Recommended Hardware?

Libretro Lakka
#1

Hey there,

Considering moving on from my Wii as my defacto emulator, but I’m having trouble deciding which hardware to go with. Obviously, a PC is going to the be the fastest, but I’d like to keep it a little (or lot) cheaper than that. Right now, it looks like my options are the Pi 2 or Odroid C1+. Which do you recommend? The Odroid looks like it’s faster, but the issues with vsync and lack of detection worry me. The Pi 2 isn’t quite as fast, but it’s well supported and I can also use Retropie if Lakka isn’t my cup of tea.

I’d need it to support the following systems at full speed:

SNES (assumedly SNES9X Next) GBA PS1

Thanks!

#2

I can’t answer your question if Pi 2 or Odroid C1+ is better… I hope other people have more experience in that area. But i run Lakka on my old laptop which has a t7800 intel processor and 3GB of RAM. I can guaranty that, if you have the same or better specs, the emulators you requested will run at full speed.

#3

Your observations are pretty spot on. The Odroid C1 is a little bit faster, but the Raspberry Pi is more robust with better community support. I can’t tell you which one to buy, because neither are clearly better than the other, both have their pros and cons. I will say though that I personally went with the Raspberry Pi 2 and that it can run all of the systems you mentioned at full speed. Especially if you get some heatsinks and overclock it.

#4

Hi, the RPi2 will have some slowdowns on some snes games with snes9x-next (try the intro of Chrono Trigger, when the spaceship appears with a special effect)

The C1 is way faster, but have a tiling issue in the hdmi kernel module.

#5

Thanks for your replies folks. Honestly, I think I may hold off at this point. The Odroid issues kinda put me off from buying it, and while the Pi 2 looks good, I want something that has no problem emulating every SNES at bare minimum.

#6

Whats the max limit for your hardware budget?

#7

Depending on your budget and where you live, an option to consider is the Compute Stick by Intel… It’s more expensive than the 2 options, but it’s almost plug and play as it comes.

And the hardware is reasonably faster than the rPi2

#8

Hey guys, I just discovered Lakka the other day and love the idea. Eventually I plan on making an awesome emulation set up. But I was wondering, could I use an original Xbox to load it up with Lakka? It’s basically a PC, it would be a fun little project and kill some time. thx