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I've been thinking about making a small PC dedicated to NES and SNES emulation. Is there anything that would make the BeagleBone a better or worse choice than a
by Splendor 13y ago
I've been thinking about making a small PC dedicated to NES and SNES emulation. Is there anything that would make the BeagleBone a better or worse choice than a Raspberry Pi for this project?
- mansr 13y agoThe BeagleBone CPU is much faster than the RPi. The GPU is less sophisticated, but that hardly matters for your application.
- JonnieCache 13y agoIf you want your SNES emulation to be accurate, this won't cut it I'm afraid. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/ http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-o... But if you're just doing run-of-the-mill SNES emulation, it should be great. The raspi does have analog video output, but it's composite. If you're an old school gaming purist you'd want something with analog RGB output.
- omni 13y agoI've got a Raspberry Pi set up emulating a bunch of NES and SNES games like you plan on doing. I had to overclock it pretty far to get SNES working at all, and higher-end games (particularly those using the FX chip like Star Fox) really struggle. The emulators can't really use the Pi's better video card as far as I know, but I think the stronger CPU on the BeagleBone may give it the edge.