PINE A64 EmulationStation a Flop? Or I'm noob?

[Luke]

Hi all,

So i have Ubuntu install on the pine as well as retroarch and emulationstation. If version is needed to help ill post it later.
Everything is running, but the performance and small issues are killing me. 

Retroarch: seem to have been installed properly however when i launch it, the menu appears and no controller, keyboard or mouse seems able to move it at all.search the web and tryu to change the conf regarding the to set all the possible values, result = 0 .... input_driver = "udev"


Emulationstation: running but as it enter everything is so dam slow, the controllers didnt work properly i was able to set some buttons, but not all it seem it didnt respond... try other remotes same situation. was able to set the keyboard perfectly. but the perfomance of the menu is awful and not responding it seams.,,,,

So i dont know if is the OS, the conf, the pine or the user : HELP????

Hey 

What controller are you using ? - if xbox360, then did you download the xbox controller driver ? 

Regarding performance, you will have to wait a little bit for the devs to harness the power of mali on Pine64 ... on the Pi you have the OpenGL driver (I think its OpenGL ES?), hence the difference in performance. 

For the time being, why not give android/ remix os emulation a go ? -- works pretty good

Hiya,

Thanks for the reply. 
Using some generic ones (similar to nes controller) and a ps3 with cable (only try this one on ubuntu).

Yeah i'm doing that , wait a bit more for the guru's. Regarding the android/remix I preferred to buy the pi3 and its working perfectly till now. So I'm going to use the pine a64 for other project, but will try to do this is linux after some other updates from dev comes along, I saved the images so it will be easy to revert back to any try i did on the pass.

The Gurus are hard at work - just wait a few months (remember that the Pi has been out for years!) 
Good you've saved the work you've done on the images; would you mind sharing the process you went through to get retroarch+ emulationstation (particularily interested in the latter) working on the ubuntu img ? If you've written code, did you submit it to Github ? 
Good work! Its a start