Retropie

[rogerba]

So I'm guessing that throwing my SD card with retropie and games all loaded onto it, isn't really going to work? I'm still super excited and looking forward to getting my board I pledged for! And more than excited to see how this emulation station turns out! 
I would be a contributing factor in this if I actually knew what I was doing but my experience is so limited, it's pathetic, and usually end up googling for hours just to find what single line of code I have to change to get what I want working.

[KryPtAlIvIaN]

So I'm guessing that throwing my SD card with retropie and games all loaded onto it, isn't really going to work? I'm still super excited and looking forward to getting my board I pledged for! And more than excited to see how this emulation station turns out! 
I would be a contributing factor in this if I actually knew what I was doing but my experience is so limited, it's pathetic, and usually end up googling for hours just to find what single line of code I have to change to get what I want working.

Rogerba,

Your retropie image will most likely give you issues. It was programmed to work around the Raspberry Pi's hardware, which will be different from the Pine64.

We have all been there. :-) I am still that way from time to time, but in the end you learn something new even if it took you two hours.

Thanks,

KryPtAlIvIaN

[rogerba]

So I'm guessing that throwing my SD card with retropie and games all loaded onto it, isn't really going to work? I'm still super excited and looking forward to getting my board I pledged for! And more than excited to see how this emulation station turns out! 
I would be a contributing factor in this if I actually knew what I was doing but my experience is so limited, it's pathetic, and usually end up googling for hours just to find what single line of code I have to change to get what I want working.

Rogerba,

Your retropie image will most likely give you issues. It was programmed to work around the Raspberry Pi's hardware, which will be different from the Pine64.

We have all been there. :-) I am still that way from time to time, but in the end you learn something new even if it took you two hours.

Thanks,

KryPtAlIvIaN

KryPtAlIvIaN,

If you have the free time, or the patience, I'd like to work along side, or at least follow along with the development of a RetroPie-like platform for this new board. I love all kinds of classic games and really enjoy building, Plus coding is something that I've always been into but would love to get into Linux programming and GUI design.

Thanks a ton,
rogersba

[KryPtAlIvIaN]

So I'm guessing that throwing my SD card with retropie and games all loaded onto it, isn't really going to work? I'm still super excited and looking forward to getting my board I pledged for! And more than excited to see how this emulation station turns out! 
I would be a contributing factor in this if I actually knew what I was doing but my experience is so limited, it's pathetic, and usually end up googling for hours just to find what single line of code I have to change to get what I want working.

Rogerba,

Your retropie image will most likely give you issues. It was programmed to work around the Raspberry Pi's hardware, which will be different from the Pine64.

We have all been there. :-) I am still that way from time to time, but in the end you learn something new even if it took you two hours.

Thanks,

KryPtAlIvIaN

KryPtAlIvIaN,

If you have the free time, or the patience, I'd like to work along side, or at least follow along with the development of a RetroPie-like platform for this new board. I love all kinds of classic games and really enjoy building, Plus coding is something that I've always been into but would love to get into Linux programming and GUI design.

Thanks a ton,
rogersba

Rogersba,

Thanks, I would appreciate your help!

Thanks,

KryPtAlIvIaN

[BigPete]

So I'm guessing that throwing my SD card with retropie and games all loaded onto it, isn't really going to work? I'm still super excited and looking forward to getting my board I pledged for! And more than excited to see how this emulation station turns out! 
I would be a contributing factor in this if I actually knew what I was doing but my experience is so limited, it's pathetic, and usually end up googling for hours just to find what single line of code I have to change to get what I want working.

Rogerba,

Your retropie image will most likely give you issues. It was programmed to work around the Raspberry Pi's hardware, which will be different from the Pine64.

We have all been there. :-) I am still that way from time to time, but in the end you learn something new even if it took you two hours.

Thanks,

KryPtAlIvIaN

KryPtAlIvIaN,

If you have the free time, or the patience, I'd like to work along side, or at least follow along with the development of a RetroPie-like platform for this new board. I love all kinds of classic games and really enjoy building, Plus coding is something that I've always been into but would love to get into Linux programming and GUI design.

Thanks a ton,
rogersba

I think the first step would be to get RetroArch ported to this platform. Might be able to base it off of the RetroArch source for the Odroid, which seems fairly similar to this.

Also might be worthwhile reaching out to some other Emulation Distro Devs (i.e. Lakka) and see if they would be interested in porting to the Pine.

[Kommander]

Hey there, 

I'm one of the devs that worked on the JXD S7800b (mainly creating ROMs, finding solutions to problems, getting emulation software working etc) so I'm happy to help in any way I can to get emulation working on the pine A64 (i've also got extensive java full stack coding experience which is likely to be very beneficial for recoding android apps for emulation). 

Let me know what you need, also the JXD uses the same GPU as the pine A64 (and emulates really well all the way up to play station 1 and N64 generation gaming.) and consequently I have a fair bit of experience working with that chipset. 

Just as a note beforehand, my first aim is to help getting multiple operating system booting from a single SD card working and helping to get Linux distros ported over as that will be the hard bit, however once thats clear I'm happy to focus on the emulation applications of the A64. 

Kommander

[KryPtAlIvIaN]

Hey there, 

I'm one of the devs that worked on the JXD S7800b (mainly creating ROMs, finding solutions to problems, getting emulation software working etc) so I'm happy to help in any way I can to get emulation working on the pine A64 (i've also got extensive java full stack coding experience which is likely to be very beneficial for recoding android apps for emulation). 

Let me know what you need, also the JXD uses the same GPU as the pine A64 (and emulates really well all the way up to play station 1 and N64 generation gaming.) and consequently I have a fair bit of experience working with that chipset. 

Just as a note beforehand, my first aim is to help getting multiple operating system booting from a single SD card working and helping to get Linux distros ported over as that will be the hard bit, however once thats clear I'm happy to focus on the emulation applications of the A64. 

Kommander

You want to get something like Berryboot or noobs ported over then?

[nomadewolf]

Hey there, 

I'm one of the devs that worked on the JXD S7800b (mainly creating ROMs, finding solutions to problems, getting emulation software working etc) so I'm happy to help in any way I can to get emulation working on the pine A64 (i've also got extensive java full stack coding experience which is likely to be very beneficial for recoding android apps for emulation). 

Let me know what you need, also the JXD uses the same GPU as the pine A64 (and emulates really well all the way up to play station 1 and N64 generation gaming.) and consequently I have a fair bit of experience working with that chipset. 

Just as a note beforehand, my first aim is to help getting multiple operating system booting from a single SD card working and helping to get Linux distros ported over as that will be the hard bit, however once thats clear I'm happy to focus on the emulation applications of the A64. 

Kommander

Good to hear.
I mainly wish to have this board a Linux Desktop, so i dont have to dual boot.
If it gets 3D acceleration i'll probaly get more than one.

[Oblivifrek]

So I'm guessing that throwing my SD card with retropie and games all loaded onto it, isn't really going to work? I'm still super excited and looking forward to getting my board I pledged for! And more than excited to see how this emulation station turns out! 
I would be a contributing factor in this if I actually knew what I was doing but my experience is so limited, it's pathetic, and usually end up googling for hours just to find what single line of code I have to change to get what I want working.

Rogerba,

Your retropie image will most likely give you issues. It was programmed to work around the Raspberry Pi's hardware, which will be different from the Pine64.

We have all been there. :-) I am still that way from time to time, but in the end you learn something new even if it took you two hours.

Thanks,

KryPtAlIvIaN

The People Who Developed Retropi Should Make a Version For Pine64 Called Retro64. Atleast you can emulate Nintendo 64 natively

[KryPtAlIvIaN]

So I'm guessing that throwing my SD card with retropie and games all loaded onto it, isn't really going to work? I'm still super excited and looking forward to getting my board I pledged for! And more than excited to see how this emulation station turns out! 
I would be a contributing factor in this if I actually knew what I was doing but my experience is so limited, it's pathetic, and usually end up googling for hours just to find what single line of code I have to change to get what I want working.

Rogerba,

Your retropie image will most likely give you issues. It was programmed to work around the Raspberry Pi's hardware, which will be different from the Pine64.

We have all been there. :-) I am still that way from time to time, but in the end you learn something new even if it took you two hours.

Thanks,

KryPtAlIvIaN

The People Who Developed Retropi Should Make a Version For Pine64 Called Retro64. Atleast you can emulate Nintendo 64 natively

I must say, I like the sound of Retro64.

When I get some time and the updated Android Image is released via Google Drive or Torrent , I'll throw up some videos of emulators running on the Pine64.