Raspberry Pi 3 speed?

[Jess Ragan]

I dug my Raspberry Pi 3 out of mothballs recently to test it out. It's a lot slower than I remembered... Altered Beast and Bad Dudes won't even run at full speed! Is this the way it always was and I just don't remember it? Furthermore, my switching power supply doesn't seem to give it the juice it needs to run properly. I switched to a different power supply and while it's running better, it's still not as fast as I'd like it to be. Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can boost the speed on this system? Overclocking is an option, but it shouldn't even be necessary for BAD DUDES.

[akator]

What are you using to emulate the games?  Are you using a linux gaming distro or a general purpose OS?

 

It has been a few years sine I used a RPi3 for emulation but I found Lakka to be pretty good on the RPi3.  It emulated everything up to PS1 without any major issues.  Anything above that, no way. 

 

I'm currently running Batocera on a customized PowKiddy A12 tabletop.  It still uses the RK3128 in it that it came with, which is about 30% slower than a RPi3.  I've emulated many tiles up to and included PS1 and lots of MAME 2003 Plus games on it with no issues.  I suspect that if you run Batocera on your RPi3 using a decent micro SD card it should work fine.

[Jess Ragan]

It's Recalbox. I really ought to upgrade my SD card to something a little meatier, because 32GB is no longer cutting it.

 

(BTW, switching from Final Burn Alpha to MAME 2003 helped a lot on the speed front. But MAME 2003 doesn't have the same quality of emulation... I guess I'll try a more recent build.)