi clone! ;-)
If Asus doesn't get behind their Tinker Board than it's not going anywhere. -
if this ever came to work with retropie i would buy one in a heartbeat. i do like that its the same size so it will fit nicely in my pi modded systems
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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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