How Game Emulators Work on the Raspberry Pi 3
By far the most popular DIY project for the Raspberry Pi is using it as a retro game console . So, with the release of the Raspberry Pi 3, a lot of people are wondering how it compares to older models. Adafruit hosted a live stream showing just that.
The Adafruit video is just a stream with a basic Retropie setup, so some of the glitches they are experiencing are probably something you can fix. However, the video does a good job of showing how the emulators look and work on the new Raspberry Pi 3. If you don’t feel like watching a video, the basics are pretty simple: NES, Game Boy, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy. Advance, Nintendo 64 and Playstation work great. They’ve had pretty good luck with some PSP games, but they’ve had audio glitches along the way. They also had emulation issues in the Saturn and Dreamcast games (which could just be a control setup issue) and couldn’t load Nintendo DS or Sega CD games at all. If you head over to YouTube, they’ve included timecodes to jump to specific parts of the video for each console, if you’re wondering what one system looks like.