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Is a raspberry pi a good-enough platform to run N64 1080P games on?
by urda 7y ago
Is a raspberry pi a good-enough platform to run N64 1080P games on?
- ThatPlayer 7y agoYou'll want the Raspberry Pi 4. The 3B+ is not powerful enough for plenty of games.
- bjornsteffanson 7y agoI got a pi 3b+ as I romanticized the idea of it, but it struggles a bit with SM64. I just use OpenEmu on my higher-powered laptop and HDMI out instead. Pi format is still fun to tinker with and I encourage you to get one if you're at all interested. The 3b+ just wasn't the right tool for the job in my case. I haven't tried the pi 4, however.
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- chias 7y agoN64 only supported up to 240p, or in rare cases, 480i, which is basically the same thing computationally. Displaying on higher resolution just involves scaling (or up-sampling, but at that kind of resolution jump scaling is probably more appropriate). I haven't tested N64 games on a RPi personally, but I imagine it would have no trouble with it, and there seem to be several retro-gaming projects that involve N64 games and use the Rpi.
- Raphael 7y agoSuper Mario 64 is a 3D game. The emulator can render the polygons at any resolution. The 2D textures should be replaced or carefully scaled, though.
- hapless 7y agoNot even close.
- bluedino 7y agoThe question is now, would it be possible for someone to make a port of Mario 64 that runs on the Pi, instead of trying to emulate it? Usually after you get source releases to games, you get people that port them to different platforms. Like how we had Doom on iPods and Kodak digital cameras.
- hugg 7y agoThere's still a lot of assembly code
- cheeze 7y agoNo. N64 emulators are all pretty bad (inaccurate, use a decent amount of resources) and upscaling is relatively expensive. At least, way too expensive for an rpi to handle. It will work fine as an emu at 240p though