Want to Build the Ultimate Low-Cost Machine, pls help!

Libretro Lakka
#1

Hello Community,

this is my first Post here and i hope its the right section for it, unless just move it please ^^

to my Topic:

i just want build the ultimate emulation machine to enhance my retro console archive, according from oldest atari to commodore, sega stuff, gameboy stuff, nes, snes, n64, psp, psx, maybe ps2, and Wii and Gamecube - also may (if it dont cost to much, i will prepare for upcomming xbox360 emulator Xenia)

my question to you guys is…

which machine should i go for? first i tought about odroid xu4 but, ive heard that Wii and GC wont work - so i think this one is out…

now im thinking may an lowcost Intel Celeron or i3 build with 4-8GB ram and 1-2GB nvidia GPU will handle it better, what do you think?

and more important, which system i should go for? i found lakka on the internet and the interface looks pretty familier (from my psp^^), and i dont have to do any configs cuz im totaly noob-skilled on linux… short to say… i like it. but does it handle all this?

please help me… my money bruns in my poket and i waaaaant this! :stuck_out_tongue:

**btw… sorry for my english, there i suck also… hope you get everything right

#2

RetroArch doesn’t have a Dolphin core and definitely doesn’t have a Xenia or Citra core, so if those are necessities, Lakka isn’t going to be a good fit for you.

For the hardware, nothing ARM-based is going to be adequate for those emus.

#3

[QUOTE=hunterk;47173]RetroArch doesn’t have a Dolphin core and definitely doesn’t have a Xenia or Citra core, so if those are necessities, Lakka isn’t going to be a good fit for you.

For the hardware, nothing ARM-based is going to be adequate for those emus.[/QUOTE]

okay i see… thanks for your quick answer btw… so but…, what would be a working alternative for me?

#4

For hardware, you’ll need a celeron or i3/i5, the higher the clock speed the better. GPU isn’t a huge deal, but a discrete card would be better than integrated.

For software, RetroArch is great for the systems/engines it covers but it sounds like you want some that aren’t covered by it. Lakka is just a very basic linux that boots directly into RetroArch, and it’s intended to be a simple, turnkey appliance for RetroArch at the cost of the ability to add other non-RetroArch programs (Kodi is another frequent request).

Probably your best bet is to use Windows with some frontend, such as Hyperspin. You’ll probably end up using RetroArch for many/most things but you’ll be able to slot in other programs that cover things RetroArch does not.

#5

mh… so i should prefer a “PC” than, but do you think and i5 650 (2c/4t) 3,2GhZ with 8GB Ram and a 2GB GPU (nvidia GT 730) will be enough to play those stuff flawless? “heading in the dolphin section?”

#6

I couldn’t say, since I don’t really use Dolphin with any regularity but I would guess that should be okay for most games.