While the Orange Pi 3 may have driver issues, the older models work quite well. Just as you suspect, I'm using an Orange Pi One combined with a usb arcade board

While the Orange Pi 3 may have driver issues, the older models work quite well. Just as you suspect, I'm using an Orange Pi One combined with a usb arcade board/stick to run RetroOrangePi[0] and for game emulation it works great. 0. http://www.retrorangepi.org/ http://www.retrorangepi.org/ edit: typos