Can RetroPie work on an Orange Pi?

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02/01/2016 at 14:52 #115863

cyandog
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Hi, I am a complete noob when it comes to RetroPie and Raspberry Pi, but I noticed that the Orange Pi One has a 1.2 GHZ processor which seems good for emulating consoles like the N64 or PS1. Is it possible for a RetroPie Image to work on an Orange Pi? If not, can the Raspberry Pi A+ emulate N64 games and PS1 games? All I really want to know is that if an Orange Pi could use Retrope and if a Pi A+ could emulate N64 games or PS1 games.

02/01/2016 at 16:32 #115883

herbfargus
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Stay away from allwinner chips, they have terrible driver support and would have far too many incompatibilities to run retropie.

And no the A+ will not emulate the n64 or ps1 the raspberry pi 2 barely even emulates them. Those are best left to a pc if you want something playable.

02/01/2016 at 16:44 #115887

labelwhore
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n64 and ps1 run pretty well on an overclocked Pi 2. There’s some slowdown and other issues, but I think that’s the best we’re gonna get without more cost.

02/01/2016 at 16:46 #115888

cyandog
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Could the Raspberry Pi A+ potentially emulate N64 games through overclocking?

02/01/2016 at 16:56 #115894

labelwhore
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Nope the B+ is more powerful than the A+ and the B+ struggles with PS1, the games *can* run on a B+, but not well.

You can pretty much forget about n64 games on a B+, performance is terrible.

02/01/2016 at 16:56 #115895

herbfargus
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Not playably.

02/01/2016 at 16:59 #115897

cyandog
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ok thanks.

02/24/2016 at 18:49 #118012

Anonymous
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What about the Orange Pi2 ? Would this machine be any better than the original? Anyone tried it. Will it run Retropie at all ?

02/24/2016 at 19:02 #118013

labelwhore
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My $.02 on the other microcomputers on the market: Some of them look pretty damn fast by comparison, but the size of the raspberry pi community is it’s advantage. Yes, you could probably get retropie to work on an orange pi, but not without blazing some new trails completely on your own.

02/24/2016 at 19:09 #118014

Anonymous
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They have the raspabian OS as a download on their site that’s all so figured the rpi2 image might work

02/24/2016 at 19:49 #118025

labelwhore
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I’d imagine that there are some major differences between the two, but you could always try it to find out.

Probably the better way to go would be to install the orange pi image, then try to install retropie from there. It’s much more likely to work that way since you’d have an OS compiled for the orange pi.

02/24/2016 at 20:30 #118031

petrockblog
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It won’t work – not without some RetroPie changes.
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