I’m trying to decide on what I’m going to load Lakka on, a NUC or a Pi3. So it all hinges on which runs PSP emulators better.
Unless you have another suggestion for something that’ll play everything I throw at it with Lakka.
NUC will be much better. It costs like 5-10x as much but it’s much more powerful.
Any Processor I should zero in on or should most Nucs be good? The one I’m eying has a 2ghz Celeron.
that one might struggle with PSX emulation, as our PSX emu for x86 doesn’t have a dynarec currently. I think you’ll be happier with an i3 or i5 model, though it does cost more, obviously.
Another alternative is one of the other Lakka-compatible ARM boards, most of which have better performance than an rpi. The main draw for rpi is the access to various add-on boards and the software community around it. If you’re just making a dedicated emu box, that stuff is less important and you can go for the best performer.
This is what I’m eyeing at the moment as I already have components for it picked out
For ARM boards what would you suggest?
I’m looking to emulate the following
PSP PS1 SNES NES Mega/drive Genesis 32x Sega CD PC Engine PC Engine CD Neo Geo through FBA CPS 1,2,3 though FBA Some DS games Old Atari
Hmm, that 1.6 ghz clockspeed worries me. You might be better off with an ARM board that can run PCSX-ReARMed in that case. DS probably isn’t going to be fullspeed on an ARM board or that particular NUC but the other stuff should be fine, I think.
Maybe kivutar et al can chime in on a good candidate.
It says A across the board for PCs, but I don’t know if the NUC I’m looking at is enough. Then again An Android can run PSP emulators almost lag free. Still, I want to make sure I get the best hardware I can so there’s not question it’ll run whatever I throw at it.
raspberry pi 3 is pretty limited with PPSSPP, and that’s using the (presumably faster) standalone version (non libretro). it’s fine on 2d games, but anything 3d needs settings lowered to be playable. i think most stuff ‘works’ though.
GPU is the limiting factor with raspberry pi stuff most of the time.
Yeah I’m ruling out a Pi 3 most likely it’ll be a NUC Unless I can find a super cheap used PC
I’m running an Asus chromebox with the 1.6Ghz celeron and 2GB of memory. The only PSP games I’ve tried it with is Tekken 6 and and kingdom hearts, Tekken runs @ 60fps, there is an occasional “studder” like it’s loading something but when I looked before it seemed to be an issue with the emulator not the hardware. Kingdom Hearts birth by sleep runs flawlessly.