Can an Original Pi Model B Cope with Retropie?

dankcushions

@jamesbeat said in Can an Original Pi Model B Cope with Retropie?:

I have a Sony Xperia Play phone that I bought specifically to run emulators. It has a 1GHz single core ARM processor with 512MB memory just like the Zero, yet it can run Hataroid (the Android port of Hatari) with aplomb, in fact it can run PSX fine too, and even does a pretty good job with N64.

which generation of ARM processor? is your phone this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xperia_Play ? it looks like the MSM8255 is ARMv7. ARMv7 has better IPC than ARMv11 (pi1)/ARMv6 (zero), for example, which makes that phone probably more like an overclocked pi2 (which is fine with PSX etc). you can't just compare clockspeed.

also, that's a dedicated gaming phone so the RAM and system bus is probably more set for the task than the pi1. the GPU is probably better which would make a huge difference specifically in N64.

jamesbeat

@dankcushions said in Can an Original Pi Model B Cope with Retropie?:

@jamesbeat said in Can an Original Pi Model B Cope with Retropie?:

I have a Sony Xperia Play phone that I bought specifically to run emulators. It has a 1GHz single core ARM processor with 512MB memory just like the Zero, yet it can run Hataroid (the Android port of Hatari) with aplomb, in fact it can run PSX fine too, and even does a pretty good job with N64.

which generation of ARM processor? is your phone this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xperia_Play ? it looks like the MSM8255 is ARMv7. ARMv7 has better IPC than ARMv11 (pi1)/ARMv6 (zero), for example, which makes that phone probably more like an overclocked pi2 (which is fine with PSX etc). you can't just compare clockspeed.

also, that's a dedicated gaming phone so the RAM and system bus is probably more set for the task than the pi1. the GPU is probably better which would make a huge difference specifically in N64.

That makes sense.
I guess I'll buy a Pi3 and turn my Zero into a Kodi box or something.

Drakaen391

the pi1 b (512mb version) isn't to bad... and can run some PSX games...

I was able to play pac man world on it using the .cue/.bin extracted from the disk with no problems as well as a couple others (crash bandicoot and such)

though more graphic intensive games like Tony Hawk was unplayable...

and N64 on Pi1 was near impossible...