Posted: 9/25/2012 3:06 PM
Post subject: BizHawk for Raspberry Pi?
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Fnx
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Is there any chance that this emulator will ever work on an Raspberry Pi? If you don't know what it is, it's a ~$25 ARM-processor powered PC with linux. http://www.raspberrypi.org/
Posted: 9/25/2012 6:06 PM
(Edited: 9/25/2012 6:13 PM)
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Dwedit
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This thing can't even reach 60FPS on a Core 2 Duo when emulating the NES. (It used to be able to, but not anymore.) Other systems run much faster though. This is also a Microsoft .NET program, which is unlikely to work on Linux. Raspberry Pi is completely out of the question.
Posted: 9/25/2012 6:11 PM
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1) Every core has its own speed. While the NES core may struggle to get 60fps on slower processors, the GB core could run at like 800fps. 2) Older versions of BizHawk have linux builds. Those come without lua, and some of the tool dialogs, but otherwise work. Linux support is poorly maintained since the guy doing the builds mono builds is interested in it for Mac. I have no idea what raspberry is, but it is plausible that you could get it working, minus a few features.
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Posted: 9/26/2012 11:23 PM
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Sappharad
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Dwedit wrote:
This is also a Microsoft .NET program, which is unlikely to work on Linux.
adelikat wrote:
2) Older versions of BizHawk have linux builds. Those come without lua, and some of the tool dialogs, but otherwise work. Linux support is poorly maintained since the guy doing the builds mono builds is interested in it for Mac.
The portable branch will still compile and run from a fresh checkout of SVN on Linux. There are UI problems on Linux that don't exist under OS X but otherwise there's nothing stopping someone else from maintaining linux builds. :-) I may come back to Linux some day and do another build, but it would be nice if someone who uses the OS regularly would maintain that part. I can handle making sure it continues to build and stays in sync with the trunk.
Posted: 9/28/2012 6:55 PM
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Nice to know that there's some hope still. I just ordered the Raspberry Pi as a cheap HTPC and linux box. There aren't too many emulators for it atm, especially ones with rerecording... But apparently you need to have a separate build for ARM, can it be done with BizHawk?
Posted: 9/30/2012 6:26 AM
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if you want an emulator that actually will feel at home on a raspberry pi, try mednafen. putting bizhawk on a rasberry pi makes as much sense as putting pepperoni on an apple pie.