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[quote=104123]I tried Recalbox a while ago, and it is extremely basic compared to Retropie.[/quote]
“basic” ? hum… To the side plug and play, we agree. Recalbox is much easier to access. For scalability by the user, retropie is more open to an advanced user.

[quote=104123]Whilst all the things you’ve mentioned are nice touches on ES, the performance and version of the emulators used aren’t very good.[/quote]
Emulators used are the same as retropie. But Recalbox use the Update system for update the emulators core. All the emulators are not included to avoid having too big distribution. Only the more “stable” and “compatible” known are inclued. Retropie is open and you can update yoursalf the retroarch, mupen64, piFBA, etc, etc core. For the “performance” it’s subjective point no ?

[quote=104123]and support has been slow/bad. I’ve asked questions on there that have gone ignored for months, and there is only one main guy that works on it, who is busy now as he has another job. Retropie in comparison has immense support and community backing.[/quote]
For support, indeed, as you say the retropie community is much older and therefore larger. Recalbox a smaller community, but we try to help as much as possible all users and there is a good group of users that help as they can. :).

For conclued and replay to the topic subject, for me retropie and recalbox is two very nice open source distributions for players. We have the choice and that is verry nice and good for all of us. :)

Retropie is a raspbian based, distribution. More open, you can add packages yoursalfe, make your choice of emulator for all the system. Try a update core or a alpha / beta core for a new system quickly. But you necessary edit configurations files for a working system.

Recalbox is a buildroot based, distribution. You have an update system option. It’s plug and play solution. You have a only one configuration file if you want change options and a majors configuration avalable by the emulationstation menu. But you can’t add paquages yoursalf. You need to wait an recalbox update for that.

For me, retropie is more easier for advanced users and recalbox is more easier for newbie users. But both give you a realy good experience of retrogaming on raspberry. Both is open source and both have a nice and good community. After, it’s everyone to make his choice according to his expectations and his tastes =). It’s open source, try it ! :D.
There is no competition to see who have the biggest. (simple because it’s me :p).

Tank’s for all the developpers and contributors of the open source world. We are lucky to have you :).

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Tanks for your try barryk.
give us news ! :)

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Hello.

Just to say that I will follow this post and cheers for your search !
The idea of running street fighter 3 on my raspberry makes me salivate!

Hate to hear from you! :D

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