memelord Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 I use Retroarch on my raspberry pi zero, and wish to run a certain arcade game on it. the problem is, it has a very low framerate. so I figure that I need more RAM or something. is there an external RAM thing for Raspberry Pi, and will it speed up said arcade game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Yeah, it's called RPi3A+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Yeah, in all seriousness, you just need to buy a more capable Pi. The Zero/Zero W are great for some things but they’re too inexpensive to be very powerful. They’re also closed designs - that is, the only way to “expand” them is to connect something via USB, the GPIO pins, etc. But those are just I/O, not a way to add memory or replace the processor. But because Pi Zeros are so cheap, it’s quite literally cheaper to just buy a $35 full-sized Pi 3 than even try to engineer some kind of expansion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 What's the arcade game? Certain emulator (or emulator cores) run better than others on the pi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memelord Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 Galaga 88. my second favorite Galaga game. (first being Galaga Arrangement) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Try the mame4all core. If it's going to work, that will be the core that can do it. Mame4all is an older version of Mame that performs better on lower-end hardware. You may need to track down an older version of the ROM to work with it, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memelord Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 how do i install new cores? i use Lakka as my Operating System, and the only thing in my house that accepts Micro-SD cards is my phone. can i add cores with a USB stick? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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