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Emulator (possibly retroarch) performance on 6.0 TV? - pqueiro - 01-23-2017
Hey guys
One of my goals with the Pine is to build a little emulator machine just for giggles. My ultimate performance goal would be a Dreamcast emulator, but I'll settle for Mario Kart 64 and be happy with it
So after I gave up on proper 3d acceleration in Linux (lack of drivers and upstream support I guess) I went ahead and installed Ayufan's 6.0 TV Android build, and it's close to perfect
Sound works, image works, my x360 controllers work, Plex works a treat, but performance in N64 games is iffy, borderline playable at best.
So my question is: what are the highest performing emulators for the pine? I'm most interested in N64 right now, but I'll take advice on any Nintendo or Sega platform (S/NES, GB*, Genesis, Saturn, DC, etc) and even the PS1, though that's the bottom of my priority list.
Right now I have retroarch 1.3.6 installed from the playstore. I configured the basics (directories, controllers, etc) and installed a bunch of cores from the online updater; it all mostly works, but the N64 shows very poor performance. I'm assuming I could've chosen better cores where there were alternatives, and that video settings can be fiddled with.
What are the best cores? What are the best video settings to maximise performance? Should I have gone for a nightly build? Which one?
Are there emulators other than retroarch with top-notch performance? I don't mind having to choose different apps.
Would Ayufan's 7.0 Android build be a better choice? I don't mind moving there either
Thanks for any and all advice
RE: Emulator (possibly retroarch) performance on 6.0 TV? - nukedawg - 01-23-2017
I recently started using Ayufan's 6.0 tablet build about a month ago and am very impressed with it so far. But have only had time to test a few emulators out including a few N64 cores/emulators. With Retroarch, which I would rather use, the 3 (?) cores available did not perform but found that Mupen64plus FZ edition works beautifully with the Pine64. I tried a few games such as 1080, Goldeneye, Mario Kart, and Paper Mario and am really impressed with both the emulator and Ayufan's 6.0 build. I believe the FZ edition is optimized for speed compared to the other Mupen64Plus AE version, and any of the Retroarch cores.
Here is link to FZ version; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mupen64plusae.v3.fzurita
RE: Emulator (possibly retroarch) performance on 6.0 TV? - ayufan - 01-25-2017
System is configured to allow foreground apps to use 4 cores, always.
It is defined by these configuration options: https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/device-softwinner/blob/nougat/tulip-chiphd/init.sun50iw1p1.rc#L161
RE: Emulator (possibly retroarch) performance on 6.0 TV? - pqueiro - 01-26-2017
(01-25-2017, 02:55 PM)ayufan Wrote: System is configured to allow foreground apps to use 4 cores, always.
It is defined by these configuration options: https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/device-softwinner/blob/nougat/tulip-chiphd/init.sun50iw1p1.rc#L161
Thanks for the great work!
every other app I've tried seems to work just fine, it's only the emulators that I can't seem to sort out. Do you have any advice? Any preferred video modes, configuration tweaks?...I tried the FZ version of mupen64plus and it is better than retroarch's, but it's still not perfect. I'll fiddle with the settings to see if I can sort it out.
Thanks for all the advice!
Edit: after fiddling around with retroarch cores and video plugins I've managed to bring video speed up to a reasonable state. However, retroarch is now not producing sound (mupen64plus FZ does produce sound, as do many other apps -- so it's a retroarch issue). Any thoughts?